Does closely checking my receipts everytime I buy something at a store make me a cheapskate?

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Anonymous wrote:Time to dollar to imposition ratio informs how I judge this. Person in front of me holding up the line to resolve an issue about an errant $5 (and who doesn't look super poor) then you are being cheap and ridiculous.

Change that to $20 I'm more understanding. If no one is in line more understanding, all context.

you grew up with more money than I did apparently. And less sense too.

It's fine if you want to spend your time haggling over small amounts of money. I choose not to because I don't enjoy that. I think if you're holding up a lot of people over a couple dollars than you're pretty full of yourself. No problem with the people who are going to the service desk or whatever.

It all evens out in the end, sometimes errors go my way, sometimes they go the stores way.

That is just asinine.

How is that asinine? If your kid accidentally dropped a $5 bill out on the highway would you stop your car and cause a traffic jam to pick it up? Some inadvertent thing happened which cost you a small out of money and to rectify it you have to inconvenience other people. IMO if the amount is paltry (which based on the HHIs cited here on DCUM is true for most of the posters here) and you have to inconvenience other people to fix it than you're being silly and selfish.

oh come on PP I hardly call this a fair analogy. One involves putting peoples lives in danger. The other involves annoying dumbasses like you.

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Anonymous wrote:My father used to make a big deal over a dollar.

IT WAS SO EMBARRASSING!!!!!

I yell over a penny. You think youd get a bus ride or a pizza if you were a penny less than asked for? Conpanies are greeedy

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How is that asinine? If your kid accidentally dropped a $5 bill out on the highway would you stop your car and cause a traffic jam to pick it up? Some inadvertent thing happened which cost you a small out of money and to rectify it you have to inconvenience other people. IMO if the amount is paltry (which based on the HHIs cited here on DCUM is true for most of the posters here) and you have to inconvenience other people to fix it than you're being silly and selfish.

But it was your kid who dropped the $5. In the other scenario, the mistake was not your or your kid's fault. Plus, notifying the store and fixing the problem could be helpful to future people who will purchase that product.

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Anonymous wrote:I watch as they ring. At Costco this weekend the cashier rang me up for 8 bottles of wine. I had 6. (They were all the same, so he just took one bottle and scanned it 8 times.) I immediately said "Hey, I only have 6 of those!"

+1000

I once had a particular clerk at Giant make several large mistakes in a row. She was awful. I don't go back to her line, ever. In that instance, I did correct her towards the end of the tape, after my taking a full accounting. I knew every mistake, and there were about ten of them. No way was I going to go to customer service to have it fixed on my time. The clerk was just being difficult. I did take the time to report her.