A couple years ago my mother went to a local bank where my family has dealt for 20+ years. I don't remember what the occasion was but for whatever reason she needed rolls of change.

She gets her change, pays them, get home and cracks the rolls.

Hidden in the coins in the centre of rolls were slugs like you knock out of an electrical panel box when you are running wire!!!

From a friggin bank!!!!

 

haulin_in_dixie
you can pick up those pens at any office max or office supply store. i to travel about 85% of the time and have upto 12 grand on me. thats alot of 20's. dave ramsey is a christian finacial
adviser, he says cash is the only way when you pull out a 100 you feel the pain, credit cards you don't.

 

H-I-D

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I gotta get me one of those pens.

Usually, I'm not lucky enough to have 100's on me, but after a trip over the border to Wendover (gambling) I usually come home with a few of them.

Have some sitting at home waiting for the next trip.


phox

 

Joel- I consider myself a moral person, and don't believe for a minute that this is stealing.
1) The author of the thread didn't print the bill himself, and is not trying to gain anything he is not entitled to.
2) The bank gave him the bill in question, in the first place, and they specialize in currency.
3) My understanding of the post was that the bill was not proven counterfeit, even by the bank.

I see no reason for him to lose $100 through no fault of his own.

 

Hey with the kind of work I do I need to use cash and it is not uncommon for me to spend $600.00 every 3-4 days for materials in addition to about $100.00 a week for fuel so that's why I carry cash and small bills would be really impractical I think.
Tomorrow I am going to go to Staples and see if I can get some of those starch pens to mark the bills with and I always have my UV flashlight I carry. I just never thought I would get screwed by my own bank, hey they gave me the bill and just because I am being honest I loose my hard earned money? I would cry about a $20.00 and get over it but this really hurts.

Hey Dieseldude4x4 I know what you are feeling, I have a big fist full of them too and I am kinda afraid to check all of them now especially since I got about 90% of them from the same bank.
When we were at the bank and talking to the manager and she said that it was my responsability to check them, my wife said "you just opened up a big can of worms now lady, you don't know Jim... He is going to stand there and check every single bill he gets now before he leaves the window."
One time last year I had probably $300.00 in $20.00's in my money clip while I was working in a sump with pumps in it, anyhow the stupid West Covina Poilce Department decides to jack me around for no reason. I was in a 20' deep sump for 3 days and he decides I was using it as a cover while I was burgularizing houses. Anyhow he is going through my pockets and finds the wad of $$$ ( {bindle} is what is called in the dope and pimp business.) and insist I am also a dope dealer.
So this is why I am afraid to carry alot of small bills. understand?
Now I am honest and probably more than most of the people I know and I would help anyone any time of the day or nite and never expect anything in return.
BUT I will never take any money back to the bank for their screw up, It might just get lost amongst some other bills as I make a payment. I am just as GOD fearing as the best of them but only a fool would keep turning cheeks.
I hope you don't think I am a bad person now. Jim

 

How about this as an option? You didn't say if you have an account with this bank, but turn around and make a cash deposit using their bills. That way, you're not passing the bills off to someone else (which I would say is stealing if you know it's counterfiet), just returning them back to the institution that gave them to you....

 

I haven't used a hundred dollar bill in years. Instead I use a debit card for 80% of my weekly expenditures and keep only a small amount of cash in the wallet.

 

I would close the account and walk. For a first occurance, they should have errored towards service. You would've established a history that would prevent it from happening again. They have your info and could forward the complaint to the SS and still keep you happy. If it turned out to be fake, you then may recieve a follow up call form the SS, and it would out of the banks hands. I can see their view of a laps of a couple days, but I go to a couple different branches of my CREDIT UNION, and I think they all know me.

 

I use my debit card for most things. Small stuff, I often pay cash (but only if they don't take debit).

Big things, I use the Discover and pay it off at the end of the month. Free money!

 

i guess every one is different, i cut up all my credit cards 10 years ago and i still think it is the best finiancial move i have ever done. and i feel for many on here when getting cash, i get 100's all the time and i have never even thought of checking them. i guess i need to look a bit better. i did get a debit card for emergency money if something comes up and i am no where near the bank.

 

Several years ago my wife had the exact same thing happen to her. We took the bill back to the bank and they gave us a different $100.00 bill and kept the 1st one they gave us.

I always wondered if they really turned in that bill or just gave it to someone else.

 

they don't charge more for using credit card, you get a 3 cent discount for using cash.

 

Yes Forrest explained how they get away with it but now some truck stops, Pilot for one, doesn't even use the rouse, they just charge more than the posted amount. I'll tell you what though, I have found the all cash system to be far superior in all respects. The money is in the same pocket with the .380

Just for an example of the amounts handled, a big truck with 150 gallon tanks on each side is paying over $600 to fuel up each time. In my little Dodge, if I run 24 hours heavy, I am fueling to the tune of $200 in a day. When work is heavy it is not unusual for me to spend over $1000 in three or four days. So I have to have between $1000 and $2000 on me.

Generally dope money is considered over $5000 so I do watch this that I don't have over that in the truck. This does not mean that drivers such as myself are "well heeled" we just have the cash available. When you get used to handling large pocket sums, it is not a rich type of feeling, I still know what the money is there for. In the '70s I used to leave home with $2000 for expenses.

 

man, this went all over the place so don't consider this a response to anything. if i understand the law, anyone knowingly passing a counterfeit bill is guilty of a felony. which of course carries some heavy penalties. at the truck stops in this area a debit card gets you the .03 a gallon discount for cash price.