Have you ever used a 500 euros note?

[Montgomery Burns]

No... this is a country where even using a to pay a small expense will be met with a mix of suspicion and annoyance.

[Kleman]

No... this is a country where even using a to pay a small expense will be met with a mix of suspicion and annoyance.

Latin countries versus German Countries !

[GWR7007]

No, I didn't use one in the sense of actually paying something with them.
I did track a few when you could still receive them from the banks. However, I always exchanged them for other notes at another branch of the bank.

In 2007 (or around that mark; I'm not 100% certain), my parents sold the car we had back then. The new buyers paid in cash and the majority of the notes were . But my parents didn't do anything with them apart from depositing the notes on their bank account.

Now with the abandoned and being the largest note, I've used for purchases of >5€ a few times, but only at automatic cash registers at my local supermarket. This normally gives 9x ,1x and 1x as well as some coins

[zimmerge]

Yes of course - till yet i tracked 20.564 of them

[Vunono]

The owner of a flat where I used to live gave me one as a deposit when I left, and my wife (who is a photographer) got another one as payment. I also used one to buy a laptop in Gibraltar - the pound was down those days, and it was cheaper if I used euros.
I always take big banknotes with me when I travel, and had no problem with in countries like South Africa or Mozambique. However, in Colombia they changed at a much lower rate than the other demoninations - since then I prefer to take and instead.

[lapislazuli_18]

No, sadly. I have seen one, but just that and it was a loooooong time ago! I do know that some of them are still in circulation as my aunt, who runs a shop, has gotten some of them from the hands of some clients but she has noted that the amount of has gone down just as the use of bills and coins has declined due to the expansion of cashless payment methods. According to what she told me she would get a every three months or so and almost never from the wallet of a Spanish customer, it was always coming from French, Russian or any other foreign customer. She mentioned that she now gets one every 6 months or so. Still, in a country as Spain, where is the maximum you are going to get from an ATM, it is hard to find any , let alone or .