Bank shortfall -help!

sinizterguy

OP should have counted the money at the counter like normal people. Or at least while in the bank.

There is nothing sensible you can do a couple of days after you left with the money.

Feel free to report it to the Police - they will file it in the bin, or along with UFO reports.

Complain to the bank - they will double check their tills and then while they politely try to tell you to get lost, they will be laughing at you in the their staff room.

Money-Saving-King

The thing is the bank could be eliminated from the equation as you had the chance to watch the whole thing. Where were you looking? If £1000 got left out you would have had the chance if you watched the transaction to see not all the money go in. You must have been looking towards the cashier. I really think the bank isn't the place where the grand went missing.

LilElvis

Was the money counted and then placed in the envelope in your view?

Was it then given immediately to you?

Clearly state what happened at the till to demonstrate that the cashier had the opportunity to steal the money.

robatwork

Put yourself in the bank's position. How many crackpots or chancers do they get claiming they didn't get the correct amount of money (and it's always less than they supposedly withdrew)?

Probably thousands to every person who genuinely has been the victim of a mistake/sleight of hand theft.

So you can't blame them for thinking something else other than a bank mistake happened here. Or us.

gettingtheresometime

Were the £20 notes in bundles?

If it was then you would have had 3 - 2 lots of £1000 and one containing £500.

If you regularly took this sum of money you would get to know how thick the envelope would be and it would ring alarm bells if wasn't as thick as normal.

mgdavid

Surprise, surprise. Duplicate post on a different thread/board, mostly different people responding, yet amazingly very similar responses making all the same points. I wonder why? :cool:

dacouch

Balso69 wrote: »

Obviously I have learnt a very expensive lesson. But when you withdraw large amounts of cash you are told to put it straight in your bag so people don't see. Not get it out and count it all in full view of everyone.

The most annoying thing is that I have no come back on the bank. Even if I had noticed when I got home, the banks shut at lunchtime and do not open again till Monday I couldn't have done anything else.

A trick I find useful is to just count the notes as the cashier counts them out (They usually count them twice and so do I).

£2500 is 125 notes, so as they count them I count 1,2,3 etc etc

It's an efficient way to ensure they give you the correct amount

Goldiegirl

Balso69 wrote: »

Yes I will say she counted out £2500 but obviously £1000 didn't make it into the envelope.

So you confirmed that £2500 was counted out. What exactly happened between the cashier counting the money out and putting it in the envelope?

If you are accusing the cashier of theft, you must be able to pinpoint the moments that the money disappeared from your view, to enable the theft to be carried out.

If the money was was simply counted out and put straight in the envelope, in your full view, are you saying that the cashier stuffed £1000 up their sleeve without you noticing?

Seriously, I think you'd be better off thinking who had access to the envelope in your home. It's very upsetting to think that someone you trust has deceived you....... But it's sadly the most likely explanation.

shaun_from_Africa

In one of your posts on the other thread that you started, you stated that you put the envelope straight into your bag when you were in the bank.


Have you double checked the contents of this bag just to make sure that the cashier didn't give you two envelopes instead of one (maybe they couldn't fit all of the notes into one) and you simply put both of them into your bag without noticing and one of them is still in there?

gettingtheresometime

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Have you double checked the contents of this bag just to make sure that the cashier didn't give you two envelopes instead of one (maybe they couldn't fit all of the notes into one) and you simply put both of them into your bag without noticing and one of them is still in there?

Having had the pleasure of physically counting over £15K in £20 notes recently then I doubt that £2500 couldn't be put into a normal envelope ......and definitely it would have gone into a C5 envelope.