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If someone tries to pay me with this, I simply will not accept it.
You're rich enough to refuse money? Good for you.
It'll be in circulation, in vending machines, in cashier's registers, everywhere soon enough. And when all the morons that paid over $1 for it realize it's not a collectible item, their life savings will enter circulation as well.
You can refuse by saying you'd prefer quarters, or a $1 bill instead.
And if that's all they have, you'll still refuse it? If a machine gives it to you, you'll throw it away? You'll go to a bank and wait in line to exchange it with a bill?
I get where you're coming from, it's disgusting, you may be able to personally avoid it, but it's going into circulation and the general public will use it, and simply refusing it isn't an option or a stupid costly one for a lot of people.
that one. but my credit union is on the way home for me, so i might be a special situation. it's like two minutes out of the way.
at places i have owned and operated or managed, we had a daily or weekly bank run. i would have it be part of that (get rid of all the funny money as part of replenishing the petit cash).
i agree, it's legal tender. we don't have the luxury of turning our nose up at people who may have just been given the damn coins and are just trying to get rid of them as fast as they can, same as us. i'm just mad i ain't stretched enough to turn these into double ass dollars
You can refuse to sell your goods to anyone. Remember wedding cakes much?
What does that have to do with accepting money?
I have never ever ever ever received one of the current in circulation 1 dollar coins. Never.
It's not gonna circulate.
remember the Sacajaweas? i actually wanted those
I've only gotten them taped to a birthday card from Grandma.
i think their point is remember the susan b anthony and sacajawea dollars? people collected those, they didn't spend them