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Should I return a voucher I was sent by accident?

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  • aldredd
    aldredd Posts: 925 Forumite
    POLAR_BILL wrote: »
    So, if you check your shopping list when you get home and find an onion or a few carrots that the cashier has missed, or an item came through at an incorrect price in your favour, you would travel 2 miles back to the supermarket to tell them?

    Very different. If you presented your goods for payment as normal, they stated a total price, and you paid, they have legally accepted payment for that transaction and entered into a binding contract.

    As a customer, you have not been dishonest.

    Keeping something you know not to be yours, and there is no grey area - you're not entitled to it. What you do about it is of course down to your own moral compass, but law is clear - it's not yours to spend, in the same way if your employer overpays you, it's not yours to spend.
  • terill
    terill Posts: 37 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    For Heaven's sake, I can't believe all the high and mighty posts on here telling you not to spend it! How much was the voucher for? £30? Remind me how many billions we collectively bailed out the banks 7 years ago in order for them still to pay massive bonuses to their people at the top? Personally I couldn't get down the shops fast enough
  • freccle
    freccle Posts: 770 Forumite
    So OP, put us out of our misery and tell us what you finally did.
    There will always be:
    A “LIE” in BELIEVE, an “OVER” in LOVER, an “END” in FRIEND, an “US” in TRUST , and an “IF” in LIFE ;)

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