world going mad

[tambikerboy]

Saturday night trolling ebay a £5 note (new type) sold for £96 please someone help me out here is the country going nuts. ....

[Keith.P]

I read about one for £50,000 on ebay, they looked into the bidders of the fiver and they were all unused account holders or had very little use. So basically, it was all fake so they could pump up the price of these plastic fiver's.
I know one thing, I don't like them and I know Charles UK doesn't like it, or was that parting with them.

I still have a couple of old pound notes and the one before that, but I don't know about the pre-decimal stuff, I'm not old enough.

[Oyster 49]

charles parting with fivers? You are right Keith, non chance of that happening!

[Charles uk]

Notice I'm not arguing!

[Silver Surfer]

Well, the whole idea of introducing these, was that they would last longer, but that hasn't been my experience. A Pint and a couple of packets of Crisps, and it's gone!

[Charles uk]

It's not rocket science, slow down on the crisps!

[Oyster 49]

I was at St Pamcras the other week, forget the crisps, £5 per pint!

[Collector Inspector]

Last pint I purchased here in Perth WA was the usual dark bitter, just like your proper stuff.

AU15.00 which at this second is GBP9.15 in your new polymer money.........yes the fiver is not the first note.

I believe your new note is printed in Australia coz we invented the tech. Other countries have already joined in.

BnC

[haventaclue]

Ye want to visit Temple Bar in Dublin,pint cost around 7 euro and increases by a varying number of yo yos after 11pm depending on the establishment you go into

[tambikerboy]

Right ok spent Saturday night trolling ebay regarding these new fivers so thought I'd put it to the test got myself over to my local asda and polity asked the till attendant for some of these new peril diver's how many would you like sir give me ten stuck them on ebay (must say numbers ran consecutively) and hae/hoo sold for £158 +£3.20 p+p signed for. Is there something i don't know. should mention they are heading to essex mybe to joeys and I'm heading back to asda FIVERS R-US.COM

[JERSEYMAN]

Well, I've seen bog standard Jersey pound notes sell for a fiver on eBay....... I've got a good stock of those

[Keith.P]

Nice one Tam, it boggles the mind, what some people will pay for, make the most of it while you can and don't try it with Scottish fivers.
I have no interest in collecting the new fiver, as I don't collect notes, just coins.
But I do have one or two notes about.

[Charles uk]

There are a couple of lessons in this story.

1. The English £ is worth about 3 times what it costs in Scotland when sent back home!

2. Most of the contents of Keith's wallet have passed their best before date!

[Keith.P]

Including the condom.

[tambikerboy]

Including the condom.

Don't go there China the wall couldn't do it no much chance of a bit of rubber doing it xx