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If someone tries to pay me with this, I simply will not accept it.
You're rich enough to refuse money? Good for you.
It'll be in circulation, in vending machines, in cashier's registers, everywhere soon enough. And when all the morons that paid over $1 for it realize it's not a collectible item, their life savings will enter circulation as well.
You can refuse by saying you'd prefer quarters, or a $1 bill instead.
And if that's all they have, you'll still refuse it? If a machine gives it to you, you'll throw it away? You'll go to a bank and wait in line to exchange it with a bill?
I get where you're coming from, it's disgusting, you may be able to personally avoid it, but it's going into circulation and the general public will use it, and simply refusing it isn't an option or a stupid costly one for a lot of people.
If it's only a dollar and I actually can't give it back I'd probably just destroy it out of principle. No, I'm not rich with "fuck you" levels of money, but I do have principles.
I have never ever ever ever received one of the current in circulation 1 dollar coins. Never.
It's not gonna circulate.
remember the Sacajaweas? i actually wanted those
Not sure if they're still doing it but the post office used to use Susan B's and I think sometimes Sacajaweas for change in their vending machines. I also seem to recall the ticket machines for the LIRR dispensing Sacajaweas for change.
I got a few on the DC metro, but those are the only I encountered in circulation. And since it was that long ago, memory is unreliable.
I've only gotten them taped to a birthday card from Grandma.
i think their point is remember the susan b anthony and sacajawea dollars? people collected those, they didn't spend them
You can refuse to sell your goods to anyone. Remember wedding cakes much?
What does that have to do with accepting money?
Well, unless you are using the barter system you exchange money for goods, so if you refuse to sell the goods for a certain type of money or a person using a certain type of money, or just a person you don't like.
As for the Wedding Cake thing, a gay couple took a RWNJ baker that refused to sell them a cake because they were gay, and the Supreme Court said they had the right to refuse them service. The thing is that cuts both ways. If you make and/or sell a good you can now legally refuse to serve someone that good, even if the only problem you have with them is they are using the Trump Pedo-dollar.
You only accept money in return for goods? You don't labor?
Weird flex, or you're just not thinking this through, even though I spelt out a few different scenarios.
Put yourself in the shoes of an average person. You go to a gas station and pay cash, your change is $1.23 and they give you a Trump coin and tell you that's all in the register, what do you? You let the company keep your change? You take it and drive to a bank to exchange it?
You buy a water from a vending machine on a hot day, you put in a $5 bill and the machine gives you a couple Trump coins back, you throw them away? You give them back to the machine?
You may be able to avoid it, I don't ever use USD cash, I'll be able to avoid it, but the general public will be using it. If it proves unpopular like the 150 year anniversary coin that similarly carried a portrait of the sitting president, it'll be removed from circulation and actually become a collectable that some moron will pay thousands for. If not, it'll be used like any other coin.
It's already in circulation, arguing with facts because you don't like them is dumb, just as dumb as someone suggesting they'll destroy their own money "on principal". This is burning your own shoes or destroying your own beer level stupid, since you like referencing dumb conservatives.
that one. but my credit union is on the way home for me, so i might be a special situation. it's like two minutes out of the way.
at places i have owned and operated or managed, we had a daily or weekly bank run. i would have it be part of that (get rid of all the funny money as part of replenishing the petit cash).
i agree, it's legal tender. we don't have the luxury of turning our nose up at people who may have just been given the damn coins and are just trying to get rid of them as fast as they can, same as us. i'm just mad i ain't stretched enough to turn these into double ass dollars