Would this be a criminal offence?

if i noticed in store i would speak up and tell them. but if i got out and then noticed after the fact i would consider it like a lucky community chest card in monoply.

i dont see how it could be a legal issue as they could not prove you took it deliberately and it was the shop keepers mistake.

i have had a few after the fact mistakes........ our home burglar alarm of all things didnt scan correctly at Focus DIY centre (it was a massive shop but even so i was surprised how cheap it came to) so i never paid for it.......... i didnt return it, however karma got me there as it was a terrible unit and constantly went off until i disabled it.

OTOH when i sent my xbox 360 back to argos for an RROD the guy there gave me a brand new one complete with harddisk despite me only taking the chassis back.

i felt bad on that as the guy seemed quite nice and i didnt want him to get in trouble so i sent the new harddisk and cables back later in the day. i doubt there was much they could have done if i didnt however
 
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I remember when I was about 7 spending the Easter holidays at my mums aunty's in London. I went to the corner shop with a Scottish pound note and made a point in my Scottish accent to tell the cashier it was a pound note. He ended up giving me change for a fiver! I said nothing and quickly left the shop.
 
Think of it as a reverse tip, which I'm sure you gave to charity anyway.

On a related note, some joker has glued a 20p piece to the floor outside my local shopping arcade Indian takeaway. Must get no end of people spotting it and going for a crafty "Oh, my shoelaces need adjusting" move. Myself included. You'd need a hammer and chisel to shift it, and that's assuming it isn't actually on a spike driven in to the pavement.
 
back in the days.. I can remember plent of shops with signs like "check your change before you leave"...
I guess this is in reverse, if the shop doesn't check that they handed you the correct change and given you more.. that's their issue.

The girls who work at my Chinese takeaway sucks at maths, they are always getting the charge amount and change wrong.. so I always work it out quickly while waiting for the food.
 
slinxy said:
The girls who work at my Chinese takeaway sucks at maths, they are always getting the charge amount and change wrong.. so I always work it out quickly while waiting for the food.
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Girls at Chinese takeaways are always quite good for money laundering purposes. Handy if you ever get given a Singapore dollar coin(spitting image of a uk pound and worth about 45p) from somewhere else and need to palm it off the next day. Mingle it in would some actual pound coins and keep a straight face and listen for the cash register ping when they go round the back, and jobs a good un. Plus you get a succulent Chinese meal out of it.
 
Bubo said:
Girls at Chinese takeaways are always quite good for money laundering purposes. Handy if you ever get given a Singapore dollar coin(spitting image of a uk pound and worth about 45p) from somewhere else and need to palm it off the next day. Mingle it in would some actual pound coins and keep a straight face and listen for the cash register ping when they go round the back, and jobs a good un. Plus you get a succulent Chinese meal out of it.
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Is the laundering of accidentally acquired Singapore dollar coins a common thing to need to do on the mean streets of Scunny?
 
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Lopéz said:
Is the laundering of accidentally acquired Singapore dollar coins a common thing to need to do on the mean streets of Scunny?
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I think it must be a hotbed of criminal Singapore gangs making a killing to the tune of 55p a go, and they chose to set up their base of operations in Scunthorpe. Or it may be just the one coin being recirculated around all of the takeaway establishments in the town and it was my turn.
 
when I was 8 I found a fiver on the floor outside a shop.

my mum made me take it into the shop and hand it over the counter in case someone came back to collect it.

I’ve never forgiven her. I wanted a new master system game.
 
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I've still yet to find a Chinese that accepts a debit card.
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This is random and slightly off topic but came to mind.. I was once stood in a queue at the chinese, person in front of me asked ‘do you charge for a bag?’ to which the chap said something like ‘no, its built in as part of the price to avoid confusion’ … so the person said ‘well I don’t want a bag, can I have the money back for it?’ and he got it.

I was mortified for all parties.
 
My parents once went to the M+S travel money exchange to get something like €2000. They didn't check it and when they got home M+S called them asking them to check and it turned out they had €3000. The person working there had took a wad of cash out, counted out the €2000 but then gave my parents the larger wad in an envelope :p (they did take it back being honest)
 
I bought a TV online via Tesco website.

They kept messing the delivery around so I went in store, they had one there so the guy called up the delivery department, cancelled let, let me take the TV.

Two days later the TV turned up.

They never did come back to me.
 
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I bought a TV online via Tesco website.

They kept messing the delivery around so I went in store, they had one there so the guy called up the delivery department, cancelled let, let me take the TV.

Two days later the TV turned up.

They never did come back to me.
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Same.

Bought something that wasn't all too inexpensive, changed mind and cancelled it pretty much straight away/ before dispatch, which the retailer acknowledged and refunded. A few days later they sent it still.

Didn't open it and left it ready for them to collect/contact me for 6 months but never heard anything....so.

It was their mistake entirely and I'm not going out of my way to correct other people's mistakes. If they had contacted me asking to collect it back, I of course would have obliged.
 
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