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title: "Shop Puts Up Notice Refusing To Accept Payments In RM100 Notes, M’sians Wonder Why"
url: https://weirdkaya.com/shop-puts-up-notice-refusing-to-accept-payments-in-rm100-notes/
date: 2025-08-27
modified: 2025-08-27
lang: en
author: "Sarah Yeoh"
description: "There are times that we don't have small change with us on hand, thus leaving us with no choice but to whip out bigger Ringgit notes. A shop recently became..."
categories:
  - "Society"
tags:
  - "Malaysia"
  - "RM100 notes"
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# Shop Puts Up Notice Refusing To Accept Payments In RM100 Notes, M’sians Wonder Why

##### There are times that we don't have small change with us on hand, thus leaving us with no choice but to whip out bigger Ringgit notes.

A shop recently became the subject of online debate after a notice about it not accepting a particular value of Ringgit notes went viral.

## 'RM100 notes not accepted'

In a [photo](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1346085153574839&set=a.774591130724247&type=3&ref=embed_post) posted by **FTopNews 新闻最前线** on Facebook, it showed a trilingual notice that was put up at the entrance of the unnamed shop.

On the notice, it read: **'We do not accept RM100 notes'** in English, Malay, and Mandarin. However, the shop didn't give a reason for its rejection of RM100 notes.

![](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/rm100-notes-rejection-notice.jpg)Photo via [FB/FTopNews 新闻最前线](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1346085153574839&set=a.774591130724247&type=3&ref=embed_post)

Netizens were puzzled by the shop's decision to not accept RM100 notes as cash is still considered to be a legal tender in Malaysia.

![](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/rm100-rejection-netizen-comment-1.jpg)Screenshot via [FB/FTopNews 新闻最前线](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1346085153574839&set=a.774591130724247&type=3&ref=embed_post)

Another sarcastically suggested that customers should work around the 'ban' by buying 10 cups and using 10 sen coins to pay for it.

![](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/rm100-rejection-netizen-comment-2.jpg)Screenshot via [FB/FTopNews 新闻最前线](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1346085153574839&set=a.774591130724247&type=3&ref=embed_post)

However, some reasoned that the shop wanted to avoid getting [fake RM100 notes](https://weirdkaya.com/msian-pisang-goreng-seller-gets-scammed-with-rm100-note-learns-its-fake-when-purple-ink-bleeds-with-water/), which has become more prevalent in recent times.

![](https://cdn.weirdkaya.com/media/rm100-rejection-netizen-comment-3.jpg)Screenshot via [FB/FTopNews 新闻最前线](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1346085153574839&set=a.774591130724247&type=3&ref=embed_post)

## Conditions for notes being rejected

Under Malaysian law, Ringgit notes, regardless of its value, can and must accept cash as a legitimate form of payment.

However, the [Central Bank Act](https://www.bnm.gov.my/documents/20124/820862/Central+Bank+of+Malaysia+Act+2009.pdf/277ebcd5-9c21-209b-3984-170ba28351d6?t=1584637159212) lists out several conditions that allow vendors to refuse cash payment:

- **Torn or damaged notes**

- **Suspected fake notes**

- **Notes stained by ATM security dye)**

**READ [ALSO](https://weirdkaya.com/msian-vendor-refuses-to-accept-mans-20-sen-as-it-was-too-dark/):**

https://weirdkaya.com/msian-vendor-refuses-to-accept-mans-20-sen-as-it-was-too-dark/

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