How much have you saved by checking receipts?

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dark_angel_2002 wrote: »

My biggest was £360 yes you read right I bought a Hello Kitty stationery set which scanned in as a sausage at £360 I stood and laughed at her although she couldn't see the funny side and said that will be £426 please well thats the dearest non sausage I have ever had the pleasure of not seeing lol even after pointing out there was a mistake she still asked for the money again???

was this in Tesco?
you should have paid and got back DTD

celebrate

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

I love checking my receipt in Mr T's, so far I have had a few free things off them, including an expensive iron that I would NEVER have bought full price and a George Foreman grill. It has saved me a small fortune over the years. I also like mistakes in Asda because, even if the error is only a few pence, you get the £2 gift card - often better than DTD in Mr T!

Jane, is this in their T&C's or price promise somewhere in print or black and white because they ALWAYS have at least one error on my receipts and they have never offered me a gift card (not that i knew to ask for one until now.....)

Enterprise_1701C

celebrate wrote: »

Jane, is this in their T&C's or price promise somewhere in print or black and white because they ALWAYS have at least one error on my receipts and they have never offered me a gift card (not that i knew to ask for one until now.....)

TBH I don't really know - I picked it up off here myself. I have never been OFFERED one, you generally have to ask, but there is something in their T&Cs somewhere, just well hidden I think!!

cba321

Ches wrote: »

I do check my receipts every time and although I haven't noticed any till errors Mr M are the worlds worse for stocking shelves with different items to the ones on special but without removing the special label price so you have to be vigilant to check you have the one on offer. Every time I have been caught out I have returned the item to customer service for a full refund and every time they blame the customers for putting the items back in the wrong place.

I agree, Morrisons are absolutely terrible for doing this, you really need to look at what you are picking up off the shelf.

cba321

I usually shop in Morissons, so as I am walking out of the shop, I scan down the receipt to make sure I have been charged the correct prices while they are fresh in my head, a few times have had to go to the customer service desk when something hasn't gone through the right price.

I once popped into our local Co-op for a few bits and pieces, don't usually buy much in there, as it is ridicuously expensive. Anyway, it should have totalled around £8-£9 not paying much attention when I put my pin in, while walking out of the shop, noticed the bottle of wine I bought had gone through 3 times, so went straight to the customer service desk to have the 2 bottles I didn't have refunded. Glad I checked it.

I agree with everyone, you really do need to keep an eye on those receipts.

KimmyCustard

Tesco still do the DTD thingy, I had a mascara last week which was £8 rather than £12 and they charged me the full amount. I ALWAYS check my receipt and it was showing £12 charged.

Visited Customer Services straight away and got £8 back (DTD) plus the mascara, which was then free, YAY!! They make so much money from us year in, year out, that I do love it when I get something back! :beer:

I was also charged £3.50 for an Easter egg that I thought was £2 (shown on a yellow ticket as £2) but it was £3.50 when she checked. However, the shop had stacked the eggs in the wrong place so I was refunded the DTD and given the egg :T

horse76

This is a major gripe of mine, being overcharged for items. Like others on here I always check my receipt before I leave the shop.

Morrisons are the worst offenders in my opinion, last month I was charged 11 times for 1 half of a cucumber portion - so £4.84! I luckily checked my receipt before I left the carpark, but was fuming that I had to go back in to get my money back.

Asda charged me full price for a Spicy Smoked Sausage, £1.38, when their display clearly said £1, so a staff member investigated and returned saying it was only the 'original' that was £1 and the shelf stacker must have put them on that display as they had no room for them on the other shelf. Not my problem, so got my 38p refund, but had to ask for my £2 giftcard for the inconvienience. I was again told that they were stopping the giftcard soon and there would be a 'special offer' starting online to replace it - :rotfl:

anamenottaken

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

I love checking my receipt in Mr T's, so far I have had a few free things off them, including an expensive iron that I would NEVER have bought full price and a George Foreman grill. It has saved me a small fortune over the years. I also like mistakes in Asda because, even if the error is only a few pence, you get the £2 gift card - often better than DTD in Mr T!

The main point of your message was a little bit off topic.

I suppose you were checking your receipt to make sure that you had been over-charged rather than checking to see that you hadn't.

Otherwise the iron wouldn't have been in your shopping in the first place.

anamenottaken

ska_lover wrote: »

I am stringent with my receipts, especially after a big shop always checking my receipt before I drive off (saddo I know).

I brought two £4.99 childrens books in a bogof offer on Mr T's around a month ago. When I got back to the car, I realised I had been charged for both so went marching back in and the lovely lady at customer services refunded me for both! So I got the refund of £9.88. Me being the honest person I am, asked her why, as I was only expecting £4.99 back, but she told me that it is their policy if it is their own mistake, then they refund the whole lot. I was very pleased, so I ended up with two free books. Lovely!

Trust you received £9.98 back and then what you got back was "double the difference" not "the whole lot".

The difference was £4.99 - the extra you paid because you didn't get the free one taken into account. What they paid was double that amount, which happened to equal the price of the two books on offer.

(Years ago if Tesco overcharged, even by 1p, you received all you had paid for that item and got to keep the item too.)

kelfringe

Tesco are very good at displaying products badly against the price tag, Ive gone back so many times to complain when things dont match up!

I always check my reciept before I leave the shop normally BUT last week I went to Sainsbury and as I was racing out the shop, drove down the road and the inevitable had happened on my reciept!!! The cashier who was too busy looking elsewhere, had charged me £2.50 twice for a purchase - right at the end of my £65 receipt!! I cant believe I didnt check as normal and as I need to take a purchase back from that reciept today, Ill also be complaining, I might not be able to prove that she put it through twice but I cant stand the thought of another BIG company having more of my money than they should, especially when the cashier should be looking at what shes doing!!