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What would you do?
« on: August 14, 2009, 10:46:10 AM »
I (using Mrs TMRBB's card...) settled the bill for the hotel this morning.

I noticed that dinner for Wednesday night had not been added - about ?45. So I told them they had undercharged me. When they picked their collective jaws off the floor, we sorted out the additional sum.

They looked at me like I had two heads.

Would you have kept schtum and said nothing?

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2009, 10:49:14 AM »
I (using Mrs TMRBB's card...) settled the bill for the hotel this morning.

I noticed that dinner for Wednesday night had not been added - about ?45. So I told them they had undercharged me. When they picked their collective jaws off the floor, we sorted out the additional sum.

They looked at me like I had two heads.

Would you have kept schtum and said nothing?
Depends on the service... If I was pleased and impressed I'd tell them...  angel1

If it was shite then it's their stupid fucking mistake!  lol:
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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2009, 10:54:53 AM »
I (using Mrs TMRBB's card...) settled the bill for the hotel this morning.

I noticed that dinner for Wednesday night had not been added - about ?45. So I told them they had undercharged me. When they picked their collective jaws off the floor, we sorted out the additional sum.

They looked at me like I had two heads.

Would you have kept schtum and said nothing?
Depends on the service... If I was pleased and impressed I'd tell them...  angel1

If it was shite then it's their stupid fucking mistake!  lol:

Yup, that's how I looked at it too.  happy088

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2009, 11:10:18 AM »
I would have been afraid that they would have noticed their mistake and billed me for it at a later date anyway so would prolly have fessed up  8)
« Last Edit: August 14, 2009, 11:15:31 AM by Miss Demeanor »
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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2009, 11:14:24 AM »
I would have been afraid thattehy would have noticed their mistake and billed me for it at a later date anyway so would prolly have fessed up  8)

There was a bit of that too, in my mind...

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2009, 11:24:20 AM »
I would prolly have taken the same attitude. If the service had been good and the stay pleasant then I would have told them. If they had been shite hosts I'd have figured they deserved to fail and undercharging me could only hasten their departure.

BTW on average you are under charged more often at Supermarket checkouts that over charged. I cannot give a source but it is something I read years ago in the Grocer magazine ~ not that they would have any reason to "spin" the results of any survey of course. My own experience is that we frequently find we have been undercharged by ASDA home delivery but we have never spotted an overcharge ~ I don't tell them, mainly because the cost of the phone call usually would be about the same as the amount undercharged. It is only ever pence.

The only time I have ever actually walked away from a till with more change than I was due was in a shop where a large notice saying "Check your change ~ No corrections will be made after you leave the till". The girl gave me surly service and because she was too busy holding a conversation with her friend on the next till she gave me change for a twenty when I had only given her a tenner. I took a step or two away from the till as I looked at the money in my hand and realised that she had given me a ten pound note in the change so returned to the till with the money still in my hand.
Me "Sorry love but I think you have made a mistake" holding out the hand full of cash
She (jerking a discoloured thumb at the notice) "Cantcha read?"
Me "Sorry to have bothered you" turned and walk to the door.
Her (To her friend) "They all try that on ~ f*cking good job we got that sign innit"

Me ~ now outside of shop counting my change more carefully realised that there were in fact two tenners stuck together (new notes) so, twenty pounds to the good, I headed for the nearest pub to celebrate. whistle:
« Last Edit: August 14, 2009, 11:28:41 AM by Snoopy »
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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2009, 11:41:07 AM »
 eeek: Snoopy.

You have just reminded me of something very similar (but in reverse) when I was working in a petrochemical retail outlet.

Snotty middle-eastern woman in BMW puts ?10 in and comes to the serving hatch (it was late evening) and then starts to kick off demanding I go and get her some blank video cassettes and all sorts of stuff from the shop. This I do graciously. She then launches into a tirade about how the shop should be open and I respond saying that due to the number of "incidents" (i.e. hold ups - this was in Battersea) the company had decided to close the forecourt shop at dusk.

She swore a bit, called me a rude word and then handed me what she thought was a ?20 (like you, it was fresh from a cash machine). It was thick to the touch, a quick flick of the fingers and the papers parted,  a nice fresh ?20 landing on my shoe  lol:

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2009, 12:49:38 PM »
I was working in a petrochemical retail outlet.

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2009, 01:17:47 PM »
Don't laugh DS - it looked good on my CV and some potential employers even asked what it meant. I kid you not!


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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2009, 01:41:22 PM »
Hate to say this but if I saw that on a CV it would be binned.

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2009, 02:19:07 PM »
It would make me laugh ...... and that is always a good thing  lol:
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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2009, 03:57:33 PM »
Uncle - I was 17 at the time and studying my A-Levels - I thought it was a funny way of stating "garage cashier".

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2009, 04:03:12 PM »
Four hour delay from Edinburgh. Bastards.

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2009, 10:13:24 AM »
Uncle - I was 17 at the time and studying my A-Levels - I thought it was a funny way of stating "garage cashier".

17 - I'll let you off then.

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Re: What would you do?
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2009, 06:35:21 PM »
Uncle - I was 17 at the time and studying my A-Levels - I thought it was a funny way of stating "garage cashier".

17 - I'll let you off then.

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