B**dy Pound Coins

[ivor4781]

ive yet to come across a machine which will take them, dammed inconvenient when you using a parking meter and no one can exchange it for the old ones

[Buenchico]

I use cash so rarely that I've not even seen one of the new pound coins yet!

[Islay]

I finally got one on Friday Chris for the same reason as you.

It is annoying Ivor luckily I keep a few for that reason, the gym lockers take the old style as does the trolley lockers.

[hc4361]

I haven't seen one, either. I don't use cash, either.

[jambutty]

It's daft isn't it to introduce a new coin and not adapt all the machines that use them?

[murraymints]

have a few now.first time Thursday though..ASDA trolleys now unchained , but ALDI still fit for oldies...what a palaver !!

[MargoTester]

I think it's the other way round - stupid to invent a coin that won't fit ant of the machines. Just think of the cost of adapting everything to fit the coin!

[jambutty]

^ True.

[ivor4781]

to add insult to injury you only get new coins in change now.(here anyway),and if i pay by card in the car park i use i have the privilege of a 50p charge on a debit or credit card !

[jambutty]

Apparently they did it because the 'old' coins were easy to forge.

[ivor4781]

buenchico
im with you i rarely use money for drinks in the bars, shopping etc but there are times when cash is the only option,

[mikey4444]

Don't you ever buy a newspaper, or a packet of Fruit Gums ?

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not as if the change had been a big secret and businesses hadn't been telt well in advance. A pal was telling me that at one car park she uses, there is one machine which won't take the smaller 10p but it will take the old version...

[EDDIE51]

All the 'fruit machines' in my local boozer take them, and did from day one. You only have until September before the old ones are taken out of use altogether !

[mikey4444]

We have less than that Eddie to use up our old fivers !

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/2633515/when-old-5-pound-note-stop-circulation/

[hc4361]

Mikey, that's what your phone is for - to pay for your paper or your sweeties.

[mikey4444]

HC...does anybody seriously use a mobile phone to pay for a 60p packet of sweets ?

[hc4361]

Yep, better than faffing round trying to find the right money or waiting for change.
The shops prefer it, too

[jno]

just had to get an old coin from Tesco customer services as the new ones won't fit the trolleys. I'll hoard it for as long as I can.

The problem isn't really the coin, though, it's the businesses that have known about it for months and done nothing to prepare. That includes the council and their parking meters,

[New Judge]

“Just think of the cost of adapting everything to fit the coin!”

Quite so. I read of a launderette owner who calculated it would cost around £4,000 to have his machines converted (a tidy sum when you’re charging £3.50 a wash). So he’s decided to hoard a stack of the old coins and sell them to his customers to use in his machines. Then he’ll simply collect and recycle them daily.

“Don't you ever buy a newspaper, or a packet of Fruit Gums ?”

Yes Mikey. That’s what contactless payment cards are for. There are already a few establishments that no longer accept cash at all and I imagine the number will grow.

[jambutty]

I don't know any establishments that don't accept cash, what a stupid idea !