Anyone Else Had One Of These Yet...

Popped into a supermarket yesterday and after Mr Kandy paid for the shopping he was presented with one of these in his change.Has anyone else received any yet and if so what do you think to them?I like the fact that the Queens face looks like a negative when the £5 note is held up to a light and you can read the word Blenheim as in Blenheim Palace the birth place of Winston Churchill who appears on the back of the note.

A lot of people are donating them to charity so not sure if they think they are just a novelty

Looks like I shall have to buy a smaller purse now as no doubt they will look lost in the one I have Oh and once they are bent out of shape they appear not to want to go flat again

 

Got my first one on Thursday - it was book club at the local and the barmaid made a big thing of telling me I was getting a *new* fiver in my change I couldn't get quite as excited about it as she appeared to be

Mr "M" has one in his wallet, but, I only found out about it last week at a charity event when I needed some change. #1 son dropped him in it when he told me, "He's got a plastic fiver but he wants to keep it"; to which I replied: "'I want's', don't get and 'can-I-have' is greedy!"

To be very honest, I've not really "looked" at it since I got it on Thursday

PS: No, wait! I can't look at it ... ... I gave it to #1 son as part of his train fair to a job interview today!!
*Sighs*: in one hand and out the other!

 

Keep an eye out for the first print versions.They are going for c.£40 each on Ebay. Theres even a pair of them for sale for £2000.!!!!

 

I just wonder what the makers of this stuff will be getting up to in the near future.

If this plastic stuff lasts so much longer, I'm guessing they are putting themselves in the redundancy queue.

 

I'm thinking more ... biodegradable issues?

 

Probably just recycle them into tenners.
Its called inflation.

 

In which case, they would be recycled into £1 notes

Yay!! A return of the (proper) pound!!!!!!

Now there's something to look forward to

 

I still say we should have gone down the £5 coin route.

Make it small so everyone loses them.

Think of the money we could save.

 

I got AA33 and i'm keepin it

 

Had one a few weeks back, evern when we went to the bank the lady said do you want new fivers, so we talked about them she asked for feedback so i said that some young people are now burning them to get high on the fumes but they may get more than they think when pc plod knocks on there door for defacing the Queens head

 

You can check for fakes by burning them, if you get high it's genuine, if not it's a fake

 

Just looked at ours and it's AA14, must be worth a fiver

Edit it's not AA17 tis AA14

 

£6.49 here

 

After postage we make 0.80p

i'm seeing things tis AA14 must be worth a bit more