Timeline for Are 500 Euro notes accepted by banks in Spain?
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 21:38 | comment | added | Peter M. - stands for Monica | Re "Spanish Here": you probably meant to say "Spaniard here". Just to improve your English a bit - it is not my first language either :-) | |
| Jan 13, 2017 at 12:44 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @DmitryGrigoryev: They have to judge the risk. Stranger making €5 purchase with €100 note - you risk losing €100, and that's what someone with forged money would do, so the risk is huge. Stranger making €100 purchase with €100 note - you risk losing the cost of the €100 purchase. Riskier if it is something that is hard to resell. But of course the customer could come back and ask for a refund; receiving €100 genuine money for €100 fake. €100 note from known customer - little risk. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 16:09 | comment | added | Pere | Here from Barcelona. If you purchase items for a value in the same order as the bank note, usually the only thing will be that they will check the note in a device to detect counterfeit. Anyway, you should avoid trying to pay a small purchase with a big note. Even trying to pay a 95 cent bar of bread with a 50E note won't make the baker happy. Furthermore, bars and shops where no big purchases are expected don't have such a device nor a lot change. Anyway, banks usually give change to non customers. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 13:07 | comment | added | Martin Ba | 200€ is totally not accepted where I live (Austria, also seen in Germany) too. The info for the €100 Notes is quite surprising - never seen anyone in any store that wouldn't accept it (given that you were paying an amount near on in excess of 100 € ) | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 12:40 | comment | added | innisfree | No, since the bill might be fake. That's the risk of high denomination notes - cashiers rarely handle genuine examples and can be easily tricked, plus criminals can spend moderate amounts (e.g. > 10€) per note making a high-quality forgery and still profit. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 11:04 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | Wait, they won't take my 100€ bill even if I make 100€ worth of purchases? | |
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| Sep 27, 2016 at 5:31 | history | answered | RedPointyJackson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |