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10/03/2008, 21:08 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 3,543 Re: Forged notes Not quite, the friend didn't shrug and walk away but kicked up a fuss. Given the collusion and ba**s it would take to front out such a scam, and the fact that 2 French shop assistants, quite likely being observed by other curious or bemused customers, persisted in declaring the note fake, I find it almost impossible to believe that this was anything more than a well intentioned but badly handled mistake rather than anything more sinister or nefarious. With respect, whilst I can fully appreciate the difficulty of arguing in an unfamiliar foreign tongue, the real reason the friend came away empty handed was because she didn't tough it out and insist she be given either the note back or a receipt, failing which she should have simply called the police. Whatever they have then, be it real or fake, its not neccessarily through the malicious reason Opas and Benjamin suggest. Let's not forget too that if it was fake the friend was already €50 down before when she walked through Auchans door. Where on earth does one get a €500 note by the way, I've not seen one yet My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

10/03/2008, 21:30 Sunday Driver Joined on 07/10/2005 Deux Sevres (79) Posts 2,908 Re: Forged notes  ErnieY wrote: Where on earth does one get a €500 note by the way, I've not seen one yet Nobody will accept them because they're usually all fakes.....   Waddya mean it's only Saturday......    Report

10/03/2008, 22:39 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 3,543 Re: Forged notes  Sunday Driver wrote: Nobody will accept them because they're usually all fakes..... You mean Opas's friend could be €450 up not €50 down My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

11/03/2008, 4:32 powerdesal Joined on 07/01/2006 Sharjah U.A.E Posts 2,173 Re: Forged notes  ErnieY wrote: Where on earth does one get a €500 note by the way, I've not seen one yet The foreign exchange places here always try to give E500 notes if possible, they have to be "prevailed upon" to give me nothing bigger than E50 notes, they seem bemused by the idea that people may not want a note that big. Maybe they dont appreciate the actual value. Steve Sharjah (but not for long ) + 50 (in France) ........................................................................... 7 days Ins'Allah (1 with the packers, 2 for the week end, 4 for work)( or maybe 8, or 9, or 10 or 11 or....)    Report

11/03/2008, 7:36 opas Joined on 23/08/2004 catalonia, top of the hill en route to the Chateau Posts 2,187 Re: Forged notes  Sunday Driver wrote:  ErnieY wrote: Where on earth does one get a €500 note by the way, I've not seen one yet Nobody will accept them because they're usually all fakes.....     From the bank , I did mention this lady is Danish and is not short of a bob or two. Which doesn`t mean to say that she is happy to part with a 50 Euro note in exchange for an argument. So the concesus is that she should have asked them to call the police , I beleive she has nothing to hide.    Report

11/03/2008, 7:45 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 3,543 Re: Forged notes  powerdesal wrote: they seem bemused by the idea that people may not want a note that big C'mon Steve, you're in the Middle East, the land where  if BIG  is good - BIGGER must be better   My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

13/03/2008, 21:17 Jonzjob Joined on 23/08/2004 Nr Carcassonne, 11 Posts 2,696 Re: Forged notes What happens if you get the situation where the store find out that the note is not forged and have not given any kind of reciept? Does the store then look for the Danish lady, do they hell! A reciept should always be given and if it does turn out to be forged then the matter can be traced further back. I would be caling  for le flick!! Have you advised your Danish friend to chase the note and go back to the store and check Opas? If not then would you be willing to go with her and chech? Please let us know the outcome... John. The only difference between the men & the boys is the size & the shape & the price of their toys!!    Report

25/04/2008, 18:37 Washy Joined on 23/08/2004 Corbieres, Aude (11) Posts 332 Re: Forged notes I was paid in 500 euro notes for my car sold on Ebay.  I was very worried, but had struck up quite a relationship with the guy that bought the car and he arrived with his son, mum and dad and sister for a day out in the country.  I laughed about the note and the possibility of forgery and rang my friend in the local shop, we all trouped round there and she passed the notes through a sort of ultra violet scanner she had.  She said they were OK, so we all went off to the bar to celebrate the sale of the car. Now we have been trying to get rid of these notes and they have been causing security alerts everywhere.  In Brico Depot Béziers the cashier had to call for a security guard to takeit away and bring her enough change to finish our sale.................The notes are a wonderful purple colour, lovely but I have put the rest in the bank.  We still see the guy who bought our car so he would hardly have given us forged ones as he took them straight out of the bank to pay us........    Report

27/04/2008, 9:05 NormanH Joined on 10/04/2008 Posts 179 Re: Forged notes From what I know of Béziers there are plenty of people ready to take your money..whatever the denomination of the notes    Report

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