Revisit Stupor market

Okaay I make sure I'm charged the correct amount, and expect money returned whether it's a dime or nine dollars.

Today at check out the clerk undercharged me a dollar and a quarter - do I tell them next time I shop and pay them?

Absolutely - return it. It will make you feel $5.00 better off to do what is right. bob f.

I have always said that "You can go to "H" for lying same as stealing."

Walt

If you don't correct their error, you have no moral grounds to complain when they overcharge you. It is kinda like finding a guy's wallet and making no effort to return it - that means if he finds your car in the parking lot and you're not in it, he gets to take it and keep it.

There used to be a comic strip (Calvin and Hobbes)where the little boy lived bty the motto: "I don't mind the world being unfair, just as long as it is unfair in my direction".

Now thats an odd way of looking at it. How honest you want to be? so i guess your saying that basically the guy is dishonest and working on his honesty merit badge?

For three weeks in a row my boss at a Marathon station in Terre Haute Indiana accused me of improper till management, and stealing. (I wondered why I wasn't fired) I cought his own son taking money out of the cash drawer, $4 to $12 at a time. I told his dad, and He then came by at 1:45 am and watched from his car in a lot next door. The skin was nearly peeled off of the kid in the next 15 minutes. Allmost all cash deficits are charged to the teller, not the company. If you want the company to be there next week, do what is right. JimN

This should be a no-brainer. Why would someone even ask?

At our local country club the other evening, our tab came to $17 and some odd cents. My wife paid with a $20 bill. The gal gave my wife $16 and some change back. My wife handed it back and asked the gal if she'd like to refigure it. The gal couldn't thank my wife enough.

Figure it out. This gal probably worked a four or six hour shift, and a $15 error would put a serious dent in her paycheck.

Wasn't sure they'd goofed when I was still in the market. So double checked when I got home. Plan to take my receipt w/me next time and tell them what happened - give them the money.

Was curious what others thought. Whether I was making "Much ado about nothing". Glad to see others don't think I'm being silly.

Thanks.

No two ways about it, just do the right thing because it is the right thing.

I once got four waste paper baskets that the clerk in Wal-Mart did not charge me for. I was afraid if I called the store the pour young gal would get in trouble so I still feel guilty, and that was at least ten years ago if not more. It would have been a two and half hour ordeal after I noticed it, and had a small child that was two hours late for his bed time. And was very nasty weather to boot.

I did drop double the price of the waste paper baskets in the Salvation Army bucket the next week to ease my guilt.

I was once double paid on a invoice for $ 6500 by a local building company.I called the bookkeeper to alert her to the error and to please research it.She called back the next day and said it wasn't a error and to keep it.I did my own research and then explained to her how the error was caused.She said they never would have caught that mistake.Mailed them back the check.Bad karma and knowing you deliberately ripped someone off isn't worth it.

Vito

As is said honesty is the best policy. Like truth it is also the more interesting and makes one feel better. I believe this also develops self character.

If you lose your wallet and I find it Ill give it back,BUT,if you drive the Brinks truck and forget to close the back doors and bags are flying out onto the highway Im keeping it because its my tax money anyhow.Dont worry the clerk was fired already for comin up short.

A month or so ago I bought a large bag of catfood. The guy at the checkout put in a code from memory. When I got home I saw he undercharged me a few bucks. A few days later I saw the guy at a restaurant and told him about the mistake. I told him the next time I saw him at his checkout I'd make it right, and since then I did. I know that made an impression so we're now on a friendlier basis. That and the good feeling is well worth it. And after all, it didn't cost anything "extra".

I always count my change before leaving the store and go back whether I'm short-changed or undercharged.

I found a watch at the park when I was just a kid, maybe 8 or 9. Dad ran an ad and a guy came and claimed it. Asked Dad if he could give me a reward. Wasn't much, maybe a buck or two which bought a lot of stuff at the 5 and 10 50-plus years ago. Best lesson I ever learned. It's a lot easier to be honest about money than to risk getting caught doing something you shouldn't like going to your girlfriend's when you're supposed to be at the library and having the guy who picked you up hitchhiking have his car break down so you get home way too late. I doubt my parents bought the fib.

Larry in Michigan

I was taught that Liars steel. Telling a lie is steeling. If you know something is wrong then it must be working on you telling you to do the right thing. I have to agree with everyone else who said why are you asking when you already know what is right. Unless you're just trying to make conversation here.

I was in the post office years ago and found a bank envelope full of $20 bills. Must of been $300-$400 in it. I immediately grabbed it and handed it to one of the clerks behind the counter. I knew it was the right thing to do. It's now in the clerk's hands. I went back the next day and asked the clerk if any one had claimed the money and she said yes that a lady had come in crying and explained what she did and was so thankful that an honest person turned it in. If the lady actually got her money back I don't know but I know I did the right thing.

I was also driving passed a parking lot and could see there was some paper money in a puddle of water. I quickly drove over and stopped to pick it up and it was $50.00, 2-$20's and a $10. I kept it and felt pretty good. My mom made me feel like a thief and said I should advertise in the local paper that I had found it but not state the amount. I didn't do that either because I knew everyone was going to be calling. Well what goes around comes around, turns out I've lost money too!

Some friends of ours ran an uphostery shop for years and one time he found $1,200.00 still in the bank envelope stuck in an old chair. Well to make a long story short. He returned it to the customer when they came to pick up their chair. She (the customer) couldn't believe he found it. She had hid it there over ten years before and forgot where she put it. She was in a hurry when she hid it.

What ever you do in your case it will come back to you in due time. May take 20 years but that's a long time to hang a skeleton in your closet!

I once did a small remodeling job for a CPA - new customer. When I finished she added up my hours and all the reciepts for materials and somehow came up with an extra $500 or so. I told her that was too much. She looked at me over her glasses and said I'm a CPA of course it's right.
I told her no and helped her find where she went wrong in her addition.
That was 11 years ago. Since then I've done about $100K in remodeling for her, her FIL, daughter, son and friend.
She trusts me absolutely.
Proof enough to me that honesty is still the best policy.