Will you return a WRONG change?

I've told this story before. A little over a year ago I went to the bank to cash a check. the check was for something like $124.21 or something. The lady gave me the money and I didn't really pay that much attention to it so I went to my car. I counted it in my car and I had $424.21. I was like ack! wait...that check was only $124 right? right? and I searched my car for the part that I had kept and I couldn't find it. So I drove home to find that part to verify that it was only supposed to be $124. I live about 5 minutes from that bank. Got home...found that part and it indeed was $124. So I took the money (still in the bank envelope she gave it to me in) and went bank to the bank. I had wanted to get the same teller so I didn't have to tell anyone else what happened cause I didn't want her to get in trouble. But she was busy so I had another teller and I showed her the check slip and said "I think she gave me the wrong amount". Now if you looked at the check you could see that it was a weird looking one where it could have been mistaken for a four. and I told them I'd went home to get the slip just to verify but I had wanted to return the money. I coulda used that extra 300 dollars, but I wouldn't have wanted that lady fired because of that. They thanked me for returning the money exclaiming how most people would never have done that. I got no reward. ha ha. I try to avoid getting that teller whenever i go to the bank though, I always feel bad.

Yup. It happened to me many times. Every time I returned a wrong change, I will get different reactions. Some of them will smile and say thank you. Others wore a sour face. There was one incident wherein I bought an appliances. The cost is equivalent or close to US$100. I handed my money and supposedly, the cashier should give me a change of US$10. Instead she gave me US$90. I could easily go home with an appliances that's worth US$10. While telling the cashier about the wrong change, the store manager happened to pass by and saw what I did. He glared at the cashier and produced a VIP card for me. Since then, I always bought appliances from them and enjoying a 10% discount plus cash rebate. =)

You are very honest and you have a clean conscious my friend. I, however wouldn't! If it's a friend or small business then I will return the money, but if it's a store or a big company then they can easily afford it besides the amount of times they overcharge and rip people off, and to them it's pennies! The fat cats at the top can lose a few pennies as well as a few stone out of their wages. So for me it varies on the situation.

yup I do for I will think what if was me and my tray was not counteding out right and just keep wondering where I did something wrong no 50cents isnt much but it can throw that cash count off at teh end of the day

Hi lordwawizard! I did have experienced things like that very often. Just today, I went to the market to buy some fresh fish and I paid the fish vendor with a 5 hundred peso note and he was suppose to give me a change of 120 pesos, but instead he gave me a change of 220, so I have a hundred peso extra change. As I was turning my back on him, I was looking at my change and then it occured to me..he gave a wrong change. So, i asked him if he was giving me a discount or he committed an error. haha..He scratched his head and said, he computed wrong and was thankful that I gave him back the hundred peso extra. I do return wrong change and it makes me feel good inside. And I have not yet encountered a vendor or cashier who was rude to me and at the same time gave me a wrong change because if it happened, then there is a greater chance I might not give it back too. LOL! take care and have a nice day. :)

Oh yes, I have done it and will always do it. It is one of the best opportunities we get to make this world a better place to live. The happiness you get in such self-less acts is much more than what you can buy or obtain from that little extra money you were mistakenly given. By such beneficent acts, you are not only boosting your self-esteem, but also earning that person's trust. More importantly, you are showing him that honesty and righteousness still exist on the earth. I strongly believe that such incidents can have a greater impact on the other person's mind. The next time, when he is in your position, he will more likely do exactly what you did. I have no stories to share, I remember having returned the wrong change sometime in my dim past, but cannot just recollect the particular incident now. Once, as I remember, in a bank I had to pay some heavy cash. As when I was taking the heap of money out from my pocket, a 100 rupee(Indian currency)note which somehow had separated from the pile slipped down onto the ground without coming to my notice. A gentleman behind who observed it, called me immediately and alerted of it. There was nobody else at the back, and he could have easily grabbed the note. I was really thankful for him, for what he did that day. That incident really inculcated more positive thoughts and feelings towards the world, in my mind. Also it taught me how one can serve a great deal of help through simple gestures. Also it increased my love for mankind. You are in the right path, march on.=)

I have returned change when I was given to much. Alot of people don't really look most times they just take their change and go. Would you have returned the change if you hadn't counted it until you got home? My mom also returned change she gave the woman a 20 for her stuff and the woman evidently thought she gave her a 50 and gave her over $35 dollars abck iin change my mom got to the car and realised she got to much change back and went back into the store and sure enough the woman had placed the twenty in the 50 drawer..She thanked my mom because she said if her drawer had been short changed she would have had to pay it and possibly lost her job.

I have returned the wrong change before a few times.This is the way i do it.If i am at a store and i give them money and they return change if i look at it right then and it is wrong then i will return it right away, however there are times that i am in a hurry and i do not count the change.If i do not count the change right then and i am off to the next chore and later find out that the change is wrong either to my good or theirs, I will not take the time to go back,If they short change me or if i short change them.I just forget about it.I just don't see the need to take time to make a few pennies right.I would never cheat them on purpose and i do not think they would either but common mistakes are made everyday, so i figure if i am far away already just let it go...of course if it wer a lot of money than it would be different, i would take the time to go back.

The other day my bank gave me two dollars more than I should have gotten. I drove away from the window and pulled over as I always do and counted my money and was surprised to find that they had given me two extra dollars more than I should have gotten. My Mom taught all of us kids if you didn't earn it than it is not yours. I went back to the window and gave the money back to her. This is what I always do whenever I am given more money back than what I am supposed to get. She told me thanks and explained that the end of the shift if her drawer is short that she has to make it up.

