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Card Ripoff in Bar - Advice Needed!

fraseman · 2006-01-30 11:46:32

Hi there I visited a bar in Southampton [Orange Rooms] about 10 days ago. I ordered a round of drinks and paid by debit card using my pin. I thought I had checked the amount [and I wasn't drunk] and typed in my pin. Last night I was looking through my receipts for the month and I find that they added £100 to the bill [the…

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peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite

1 February 2006 at 5:16PM

wobbley wrote:

Saying this, it could have just been a genuine mistake in the OP's case and the till was £100 over.

What makes you think the till would still be £100.00 at the end of the day? Its very easy to lose this amount over the evening. Good little earner all round.

I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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