I gave her £470, and £570 appeared in my account, woo!

Heofz said:
Oh dear god. The do-goodery on these forums is enough to make me vomit sometimes :rolleyes:

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-upmanship

Give it a rest will you chaps? :p
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Why are you quoting me in that list?
The guy is claiming back bank charges and got £500 extra. He isn't entitled to the first £100 in my book, let alone the rest.

That isn't really the same as "oh yay, extra money!". I have had folk nick my money enough to know that you take it when you get it. ;)
 
I'd give it back. A few weeks ago the man in front of me left what looked like a hundred or so pounds in the cash point and drove off. I noticed it and started looking for him, asked the bloke next to me if he knew him and he said he did. He took the money and then the man had stopped his car and came running back. He got his money back, didn't cross my mind to keep it.
 
JodieG said:
I'd give it back. A few weeks ago the man in front of me left what looked like a hundred or so pounds in the cash point and drove off. I noticed it and started looking for him, asked the bloke next to me if he knew him and he said he did. He took the money and then the man had stopped his car and came running back. He got his money back, didn't cross my mind to keep it.
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That's different though, he never intended on giving the cash to anybody, it was just a (ridiculously foolish) mistake that he left it in the machine. If he randomly walked over to you on the street and gave you £100 for no reason, and you said "gee, thanks", then he later said "oops I made a mistake, can I have it back please", you are not obliged to give it back :p

The "gee thanks" is analogus to the pay-in receipt in the OP's case :)
 
Keep it, the bank doesn't think twice about charging me £35 when I went 28p over my balance, I had to chase them to get my money back, they can chase you if they want their money back.
 
Heofz said:
That's different though, he never intended on giving the cash to anybody, it was just a (ridiculously foolish) mistake that he left it in the machine. If he randomly walked over to you on the street and gave you £100 for no reason, and you said "gee, thanks", then he later said "oops I made a mistake, can I have it back please", you are not obliged to give it back :p

The "gee thanks" is analogus to the pay-in receipt in the OP's case :)
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I know it's not exactly the same but I couldn't keep money that wasn't mine. I'm far too honest. I've given money back in the past when shop assistants have given me too much change. Even when tesco delivered 4 bags of shopping to me that weren't mine I called them and they came back for it. I felt bad thinking that someone else would be missing out on their shopping and that the delivery driver would get into trouble.
 
He has a reciept for 570 not 470 banks word against his. he could easily say she stole a 100.

keep it and dont give it up for there mistake. they make enough money.
 
JodieG said:
I'd give it back. A few weeks ago the man in front of me left what looked like a hundred or so pounds in the cash point and drove off. I noticed it and started looking for him, asked the bloke next to me if he knew him and he said he did. He took the money and then the man had stopped his car and came running back. He got his money back, didn't cross my mind to keep it.
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:o

Would you give it to me if I said I knew him? If you are going to do the "good thing", surely you should take it in to the bank?
 
markyp23 said:
:o

Would you give it to me if I said I knew him? If you are going to do the "good thing", surely you should take it in to the bank?
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I knew someone would pick up on that. I didn't post the whole thing as I had the baby on me feeding but I was stood next to the man when I asked him (he was at a different cash point). I allowed him to take the money but also said to hand it in the the shop (were outside a supermarket) if the man didn't come back.

I noticed they had the same work t-shirts on and he handed the money back to the bloke as he came back. He did actually know him. I said after that he was lucky and he said yes as he'd taken quite a lot of money out as well.

I wasn't going to just give it to anybody. By the time I'd asked him and he'd taken the money I saw the car stop and the man come running back.
 
Chrisp7 said:
I consider myself an honest person however from a bank error I would have no qualms in taking £100 from their error (this isnt me justifying it, by the way).
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In that case you are not an honest person. You are keeping money that you know doesn't belong to you, that isn't honest. So while you may consider yourself an honest person, if that is actually how you would act then you are not an honest person and are in fact doubly dishonest as you are also lying to yourself.
 
If it makes you feel better I paid 100 into an abbey branch and only 80 went in, receipt said 80 too :(

shes probably won employee of the month and quaffing champagne as we speak.. screw em :p
 
Me and my friends once exchanged cash abroad together where the cashier for some reason misunderstood the 20 pound notes for 50 and gave me considerably higher amount in the local currency but this was something we realised later on when some bodybuilder-type of guys came to the place we were staying and asked us to check how much we received. We took out the money from the bag and,indeed the difference was obvious when we counted them. What amazed me though was that the girl that served as a cashier earlier during the day was with them and now she looked...well, "miserably" was a nice way of putting it. Would not have wanted to be on her place if those money were not found, given that the difference was probably more than her monthly wage.
 
Kitchster_uk said:
COunter errors will show in the morning. The amount posted to your account will show £570 whereas the processed voucher will show £470 and this will be raised by iPSL as mis-match that will be duly reversed in the morning.

/Branch Manager
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Counter errors should show at the end of the day, not the morning. The processed voucher will surely show as £570 as that is what the cashier has entered into the system, yet the till only has £470 in, which gives the £100 discrepancy, which as long as the cashier cant specifically remember doing wrongly (which it will be very hard to do) then they wont be able to identify his account as the one with the discrepancy. As far as the systems are concerned they should show £570 in the account and £570 cash paid in.
 
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