Stackitis - A Fake $100 Bill - A Lost Customer for Life

So this week has already been a long one...and around 4:30 this afternoon, I started to get the shakes and I just happened to be at a meeting that was close to a LCS.

The room started to spin and I felt faint. I started to black out but as luck would have it, I was able to hold it together. I got out of there as soon as I could and headed on over. Before I knew it, I dumped a bit of Fiat from some extra Steem and I had about 20 oz of silver bars to add to my stack along with a few 6 pence for a project later.

After the sale was completed, the proprietor of said LCS asked me "Have you heard from the bank yet on that $100 bill?" Now I have to be honest, I had totally forgot why I hadn't been to this particular shop in a few months. A true sign my Stackitis was worse than I thought....man it must be a bad case.

It seems that in all of the hustle of my job, the mad swings in my crypto portfolio and just generally being busy, I had forgotten about that little incident.

You see, a few months back, I sold off some Gold coins and upgraded them to Silver bars and he gave me some fiat change. I went to deposit it into my Credit Union and lo and behold, there was a fake $100 bill in my deposit. Now he claims it wasn't fake, but my Credit Union and later the inspector at the Federal Reserve determined it to be counterfeit. Oh the irony. The Federal Reserve determining my fake bill to not be quite fake enough...

Once I handed it to them, they wouldn't let me take it back or even touch it, but I did manage to snap a picture of it before they put it in an envelope and off it went. They were handling it like it was radioactive. It passed the marker test, but the paper was bleached where it was creased and numbers were wearing off. It even had the security strip running through it. The North Koreans really know how to make some fakes. They told me there were a few that they had found over the months.

Now I don't blame the guy at my LCS for not spotting it, but I do blame him for not making it right after I told him about it. Even months later not making it right. To me its an issue of trust and just the right thing to do. I've done a lot of business with him over the years and he stuck me with a bad piece of paper and didn't even offer to make it right. To make it worse, about 2 years ago, I bought some Silver and Gold from him one Saturday morning and then I got my hair cut. While I was sitting there getting my hair cut, I realized he under charged me by $80. I went back and made it right without hesitation after my cut.

Smooth move buddy...I'm never dealing with you again. How appropriate the bars are from Wall Street Mint to make me feel even more fucked over than I otherwise would feel.

Damn, is it Friday yet?

@matthewwarn