You get too much change back - take or tell?

[styley]

You're in a shop, you hand over �10 and when getting your change you see that the teller is handing you back change from �20. Do you take it and walk away or inform them of their mistake?

[bigmamma]

Hello styley , I would , and have informed them of the mistake and handed it back , wouldn't do anything other than that . xxx

[leelapops]

Oh styley, what a dilemma!
I would usually say "I think you are overchanging me!" as I don't think it fair to let it go unnoticed. It wasn't my money in the first place, why should it be now?

[tiggerblue10]

It has happened to me before and I have handed it back. I couldn't handle the guilt afterwards.

[Oneeyedvic]

If it is an independent shop (or franchise) then yes, I have handed the money back.

If it is a multiple (eg Sainsburys, Comet etc) then I dont.

Will probably go to hell :-(

[naomi24]

I've always given it back. Apart from anything else, I wouldn't want the cashier to get into trouble.

[ruby27]

Oneeyedvic

As I am older than you I will get there first, I would offer to keep you a seat warm, but I don't think such consideration is required.

[monkeyeyes]

I'm with the others, ^^^
I don't even think about it. There seems to be some automatic response system inside me that blurts out "I actually only gave you �10".............before I have even mentally processed whether I could 'get away with it' or not............

I'd obviously be a rubbish criminal............the first of 'my gang' to crack under Police questioning.........

[gina32]

in a pickle totally agree.

[fagidill]

I would tell the assistant " you have given me too much change " it has happened to myself a couple of times.

[bravejordy]

I have to agree with Pickle on this one. Years ago I would have pointed out the mistake - I'm 54 btw - but now I think it's a case of "swings and roundabouts". Last week, for example, the girl in the Co-op never gave me my change. Unfortunately I didn't notice until I'd left the shop. I could've went back and kicked up a fuss but seeing as it was only about �1.40 I didn't bother. Besides, the girl was new and I didn't want to get her in trouble.

This morning I went to the Aldi and was only charged �3.54 instead of �5.54. Again I didn't notice until I got home. To be honest I did think about going back but nah, why bother? .. Like I say, swings and roundabouts :)

[mibn2cweus]

Give it back. Who want to be an a$$hole?

[jno]

if I see it at the time, I give it back. If I didn't notice till I got home, I wouldn't bother. (I seldom check my change or read my supermarket receipts, though I really should.)

[jake-the-peg]

So if your bank charged you in error and then refunded twice the amount in error would you tell them?

Or is that different?

[keyplus90]

Yes have done and would do all my life without a doubt. Return it. If it is not my money then I have no right to keep it, and I am not only talking about overchange, Any things does not matter what sort of value that holds.

[ludwig]

I always give it back, but I wouldn't begrudge someone who was hard up not doing so.
I think if you're comfortably off though and you still pocket the money it makes you a bit of a saddo to be honest.

Once you start down the track of taking money that isn't yours it's a slippery slope. Before you know it you end up as a Tory MEP using tax payers money to buy a house for your good-for-nothing son, and justifying it to yourself with some 'swings and roundabouts' type argument.

[Lakitu]

I would give hard cash back to the assistant but that's not to say I'm an angel.

I've been in the situation where B&Q haven't charged me for a roll of wallpaper or the likes and I didn't say anything. A couple of months ago, I went for a take away curry, the shop was really busy and when I was eventually handed the carrier bag containing the meal, I thanked them and walked out. It wasn't until I got home that I realised that the momey was still in my pocket. That was a genuine error on both our parts but I didn't go back to pay for it.

I guess that doesn't make me any better than anyone else that keeps the hard cash.

[888sally888]

I would def say something and give it back.

My daughter who is 18 works in a shop on saturdays and I would hate to think of her making a mistake, someone not saying and then her getting sacked.

We all make mistakes!

[Aquagility]

Years ago I was given �10 too much change in a supermarket. I still had the money in my hand as I was going out of the door, and only then did I realise.

I went back to the check-out, money still in hand, and said "I don't think this is right".

Quick as a flash, the girl said "Once you've left the check-out, there's nothing I can do about it"

See you in hell!