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Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
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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".
BEST BUY DOSEN'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!.....and guess what, Best Buy didn't give a sh*t about what that guy was thinking when he got taken by the police.
THEY ARE A BUSINESS AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO QUESTION ANY TENDER THEY FEEL COULD BE FAKE.
Lets see how all of this could have been avoided. The guy could have been a little less of an [censored]. He purposely paid the cashier in $2s knowing it would make her less than excited. He brought this on himself, AND YOU KNOW WHAT???? I bet he never goes out of his way to make it even a tiny bit more difficult for a Best Buy cashier to do her job...
No matter what you think, the store had every right to validate the bills. They did and stayed perfectly within the realm of the law. I'm not saying the police handled it all that wonderfully, but Best Buy DID NOTHING WRONG...
I just contradicted your opinion.....good afternoon 
You my friend are severely mis-informed. I have 10 years of retail management experience. Including being GM at big box stores like BB. I would have took the $2 bills with no problem. Matter of fact I have taken in more $2 bills then you have ever seen. Best Buy was in the wrong and the Police were in the wrong. I would sue the $hit out of both if I was him.
Also if you plan on responding with your severely mis-informed and not based on any legal fact opinions, expect someone to call you out on it. As was stated earlier a $2 bill is legal tender. I could walk into just about any retail establishment and pay in quarters if I feel like it. Wheter or not they accept it is another story, but involving the police is not the correct course of action.
Bottom line is BB had an option to accept or refuse his money. They chose to call the police(who must of been modern day Keystone Kops in order to handcuff him to a pole in the store over some BS) which was an idiotic move on their part as any retail manager worth his salt should be able to tell a real bill from a fake one. Also the fact that they are trying to say that it smeared was just them covering their a$$. I could see maybe 1 or 2 with a little smear as it happens, but I would put everything I own that all 57 didn't.
I am not even going to start about their policy of telling a customer one thing then going back on it the next day. Completely unacceptable.
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i have to agree. i think the guy has a strong case for legal action against bb and/or the police department. the dude paid with real money. who cares if he did to piss them off. its real money. legal federal reserve notes. if the store thought it was counterfeit then they shouldve confirmed it. if they felt they had to call the cops, fine. everyone goes into a back office to sort it all out. handcuffed? seriously? what threat did he pose. what if he wanted to pay in all singles. is that any worse? is it that hard to count to 114 in multipes of 1 or 2. obviously if he wanted to buy a $2000 computer system and pay in loose change, that might be rediculous. but even then its real money. the store either wants the sale or not. and why should they care. all the money goes to the bank anyway. the ceo of bb isnt going to get his paycheck in this change. money's money. i'd be more embarassed in paying in dimes and nickels vs thinking the store will refuse. but the guy had a sense of humor still about the situation and wanted to pay his "outstanding" bb balance with 57 federal reserve notes. if those $2 bills happened to be rare and worth alot and the guy didnt know it and wanted to use them and the clerk knew they worth alot and did the pen test to confirm they were real, i'm sure this wouldnt have happened. she would've kept her mouth shut and said thanks then wouldve kept the bills and thrown 114bucks from her pocket into the register. HE USED REAL LEGAL MONEY. how could he possibly be in the wrong. even doing so on purpose, it still wasnt even close to anything illegal/worthy of being handcuffed and humiliated.
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The oddest legal U.S. Currency I ever received in change was a $1 Silver Certificate from 1957.
I didn't even realize I had it until I tried to spend it in another store and the manager checked it out... at that point, I realized what it was and substituted another $1 bill for payment.
I have it in my Shakespeare book to press it.
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<off topic> Originally posted by Zoom Zoom Diva:
The oddest legal U.S. Currency I ever received in change was a $1 Silver Certificate from 1957.
I didn't even realize I had it until I tried to spend it in another store and the manager checked it out... at that point, I realized what it was and substituted another $1 bill for payment.
I have it in my Shakespeare book to press it.
I had two silver certificates .. both series 1935. One received in change working at Burger King, the other my mom got in her change and gave to me. I have high-res scans of them here if you're at all interested  (gave one away to my cousin; I still have the better-condition one in the middle, it's almost crisp minus the folds)
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When I was at a gas station earlier, the cashier handed me my change back, and lo and behold, the "quarter" turned out to be a Canadian 100 piece. I don't know what to call it, but it has the same color, size, and even edges of a U.S. quarter. I was shocked as much as the cashier. It figures I get this from the gas station by the prison. 
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Originally posted by Majisto:
If somebody has any suspicion of you, you can be dragged kicking and screaming away from your family for the "security" of our nation. It doesn't matter that you did nothing wrong.
God bless the Patriot Act! 
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Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Originally posted by svt4stv:
Originally posted by Majisto:
If somebody has any suspicion of you, you can be dragged kicking and screaming away from your family for the "security" of our nation. It doesn't matter that you did nothing wrong.
God bless the Patriot Act!
WTF does this have to do with the patriot act?!?! Why it was ever brought up in the first place is beyond me. It has nothing to do with the patriot act, quit trying to bring Republican Vs Democrat in where it's not warranted for the sake of starting a fight.
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Well Heaven forbid someone question US TENDER. I mean its not as if their isn't millions of dollars in counterfit money out there ripping off people everyday. I've personally dealt with fake money and felt the damaging effects it can have. But regardless, THE BLOODY STORE IS THER TO MAKE MONEY. THEY AREN'T THERE TO BELIEVE EVERY PERSON WHO WALKS INTO THE DOOR AND OFFERS THEM MONEY.
