Bank error in your favour, collect £... ?

VincentHanna said:
Not quite, but Currys accidentally sent me two Panasonic 4k Blu-ray players when I only paid for one.
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john_smith said:
Similar from Currys. I had two TVs for the price of one. They delivered the 1st and it was clearly one that had previously been returned, packaging opened etc. So I asked for a new one. They delivered it and never took the original back. This was in 2010.
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Not Currys for me, but Amazon: They sent me 2 copies of the Nintendo Switch game "Zelda Link's Awakening" in late 2020. I went onto live chat about it and they weren't interested because their system showed up as 1 copy being sent, and that I have received it according to their tracking. It was £35, so I kept 1, and sold the other and got pretty much the full £35 for that too minus the eBay fees.

So that's my only claim to fame. Not mega bucks unfortunately.

You 2 did well to get an extra 4k player and an extra TV!
 
potatolord said:
I left a job and they accidentally paid me an extra month. I got a letter asking for it back, but they never followed up.

It turned out the accounts guy was robbing them blind(former colleague told me), and also not doing his job properly.

I think my overpayment got lost in the xxxx storm.
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Can you get me an RTX 4090 with your free monehs! You don't' have to even spend a penny of your own money!
 
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Lol this turning into a low key theft/robbery/dishonesty dubious action thread.

I worked at a pub at uni and 1 punter gave me a £20 crisp and fresh from an ATM.
They came back for another round and asked if the £20 note was actually 2 stuck together. I just laughed and said no sorry and pretended to look through them. It was busy. It was a stupid question etc.... I waited to near last orders and checked through my till and.... Well there was 2 stuck together. ...
And yes...
I.
Stole.
It.

Lolz
 
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Efour said:
Lol this turning into a low key theft/robbery/dishonesty dubious action thread.

I worked at a pub at uni and 1 punter gave me a £20 crisp and fresh from an ATM.
They came back for another round and asked if the £20 note was actually 2 stuck together. I just laughed and said no sorry and pretended to look through them. It was busy. It was a stupid question etc.... I waited to near last orders and checked through my till and.... Well there was 2 stuck together. ...
And yes...
I.
Stole.
It.

Lolz
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For shame!
 
A few years back I quit a job without much warning, I had been considering it but something happened to force my hand.

I applied for JSA, thinking it would take me a few weeks to find something and I still had rent to pay etc. Fortunately I found something pretty quick, notified the JSA people that I wouldn't need to be going forward with my claim both in writing and over the phone. The day I started my new job I got a call about my claim, again explained that I had closed it and said not to send me anything.

2 days later £880 shows up in my bank, called them back about it and they basically said they had messed up and told me to keep it. So I did :D
 
I've had a few small things over the years but not loads.

I placed an order with IKEA, then cancelled it, 2 months went by and they rang me asking when I want it delivered as it had been sat in their warehouse. Bit naughty but I was hard up for cash at the time so I took them up on their offer. This was an oak worktop and a couple of those Alex drawers.

Amazon once refunded me to my credit card and refunded me as gift card balance at the same time, so I wound up with a few hundred £ extra.

My car got written off (Cat N) in a non-fault accident, due to the age it wasn't worth repairing. The insurance company paid me market value for the car less the scrap, so was a bit over £1K. I put it through an MOT (legal requirement for Cat N to be put back on the road) and buffed the damage mostly out, think I carried on driving it around for another year or two before getting rid of it.

Carpet fitters once installed the wrong carpet in my house upstairs, carpet was OK but got a very cheap deal with most of the money back that it cost because the alternative option was to rip it all up and put in the right one. Hassle, time, disposal, and new carpet would have been needed. I think I prefer this outcome anyway because it's less wastage.

Funnily enough I've probably placed the most orders with Amazon, and I've never ever had the wrong thing delivered. Accuracy of their order system is pretty amazing.
 
Bought an electric toothbrush recently, 50 quid or so. It came with a damaged plug, but I cba waiting for an exchange so I bought a second one with intent to return the first.

Did so, got refunded for both. Free toothbrush!
 
Got a letter from Direct Line with a cheque for nearly a year's car insurance saying they had to cancel cancel my policy because they did not follow FSA rules due to a system error (think it was an IPID or something)
 
Rai200 said:
2 days later £880 shows up in my bank, called them back about it and they basically said they had messed up and told me to keep it. So I did :D
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How long ago was that, and is JSA still paid fortnightly? Back in 2010 when I was last unemployed, it was something like £65 a week, so £130 every fortnight.
 
