And this is what she gave me
(http://i.imgur.com/p31DekK.jpg)
Quote from: 'kanjoe07' pid='43847' dateline='1394809258'And this is what she gave me
Niiiice haul! Though I presume you don't actually mean "gave", right? ;)
Sweet score KJ :)
I WENT TO SEVERAL BANKS OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND ALL SAID THAT WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE/SELL ANY PAPER NOTES TO AN YONE WHO REQUESTED THEM.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
Reserve Bank policy is for all paper notes to be returned for shredding and incineration (bloody spoilsports).
However, I believe, they cannot force the issue and any Australian note, regardless of vintage, is still legal tender.
"A new process to ensure that the quality of lower-denomination currency notes is maintained has been developed. It provides incentives to ensure that banks and armoured car companies return old notes, including from remote areas, for processing and replacement." RBA Annual Report 2006.
Many bank staff have minimal understanding of the situation and believe it is illegal to return obsolete note to circulation.
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='43892' dateline='1394847075'Many bank staff have minimal understanding of the situation and believe it is illegal to return obsolete note to circulation.
And worse, some refuse to accept written evidence from the RBA to the contrary. They even claim they would lose their jobs if they handed them over.
What is one to do? Well, dump
all your roadkill on them, increasing their workload, of course! :diablo:
It's happened to me before too, but I suppose if I were a humble teller and I was told that this was the process, regardless of the customer's evidence, I would do as I was instructed.
Rock and a hard place.
:cray: I can still see that wad of paper $10 from a few months ago ...... behind the counter, just begging me to take it home.
Yeah, she didn't 'give' them to me Fulvio haha
I have to admit I'm very lucky because I've known all the staff at that Westpac branch for at least 8 years now since my family opened up a Malaysian restaurant in the area - known everyone from the tellers right to the branch manager, so that helps. They also had about $150 in $1s and $2s but I didn't have time to look through all of them.
I also got a paper $100 about two months ago as my best mate is a teller at a Bankwest branch. So it helps to know the right people, in the right branches (apologies for the square Instagram photo):
(http://i.imgur.com/WYqJhc3.jpg)
I received a phone call from a lady whose son is sorting out his late grandmothers deceased estate, (NO This is not an EBay gimmick), and I was informed that here is a quantity of PAPER $50 and $100 notes.
I can't tell you the how good they are but will find out on Tuesday evening.
I will take my camera and try and get some photos.
So just in case someone could be interested, could you please PM me and I can advise you on Tuesday evening or Wednesday. Pleaee PM me with your normal EMAIL address so that I can send you the photos of the notes. (That's provided they are brought to the netball courts for me to photograph).
Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='43994' dateline='1394965139'PAPER $50 and $100 notes.
How come suddenly everybody and his dog has tons of paper looking for new homes??? Jeez... do I have to go rob a bank to give all these poor orphans shelter from the fires of NPA? :angel:
went into my new bank today and they had over $3000 face value in paper notes, predominantly $100s, I took 4x50x 4x20s and 4x5s, They kindly put aside 5x100s that were nice and white clean and crisp, I go get them Thursday.
Lovely lady said she'd put aside anything unusual, round 50s paper notes $200 coins etc, and they also get 90% brand new coin from Armagaurd twice a week.
Might have found a "winner"
Wow! You're a lucky one!
With these crisp notes we'll have change your handle from CFV to CFU!!!
Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46078' dateline='1396846242'Armagaurd twice a week.
TWICE a week??? Where on earth is this????
Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='44005' dateline='1395022480'Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='43994' dateline='1394965139'PAPER $50 and $100 notes.
How come suddenly everybody and his dog has tons of paper looking for new homes??? Jeez... do I have to go rob a bank to give all these poor orphans shelter from the fires of NPA? :angel:
the older baby boomers are kicking the bucket
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='46083' dateline='1396853912'the older baby boomers are kicking the bucket
Harrumph! I resemble that remark! And get off my lawn! :P
ha ha it is true!!
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964 (thank-you Wikkie)
this year my coin dealer is being swamped with the offspring of the baby boomers bringing in the decimal junk that mum or dad has had tucked away in cardboard boxes under the bed
they have either - kicked the bucket or the adoring offspring are tossing them into nursing homes
I have been at the local coin show when the adoring offspring are there with the bags of stuff and grizzling about their parents 'junk 'that they have to sort through to get them outta the house and into the nursing home
hey - I just found out that there is also a 'generation jones'
which are the late baby boomers!! never heard of it before
FYI!!
Generation Jones is a term coined by the author Jonathan Pontell to describe the cohort of people born from approximately 1954 to 1965.[1][2][3] Pontell defined Generation Jones as referring to the last years of the post–World War II baby boom.[4] The term also includes first-wave Generation X.
The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.[5][6][7][8] It is said[by whom?] that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days in the past. The generation is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of the population had come immediately preceding them; thus, many Generation Jones members complain that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to Baby Boomers born earlier. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness about and a "jonesing" for the level of freedom and affluence granted to older boomers but denied to their generation.[9]
People born in '46 are only 68,those from '64 are turning 50. Hardly the prime age for nursing homes and 6' under.
More likely the boomers are downsizing as the kids leave the nest and they have to offload all the stuff left over from cleaning out their own parents houses over the past decade.
I'm a boomer and the youngest of 5, none of us has retired and our parents are not in nursing homes.
I am a baby boomer and an orphan But I am nowhere near retirement home fodder nor will I ever likely to be :yahoo:
Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='46081' dateline='1396852539'Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46078' dateline='1396846242'Armagaurd twice a week.
TWICE a week??? Where on earth is this????
A major bank towards the southern end of The Gold Coast
Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46096' dateline='1396863480'A major bank towards the southern end of The Gold Coast
That's it.. I'm coming for a drive. Soon as I can break out of this nursing home and find the keys to my mobility scooter that is. ;)
Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='46098' dateline='1396866982'Quote from: 'Coins from Vending' pid='46096' dateline='1396863480'A major bank towards the southern end of The Gold Coast
That's it.. I'm coming for a drive. Soon as I can break out of this nursing home and find the keys to my mobility scooter that is. ;)
Watch out for the speed cameras as you head North. Don't want another fine do we.:taunt:
Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='46091' dateline='1396859035'People born in '46 are only 68,those from '64 are turning 50. Hardly the prime age for nursing homes and 6' under.
More likely the boomers are downsizing as the kids leave the nest and they have to offload all the stuff left over from cleaning out their own parents houses over the past decade.
I'm a boomer and the youngest of 5, none of us has retired and our parents are not in nursing homes.
humm, would beg to differ based on my everyday evidence
you obviously don't work where I do
in health
not every over sixty year old is a picture of good health
but pleased to know that you and yours are!
less customers for the likes of myself
yeah yeah guys
off topic
but not really
We all have different contacts and means to get coins n notes
Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='46099' dateline='1396870378'Watch out for the speed cameras as you head North. Don't want another fine do we.:taunt:
:P It was in Box Hill.