What's the worst till error you've ever seen?

tejsmith

Not quite a till error but we had gone to a restaurant with our friend and he was paying by card. They mustn't have pressed enter after typing in the amount and he wasn't paying attention, he typed in his PIN and pressed enter then looked very confused when it beeped and asked him to put in his PIN for a charge of £259,385 or similar (funnily enough he wouldn't show us the whole amount)!

somethingcorporate

Not quite the same thing, but somewhat similar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27782731

shiney85

The woodchip one on that BBC article, haha! A few months ago OH and I were shopping and got a joint of pork reduced to something like £2.90, bargain. We went to the self-service till, and it wouldn't scan the sticker, so I entered the number manually, it came up with the right product, but a charge of something random in the figure of £2k, the assistant couldn't understand how I'd done it, it got her a bit flustered to say the least!

elsien

£34 for a carrot in sainsbury's. Although that was less a till error and more the idiot I was with accidentally leaning on the scales on the self-service till.

Paul_Varjak

After my house got flooded I had to replace some fitted furniture. In order to save the insurance company money, I arranged this myself. By then, I had already earned the nickname 'bargain hunter' from the loss adjustor at the insurance company.

But these fitted wardrobes turned out to be the most expensive fitted wardrobes ever! I had to pay a deposit of just over £1,200 for the wardrobes and, when handed the credit card machine, I duly entered my PIN.

Only then was the mistake noticed. I was being charged in excess of £12,000,000 for a 20% deposit on new fitted furniture!

londonTiger

I used to shop in ASDA a lot during the early morning when I was freelancing on my computer and working with American clients a lot.

I used to go to ASDA to do my shop - they hadn't put the sale prices up. I would routinly get stuff a pound or two off the price I saw at the shelves. I thought I was getting away with buying stuff at cheaper prices for some reason. Then I realised that the sale prices get introduced at midnight but staff haven't updated the shelf stickers.

pulliptears

As a teen I worked in a frozen place Mum likes with a girl who its fair to say wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
It wasn't unusual for her till to be several million under on a Saturday evening. She even accepted Tesco vouchers once (long before it was possible in some stores through promotions).

Amazingly she lasted about 4 years.

Nicklt

I worked in a restaurant when I was young and for the first week i was there i got the till wrong on many occasion.

You had to manually input the amount the person was giving you, so say it was £20 you had to put in 20.00 often i ended up putting in 20.000 because of tapping the buttons too quick.

Takeaway_Addict

elsien wrote: »

£34 for a carrot in sainsbury's. Although that was less a till error and more the idiot I was with accidentally leaning on the scales on the self-service till.

this is the funniest!

pinthetail

My parents bought a brand new car for £12000 on card and the transaction went through twice!