Where to get fivers (£5 notes)?

[nuyorican]

Bit of an odd one this, but where can you buy/exchange five pound notes?

I have a regular small monthly bill cash bill of £55. Every damn month I seem to find myself driving around the city looking for cashpoints that dispense them. Sometimes a certain branch will be noted as having them, then the next month they've stopped. Likewise, sellers on FB Marketplace always seem to list things as £25/£75/£105 etc etc. I think they do it expecting to be haggled down. But as FB Marketplace is such a den of scumbaggery I like to buck the trend and be decent and not haggle, unless the item is seriously overpriced.

Could I just go into a random Post Office or bank branch with my debit card and say "£100 worth of fivers please"? My own branch is hard to get to and didn't seem to have any service counters last time I visited. Just machines and a 'coffee area'...

Sometimes, if I find a cashpoint that dispenses fivers I'll get a few out at the same time provided there's nobody behind me waiting. But that's quite the laborious process. I once managed about six before somebody appeared wanting to use the machine.

[untakenname]

Try using a cashpoint in the evening at weekends, they are more likely to dispense £5 notes than during the day.

[Mr Pointy]

Some o fthe Barclays machines let you select the denominations you want to receive.

[Ziplobb]

Your bank should have them if it still has a counter. As a shopkeeper its something I need to have so always have around £500 in fivers in the safe. Some of the other shopkeepers around 'buy' them from me as it's easier than trotting down the bank.

[sjg]

Most banks let you do cash orders for specific denominations, although for £100 worth it should be fine just done over the counter.

[steveo3002]

post office will do it as long as youre not asking for 5k in fivers

[nuyorican]

sjg said:

Most banks let you do cash orders for specific denominations, although for £100 worth it should be fine just done over the counter.

Without being a customer of the bank?

[nuyorican]

steveo3002 said:

post office will do it as long as youre not asking for 5k in fivers

Thank you. Will ask next time I'm in. Twenty fivers per year would suffice.

[Doofus]

Cashback at a supermarket?

[nuyorican]

Doofus said:

Cashback at a supermarket?

There's an idea. Not heard 'cashback' since the 90's Is it still a thing?

[alangla]

Post office cash machines tend to have fivers in them but you’ll be lucky to get any more than 2 in a transaction.

[Shaoxter]

Pay your cash bill via bank transfer/revolut?
Or pay them £60 a month and £50 the next?

[steveo3002]

Doofus said:

Cashback at a supermarket?

they no longer do it

[nuyorican]

Shaoxter said:

Pay your cash bill via bank transfer/revolut?
Or pay them £60 a month and £50 the next?

Not an option. And the second idea seems more faff to remember. Cheers though.

[snuffy]

When the polymer fivers came out, I kept every one I got. I must have about £500 sitting on my shelf ( stopped getting bigger once CV started ).

I'd like to open the bidding at £1000 for these now rare and highly sought after items !

[Doofus]

nuyorican said:

Doofus said:

Cashback at a supermarket?

There's an idea. Not heard 'cashback' since the 90's Is it still a thing?

No idea. I believe Spar do it, but can't rememberwhen I last got cashback from anywhere.

[raceboy]

Buy something under a fiver with a tenner.

[Tango13]

snuffy said:

When the polymer fivers came out, I kept every one I got. I must have about £500 sitting on my shelf ( stopped getting bigger once CV started ).

I'd like to open the bidding at £1000 for these now rare and highly sought after items !

I still have a couple of blue five pound notes at home, compared to modern notes they're huge!

[captain_cynic]

Go to a Co-Op.
Buy something cheap
Pay with £20 note
Ask the cashier "can you please give me a couple of fivers in change".
Sorted for 3 months.

[Byker28i]

Post Office - everytime