BMW Customer Pays For New Car With 100kg Of Banknotes Worth 10p Each

It took staff six hours to count all of the notes

Staff counting the bank notes (CEN)
Staff counting the bank notes (CEN)


Staff at a Chinese car dealership spent six hours counting bank notes after a customer paid for a new BMW with bank notes worth 10p each.

The bank notes – amounting to 100kg – weren’t even enough to cover the full cost of the car and the rest was paid for a credit card.
 
Qiong Li, 40, visited the dealership in Zhengzhou, the capital city of central China’s Henan Province, wanting to a buy the BMW 730Li which in China costs around £108,000 (just over one million RMB).
 
Li who works as a wholesaler of foodstuffs said: ‘I could have taken it to the bank but they would have had to count it there anyway.

The car was partly paid for with all of these banknotes (CEN)
The car was partly paid for with all of these banknotes (CEN)



'I thought I'd just cut out the middle man and give it direct to the business I was buying the car from.’
 
The dealership’s manager, Li Moran, 50, said: ‘I’d seen stories on the news where people bought houses and cars with tens of thousands of coins, but I never thought it would happen here.’


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He added: ‘We were more than happy to sell Ms Li the car, of course, so we counted the notes from 9 AM until 3:30 PM. There was exactly 100,000 RMB (10,800 GBP). She told us she had counted it herself and she was correct.’

The banknotes are worth just 10p each (CEN)
The banknotes are worth just 10p each (CEN)