Because I went to a store and wanted to pay for something that was just over a dollar and I gave them three 50 cent pieces, can they refuse them as payment, because this store did? Because if you want to buy something at a store arent you in debt until you pay for it, legaly a 50 cent piece is legal tender and dosent legal tender have to be accepted to pay off a debt? The Currency Act (http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-52/46135.html) is kind of hard to inderstand. I know this is a silly question, but I feel a need to have a answer to all my questions.
2006-08-03 15:34:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Michinoku2001, the 50 cent pieces arent worth more than 50 cents, unless there the silver ones, you can sometimes get them at the bank.
2006-08-03 15:42:02 · update #1
The coin is Canadian, and I know for a fact that it is a Canadian coin, I got it a the Canadian bank, and it sais it is Canadian on it, and it is legal tender.
2006-08-03 15:50:35 · update #2
You'd probably presented coins from a foreign country, there's no such a coin in Canada as far as I know. Try to go back there with 3 fifty cents American coins and you'll see the difference.
2006-08-03 15:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely a store can refuse to take your money! I have refused customers lots of times. Usually because the money was from a different country, was counterfit, or in one case because it was covered in blood! Also up until a few years ago there was a $1000 bill, and that was nearly impossible to cash (that's why it isn't available anymore.) Just because it is legal tender means nothing. I would refuse the 50 piece too mostly because I am not familiar with it, and don't know if it really has a value. I don't know why I would bother taking it. I'm not a coin dealer! Take the coin in and trade it for regular money!
2006-08-04 06:46:45 · answer #2 · answered by hilarywow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is legal tender in Canada to pay a debt of up to $10. with 50 cent pieces. However in your case you are not indebted to the store until they permit you to purchase, and have sold you the product. They chose not to sell it to you when they refused your money. If they chose to behave in a manner which, while not illegal, is offensive to you, I strongly suggest you boycott the store and be sure to advice the owner and all your friends of your intent and their silly policy.
Any clerk who would not accept your CDN 50 cent piece is under educated for the job which they are tending, and their employer either needs to be more careful when hiring or be sure to have a proper training program in place.
BTW! There are many Bell Telephone payment centres that will not accept cash at all.
PS when I was a youngster a Canadian Tire Store refused to accept 39 pennies from me as payment for a toy. I left and never returned to that store ever again and it was 30 years before I gave that corporation one cent of my earned money.
2006-08-03 15:53:43 · answer #3 · answered by ½«gumwrapper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
where did you get a 50 cent coin from? i've never seen one in Canada, so the store owner has probably never seen it either. You should got to a coin shop, its probably worth more than 50 cents.
2006-08-03 15:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by junkee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. Was it an American coin you tried to use in Canada? If so, they could probably refuse it because it isn't Canadian money.
2006-08-03 15:43:41 · answer #5 · answered by Quiora 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm-the fifty cents coins are probably worth more than fifty cents.
2006-08-03 15:40:11 · answer #6 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50-cent pieces are so rare these days that the retailer probably thought they were fake.
2006-08-06 07:50:05 · answer #7 · answered by Willster 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if its a small mom and pap store then they usually refuse
2006-08-03 15:40:11 · answer #8 · answered by dtstuff9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