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"Sheldon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Denise~* wrote:
>> Doug Kanter wrote:
>> > <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> > news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> >>One of my sons (who works as a waiter to support his studies) asked me
>> >>today if I had ever been "undercharged" for anything and if so, what I
>> >>had done about it. I had to admit I usually looked at the person across
>> >>the counter and decided he/she would probably be blamed for the
>> >>shortfall at the end of the day, so I would point out the error.
>> >>
>> >>Seems he'd been undercharged by quite a lot of dollars for a meal so he
>> >>put the windfall in the tips jar on the counter.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > This gets interesting sometimes. Last December, I called a local music
>> > store
>> > to discuss a certain electronic thing for my son. The owner quoted me
>> > $180.00, a nice price on this thing. When I got to the store, the owner
>> > wasn't there and couldn't be reached. The lady running the place was
>> > not
>> > aware of the low price I'd been quoted. She asked if it would be OK to
>> > charge me the normal $200.00, and issue a credit later. Since I know
>> > these
>> > people well, I agreed. She called later that day and said the credit
>> > had
>> > been issued. She mailed me the Visa slip, but I noticed that instead of
>> > crediting me the $20.00+tax difference, she'd credited the entire
>> > purchase
>> > price. I called and asked if she intended to replace the original
>> > transaction with another for $180.00 + tax. To make a long story short,
>> > she
>> > was convinced she'd done the right thing.
>> >
>> > I kept all the paperwork, figuring the owner would catch up with the
>> > mistake
>> > at some point. A month later, when I got my Visa bill, there was no
>> > sign of
>> > the store having eventually charged me the right amount. So, I stopped
>> > in,
>> > showed the owner all the little slips, as well as the Visa bill, and
>> > said
>> > "Look - I owe you $180.00!" He disagreed. Several times, in fact. I
>> > gave up.
>> > I'm certainly not this guy's biggest customer, so I doubt he was giving
>> > me a
>> > Christmas gift.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Bizarre. I run my own small business & that is an amount I would
>> definately notice.
>
> Nope, you'd no more notice that amount than that you spelled
> 'definitely' incorectly. And the apersand is for connecting proper
> nouns, otherwise it confuses... what kind of stupid expression is
> "business & that"?
>
> Sheldon
>
Sheldon, did you say "incorectly"?
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>
> Denise~* wrote:
>> Doug Kanter wrote:
>> > <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> > news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> >>One of my sons (who works as a waiter to support his studies) asked me
>> >>today if I had ever been "undercharged" for anything and if so, what I
>> >>had done about it. I had to admit I usually looked at the person across
>> >>the counter and decided he/she would probably be blamed for the
>> >>shortfall at the end of the day, so I would point out the error.
>> >>
>> >>Seems he'd been undercharged by quite a lot of dollars for a meal so he
>> >>put the windfall in the tips jar on the counter.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > This gets interesting sometimes. Last December, I called a local music
>> > store
>> > to discuss a certain electronic thing for my son. The owner quoted me
>> > $180.00, a nice price on this thing. When I got to the store, the owner
>> > wasn't there and couldn't be reached. The lady running the place was
>> > not
>> > aware of the low price I'd been quoted. She asked if it would be OK to
>> > charge me the normal $200.00, and issue a credit later. Since I know
>> > these
>> > people well, I agreed. She called later that day and said the credit
>> > had
>> > been issued. She mailed me the Visa slip, but I noticed that instead of
>> > crediting me the $20.00+tax difference, she'd credited the entire
>> > purchase
>> > price. I called and asked if she intended to replace the original
>> > transaction with another for $180.00 + tax. To make a long story short,
>> > she
>> > was convinced she'd done the right thing.
>> >
>> > I kept all the paperwork, figuring the owner would catch up with the
>> > mistake
>> > at some point. A month later, when I got my Visa bill, there was no
>> > sign of
>> > the store having eventually charged me the right amount. So, I stopped
>> > in,
>> > showed the owner all the little slips, as well as the Visa bill, and
>> > said
>> > "Look - I owe you $180.00!" He disagreed. Several times, in fact. I
>> > gave up.
>> > I'm certainly not this guy's biggest customer, so I doubt he was giving
>> > me a
>> > Christmas gift.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Bizarre. I run my own small business & that is an amount I would
>> definately notice.
>
> Nope, you'd no more notice that amount than that you spelled
> 'definitely' incorectly. And the apersand is for connecting proper
> nouns, otherwise it confuses... what kind of stupid expression is
> "business & that"?
>
> Sheldon
>
Sheldon, did you say "incorectly"?