Dear women who tried to pay me with 2 dollars and fifty cents in pennies when you had at least 20 dollars in loonie and toonies in your wallet: the item was 52.50!
No I’m sorry I can’t accept more then 0.25 cents in pennies and legally I don’t have to! No, its not bad customer service when 4 other people are waiting in line.
You could file a complaint on me if you really wish and no, its not people like you who make the store I work at run.
Even the bank won’t roll your pennies for you its your job not mine! And for those of you who don’t believe me look it up! —Not my job
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
here here!!!…might have been my Grandma in-law…common sense left the building long ago!!!..love that bitch!!!!…meaning your bitch..
One time at work someone paid me 6 dollars with a ziploc bag full of nickels. She asked me if I wanted to count them to make sure.
The grocery store I used to shop at in QC has a machine where you drop all your change in it and they give you a voucher and you go to any cashier and they give you the money in bills (and any change that’s in addition to the bills). They charged 7 cents on the dollar I think? It was worth it I have to say because I couldn’t find an effing scotiabank that wasn’t an hour bus ride away so I carried cash exclusively and always had a lot of coin. I got 20 something back when I took all my change there before I came back to hfx. Too bad there aren’t any of those around here. It was a lot easier carrying a $20 bill than $20 in small coin.
i’ll take my pennies, and you’ll accept them. Fed money policy trumps any bull-shit by-law in court, m’dear.
“Legally, I don’t have to” Really? So, if a customer only has pennies, you can turn them away?
Money, is money. Shouldn’t matter how a customer pays, as long as they do. Just because you find it annoying or time consuming to count, it’s still legal tender.
PK, I’ve seen what you’re talking about in some US grocery stores. What a great idea. Wish we had some of those machines around here.
I believe the rule is that coins in quantities equal to a roll must be rolled up and then the merchant has to accept them. Up to 49 pennies can be loose, 50 must be rolled or 39 quarters loose but 40 makes a roll, etc etc.
You’re a douche. I don’t think it’d have killed you or your other customers to deal with pennies. Get over yourself.
I’d accept it if somebody tried to pay me in pennies. Of course I’d hand her their copy of “The Da Vinci Code” – one page at a time.
This person is an asshole. It may be legal tender, but OP, you should count it out a penny at a time, and make sure the people lined up behind this inconsiderate twat know why it’s taking so long.
Pennies are legal tender. A whole $2.50 worth! (OMG!) Takes seconds, not hours, to count. End of story.
You think so, Oceanlady? Even if they count them 5 at a time, that’s probably 50 seconds spent counting this numbskull’s change, in a setting where 50 seconds extra on a transaction will probably get them a lecture from management. And I’m not going to credit even half of this city’s population with the ability to count by 5, so…2 at a time? Over two minutes spent counting change? No thanks.
No, this bitch is legitimate. Have you worked in customer service when someone tries to pay you in pennies? First, it takes more than seconds. Minutes, which while sure, that’s not a long time, the customer(s) behind the grandma may not think so. Anyway, typically when someone tries to pay in pennies: they’re not rolled, and they don’t have them ready. They spend their entire time at the cash trying to count out all the pennies, and counting out $2.50 worth while digging through your purse would take ages. So, here here, OP!
I tried to pay with nineteen pennies the other day and was refused. The dumb twat stood fast to store policy that they couldn’t accept more than 10 coins of any one denomination. I took my bills and my pennies, handed over the merchandise and left the store dumbfounded. Stupidest bullshit policy ever.
Completely legit bitch. Any more than 25 pennies doesn’t count as legal tender in Canada:
–Legal tender of Canadian coinage is governed by the Currency Act which sets out limits of:
$40 if the denomination is $2 or greater but does not exceed $10;
$25 if the denomination is $1;
$10 if the denomination is 10¢ or greater but less than $1;
$5 if the denomination is 5¢;
25¢ if the denomination is 1¢.
toots, you’re an inconsiderate twat.
The federal government should make it illegal for companies to sell products or offer services with prices that would lead to pennies in change if purchased with cash. Someone do some math and find the magic number that would work in every province.
she may have been a witch…a bad’un. screee
Calvin, according to your research I’m well within my rights to pay my 19 cents with the 19 pennies in my wallet. You can take you insults and stick them up your ass.
I never said you weren’t “within your rights”, but having a little snit, leaving the store, and whining about the clerk being a “dumb twat” to people on the internet is pretty infantile. Use a fucking change jar until you have enough coin to roll like everyone else and stop holding up the line counting pennies. It’s inconsiderate and self-centred.
I donate most of my pennies at coffee shops with donation boxes (not tip boxes, I tip with quarters and up, not pennies!). 19 pennies isn’t that bad, but 250 pennies…seriously? I don’t keep (or count) 250 of anything.
Dearest Calvin: There was no snitty attitude from me and nada one customer in line behind me at anytime time during the whole 45 seconds it took me to count and exchange words. I’ve handled a lot of cash transactions; I would not and have never denied a paying customer from paying whatever method of payment he chose to afford. 19 pennies is not unreasonable and I’ll vent here today, on the Bitch site, and you can suck it all you want.
I dont use pennies, give them all to my son and he rolls them and takes them to the bank.
If I knew the name of this store, I’d never shop there, ever.
Money is money.
1) It is bullshit that a store won’t accept 19 pennies. I can understand 250 but 19? Come on.
2) It is ridiculous that pennies still exist. Is the government worried about putting wishing wells and fountains out of business? I have about 7 dollars worth in a plastic container. I just drop them in when I get home. Eventually, they’re going to the bank.
There’s more customers than you to worry about. A cashier can’t be expected to take time to count 250 pennies to ensure that all money is there to cover your purchase. Plus, if it is the cashier’s job to do so, it’s an obligation for the customer to wait until every penny of the purchase is counted because it’s the customer’s responsibility to ensure that they can actually pay for their items.
Some folks here must have forgotten or never heard the concept of a ‘line-up’. Plus, think if you were the next person in the line-up waiting to pay for your items and that cashier has to take several minutes to count 250 pennies. You’d be pretty pissed.
If you don’t like waiting, count it then roll it yourself. Don’t expect a business to do what is essentially your work. Banks don’t, stores don’t, public services or utilities don’t either.
I save all my pennies in a large piggy bank. You’d be amazed at how fast that shit adds up. I emptied my piggy bank a few months ago and had $50 in pennies. Rolled them, took them to the bank and put the cash into my savings account 🙂
Nice PK!
Calvin is right, check the Currency Act (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-52/).
But, beyond that, there is no legal requirement for any business to accept any form of legal tender. You could trade in goat poop, as long as the seller and buyer agree on how to settle the transaction. (http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/count-contre/faq…).
The Bank of Canada has the following information on their website (http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/la…
“Payment methods must be mutually acceptable to both parties (e.g. credit or debit card, cheque). Therefore, retailers do not break the law if they refuse bills.”
Why do we even still have pennies? It costs more to make the damn things than they’re worth FFS.
Panhandlers can’t be beggars and choosers…..if they have pennies, they’ll use them….. Question is: OP , were you selling crack or what to them?