New Money
 

Am I late to the show?

The new $100 bill is hideous: http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/fla...100/index.html

http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/ima...ashpage/b1.png

I never see those anyway...lol.

I don't really care what money looks like. I mean, it's not like I'm going to put it in a display case and stare at it.

I was going to say what AGDee said. Never going to see one anyway...

Also I thought this topic would be a discussion of the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, not literally a new version of our currency.

I think he looks like an Alien now that everything is in color and they made his face green.

This.

I think the pop of color on the new money will look good when I make it rain.

Bills? What are those? I thought money came on little plastic cards with magnetic strips.


In all seriousness, these kind of things always seem worthless to me, since they will always be required to accept the old style of money which the counterfeiters can still produce.

I'm so disappointed...
 

I thought this thread was going to be about the nouveau riche.

Posted this in the wrong thread:

$100 bills are quite common in my area of the country. Men love asking for them in banks on a Friday, then spending them all weekend.

They use them even for small purchases (under ten dollars). It's not much fun standing in a cashier's line behind these men who think they look cool spending $100 bills when all they really do is hold up the line while a cashier scrambles to make change.

I say if you're going to cash a check at a bank, ask THE BANK for SMALLER bills because banks have LOTS of them and you'll save cashiers/customers in stores a lot of grief.

Using $100 bills is only impressive if you don't ask for change.

At this point I don't see why we don't just go to colored money like everyone else. I think the Mint's motto is, "Stopping fraud one color at a time."

Filarious.

Hardly anywhere will take them here, which is why I never get them. Besides, I use the ATM all the time and that only dishes out $20s

I almost got stuck in Ann Arbor over Thanksgiving my freshman year because one of the $20 bills I tried to use to buy my bus ticket home was counterfeit. I had to ride the bus because I had a last-minute exam from a not-very-nice professor, and everyone with cars had already left. The dorms were even closed. The bus depot clerk told me there was a ring of $20 counterfeiters operating in the area, and if I could remember where I got the $20 (I could), the police would want to take a statement. So, we waited and waited for the Ann Arbor police to show up...the bus was ready to go, and finally she told me, just report it to your local police when you get home. It was embarrassing, but also exciting.

I was all excited to tell my parents about my "adventure" and said we needed to go to the police station. My dad said, "they'll take that twenty as evidence and you'll be out $20." I was dumbstruck...apparently all the ethics lessons went right out the window now that I was an adult! So, he said, "Give me the $20, I'll give you a different one. Now it's off your conscience." And yes, he passed it off at some unsuspecting local place.

Me, too! :p

Me three, actually.

LOL!!

Make that me four:D

I also thought this thread was going to be about the nouveau riche, and I had a story I wanted to share. So I'm going to hijack this thread and share my story anyways.

Last week, my dad had a female friend visiting from China. This lady is pretty wealthy and spent the entire week shopping. She bought so much stuff and would spend a few thousand dollars at each store.

At the end of the week, she decided that she wanted to buy an iPad. This was about an hour before my dad had to take her to the airport to catch her flight back to China. So my aunt went with her to the Apple store. The lady doesn't speak any English, so my aunt had to translate back and forth between the lady and the salesman.

The lady asked for the new iPad, and the saleman explained the new iPad isn't out yet. She got a little bit huffy and said she wanted the most expensive iPad available then. She also decided that she wanted a laptop. The salesman tried to explain about the different laptops and the different price ranges, and the lady said she wanted the most expensive one. The salesman ran up her purchases and handed her the receipt.

And she FLIPPED OUT. She started yelling in Chinese "Why did her put it on one receipt? I don't want one receipt! I want two receipts!" Everyone in the store turned and stared. My aunt was mortified, and the poor salesman was asking my aunt "What does she want? I'll do whatever she wants. Just tell me what she wants me to do." After my aunt translated, the salesman said he would have to do a return and then re-run the iPad and the laptop as two separate purchases. My aunt translated, and the lady starts yelling "How do I know he's not lying? He's trying to rip me off! He's going to charge me double!" My aunt was like "I'm not translating that to the salesman". She told the lady "Look, we don't have time for this. We need to leave for the airport. Either you just take your purchases like this. Or have the salesman refund everything and we just leave." The lady took her purchases and left in a huff. On the way out, my aunt kept apologizing profusely to the salesman.

After my aunt told me what had happened, I asked her why getting separate receipts was such a big deal. And my aunt said that the iPad and the laptop were going to be gifts and the lady wanted to be able to include the receipt so the recipients could see how much she had spend on them. :eek: I asked my aunt if that was the way they do things in China, and she said "yeah, I think they do".

that is obscene.

i was always taught it was vulgar to talk about money, but your dad's friend takes that to new levels. she'd better learn to peel the price tag, throw away the receipt, etc. what kind of asshole makes the gift about the giver?

I think it may be because the traditional Chinese gift is cash, so they don't have any problem with the recipient knowing how much they spent.

What I found obscene was her behavior in the store. Just because someone is rich and spending a lot of money, it does not give that person the right to yell, scream, and berate retail workers or food service workers or to treat them like they're inferior. Money does not buy class. SMH

Yep. While I think it's tacky to put the receipt with the present, I think that because by and large the culture I live in thinks that. Other cultures may see things differently.