Tonight's poll is similar to a little survey a local radio station carried out during the week.

 

Imagine you buy some random items from a shop, be it a corner shop or a supermarket or a fish N chips shop or even from Nabootique etc, using cash, the cashier by mistake gives you more change than you should have gotten.

 

The question is, will you say something being honest and handing back the extra change or will you pocket the lot and walk out the shop?

 

Be honest...

 

...or I will set this bloke on you:

i would say something if i happened in my local shop/ chippy

 

i probably wouldnt mention it if it happened in a place like asda or tesco

I'm the first voter? c'mon!

 

Ah that doesn't happen to me often but if it was something like 1-3€ i probably wouldn't bother ( and probably wouldn't even notice it)

But if i got something like 100€ i'd probably be too shocked to do anything and the cashier would notice something is wrong

If it was a large amount I would return the money.

If it were just a couple dollars I wouldn't bother because it would just be a big hastle to bring it back.

I've been ripped off before, so there's no way I'd keep it since in know how that feels...even a large business has to serve us 'little guys'.(I know they don't, but at least I can sleep at night...)

I probably wouldn't notice, to be honest.

 

If I did, it depends. If the cash register made the mistake, (which they do sometimes) it could actually get the cashier in trouble for messing up the till. So I might mention it, but I'm not that good at quick math anyway.

 

If the clerk made the mistake, but it was only a couple of cents, it would be rather pointless to hold up the line and get everyone mad at me.

 

If it was a lot of money, I would give it back. I've worked that sort of minimum wage job before, and it would suck to be the one who got the kid in trouble because their till was off.

 

 

But like I said, I should check my change more carefully, but I don't. So I would never notice in the first place.

:lol: I think it depends on how much it is...

:lol: I think it depends on how much it is...

 

.....................and how skint you are.:rolleyes:

Yes,that also.......

if its like a quarter, and i realize it once i already left the area, i will keep it, but if its over a dollar i'll go back

^Oh well your a honest man then!!

I work on the principle that if the mistake is in your flavour, don't say anything.

 

Unless it's the local shop.

I work on the principle that if the mistake is in your flavour, don't say anything.

 

Unless it's the local shop.

 

I'm agree.. and also if it's a big amount..

Like if they give you a €20 instead of a €10

yeahhh because if you notice about it instantly and you know that the person who made the mistake will have to pay it.. I'd feel bad

I always check my change to make sure they ain't trying to rip-me off.

 

Random Fact: One of the many reasons why some items end in 0.99p/cents was in the olden days when you didn't have high-tech tills, it was to stop the cashier simply pocketing the money without opening the till to get out your penny.

really?? ohhh I see... I though it was because they wanted the prices look lower (ok.. I didn't write that sentence well.. but I guess you understand)

It's also to make the prices look cheaper.

 

Although most people these days ain't fooled by a discount of a penny.

at school a kid got an extra dollar back in change, and didn't want to give it back because he said it was the cashiers fault, but i guilted him into giving it back. :smug:

well. if we're speaking about cents, then no, i wouldn't give them back. but if we're talking about euros then i would return it/them if i saw that while in the shop. honestly, i wouldn't bother walking back to it later.

^Looks like there are still some honest people around then..:P

yea :wacko:

Okay maybe I wouldn't be so honest.

Last year I went to Swiss Chalet ( a chicken restaraunt) with some friends after a wedding reception to kill some time before the dinner which was about 5 hours away. I wasn't really hungry so I just ordered a drink while everybody else ate. And then I didn't get charged for the drink so I got out of the restaraunt as fast as I could before they realized there mistake.

^Looks like there are still some honest people around then..:P

 

But will they pass the lie detector test...

What about if you were walking along the road and found a winning lottery ticket, would you pocket the winnings and hope nobody causes a fuss or will you hand it into the police?