Would You Use A $500 Bill?

[GerrardCapashen]

Would you use a $500 bill if they were put back into circulation?

Based on this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=90571

 

[amadeus]

Only if I was buying something that was more than $300.

 

[Archer 007]

I would use it.

 

[Perfection]

Nah, at that amount, I'd probobly use some other form of payment.

Although it better than the way I paid for my computer, $600 in coins.

 

[Flak]

I've used a couple of €500 bills before when I had to send some cash Western Union, so I guess if the situation presented itself, I would use the $500 bill. But it's not very practical unless you're going to use the bulk of it on one instance.

 

[Halcyon]

There aren't many things that cost that much which can be bought frequently enough to merit having a note. It would end up being used like a cheque - you exchange fifties at a bank for one, buy something with it, and since the vendor can't spend it, they take it back to the bank. Simpler just to write a cheque.

Although it better than the way I paid for my computer, $600 in coins.

That's one big jar.

 

[Iggy]

I am not sure if I would use one. How about you send me one when they are in circulation and I will try to answer your question?
Yours faithfully,
Dr Dod G Ol Geezer.
Lagos.
Nigeria.

 

[stormbind]

I once ate a £50,000 meal - accidentally (it was a Hoolahoop)

The risks associated with a $500 doesn't compare to aggressive feeding with no light, and accidentally dropping $500 down a drain or losing your wallet is comparitively easilly to shrug off.

Besides, $500 is much better than 500x $1 bills

I cannot answer the poll. Hording radioactive monkeys is more apropriate than either of the options.

Although it better than the way I paid for my computer, $600 in coins.

T'is a joke, right?

 

[Iggy]

I once ate a £50,000 meal - accidentally (it was a Hoolahoop)

They certainally have gone up in price since I last bought them. I gather you ate a prize or some such?

 

[stormbind]

Yup. Find the funny shaped hoolaphoop and win £50,000.

The really ironic thing is, I was seriously poor student at the time. I had just spent my last £0.20 on a packet of hoolahoops... and I didn't have a television, so never saw the adverts... and didn't learn of it until I got home and popped the packaging in the bin.

By then it was too late... the funny shaped hoolahoop was well and truelly digested. I was really hungry, it was the only meal I had that day, and it was dark outside when I poured the contents of the packaging into my eager mouth.

I remember crushing the thing between my teeth. Thinking "that's odd - must be a manufacturing glitch"

I counted myself lucky because it bigger than an ordinary hoolahoop

 

[Knight-Dragon]

We have up to the $10000 bill here, IIRC.

It's certainly useful for when needing to carry large amounts of cash, for some reason or another.

 

[Zeekater]

Never even had a 500€ bill in my hands, let alone that I would use it.
IMO, it's mostly used by gangsters and other politicians.

 

[Sanaz]

I generally don't use any cash, except for once every month or two to pay a parking meter, so a $500 bill would just be a big bill that I never used.

 

[cgannon64]

How the hell do you eat a hollahoop?

Maybe you crazy Brits use that word differently than us, but in America, a hullahoop is a large plastic ring girls spin around their waists.

EDIT: Hollahoop, hullahoop, whatever.

 

[Iggy]

How the hell do you eat a hollahoop?

Maybe you crazy Brits use that word differently than us, but in America, a hullahoop is a large plastic ring girls spin around their waists.

EDIT: Hollahoop, hullahoop, whatever.

Yes, one of our cultural differences. We do have hullahoops like you, but they are also a brand of small round crisp (chip as you chaps say).

 

[cgannon64]

A brand of crisps?

Crisp is an adjective. You can't eat it.



This could go on and on, btw.

 

[AVN]

In the NL a lot of shops don't accept the 200 Euro or 500 Euro bill, because they don't have the cash to pay you back.
Doesn't that make huge bills (like a 500 dollar bill) impractical ?

 

[Iggy]

A brand of crisps?

Crisp is an adjective. You can't eat it.



This could go on and on, btw.

I have been made to eat my words many a time.

 

[cgannon64]

...

Damn it, that was perfect English!

 

[Pirate]

I have heard that the 500 euro note is now the bill of choice for smugglers since they can get more money into smaller places than they could with the American $100 bill (the previous bill of choice for smugglers, black marketeers and counterfieters). I can imagine how much organized crime would love it if we had both 500 dollar and euro notes floating around.