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I went to Frys today and tried to buy a $60 stick of RAM with a bag of doubloons. The problem, the doubloons were from 1594. The cashier called over some other chick, who then called some higher ranked chick who eventually called someone like a store manager. It took at least 10 minutes for them to go through the string of people. I kept thinking, "they'll use a Rockwell hardness test to test the gold content, and it'll be fine." Nope, eventually the manager came to me and said "We believe this is not real money. Do you have alternate form of payment?" He said that as he handed the doubloons back to me. I don't remember when the guy said it, but he at some point said that his "trained loss prevention department" had checked the doubloons. What's sad is that their "trained loss prevention department" marked one of the dubloons with his pocket knife. Uh huh, trained loss prevention dept that doesn't know dick about money. I understand where they are coming from, and I don't really mind that they didn't take the dubloons. But, to tell me that "we don't believe is a real money," and then hand the thing back to me and let me leave tells me that they just have no idea and didn't want to chance it. If they really believed that it fake, they'd have held the doubloons and called the cops. Why couldn't they just say something like, "because of it's age, we aren't sure of it's authenticity and would rather not take the doubloons."
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