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Re: Ballerina jewelers
[Re: alecu7]
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06/10/2015 11:20 PM
06/10/2015 11:20 PM
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Posts: 13,147 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Sorry to hear of this unfortunate incident regarding your cash purchase.It is always a good idea to pay for large purchases with a credit card so there is no chance of things like this happening. You are lucky you had another hundred dollar bill to give him as I would never carry several hundred dollar bills with me when shopping in Philipsburg! When things like this happens, it does make you wonder how honest some people really are and how careless the banks may be in neglecting to check the money they are handling.
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Re: Ballerina jewelers
[Re: alecu7]
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06/10/2015 11:59 PM
06/10/2015 11:59 PM
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Posts: 3,513 new york, new york
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alecu7 said: This bill was quite different than the other bills. Even I could see and I am no expert. I am sure the bills I gave him were all good. This is my first point. My second point is he didn't check with the pen when I gave him the bills and he didn't check it with the pen when he showed me the fake bill. My third point is the since he aggred to receive the bills without checking them in front of me, then is not my responsability to eat the fake bill. This is unproffesional and this would never happen in Canada. Once he deal is done, rien ne va plus.
Thanks, Alex i have no experience with ballerina, so no idea of their practice and/or ethics. it seems like a popular choice though, so i'm surprised they would consider this approach. however, appreciate your post and thank you for sharing your experience. while it is very possible that one of the bills could have been counterfeit, your points are all valid and i can see why you question this. i would also question it if cash payment was confirmed (in your presence) before the job was performed and then after the fact was presented to you as potential fraud. at the end of the day, i hope you at least got the setting you wanted!
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Re: Ballerina jewelers
[Re: alecu7]
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06/11/2015 08:23 AM
06/11/2015 08:23 AM
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Posts: 83,103 Central Florida!
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Sorry that this happened to you, but I really think it is entirely likely that you go the bad bill at the bank, as there have been at least two other reported cases, just recently. You didn't notice it to begin with, because you don't really pay a lot of attention when you get a stack of bills at the bank. Ballerina is a very reputable jeweler and it makes no sense for them to try to do what you are saying they did, which is switch out the bill themselves. In the end it would cost them much more than that in bad PR.
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Re: Ballerina jewelers
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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06/11/2015 09:54 AM
06/11/2015 09:54 AM
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Thank you, Carol!!
Just reading this, I can't bring myself to believe ANY shop owner with as many years under their belt as this one has woulld knowingly jeopardize their business reputation over a hundred dollar bill.
I feel badly for the OP but having already read about the incidents of unsuspecting bank personnel unwittingly handing out these bogus bills to other patrons over the past week or so, I'd be far more inclined to believe that's where the problematic hundred came from. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
Respectfully,
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Re: Ballerina jewelers
[Re: Langford3733]
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06/11/2015 11:07 AM
06/11/2015 11:07 AM
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I'm not sure about the OP in this thread, but the incidents that were reported in the Daily Herald were of people who went inside the bank and received money directly from a teller.
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Re: Ballerina jewelers
[Re: alecu7]
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06/11/2015 05:15 PM
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I don't think people who responded intended to 'argue' with you, and I am glad that you did post it AND that you didn't let this situation ruin an otherwise lovely time. It does definitely let us all know that if we receive a large bill on the island, regardless of where, we should be aware to take a look at it. Perhaps your story can prevent someone else from having a similar bad experience.
Carol Hill
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