Have you tried (other than Vegas) using a $100. bill to buy something?

[Dead Money]

I was at a Sears store looking at shorts while my wife was strolling the mall.

Monday afternoon, apparently at an Oklahoma shopping mall, you can throw bowling balls down the aisles, and no one would get hurt.

I counted 8 shoppers in the entire 2 story mega store, and 2 cashiers stations, one up , one down.

Anyhow, found nice $40 shorts (supposedly) on sale for $14.99.
Tried em on, popped a hundred dollar bill on the cashier to see what would happen in this day of almost cashless everything.

She tested it with a "magic pen" opened her cash drawer, and said "I can't change it".

She called someone for assistance, another cashier shows up, calls someone else for PERMISSION to open the second cash register to make change...


The world is racing towards a totally cashless society
where the Gubberment with a keystroke can shut your banking, and life, down.

I want to see a day where all this electronic "gadgetry" just has a glitch for a day or two, and all these trusting souls at the grocery store are told their purchase must be cash only till the problem is solved.

Thank God for casinos, they UNDERSTAND cash....

 

[skodaa]

Lets say with tax using 6% your total was $15.89 now if you gave the change say $100.04 it would have really confused them. Not only are we in a cashless society also clueless :shrug:

I want to see a day where all this electronic "gadgetry" just has a glitch for a day or two, and all these trusting souls at the grocery store are told their purchase must be cash only till the problem is solved

They'd lock the doors :142smilie

 

[kickserv]

In Canada.....

If your total bill comes to $90.02 and you pay with a 100 dollar bill you save 2 cents, if you pay by any other form of payment you lose the two cents.







oh and I remember when he had these......:scared:scared

 

[Dead Money]

In Canada.....

If your total bill comes to $90.02 and you pay with a 100 dollar bill you save 2 cents, if you pay by any other form of payment you lose the two cents.







oh and I remember when he had these......:scared:scared

From what I have read, the USA stopped making our $1000, $5000, $10,000 notes right after the end of WW2.

Most were removed from circulation by the 1960's.

On Canada, 2012 article....http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...ion-left-most-in-the-hands-of-criminal-elites

An excerpt...

More than 10 years after the $1,000 bill disappeared from circulation 946,043 of them are still out there, somewhere.

The whereabouts of almost $1-billion worth of the banknotes is a mystery rekindled this month at Quebec?s corruption probe when a witness spoke of a safe over-stuffed with cash, including $1,000 notes, inside a political office.

Retired on May 12, 2000, for being mostly used in criminal transactions, any $1,000 note deposited at a bank is destroyed, although the bills ? nicknamed ?pinkies? by gangsters because of the pinkish-purple ink ? remain legal tender.

 

[kickserv]

The "pinkies" were (are) awesome....sadly I never had many of them.

Did see "a pinkie" last year at Casino, every odd time they pop up at Racetrack and Casinos. Some cashiers at Gas Stations still see em, they are still out there. But all and all very rare to see them.


As for USA 1000 dollar bill...........

"On July 14, 1969, David M. Kennedy, the 60th Secretary of the Treasury, and officials at the Federal Reserve Board announced that they would immediately stop distributing currency in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. Production of these denominations stopped during World War II"


Note: I did see some US 1000 dollar bills in early 2000's in some Lake Tahoe casinos.





And remember any of you Madjackers that visit Canada, pay cash, it is cheaper then any other form of payment. Yep, you'll safe money if you pay cash.

 

[hedgehog]

I'm with you, every time I try to break a hundred it's a hassle, would love to have a 1000 bill

 

[dunclock]

The "pinkies" were (are) awesome....sadly I never had many of them.

Did see "a pinkie" last year at Casino, every odd time they pop up at Racetrack and Casinos. Some cashiers at Gas Stations still see em, they are still out there. But all and all very rare to see them.


As for USA 1000 dollar bill...........

"On July 14, 1969, David M. Kennedy, the 60th Secretary of the Treasury, and officials at the Federal Reserve Board announced that they would immediately stop distributing currency in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. Production of these denominations stopped during World War II"


Note: I did see some US 1000 dollar bills in early 2000's in some Lake Tahoe casinos.





And remember any of you Madjackers that visit Canada, pay cash, it is cheaper then any other form of payment. Yep, you'll safe money if you pay cash.

you forgot that your $100 needs to have 2 decimals before the zeroes ... especially after your MMA picks :SIB

 

[SixFive]

Where I get my car fixed in Ky., there is a sign right on a wall that says they take so cash discounts. That's how I always pay. I use 100s at other establishments too and no problem. Kind of ridiculous for a retail store not to be able to change it.

 

[kickserv]

you forgot that your $100 needs to have 2 decimals before the zeroes ... especially after your MMA picks :SIB

Sometimes three decimals before the 100kurby

 

[kickserv]

Where I get my car fixed in Ky., there is a sign right on a wall that says they take so cash discounts. That's how I always pay.

I am guessing the reason for this is because if you pay cash they don't have to worry about fees from Credit Card companies. Some businesses would prefer every single customer to pay cash.

And by the way every business should be thrilled if you pull out a hundred dollar bill from your pocket, that means you want to spend money. I find it hilarious that any business would be upset if you pulled out a 100 dollar bill.

Only exception is if it is 3am and you are at a 7-11 and want to use a 100 dollar bill to buy Twix bar. Obviously they won't have enough money in register to make change, keep cash volume in register low for security purposes.



For the record I am not loaded like all you Madjackers are so I don't walk around with wads of 100 dollar bills in my pocket. On the rare occasion when I have a 100 dollar bill in my possession (in Canada) I have never had a problem cashing it, ever.

 

[kneifl]

Big Bills

Big Bills

Yep, I know exactly what you mean. I usually only take $100 bills on vacation with me. I have used a few locally and they always bring that ink pen thing out. I think they have been doing that for a while now. It's starting to be a cashless society for sure, everything is digital payments now and credit cards. I reckon it will only get worse.

kneifl

 

[The Boys]

I use my debit card for everything. I rarely carry less than 2 grand on me.