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I don't see why he didn't make a bigger deal out of them saying they were going to do it for free but later retracting the offer. 
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Sadly typical of Best Buy in terms of their customer service philosophy. I don't shop there.
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from what ive heard, a business has the right to refuse payment that is made with sizeable amount of change (coins). bills should not be lumped into that. its only $114, its not like he was buying a plasma tv or anything  when i worked as a cashier in high school, i remember a customer paying with a nice fat stack of $2 bills. i thought it was a little odd but i would never have thought to use the counterfeit pen on them. wtf counterfeits $2?? (that are realistic-looking enough to have to use the pen). while i think both BB and the police over-reacted i guess if the ink did smear it could be suspicious... but how much did it smear?? barely? or a lot? im a bit suprised myself, i didnt know the ink on bills could smear. now ive got some experimenting to do  ps they should have arrested the cashier. it is illegal to deface american currency 
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Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
ok lets take a look at this.....
Guy is apparently not the happiest after being told he must pay for installation. He decides to have some fun and pay in $2 bills KNOWING that the person taking his money will give some sort of unorthodox reaction. The cashier and management see smearing ink on the bills and can't be sure of the bills validity. They have every right to make sure they are getting their money. I don't believe its the best way to go about things, but the guy asked for this when he decided to get funny with Best Buy. Anything you purposely do to heighten the level of suspicion is at you own risk when it comes to money.
If you don't want to be "Humiliated" then don't give them a reason to.........
WRONG. The guy did NOTHING wrong, and CERTAINLY did nothing to warrant such treatment. So he was being a smart azz, so what? I just contradicted your opinion, doesn't give you the right to smack me in the mouth & get away with it because you think I "asked for it".
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
ok lets take a look at this.....
Guy is apparently not the happiest after being told he must pay for installation. He decides to have some fun and pay in $2 bills KNOWING that the person taking his money will give some sort of unorthodox reaction. The cashier and management see smearing ink on the bills and can't be sure of the bills validity. They have every right to make sure they are getting their money. I don't believe its the best way to go about things, but the guy asked for this when he decided to get funny with Best Buy. Anything you purposely do to heighten the level of suspicion is at you own risk when it comes to money.
If you don't want to be "Humiliated" then don't give them a reason to.........
There is no way he would have thought they would have assumed they were counterfeit. Several people reacted in a very improper fashion, running on emotion instead of taking the time to see what was going on. The Best Buy employees and the LEOs were idiots.
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Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
It's called a Counterfeit Pen. It's this nifty invention that every store that handles the kind of money BestBuy does has. What you do is take the cap off said pen, draw a small line on the money. If it stays yellow the money is good! If it turns black the money is bad!
thought those only worked on the new bills, over the watermark? I could be totally wrong though...
as for cuffing him to a pole, I don't see the reason AT ALL. it's not like he said "screw you I'm leaving", I'm sure he would've gladly sat there if the police told him to, and seriously, he's a 57 year old man, you think he's gonna outrun members of the secret service?
this entire thing is rediculous, I see no way off justifying this. maybe some technicatilties warranted their actions, but I see no way of this being reasonable at all.
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Originally posted by platinum_drew:
thought those only worked on the new bills, over the watermark? I could be totally wrong though...
They work on any US paper currency. It has to do with the paper itself, not the inks they use to print them.
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Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
ok lets take a look at this.....
Guy is apparently not the happiest after being told he must pay for installation. He decides to have some fun and pay in $2 bills KNOWING that the person taking his money will give some sort of unorthodox reaction. The cashier and management see smearing ink on the bills and can't be sure of the bills validity. They have every right to make sure they are getting their money. I don't believe its the best way to go about things, but the guy asked for this when he decided to get funny with Best Buy. Anything you purposely do to heighten the level of suspicion is at you own risk when it comes to money.
If you don't want to be "Humiliated" then don't give them a reason to.........
I understand that on any issue there is two sides to the coin (no pun intended) but the other side of the coin on this issue is just friggin stupid. ^ 
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
"It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world." --- Lame excuse for being stupid
You can blame everything on 9/11 these days.
If you let people start paying in $2 bills, then the terrorists have won.
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Its from 3 months ago....did the guy ever sue?
I tell you, the day that someone chains me in leg locks and handcuffs to a pole...is the day I become a millionaire. Or at least the day I make enough money to buy a nice house
I would have sued THE HELL out of both of them or had settled on a big amount.
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