There's this store around the corner that refused to take my friends change the other day. The purchase was like $3.43 or somthing like that and he paid with pennies (lots of them), nickels and a few dimes...
Is it legal for a store to refuse money?
2006-10-25 16:32:42 · 18 answers · asked by Charlie C 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Technically it is illegal for any canadian business dealing in canadian currency for a transaction to refuse any canadian currency.
Regarding the one hundred dollar bill, there was known counterfit bills and also who needs a one hundred for 20 in purchase.
example, if I went to the store and put exact change in pennies for my purchase I can grab the product and leave, I have not stole anything. If the owner wants to call the cops saying I didn't pay for it then the owner will look like the idiot.
Credit cards are a fee service to the merchant, the can refuse for it is not canadian currentcy. It is paying with the ensurity that the amount will be paid by that credit card company on your behalf.
2006-10-26 18:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by tordor111 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stores can refuse anyones business or money.
There is some strange law in place that a place of business doesn't have to accept anymore then $2.00 in loose change here in Canada.
It's because it only creates a hassle for the business unless they are low on small change. If you've ever worked with a cash register you'll understand.
2006-10-26 07:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by lovely 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's a store policy then you can't argue with their policy, only they have to disclose it first. You can go to a bank and they'll exchange coin for bills (in case this happens to you again). I understand their reaction if you would bring 10 dollars worth of pennies, but quarters it's not that much actually. Just don't go to that store anymore. Go on-line and write a review on their customer service.
2016-03-19 00:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO it is absolutely not legal. In fact, it is a form of discrimination. Your friend could have just walked out fo the store with his item or items without paying for them and there is little the store could do about it. Even if police got involved, all they would have had to say is that they tried to pay for the item or items and the clerk refused money for them. That would be the facts...and your friend could have NO legal bounds against him/her. Remember that the next time an establishment refuses good money for something. Just smile and leave with your item/items.
2006-10-25 20:33:14 · answer #4 · answered by mark M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A store can refuse any form of payment they want. If a store doesn't want to take credit cards they don't have to. If they don't want to accept cash, they don't have to. If they don't want to accept payment in pennies, they don't have to.
Most stores try and be as accepting of what ever form of legal money comes there way as it is in their interest to make sales. However it is up to them.
2006-10-25 16:42:48 · answer #5 · answered by taotemu 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No,
It isin't,
Change is cash too, unfortunatly most stores do refuse it unless it is in wrappers.
it is an annoyance and takes to long for them to count.
But money is money and as long as it is legal tender, they are supposed to accept it.
2006-10-26 07:42:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The store was refusing (didn't want) to take all those pennies. Even though pennies are legal monies...it is bad taste to pay that amount in pennies.
2006-10-25 16:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by no nickname 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The store can refuse the coin if they want. They just do that because its too much of a hassel to take it and count it and it will cost them money to get rid of it because the bank will charge them a fee for depositing it
2006-10-26 15:03:20 · answer #8 · answered by bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is legal for them to refuse it. Cash is legal tender for DEBTS, public and private. A purchase isn't considered a debt. Here, slate explained this in great detail here: http://www.slate.com/id/2151741/?nav=navoa
2006-10-25 16:43:15 · answer #9 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no it is not legal for them to refuse legal tender. The only place it is illegal to pay in that manner is to the IRS they have placed a law that states easily recognizable tender because many disgruntled tax payers were paying in that fashion
2006-10-25 17:46:58 · answer #10 · answered by roscodog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