God forbid we actually question the validity of such a thing as MONEY!!!!!! Fake money is EVERYWHERE and I for one am not going to get screwed over by some assh*le guy whose mad because he didn't get his sterio installed for free. This has nothing to do with the fact that they said somthing and then went back on their word. This has everything to do with a store being cautious of the money they are presented.
The store had every right to call the police and have them validate the funds. BB probably gets f*cked over every day by fake money assh*les. If the cashier and manager were unable to correctly see if the money was real or not, then they call the police and see if they can do it.
But you know I suppose the store is just supposed to have faith and trust in the customer....I mean of course people never attempt to steal or screw over stores...
All of this "he was humiliated and needs to sue" crap is so typical of this day and age. How about the companies that loose money on a daily basis because of fakes??? Does anyone care about that???? Its just like insurance...people file false claims and get freebees off the BIG BAD INSURANCE COMPANY...But the second their premiums go up, the same people who filed those claims start b*tching...THE REASON THE PREMIUMS GO UP IS BECAUSE OF THE FALSE CLAIMS!!! Maybe like the reason stores are getting so tight about fake money is because they get screwed all the time??????
I hope the man sues, and I hope he looses...more money for the courts
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Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
Well Heaven forbid someone question US TENDER. I mean its not as if their isn't millions of dollars in counterfit money out there ripping off people everyday. I've personally dealt with fake money and felt the damaging effects it can have. But regardless, THE BLOODY STORE IS THER TO MAKE MONEY. THEY AREN'T THERE TO BELIEVE EVERY PERSON WHO WALKS INTO THE DOOR AND OFFERS THEM MONEY.
God forbid we actually question the validity of such a thing as MONEY!!!!!! Fake money is EVERYWHERE and I for one am not going to get screwed over by some assh*le guy whose mad because he didn't get his sterio installed for free. This has nothing to do with the fact that they said somthing and then went back on their word. This has everything to do with a store being cautious of the money they are presented.
The store had every right to call the police and have them validate the funds. BB probably gets f*cked over every day by fake money assh*les. If the cashier and manager were unable to correctly see if the money was real or not, then they call the police and see if they can do it.
But you know I suppose the store is just supposed to have faith and trust in the customer....I mean of course people never attempt to steal or screw over stores...
It has nothing to do with trusting the customer, they used a friggin counterfeit pen on the bills! Those pens are not wrong, they either turn dark black or stay yellow. Dark black means fake bills. Since they are real they would not turn black. Very simple, even you and Best Buy cashiers should be able to understand it.
And no, stores don't get screwed all the time. The RadioShack I work at has had 1 bad $20 bill since my manager started working there 26 years ago. We check the bills and the bank checks them too so we would know.
What BestBuy and the police did to this guy was seriously BS. I am 99% in favor of giving the police the benefit of the doubt but there were serious mistakes on both parts, possibly even malicious on BestBuy's part because they were pissed at the guy to begin with.
I for one will not shop at BestBuy anymore if the story presented here is true and was really the way things went down.
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All of this "he was humiliated and needs to sue" crap is so typical of this day and age. How about the companies that loose money on a daily basis because of fakes??? Does anyone care about that???? Its just like insurance...people file false claims and get freebees off the BIG BAD INSURANCE COMPANY...But the second their premiums go up, the same people who filed those claims start b*tching...THE REASON THE PREMIUMS GO UP IS BECAUSE OF THE FALSE CLAIMS!!! Maybe like the reason stores are getting so tight about fake money is because they get screwed all the time??????
If companies are losing money on a daily basis because of fakes it's their own damn fault. Not taking blame away from the counterfeiters, but they can check the money before they take it too. There is no "getting tight" about calling the cops on this guy. Hell there are even machines that you can run the bills through that will tell you if they are fake. That elminates the retard cashier that can't tell black from yellow.
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Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
It has nothing to do with trusting the customer, they used a friggin counterfeit pen on the bills! Those pens are not wrong, they either turn dark black or stay yellow. Dark black means fake bills. Since they are real they would not turn black. Very simple, even you and Best Buy cashiers should be able to understand it.
And no, stores don't get screwed all the time. The RadioShack I work at has had 1 bad $20 bill since my manager started working there 26 years ago. We check the bills and the bank checks them too so we would know.
What BestBuy and the police did to this guy was seriously BS. I am 99% in favor of giving the police the benefit of the doubt but there were serious mistakes on both parts, possibly even malicious on BestBuy's part because they were pissed at the guy to begin with.
I for one will not shop at BestBuy anymore if the story presented here is true and was really the way things went down.
Do you think a simple pen can prove 100% validity of US currency???? I'm sorry buddy but you can easily get around the pen. Its so easy, actually, that the pen can be fooled with certain types of over the counter hairsprays.
So I'm sorry, but YES, the pen can be proved to work incorrectly.
When one is unsure or unequiped to perform a task, they call someone who can. The store probably would have never questioned a thing if the man were not purposly an assh*le. He did it to himself and has no grounds for suit...
Fake money is out there. I've seen it, felt it, and even swipped it with the bloody little pen. A store down the road form me gets fake attempts on a nightly basis...
I'm sorry, but last time I checked, I opened a business to make money, not to get f*cked...
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