From: "Terry Harper" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Comet not accepting cheques
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:17:03 +0000 (UTC)
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"Jonathan Bryce"  wrote in message
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> Ronald Raygun wrote:
>
> > So why haven't they been promoting direct transfers, like they
> > have had in Germany for ages, and where cheques are not at all
> > popular?
>
> I've heard that ?500 notes are a popular way of paying for things in
> Germany.  Is there any truth in that?

According to the press they are easy to forge, and ?300 forged notes are
circulating. There is, of course, no legal ?300 note.

The Germans do seem resistant to anything but hard cash.
-- 
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/