Annoying customers

Don't behave like you're 5 then.

Jersey money is pounds sterling and thus should be accepted.

Whilst shops can refuse whatever they wish (refer to my previous comments about "legal tender") they should have a sign clearly displaying this.

Not an annoying customer, merely *****sh staff giving retail workers a bad name.

Lol, I think your actually wrong....

I work in a bookies in a city which has a lot of Irish folk. We see pretty much every sort of currency (scottish, irish and english mainly), and the ONLY note i've personally refused is a Jersey one. Some woman from a local pub once came in with £200 worth of Jersey notes and I remember them NOT saying "sterling" on them, so I refused.

In fact, wikipedia says this about the Jersey Pound; "Although the Jersey notes are not legal tender in the United Kingdom, creditors and traders may accept them if they so choose."


So I think your criticism may be wide of the mark here. I take irish, scottish and £50 notes usually without a blink of the eye in the place I work, and so declining Jersey notes was a big deal

This was five years ago and in a shop I left, and is now closed down, but still

I worked in Jessops, and this incredibly snobby woman walked up to the till point and said "Nikon D60, 40gb memory card, and extra battery", in a condescending tone, which you might say to a voice recognition machine -.- I was in a foul enough moood as it was, so just explained what everything she said was in simple terms, then went on tea break :P

Lol, I think your actually wrong....

I work in a bookies in a city which has a lot of Irish folk. We see pretty much every sort of currency (scottish, irish and english mainly), and the ONLY note i've personally refused is a Jersey one. Some woman from a local pub once came in with £200 worth of Jersey notes and I remember them NOT saying "sterling" on them, so I refused.

In fact, wikipedia says this about the Jersey Pound; "Although the Jersey notes are not legal tender in the United Kingdom, creditors and traders may accept them if they so choose." Which obviously warrants you a point to argue, but the fact that they are not seen as legal tender in England = automatic refusal from my workplace!!! Do you know how much trouble we have to simply bank irish and scottish notes?!?!?! Post offices can be a bitch sometimes hahahaha


So I think your criticism may be wide of the mark here. I take irish, scottish and £50 notes usually without a blink of the eye in the place I work, and so declining Jersey notes was a big deal

It's annoying that a customer in a camera shop wants to buy a camera and associated accessories?

Do I care? No.

Are you right? Same.

Noo, just the way she spoke, with no connectives or niceties :P

I can imagine you coming into my work with your Jersey notes....

I would refuse to take them.....

You would ring customer services and make a complaint about the bad service you received from the staff......

And I would come onto tsr and make another post on the 'Annoying Customer' thread

The only note that is legal tender is a Bank of England one. The concept of legal tender is immaterial where the issue at hand is not one of settling a debt.

I would be surprised if it wasn't Sterling, it would be pointless Jersey having its own currency.

I'm very confident that it was NOT sterling for the simple reason that I declined to take them.

We trade in all sorts of currencies, I mean you could go into a bookies and pay in euros with no questions asked.... you could even probably pay with dollars... but the Jersey notes were alien to me, and it was some girl from a pub who was obviously trying to offload the notes because she knew that she couldn't bank them... I did a thorough check of the notes and couldn't find the words "sterling" so politely declined to take them.

I'm very confident that it was NOT sterling for the simple reason that I declined to take them.

We trade in all sorts of currencies, I mean you could go into a bookies and pay in euros with no questions asked.... you could even probably pay with dollars... but the Jersey notes were alien to me, and it was some girl from a pub who was obviously trying to offload the notes because she knew that she couldn't bank them... I did a thorough check of the notes and couldn't find the words "sterling" so politely declined to take them.

And you'd still be wrong! Woohoo, let's all repeat our mistakes ad finitum.

Yeah, she could have at least said please, but some people have a condescending tone without actually being condescending. Someone I know who sounds exceptionally snobby and condescending is actually one of the nicest people around ... but you'd never realise if you'd just judged her on her voice alone.

Rather than just saying we are wrong, say why/explain your arguement further?

And you'd still be wrong! Woohoo, let's all repeat our mistakes ad finitum.

Shall I do your homework for you too?

I assume you either can't be bothered or can't, so whats the point

The point is, you're wrong.

Deal with it.