Car Wash - £1.99....or not.

GiveItBack

this is why I won't use the ASDA self scan machines if I'm paying cash. First they don't like to take the fivers, then they short change you. Usually a penny, sometimes 5p or 2p depending on what coins they've run out of, but frankly Walmart don't need any extra pennies, I bluddy do.

so2006

Guess what went to my corner shop today and payed 5p less, he let me off! :beer:

Now to try asda, not that many peaple are cheap skates :rotfl:he didnt demand for the 5p, i said i dont have 5p he said ok!

I am sure someone in asda would do the same

mute_posting

IvanOpinion wrote: »

I could be wrong but thee is something in the back of my mind that says the onus is on the customer to provide the right money not the seller to provide change ... although the reality is very different.

I quite like the system used in some American shops, they leave a saucer of 1cent coins by the till and if the total is e.g. $x.98 or $x.99 it is left up to the individual on whether or not they take the change (some do, some don't).

Personally I always ask for shrapnel to be put in the Charity box (assuming one is present).

Ivan

on a similar thread, I'm sure a business can't refuse payment of ammounts under £2 (I think) when they are given in small change - i.e. for anything under £2 you are allowed to pay in pennies if you so wish...

I could be wrong on ammount but I've heard / read it somewhere.

UPDATE - is actually 20p


Brian Capon, from the British Bankers Association, said Mr Arceri could have refused to accept the coppers.
He said: "If both parties agree to accept payment in that way there is nothing stopping them, but the maximum amount of bronze that shouldn't be refused by a creditor in payment of a debt is actually only 20p. "A person only has to accept that amount... they could turn around and refuse to accept more than 20p in coppers"

lindseykim13

This is funny and i want to join in and take up disk space as i have no life
:rotfl:
I wouldn't have asked for my 1p i'm too shy but i would have had a good moan to myself (or hubby) after about 'why put up a sign for 1.99 when they want £2!'

skintchick

I'd definitely offer £1.98 next time!

i told the guy in the local garage off cos they only stock Cravendale milk at 55p!!! He fancies me so I get away with murder!!

so2006

ok and for the update went to asda and guess what AGAIN i was let off with 20p!

Lets just use up diskspace, while using our computers for electricity and harm the planet so we die sometime next year :j

advent1122

so2006 wrote: »

ok and for the update went to asda and guess what AGAIN i was let off with 20p!

of course you was.

Girlzmum

so2006, have you never heard the phrase 'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'?

uktim29

Girlzmum wrote: »

so2006, have you never heard the phrase 'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'?

Do that a hundred times and you'll have a quid.

Hmm.

Lynxette

At the end of the day, it's the principle of the matter! When you break it down to it's bare roots, what has actually happened here is theft - Whether it's the theft of a penny of a million pounds!

I'm totally with OP here!!