On 04 Dec 2005 12:43:43 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
"Will Hay" writes:
Don't know if anyone else has had this experience recently but when I tried
to buy some doors recently from my local B&Q in Leeds(On the ring road) they
rejected some of the £20 notes I offered because the Queen's Head watermark
was not dead centre in it's circle! The bank where I got the money from told
me that the notes were absolutely genuine. While I was at B&Q I saw two
other people having their notes rejected. If I needed any additional
incentive not to shop at B&Q apart from the rip-off prices, this cavalier
humiliation of their customers is the final straw.

Makes me wonder -- IANAL, but if you offered valid legal tender for
the goods, I rather suspect they would find it very difficult to
prosecute you if you just walked off with them.


Not sure about that.

The display of the goods on the shelf and you picking them up and
taking them to the register is, I believe, all part of the "invitation
to treat".

They are not required to sell them to you, and the contract of sale
begins when they accept payment.

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..andy