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Pillar of the Community
United States
632 Posts |
Some kind of contaminant got into the brake lines of my car and it was going to cost me $1800.00. I just got my credit cards to a zero balance and I wasn't going to put it on one. So, as a protest to the high prices, I thought I'd pay in Pres. Dollars...all of it. On my way to pay, I mentally prepared my speech as to why they HAD to take them as payment in full. "get your boss buddy, there are cases ON POINT as to why you have to take them!". "Its federal LAW pal!". "go ahead, call the police!".
The bill came and I threw up two canvas bags with a grand each and got ready with my speech...The guy looked at all the mint rolls of pres. dollars. He yelled WHoooo Hooo. and started going through the rolls. He gave my my change then other guys came up from the back and started going through them with the first guy. As I left, they were there, putting together sets of different presidents...No speech.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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United States
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New Member
United States
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I thought a business could have policy about what they would and would not accept? A bank may have to take 10000 pennies, but I don't think a small business does.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1116 Posts |
 that's one funny story |
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Turkey
870 Posts |
Definately very funny, If I was there I'd love to get myself a couple of 2008 and 2009 presidents too. :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
869 Posts |
You have turned mechanics onto coin collecting. Good job  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If I remember correctly, there's a law in the U.K. saying that merchants don't have to take more than about 10 coppers (1 and 2 pence coins) in a transaction. A guy tried to pay a parking fine in coppers, the town refused to take it and he refused to pay in anything other than a bag of loose coppers.
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Valued Member
United States
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I dunno... I would totally think it awesome is someone showed up with bags of stuff out of the ordinary. I feel kind of bad for calling it a fail though...
FAIL!
I couldn't help myself.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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As a person that has worked on cars most of my life, my Dad had a gas station, most of my friends are machanics, I just think you got taken a bit there. I couldn't imagine anything getting into your brake system that would cost that much money. A complete bleeding of the entire system several times wouldn't cost more than about $50. Most of that would be labor too. A few quarts of brake fluid is about $10. I just replaced the front Calipers, pads, hoses, in the fronts, new pads and associated springs on the rears including turning the drums on one of my cars. Naturally this was followed by completely bleeding out the entire system. Total cost was about $500. Mostly due to a special car for parts.
Coins or no coins, they came out way, way ahead.
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Australia
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Just Carl, as a spare parts person, I would have to agree with you. Acidic1, I'm not sure what car you have, but even if you had to recondition all wheel cylinders, calipers and master cylinder, I wouldn't think it would come to that much. Unless the mechanics bought all new genuine items, then it could be possible. I'm also sure that we have a law in Australia too, that allows vendors to knock back "illegal tender", but I'm not sure how many coins that relates to. Steve 
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10/09/2009 8:28 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Guess that one backfired, eh? |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
632 Posts |
Yep...2001 Monte Carlo SS...all new parts from the master to the calipers. I'm upside down on it and I've had many sleepless nights thinking about how to get out from under it. I think I'm just gonna have to suck it up and double up on my payments. That means less coins for a while.
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Canada
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In Canada, we do have a law on the books that has limits to the amount of coins a merchant has to take in a transaction, and there is a limit on each denomination, for example, they don't have to take more than 25 pennies if they don't want to.
As to your car situation, do you have a state law that they must give you back all the parts they replaced? In my experience they have such a law in Minnesota, as well as in Ontario and Manitoba. This is to prevent them from re-using your old parts but charging you for new ones, as well as allow you to look over what they replaced and make arguements about why they replaced parts that didn't need replacing in the first place.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't know...makes good sense though, to get your old parts back.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not meaning to turn this into an auto forum butttttt Quote:
As to your car situation, do you have a state law that they must give you back all the parts they replaced? In my experience they have such a law in Minnesota, as well as in Ontario and Manitoba. This is to prevent them from re-using your old parts but charging you for new ones, as well as allow you to look over what they replaced and make arguements about why they replaced parts that didn't need replacing in the first place.
This is true in most states but you must know about it and ask for all replaced parts. In this instance it may well be to late. I'm sure they did NOT replace hardly anything. Possibly just bled out the system several times and said we replaced all kinds of stuff. The reciept too should document all parts. Again, it is up to the client in most states to ask for this. Again, most likely to late. I suggest you spend some time learning bout cars for now and leave coins alone for a while. Really pays off to know at least what they are doing to your car. Around me most of my friends say an auto machanic is a person that is licensed to steal. |
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Posted 10/08/2009 2:01 pm
