On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 8:30:53 PM UTC-5,
OllieN...@aol.com wrote:
> Once a counterfeit is used in a real exchange it is as good as anything else. The government needs a monopoly on it.
How about when the Feds have a sting operation to arrest people selling counterfeit apparel at flea markets and so forth, like fake Tommy Hilfinger jeans for example. If they can be counterfeited, how good can they be? I am torn on the caveat emptor thing. I believe it is the buyers duty to beware, at the same time when it comes to medicine and other certain things I am not so quick to feel the same way. I wouldn't mind having some counterfeit money. I'd try to find a way to sell it at half price to someone, get it out of my hands.
I have only seen two counterfeit bills in my life. One was one I passed on a late night walk. The streets were deserted and I knew it would be there when I got back. I did not want to stop my walk and pick it up till I got back. It was on the sidewalk close to my starting point. When I got back I picked it up. It was shoddy, very weak, bleached out. I figured it was just old, tore up from being in the rain and sun or whatever. The next day I tried to use it at the store across the street and the woman behind the counter says, "You really think we're going to take this thing?", and I said, "Why not?", and she said, "because it's obviously fake." I asked her how she knew and she pulled out one of those counterfeit detector pens and drew across it and it came up black - a fake. I taped it to my wall at home. The other one I got in the cab one night, don't know from who, and have no way if they were foisting it off on me or if they themselves didn't know it was fake. I didn't know till I tried to use it one day and they wouldn't take it and again proved to me it was fake using the pen.
I have encountered lots of fake bills that are taped together. Gotta give those guys credit. They take a 1 dollar bill and cut off the edges only and seal the edges of $100 bills in their place. It has to be dark or it could be detected, or the one getting it has to be in a hurry. But the work is good with some of them. I think they steam them on. That is very low level counterfeiting, but I give whoever does it credit for a job well done.