The Odd Cent

[Munga]

Another reason why pricing was done like this (drop off one cent/penny) years ago was to promote honesty in the store by forcing the shop attendants to go to the till for change and that way they were prevented from pocketing the money particularly when sales were brisk, that was before photo surveylance,computers, electronic tills etc. But it seems alot of them still manage to do it.

Cheers Arch.

[simon c]

What utter rubbish. :eek: All coin and notes ever issued by the Australian government is, always has been and forever shall remain legal tender within the Commonwealth of Australia. Even the old 1000 pound notes are still legal tender. Just because a shop doesn't want to accept them and so reduces the price doesn't make them illegal.

I agree (sort of) all coins are legal tender, however that does not mean that a store is obliged to accept them.

http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/...al_tender.html