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re: What do you do when a store forgets to charge you for an item?

Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:18 am to
Posted by TexasTiger1185
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2011
13169 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:18 am to
Stores have this budgeted already.

If I notice at the store I fix it, if later I don't worry about it.
Posted by weptiger
Georgia
Member since Feb 2007
11909 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:27 am to
It is easy to say you will do the right thing and pay for the item.

Unfortunately, my wife recently had this dilemma involving a large sporting goods retailer and the purchase of a baseball glove. At the end of the day, we landed on the side of the store being out its money rather than a kid losing his/her job for an honest mistake here at Christmas.

We frequent this store and figure it will balance out over time.

Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37483 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:31 am to
I would never notice, because I don't typically look at my receipts.
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
17460 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:46 am to
Simple decision.

Ask yourself this question:

If you packed all your things up and got home and noticed the item you paid $80.00 for was NOT in your car, would you drive all the way back to the store and get your item?

If so, then go back and make it right.

If not, keep your free item.

It works both ways.
Posted by tigerpimpbot
Chairman of the Pool Board
Member since Nov 2011
69243 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:53 am to
quote:

Stores have this budgeted already.

If I notice at the store I fix it, if later I don't worry about it.


This. I don't treat it as some morality play. Sometimes I get fricked, sometimes I do the fricking. It's how the world works.
Posted by ruzil
WNC
Member since Feb 2012
18466 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 10:58 am to
That happened to me with a $500 lawnmower at HD two years ago.

We called from the car and told them to charge our credit card again. It took several calls to get everything sorted out but the whole situation left me thinking that they really didn't give a frick and seriously questioning whether I would go to the trouble of informing the store if it ever happened again.

When the indifference/laziness of the average worker makes you rethink your basic honesty, our world has seriously gone to shite.
Posted by Mr. Hangover
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2003
34932 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 11:06 am to
If it's a local moms and pops store, I will always pay for what I take...


Retail stores on the other hand, nahhh





Academy once rang up a $80 paintball gun barrel for $8, then messed something up and only charged me 4 dollars for it those clowns also once charged me $12 dollars for a $60 football, but I ain't said shite lol
Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19185 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 11:16 am to
Why buys meat from Walmart ?
Posted by Poncho
R.I.P. Ivar's
Member since Aug 2014
537 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 11:22 am to
That's the cirrrrcccllleeeee of a-lllliiiiiiiiiffffffffeeeeeee


And it rules us all.
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 12/20/15 at 11:38 am to
Nothing, I've had items that I bought some how not make it back to me so it's all good.
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