This is why a good money saver, always checks a reciept!

hellokitty08

I was in Tescos today doing some shopping, watching the pennies as always, when i got a bit of a shock. On my way out of the store, i was checking my receipt, as usual, making sure any offers had been honoured at the till, when i noticed something for £3. Now i never spend more then £1 on anything, if i can help it, so something for £3 really stuck out to me. It said Lead Set, and i knew that I didnt have anything in the trolley that fitted that description.

When i got to customer service, the women said, someone else had been to her with the same thing! Very strange i thought, but when i explained i had no idea what it could be, she told me that it was one of their lines, that isnt available on the shelf yet, so she gave me back my £3. She then explained it by saying the person on the till probably had a barcode stuck on thier sleve, that they didnt know about. I am thinking, hurm a little dodgy.

Just thought i would remind u all to always check your receipt! You never know what barcodes the staff might be wearing.

sweetnskint

totally agree- check your reciepts everyone.
so often i find 'deals' not taken off or wrongly priced.
wont name and shame the store but its not tesco.

Butlers1982

You should always check recepits, they why they issue them. Along with bank/credit card/store card statements etc etc, they dont issue them for fun! !

libra10

Similar happened to me in Farmfoods the other week. I bought 4 Bernard Matthew turkey joints, 2 leg and 2 breast joints. Breast joints are £1 more expensive than leg, yet the cashier just took one of the joints, rubbed the barcode and multiplied by 4, charging £2 too much.

She did refund the overcharge but it definitely pays to check.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I also wouldn't be surprised if the cash registers added up the total wrongly too sometimes.

ednotdave

hellokitty08 wrote: »

I was in Tescos today doing some shopping, watching the pennies as always, when i got a bit of a shock. On my way out of the store, i was checking my receipt, as usual, making sure any offers had been honoured at the till, when i noticed something for £3. Now i never spend more then £1 on anything, if i can help it, so something for £3 really stuck out to me. It said Lead Set, and i knew that I didnt have anything in the trolley that fitted that description.

When i got to customer service, the women said, someone else had been to her with the same thing! Very strange i thought, but when i explained i had no idea what it could be, she told me that it was one of their lines, that isnt available on the shelf yet, so she gave me back my £3. She then explained it by saying the person on the till probably had a barcode stuck on thier sleve, that they didnt know about. I am thinking, hurm a little dodgy.

Just thought i would remind u all to always check your receipt! You never know what barcodes the staff might be wearing.

I think you should have (not should of) been given £6 back under the Double the Difference policy...

hellokitty08

Well i did think that, but because i was charged for something i didnt buy, rather then over charged for something i did, i didnt think the policy would apply.

I agree with the bank statement thing too. If you dont check, then you obvioulsy have lots of spare money, in which case you can give it to me! hehehe

wolfehouse

i totally agree you always should check
but sometimes you just don't have the energy.

i got caught out today and paid full price for a short dated reduced item. ordinarily i would have checked but i was dead tired and the checker was useless and had just made a different mistake he was too busy apologising for...

so this time i will have to just chalk it up as a lesson. but it takes concentration,effort (and memory) and sometimes people may just not be up to it.

jayok

I bought 3 wines for £10 in tesco yesterday except they charged me £15.34. I got double the difference back - £10.68

Edindevon

jayok wrote: »

I bought 3 wines for £10 in tesco yesterday except they charged me £15.34. I got double the difference back - £10.68

Do you have more details of the wines you bought please?

Edindevon

looby-loo_2

I bought item in Lidl expecting to pay about £6. The total came to £47.50. The casher noticed too.