[Closed] Given too much change....what's the threshold for owning up?

Depends what shop. A nice local one that may be struggling for business then owe up.

Tesco's - keep it

There is no threshold, value wise.

If it was a mate, I'd be honest, but otherwise, tough titty. Best I ever got was change for £20, when I'd handed over £10 in a pub.

Whatever your conscience will allow...

My mate bought a bike from the Bristol Bike workshop for £165 a while back. Paid the guy £180 in £20 notes. We all continued to chat for a bit, the guy handed my mate his change and we left the shop. My mate then realised (well he must have realised before in all honesty) that he'd been given the full £180 back. He went back in and gave the cash back.

depends where.

tesco recently undercharged me by nearly £150, i didnt realise their mistake till i had left the shop.

i didnt go back, it was karma.

I always say, no matter what.

Cos I'm a good boy.

It was Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's are a rip off, I'd have kept it.

Got given change for a 20 once, when handing over a tenner for a £5 can of Red Stripe. No way were they having that back!

Got given change for a 20 once, when handing over a tenner for a £5 can of Red Stripe. No way were they having that back!

It will be the checkout girl / boy on minimum wage who get's in trouble for having a short til at the end of thier shift, and a fraction added on to every other transaction to cover things like this. They don't loose out.

Once went back to a well known chain of bakers to point out an error with the change I'd been given. Woman behind the counter gave me a proper dressing down about checking change before I left the shop and it wasn't their problem etc etc. I'd given them £10 for my 80p pasty and got change for a £20. Manners gets the cash!

Put another way.

You buy something from a shop, and when they give you your change back find you have been shortchanged. What's the threshold for pointing this out?

Thieving's thieving, whoever's doing it. And I don't hold with the 'it's Tesco, they can afford it / are robbing swine anyway'. If I broke into Vera Lynn's house and nicked her teasmade, would that be OK because I bet the royalties from her back catalogue could buy her a new one.

not really change, but the bike shop near me took a £500 credit card deposit for a bike they were building for me. I realised in between paying the deposit and picking the bike up that despite writing £500 paid on the build sheet, I had only been charged £50. I went in the next week to collect the bike, pointed this out to the gaffer...and have been enjoying discounts ever since.

Thieving's thieving, whoever's doing it. And I don't hold with the 'it's Tesco, they can afford it / are robbing swine anyway'. If I broke into Vera Lynn's house and nicked her teasmade, would that be OK because I bet the royalties from her back catalogue could buy her a new one.

Its not theft if they don't realise in my eyes

It's victimless crime innit 😉

Recently walked out of one of the big four supermarkets with a few bits in my hand, daydreaming, without paying...realised, walked back in and owned up...got a bollocking for my efforts 🙄

I don't know if it's widely done, but my wages used to be docked by the amount the till was short over my shift. Which was nice. It meant I occasionally short-changed people who were too drunk to notice... 😕

I don't know if it's widely done, but my wages used to be docked by the amount the till was short over my shift. Which was nice. It meant I occasionally short-changed people who were too drunk to notice...

Yeah, willful deductions of wages without consent IS illegal.

Lying is lying and stealing is stealing whatever the amount of money. Honesty always the best policy. Thats how I was brought up anyway !

There is no threshold.

i recently bought £150 worth of wine and fine food from a posh local supplier and paid by cheque. The young lass behind the till did everything right except when handing me my receipt she also handed me my cheque back!

I got outside and just had to go back in.

if the person that gives me too much change is an attractive girl, I will own up.

If it's a minger or a bloke with a skin complaint, what's a bit more hardship?

hels +1

or to look at it the other way, if you had been short changed what is the threshold for asking for the right change?

Its not theft if they don't realise in my eyes

Rubbish. It's theft. Own up to your actions.

It's also not murder if you creep up behind them, and it it definitely isn't rape if she was unconscious at the time.

At a craft fair a few years back, we were offered a not unsubstantial oak hand made coffee table, ours for £250 if we could take it away there and then. I give him my card details, and he tells me he'll do the transaction once he's back in his shop on Monday. I take one of his business cards, every-one leaves happy. Monday rolls around, no transaction, in fact nothing at all that week, phone of Friday Morning the phone's unanswered. Tried a few more times over the following weeks. Nada.. Still not paid for it.

Is there a time limit on these things?

it definitely isn't rape if she was unconscious at the time.

it certainly isn't if you shout 'Surprise' first!

A certain member of staff, who (shockingly) still works in the bike trade, once charged a customers card £2.70 instead of £270 for a new hybrid bike. They never came back, I didn't realise til cashing up at the end of the day.
I suspect he realised almost immediately, but was too embarrassed to chase the customer and ask them to come back. Then he just buried his head in the sand and hoped the problem would go away. Which it didn't, clearly.

Idiot.

Jon, it was in a club - I've never been charged that much for a can of beer in a supermarket.

They were clearly charging way over the odds!

