£1 coins

[meriad]

I spent them at the pie hut at Woking FC on Saturday ... their problem now!

I was driving past the FC as the crowds were going in - I should have looked out for you

[JoM]

I was given 4 old £1 coins in change last night. I asked for them to be swapped for news ones. The woman was a bit sniffy about it but surely the point now is to get them out of circulation and not keep passing them back to customers.

[meriad]

errrm... yes - unless it's a small shop that doesn't really take their money to a bank? In which case it's easier and more convenient for them to (literally in this case) pass the buck elsewhere

[TheOstrich]

There was a report a couple of months back that the Bank of England were getting fed up with the clearing banks because they were sending the new £1 coins back for scrapping in mistake for the old ones! I received one in change on Saturday (on the gate at the rugby match) and promptly got rid of it two minutes later at the programme kiosk.

I was thinking I might start to say no to old coins in change like you, Jo, but we'll see. There is some confusion over the banks taking them after 15th October, but I've seen more reports saying that they will than they won't. Some banks are saying you have to pay into your account rather than just exchange them .... Tescos have said that you can still use the old coins for a week after deadline day in any of their trollies which they haven't converted, but then all you'd do is get the same one back when you've finished your shopping, wouldn't you?

[cruiser2]

Went to the bank yesterday morning to change the three that I had. I was doing other business as well. When I got there the bank was closed as the main door
into the bank was jammed. The staff were stood outside telling people about the problem. They said it could be two hours before the engineer came and fixed it. Had to draw money out of the cash machine outside. Have never done this, always go to the counter and chat to the cashiers.
There were several people waiting to use the cash machine.

[JoM]

errrm... yes - unless it's a small shop that doesn't really take their money to a bank? In which case it's easier and more convenient for them to (literally in this case) pass the buck elsewhere

Not a small shop, a busy Poundland on a retail park. To be fair, the supervisor said that she'd banked £177 worth of old coins earlier that day so it does seem that they're trying to help get them out of circulation but that hadn't been passed onto the lady on the till.

[meriad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ocket.html
just check you don't have one of these first!