Butchered!

Ha, ha! I've had some mistakes made but never that big! We had a person here last winter whose gas company added a few zeros to their heating bill--they were really shocked and it took a couple of months to straighten it out! P1key, you'd need a REALLY big freezer for all that meat!!

It hasn't happened to me at that extreme...yet!!! However, I've seen news reports of people going to a fast food restaurant & spending $4.32 & then it clears the bank at $4,320.00. What I don't understand is WHY the bank would approve such an amount if it weren't in the account??? I go to the gas station & pay for $20 worth of gas with my card & the bank declines it because the check I deposited the day before hadn't cleared yet. Then I go to get something to eat & I get overcharged & the bank promptly pays it & tells me I'm screwed until I can get the company who made the error to correct it. I just don't understand the logic!!! One of the fast food places I frequent has an override in their system so if a cashier rings up an order over $100.00 the process will NOT complete until a manager approves the order with an approval override including their manager passcode. EVERY business should have that system in place in order to protect their customers & themselves!!! Now, I was at a local convenience store the other day. My tab was 86 cents. I handed her a $20 bill & she rang it up as $200. I promptly told her I wanted my $199.14 change that was showing on the register screen. The blood drained from her face!!! Yes, we ALL should check our receipt BEFORE completing the transaction; but, sometimes we have a brain fart & just don't do it!!! Now, I must ask...when can I expect my sausage to arrive???

That's a lot of meat!! It's a good habit to look at that bill for sure. Not something I do consistently. So how embarrassed was the butcher?

Just wondering whether that sausage would be Santa's

Oh Wow!!! Lucky it was an honest mistake that has been checked before anything happened. I have written a discussion here about Credit/Debit Card Theft and how bad people can get your card details and use it, well, more like abusing. Sausage...yum....could you send some this way? We don't see many sausages around here.

Wow! I never look at the figure when I pay with a card, I just type my PIN. Maybe I'm lucky, but I have no problems.

It's great, when you have shops where you are on a friendly basis, and the language is common! In the past few years, our only 2 stores on the Island have changed hands MANY times...and English is NOT the spoken language...try and convince some-one whom lapses into their Mother tongue, when the transaction is totally incorrect! Enough to make you take your business elsewhere, if you could!

woopsie! It's easy to hit too many zero's or not enough and cause the total to come up to what you definitely do not want it to! Glad that was caught or the bank would be pounding at your door!

Hello pikey ! I always wandered what will happen if the cashier will write a wrong sum of money on the visa machine, and it seams it's not impossible seeing how this happened to you :D. Yeah you could feed a lot of hungry families with that much cash.

Block party for the world! All in YOUR backyard! Does that price include forks and plates, or should we bring our own? What about doggie (and kitty) bags? Oops, never mind. I'll just bring all 11 cats!

You would not believe how many people make the mistake of paying for something and not really looking at their bills until it is too late. Then, they have a big mess to clean up. At restaurants many times the cashier is also your waitress or waiter and they are so busy that they miscount something. You will pay your bill because you are in a hurry due to job or holidays. And, the next thing you know you have a huge mess to clean up because it was wrong. People please check before you pay for something. It only takes a few minutes to look. And, it is so much easier. Be safe and Happy Holidays! Also, Make sure you have the right Card with your name on it! *Peace and Love get's you through everything in Life*

Well, hopefully the bank or credit card company would have refused it anyway. Did she use sausages to key in the amount I'll have some tomato sausage since you offered. I've always wondered why the supermarkets have never caught on and don't do their own tomato sausage. Not that I mind going to the butchers for them, proper butcher's sausages are lovely.