Not a case of random money appearing in the bank but a decent freebie.

Booked in two tyres to be fitted on the drive for my partner by Halfords - We cancelled with the intention of re-booking but turns out they called ahead and attended anyway… two tyres fitted however they never took payment since we cancelled.

Winner winner chicken dinner… heard nothing since going up 2 years ago so assuming we’re ok :D
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
How long ago was that, and is JSA still paid fortnightly? Back in 2010 when I was last unemployed, it was something like £65 a week, so £130 every fortnight.
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About 2 years ago, I think. This was including the rent allowance of about £5-600 for the month. They had basically paid me for the whole month after I submitted all the info, despite me cancelling the claim after a couple of days.

It sounded like the person dealing with it had just messed up and it was better for them to let it go than admit they had messed up. The last time I was unemployed was in 2008, having just left college straight into the housing crisis, so I didn't exactly have much up to date knowledge.
 
Went to disney back end of last year (when Hurricane Ian hit); Went to a teppanyaki place in Epcot, 6 of us; three of us didn't get charged for our food. Girlfriends parents noticed they missed a drink of their bill and said something, so she produced new bills for us - I did nudge him with my size 11's under the table. Luckily they never added it. Saved around 200 dollars at a guess.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
How long ago was that, and is JSA still paid fortnightly? Back in 2010 when I was last unemployed, it was something like £65 a week, so £130 every fortnight.
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JSA is being phased out with claimants still on JSA being moved over to UC. But today, if you're still a legacy JSA claimant you're paid £154 every fortnight.
 
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I got my monthly salary x 2 paid to me on pay day! Went and took all the money out as you do :D

Bank called me the next day to say it was an ‘unsolicited loan’ which I had to pay back immediately despite their error.

I did do but could have used any number of excuses not to. My wallet was soo fat for them 24 hours. I couldn’t get it closed with the notes lol I was about 24 at the time.
 
I've had an iPhone off of a major online etailer that simply was so much hassle to return that they ended up telling me to keep it as it had to go back to the seller which was somewhere like poland. They could not sort out a return label. The one I attempted got sent back to me. I was refunded and told not to worry about returning.

I've had a couple of duplicate orders over the years.

Strangest one was when I ordered some cable and only wanted a few metres. Instead of cutting 3 metres off, they send me 3 whole industrial reel packs of 100metres each. Was worth a fair bit.
 
Efour said:
Lol this turning into a low key theft/robbery/dishonesty dubious action thread.

I worked at a pub at uni and 1 punter gave me a £20 crisp and fresh from an ATM.
They came back for another round and asked if the £20 note was actually 2 stuck together. I just laughed and said no sorry and pretended to look through them. It was busy. It was a stupid question etc.... I waited to near last orders and checked through my till and.... Well there was 2 stuck together. ...
And yes...
I.
Stole.
It.

Lolz
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Used to be a scam based around that, possibly still is, where they'd try and pressure young or nervous, etc. cashiers into handing back a note claiming they'd had two stuck together. Years ago it was one of the warnings at work for anyone on the trade counter.

jaybee said:
Strangest one was when I ordered some cable and only wanted a few metres. Instead of cutting 3 metres off, they send me 3 whole industrial reel packs of 100metres each. Was worth a fair bit.
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Probably new or temporary staff - one of the things I have to chase up sometimes at work - I've had pallets of like 9 boxes of 3 before when it was supposed to be 9 of something, etc.
 
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I once got paid twice by my then employer when I was a student. It was for about £48 for 9 hours work - got paid weekly (1999). Left money in the account for a few months and still there. Then spent it.

My mum worked at a university. Her colleague is a friend of a part time admin worker who has the same surname and initials as a senior lecturer. Plus payroll numbers were last two numbers reversed (eg 34 and 43). Not related. The admin worker got senior lecturer’s salary. The lecturer got his money correct. University took the difference from the admin worker. She was expecting £300. To get 11 times that was surreal at first.

Caused problems with tax too.
 
I ordered some perfume online. Never received. Filled in online form and said they going to send a replacement. Never arrived. Then contacted the perfume retailer and sent me a second replacement.

Then within 3 days of receiving my second replacement, I got the other two bottles
 
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