This Sounds Sketchy As Heck

Since we cannot say company names, let me give you this hint for who it is by using a quote from the GREATEST...PRINCE! "I just want your extra time in your...". Ok. Now, if you didn't get that, yo Momma didn't raise you right. Hahaha!

Anyways, the job was for a boutique in Shreveport. The pay is $35 total with $100 reimbursement. ???? I can make that happen. I started reading the requirements and it says, "You must pay in cash with a $20 bill or larger." Huh? Why is that? Do I need to stop by the bank and get a C-Note? That's just strange to me. An "Abe Lincoln" spends just as well as a "Andrew Jackson". I think I will pass.

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We can say company names, and we can say client names, we just can't say them together in the same thread.

It's "I just want your extra time and your..."

A "$20 bill or larger" means it's OK to use $20 bills.

@KingDouglasTheGreat wrote:

Since we cannot say company names, let me give you this hint for who it is by using a quote from the GREATEST...PRINCE! "I just want your extra time in your...". Ok. Now, if you didn't get that, yo Momma didn't raise you right. Hahaha!

Anyways, the job was for a boutique in Shreveport. The pay is $35 total with $100 reimbursement. ???? I can make that happen. I started reading the requirements and it says, "You must pay in cash with a $20 bill or larger." Huh? Why is that? Do I need to stop by the bank and get a C-Note? That's just strange to me. An "Abe Lincoln" spends just as well as a "Andrew Jackson". I think I will pass.

What's so hard about getting a $20 bill?

We discuss mystery shopping companies by name all the time. We cannot reveal their clients.
Momma didn't raise me right apparently.

It seems reasonable to be asked to pay with 20s. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I don't see it as sketchy.

I did a job that required me to pay cash and report whether I received the correct change. Bigger bills make it more likely to need change.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching kids what counts is best.
Bob Talbert

That is usually because they want to make sure cashiers are giving correct change.

And if yo Momma raised you right you will make double sure you get a receipt as that will be your only proof.

@KSSPete wrote:

That is usually because they want to make sure cashiers are giving correct change.

Clients have a variety of requirements for each shop, and obviously have a reason for asking it - it's not because they want to make your life more difficult. In this particular shop instance, it's because the cashier is supposed to check $20s and larger for counterfeit bills. To choose not to take a shop just because you must pay in $20 or larger rather than using $5s seems far more petty than any possibly reason a client would have for including that requirement.

I believe $20 bills are the most likely to be counterfeit bills.

If that's what they are worried about, they should run a marker type pen across the bill. That might be what the shop is evaluating.

If it's counterfeit, the store looses $20 when they try to deposit it at the bank.

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