I would return the change. My conscience would bother me too much. We all make mistakes, and even though it can be an inconvenience, especially if you have walked out the door and gotten into your car. But I rather be incovenienced then have my conscience eating at me all night, and not getting a good night sleep because of it.

Hahahahaha.. Never play play with those "big" shots. I think you can don't collect the letter and save that extra bucks :P For me, I normally do not check my change on the spot and would not even know if they short change me or give me a bonus. Unless I am too "bored" with the queue that I remember how much change I need to take back. Often I realised any wrong change too late and sometimes too lazy to go back and settle it. Why bother unless the amount is really huge. LOL.

If I noticed that the change is wrong, i would definitely return it even if it is just $0.01. Somehow, I do not feel good if I were to take the wrong change especially when I know that the person who had made the mistake would be questioned later for the shortages... So far, i am proud to say that I have returned all the wrong changes that I have received.

Yup, I do return extra change. I have a conscience that bothers me too much; sometime it annoys me a bit too much :) Well, I was travelling by train from Chennai to Mangalore, and I had the lower berth. This guy had the middle berth, and somewhere in the middle of the night, a plump five rupee coin fell from the middle berth bang on my forehead. It annoyed me, but then it does not always rain money, so I kept quiet. The guy had absolutely no idea; he continued to snore. In the morning, when he climbed down from the berth, I handed the coin to him. "Mine?" he said, looking very surprised. I said it dropped on me from his berth. Wish I could have kept that coin, but then the conscience would have bothered me till my last day. :)

I am proud to say that I am an honest gal too. =D I always return the extra change given to me (if I realize it) whether or not the cashier is polite or not. I do not feel comfortable keep money/things that is not mine. I think there might be times when I might been given the extra change or was shortchanged without myself realizing it. Usually, when I am in a hurry or in deep thoughts, I will not double check the change. I will just take and go. I know that's a very bad habit and I am trying to kick it. A few weeks ago, after jogging, I went to buy icy soya milk at Mr Bean. It was quite late in the evening and I was one of the last few customers. I guess the aunties were tired and gave me $5 extra change. I gave her $5 and was expecting a $3.50 change back because the icy soya milk costs $1.50. She gave me $8.50 instead. She thought that I gave her a $10-note. I immediately returned it to her. She was so happy and thankful that she kept saying 'Thank You' non-stop. It's nice to meet such appreciative people. =D

I do that a lot and many people think am crazy, but i just enjoy doing so to remind people in my part of the world that there are still some good hearted people who will not cheat even if the mistakes were not of their own

You know something like that happened to me recently but I can't for the life of me remember what it was! (I didn't sleep well last night so not thinking straight). I know I went back and when I walked away I thought to myself, "I coulda, woulda..." but I didn't. I was honest. Sometimes, however, I don't notice these things until I get home. I do AC Nielson scanning and I usually need my receipts when I am inputting the information. It is then I will notice if they made a mistake - usually against me forcing me to make a trek BACK to the store. Funny how we are quick to get mistakes AGAINST us rectified but are content to accept the mistakes that work in our favour. Sometimes. You did the right thing and I probably would have too. But I got home and looked at a receipt and saw they made a mistake in my favour I certainly wasn't going to make the trek back. In fact, if I called the store on the telephone and told them they would say "don't worry about it", if it's a small amount. I bought a nice Aventure bracelet at a health food store a long while back. It broke after a few weeks. The policy is the company will fix it at no charge. While it was in for repairs I dished out the money for another one (but different in appearance). It broke, but it was my own fault so I just left it. Six months later and I am still waiting for the first one. I inquired, they inquired, no bracelet. I was told I can go in and pick out another one for free. I was in a lot better mood when I was wearing the aventure bracelet so I will go in there SOME day this week and pick out a new one.

I do and I don't.. It depends on my mood and who served me, I generally do give it back but sometimes I either don't notice until it's too late or I keep it because I sometimes think it's more than it's worth. (example) going back and having to wait a while just to give back the extra change/note... Very rarely this happens though, ~Joey

Since that rarely happens to me I had to think about this. I would like to say I would do the honest thing. Then again around here the lines for anything are long and slow moving. If that were the case I would probably just forget it.

hi friend.one same kind of incident happened to me a few days back.me and my partner went to have juice.he had an orange juice and i thought of having ice cream.so i ordered both.The total bill amounted to as per the menu was $3.5i gave him $5.and he returned me the change.i was talking to my partner so without even cheking it i put it in my pocket.however when i reached another shop to buy something i noticed that the man had returned me $3.5.i was shocked.then we both went back and returned the money.he thanked us a lot.many a times i guess this happens but hardly few return it back.

I am maybe pretty naive but when the change is something small I don't usually count it.Just once I went to this shop and I had to pay 2 euros for something and I gave 10 euro bill because I didn't have any change, I was talking to a friend and wasn't really paying attention to the change so took the change and forgot about it. Then we went for a drink in the another part of the town where I paid for the drinks end there was this 10 euro bill in my wallet and I didn't realize right away where it came from. Just then it came to me that the cashier in the previous shop made a mistake and gave me the change for 20 euros although I gave him only 10 euro. I didn't go back to the shop because I realized what had happened just more then 1 hour later. I felt pretty bad because 10 euro is not really such a small sum and if the cashier had to pay from his own pocket it cost him more than 1 hour of work.