Is There A Legal Amount

[albaqwerty]

that a shop will not accept in change?

(Inspired by Cloverjo's post)

I suppose it would make sense that a shop could refuse to sell items if it was, say, £20 or more, in small coins, but can a shop refuse to sell if total came to £4 for example and you were paying in a mixture of 5/10/20 p coins?

Have a feeling I'm not wording this Q properly, but hope you get my drift.

[ummmm]

Notes are fine. Loose change not so much.

I reckon coppers will be rid of soon.

[CrapAtCryptics]

I do a few hours at my local shop and we do accept small change within reason. You`ll get a better response if you avoid the busy times though.

[rockyracoon]

"I reckon coppers will be rid of soon."

Please, God!

[albaqwerty]

I tend to agree with you ummm, but I can see a few problems.

There are so many folk who think that something priced at £1.99 is closer to only being £1 than £2 as has been previously mentioned.

Dear lawd, Eddie, how lumpy is his mattress?!!

[ummmm]

We'll get used to it. Just like the changes on AB or Facebook :-)

Is it M&S or BHS that always round their prices up? (I know BHS has gone)

[albaqwerty]

Haven't been in an M&S for years.

I do remember some hoo-hah when the 1/2p was got rid.
Not a lot of the prices came down lol

[ummmm]

The round them up.

I'd rather pay £5 than £4.99.

[EDDIE51]

Charities make a lot of money out of the odd 1p coins that most people tell the shop to just put in the charity jar! They would not want to see the end of 1 & 2p coins. Also it would make the minimum possible price increase 5p which can be a large % for a small item.

[ummmm]

In this day and age many people pay to their chosen charities by DD.

[albaqwerty]

Eddie's mate won't be doing that ummm :-D

[jno]

Eddie, I think a supermarket, for instance, would add up all your purchases at the stated price, then just adjust the total up or down, so you wouldn't necessarily be paying a rounding-up on every item.

[jim360]

I'm not sure if Coppers are (yet) economically unviable in the UK, but it's certainly true in the US: minting pennies in the US loses about $55,000,000 annually. Maybe here it's similar. In the long run both ought to go.

[fraser]

My local pub charges two pound forty nine for a pint,so I have collected quite a lot of pennies!! They are all over the house! Must count them up and take them to the bank

[albaqwerty]

cor, Fraser, that's reasonable!

haven't seen you for a while, hope you are ok xx

[Old_Geezer]

You don't want to get rid of coppers, you want more of them. The 10p copper, the 20p copper, the 50p copper, and the 100p copper. Then that opens the way for the 500p silver, 1000p silver, and the 2000p goldens.

[SIRandyraven]

Nationwide isn't a proper bank, so they probably don't have facilities to handle large quantities of coins.

You can believe my story or not , but this is how I ended up with £6,000 plus in coins.
We used to empty pockets of change at end of day and chuck in a pot.
We then decided to limit this to 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins.
Anyway we had a large quality street plastic container and used to fill this up. I would then empty this into a green plastic bin in the utility room when full. Anyway after 5 years we said let's count it. Took one look at the daunting task and figured ....next year maybe.
Anyway mother time ticked and after 9 years it was time to move out of house. So we went to bank and got large rolls of plastic change bags and started the task. Yes we allowed the loose change collecting to get out of control lol.
After a week of counting and bagging coins we had over £6,000.
Damn ....what now ?
So I visited the HSBC bank and then just come in and we will weigh it and put money in your current account.
So I got a small suitcase on wheels and took first £4,000 in.
Two counters and both vacant on a Monday afternoon.
Girl made a funny face and asked if it was bagged and stated to use scales to weigh and count bags of money. After a very short time , less than 30 minutes , she handed me bags that were over or under and we corrected them. She added up total and credited to current account.
I said on leaving and after thanking her several times, I would see he next day with more lol
Next day repeated exercise and counted the other £2,000 plus in coins.

Never again will we do that.
But hey ho ....
I'm a collector and can let things go out of control.
Also being very well paid once does not help my collecting addiction :-)
When we moved house I had almost 75 boxes of ceramics to move I have collected over the last 15 years and dozens of autographed picture , 8 Bakelite radios , 4 Bakelite telephones ......

Anyway that my story on banks accepting change :-)

I should now proof read above ....but can't be bothered , in the same way that AB can't be bothered to add an edit function