Collected My .07 Cents Due To Tax Being Overcharged...

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I sure did...called the store after looking at the receipt....Here in Florida, it's.07 cents on the dollar....and some items are not taxable....making me "wonder" how long it's been going on....Keeping an eye open on my grocery receipts too from now on....
 
oh, don't get me started .. :pissed:
I am pretty sure it is a standard practice for some stores to overcharge for obnoxious moneymaking :mad2:

Because it was past 11 pm, the store was closing and everyone was pretty much rushing
me and my daughter were kinda bullied and stupefied at the checkout into hasty get out at Walmart.
At home we checked our bought stuff and compared it with the bill.
we were mad to discover they overcharged us close to 7 dollars! :squint: :mad2:
One of the items we didn't want wasn't taken off the bill, one we didn't even have was added to the bill,
one was rung twice by mistake (???) :mad: :squint: :mad2:
Alas, once you take the cart out of the store you have no proof and your goose is cooked :(
Right circumstances, and you are easily duped into paying what you never ever should have! :nono:

Small change, like 5 - 10 cents here and there we are overcharged all the time, everywhere! :(

You are so right in demanding, Robin, that they return your money!

Fuzzy
 
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I always check my receipts when I go to Market Basket and watch to made sure the correct price is rang in . I would had been overcharges a lot of
times if I didn't check my receipts. MB is really bad for not giving the sale price on things .
 
Audiofuzzy said:
oh, don't get me started .. :pissed:
I am pretty sure it is a standard practice for some stores to overcharge for obnoxious moneymaking :mad2:

Because it was past 11 pm, the store was closing and everyone was pretty much rushing
me and my daughter were kinda bullied and stupefied at the checkout into hasty get out at Walmart.
At home we checked our bought stuff and compared it with the bill.
we were mad to discover they overcharged us close to 7 dollars! :squint: :mad2:
One of the items we didn't want to wasn't taken off the bill, one we didn't even have was added to the bill,
one was rung twice by mistake (???) :mad: :squint: :mad2:
Alas, once you take the cart out of the store you have no proof and you goose is cooked :(
Right circumstances, and you are easily duped into paying what you never ever should have! :nono:

Small change, like 5 - 10 cents here and there we are overcharged all the time, everywhere! :(

You are so right in demanding, Robin, that they return your money!

Fuzzy
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True that!...I notice too, all the time, people go into convenience stores, pay for their purchase(s), receive their change....and 9 times out of 10 don't even count it!...just pocket it and walk out....Those neighborhood stores must make a killing off customers.....I'm not a tight-wad...LOL...but I do expect the right amount of change and ask for a receipt.....
.07 cents is peanuts, actually...but it's the principal of the thing....I got it back and laughed at it....People were actually "eye balling me"...LOL....holding up the line for a measly .07 cents?....That .07 cents goes into my great grandbabies piggy bank!
 
I am not a tightwad either, but come on!, what happened to a simple honesty everywhere? "do unto others ...... "??? and so on?
I always try to watch a cashier like a hawk, especially when I am shopping with my daughter or a hubby -
so one person is packing the other watching,
but sometimes there is chaos anyway and the cash person still manages sneak one or two unapproved charges in.
And have you noticed how they use these complicated abbreviations and codes so for the life of you
it's impossible to figure out what's what??
Also, I don't know about USA but here in Canada the legal metric system by weight is grams and kgs, yet people still buy by lbs
so when you see the price you think it's its in lbs. nope -the kg.
for example, you want to buy apples? here's what I see:
Granny Smith apple 1.89 per Kg under which is printed additional 4.16 per LBS

(at the register:

- excuse me, sir, it's supposed to be 1.89 per pound?

- nope, sohrry-maam, it's 4.16 per pound, 1.89 per kg maam!

- :devil: (uuuurp) oh, okay...
- so you still want it maam?
- (grrrr) yes please :ohno:

it's possible I am the only such idiot there :rofl:

Fuzzy
 
If my calculations are right, if you were saving 7 cents daily for 10 years you should have saved about 255 dollars.
it's not peanuts :)

Fuzzy
 
If this was the other way around the store is going to want that 07 Cents , if you don't have it they ask you want would like to take off the bill. Some people will
made up the 07 Cents for you .
 
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