It's also not murder if you creep up behind them, and it it definitely isn't rape if she was unconscious at the time.

but they're minor compared with the wrong change. silly jon

Sainsbury's are a rip off, I'd have kept it.

....that's the bit I was referring to really, but the same applies to pubs and clubs as well. Someone would have got a bollocking for the til being £10 short after your Red Stripe transaction, and it wouldn't have been the one profiteering from over pricing either.

I never understood why people buy cans in a club anyway. Didn't they do a nice draft bitter? 😉

Works both ways IMO - there's been plenty of times when I've been given 50c Euro coins in with a load of £1's and the shops wouldn't take them back when I've complained.

I wouldn't go back for £2.00

No draft beer!

The Sainsbury's comment was tongue in cheek really, my instinct would've told me to point it out...

which I very nearly did on that occasion, had I not felt they were taking the piss in the first place 8)

but they're minor compared with the wrong change. silly jon

It's about being a grown-up.

Someone gives you free money and you give it back?

Does not compute.

Someone gives you free money and you give it back?

mor·al? ?[mawr-uhl, mor-]
–adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.

Big business which earns £millions annual gives you £2 for free, and you give it back?

Yep.

I'm not that poor that I need it. They made a mistake, I notice it, I am honest and give it back.

See above definition.

Instead of giving it back, donate it to a charity. That must be even more morally sound

Yep. Or give money to charity anyway.

But if not giving the money back is technically thieving, is it ok to thieve to give to charity?

molgrips - Member

Someone gives you free money and you give it back?

mor·al? ?[mawr-uhl, mor-]
–adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.

I'm a Recruitment Consultant.

Yep. Or give money to charity anyway.

Right on. While you're there, never swear, never be mean to animals, and above all love Jesus.

I'm a Recruitment Consultant.

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They'd be receiving stolen goods or something then wouldn't they? Or money laundering?

Years ago my (Swedish heritage) mate was given a large cash sum by an elderly relative to buy a car on the condition it was a Volvo and he had to keep it.

He went to a local garage to buy an almost new car, paid for it by cheque and subsequently collected it.

They never cashed the cheque.

But he had a Volvo to drive around in as an 18 yr old.

given a large cash sum by an elderly relative to buy a car on the condition it was a Volvo

What is it with old people putting conditions like that on? miserable old git.

Still not paid for it.

Is there a time limit on these things?

Statute of limitations is 6 years.

Ohh and recently I was in a supermarket and bought 4 big boxes of nappies (along with a load of other stuff). When I got in my car I thought it seemed a bit cheap - it turned out they had scanned one and put the other three through without scanning (or pressing the multiplier button on the till).

Saved me £25 that one. Still - the way we get through them, they will soon make that money up.

I'm a Recruitment Consultant.

Lol! Touché... I have no answer to that.

willful deductions of wages without consent IS illegal.

Place I used to work at had that policy; till shortages came directly out of the wages of staff who were working that till. Consequently, I was always very careful to count the till on staff handovers, and not being an innumerate scrote I never had till shortages.

Got my wage one day to find that I'd been docked a till shortage. Kicked off, management disinterested. Long story short, I broke into the office and went through the close sheets for that day. The store manager had forged my signature on the paperwork. Being young and naive, I quit shortly afterwards rather than suing the barstools.

I should add, this wasn't some small business either, it was a large national chain.

...the threshold is your self respect.

Instead of giving it back, donate it to a charity. That must be even more morally sound

Who are you, Robin Hood?

I just give it back, it was probably someone made a simple mistake doing a menial job and they'll get their ass kicked for it when it comes time to cash in at the end of the day. As per above.

1p

It's not yours so make every effort to give it back.

there's no money like free money
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what about those self-service tills in supermarkets where there's a little drawer where you get your change in the form of bank notes. twice I've gone to one of the tills and found a fiver in the drawer.
what would you do?

I was brung up proper and would point out that I had been given to much(as I always do)

Lots of people on here are happy to put low paid staff in a tricky situation or basically steal. I'm no saint but you lot are common criminals

Lots of people on here are happy to put low paid staff in a tricky situation or basically steal. I'm no saint but you lot are common criminals

Why, thank you 😆

well Molgrips, I've disagreed with you once or twice in the past, and I suspect that I will in future. But in this one you're absolutely right. There's an absolute moral obligation to return what is in effect stolen money. Theft is theft, I cannot begin to understand why some posters think otherwise...........Things have really started to slip in this country since those tory b******s got in power.

the same applies to pubs and clubs as well. Someone would have got a bollocking for the til being £10 short after your Red Stripe transaction

moral obligations aside how in the name of **** can it be stealing? Whats to stop some prankster on a till giving you too much change intentionally and as soon as you try to leave the store call security and the police in? Coz it'd get laughed out of court thats why. Theft my arse.

The last few times someone has given me too much change I've stood there for a minute looking at the money in my hand knowing somethings wrong and trying to figure out whether I'm better or worse off than I was, by which time the til worker figures out theres a problem and whips it back. Moral pitfall averted.

Donker, you're a plonker