I caught the gas station cashier skimming off the top.
 

I had to get gas yesterday. I also have some bills to pay and don't want the gas station holding a bunch of my money hostage for a few days, so I grabbed $40 from an ATM and went to the gas station.

I had to wait while the cashier sold coffees and bottled waters to someone, tapped my foot while she offered a bag for the waters and slowly loaded them. Finally, "$40 on pump 3, please" and ran out to pump my gas. I enjoyed it not taking long, noted it was under 10 gallons and that I should be getting back $6 and change, and went inside.

I had to wait a moment for the guy in front of me, and when he cleared out the cashier looked up and said "pump 3?" and handed me my change. I asked if I could have a receipt, so she turned, tore it off the machine and handed it to me. I hurried out to the car, wrote my mileage on the receipt, reset everything and took off.

A few hours later I got out my phone and entered the numbers. I was excited because it was a long tank and I knew I had good numbers. It came back as 49.087 mpg, which was dead wrong. I examined my receipt: right pump and time, but it read under 9 gallons for $30 and change- not under 10 gallons for $33 and change. I checked my pocket and found two fives, a one and some change. Adding a gallon made the tank 9.434 gallons for $33.58- 43.88 mpg, right where I was expecting the mpg and the money to be. The money in my pocket couldn't make change from $30.02, and then I looked higher up on the receipt and saw it was paid by a card.

I'm on film at that pump at that time. I'm on film paying cash. I've got a receipt for that pump at that time... with the last 4 of a card number that most likely belongs to the cashier.

No good meestah.

Fringe benefit of photographing your pump usage when it's done- you record what's going on. Following.

Is it possible that she grabbed the wrong receipt and had you pay for the wrong pump??

So you ended up paying less for the gas than you were supposed to?

I'd be pissed about my fuel log being estimated since I had the wrong receipt!! (Okay, I don't like thieves, either...)

No, it was the right pump, and I paid for the gas I used. Adding one gallon to the receipt would bring it into line with my mpg and the money I spent. It's possible that someone used a card at that pump and got out of the lot right before I sighted it (nobody was there when I pulled in), but why would a card used at the pump result in a receipt being printed in the store?

if the pump is out of paper, the cashier can print a receipt inside. I thought you said the pump said $33, then you got $11 in change from $40?

I have
 

A reciept on my desk where, I bought gas n cigarettes, but at the end of the list is a $20 boost phone card. I did not buy I have a contract phone.
The strange part is it was added without me noticing the extra 20. The station pulled the video and it clearly shows this thief typing the keyboard just as Im punching my acceptance into key pad.
I was credited back the 20 she was fired, and I was allowed to keep my reciept as a reminder to always take 1 more second and view the reciept.
I never knew anything could be added after my pin number and such was imputted. Live n learn

I didn't get $11 in change. I had a $5 in my pocket, pulled two $20s from the ATM, gave the cashier the $20s, pumped $33+ and got $6+ and a receipt for $30+ worth of gas on a card purchase. If I'd had 11 ones in my pocket, they could conceivably have been change for a $30.02 purchase- but two fives and a one can't do that.

And it was a card.

And the gas was wrong by one gallon- way too round a number.

And the cashier will only print a receipt inside if someone comes in and asks for it, so it would have been gone with the previous customer before I even showed up.

Nothing was stolen from me, and I didn't benefit from someone else's dishonesty. But checking out the cameras would probably find someone ripping the store off for quite a bit.

Okay, got it. My math was off!

It really sucks there are dishonest people in the world.

I use American Express to get the additional 3 cents a gallon off. Reciept printed at the pump. Last tank was $3.129 at a Shell station near Hopewell. A little over $3.049 after the discount. I usually never go in the store. I pay the wife with cash when I get home and she gets a little extra cash from the credit card company. Few stations here offer a cash discount or I would go that route .

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Mech

I like to go during lunch and hand the clerk 2 5s and say I want 20 on pump x. Twice I got it too. :thumbup: Guessing it was the clerks last day? :eek:

I also use AMEX for my fuel. Since they give me 6% back, a normal gallon would have to be discounted more than $.18 (when they do a cash discount) to be cheaper.

When was this? I was at Fort Lee last week we could of met up. JimE lives not too far from me and we are always wanting to meet other members and especially Insight owners. :thumbup:

Well, the forces of I Can Count and See What's Right In Front of Me have been defeated by the combined forces of Math is Hard Even When It's Explained and Meh.

I called the local office (not dispatch) line and explained. I got the unconcern I expected- it's not like I was reporting a violent crime. He really seemed to think that I was concerned about an inaccurate receipt. He said a couple times that "we can't just go down there and start accusing people." But he did pass it on and shortly I got a call from whom I suppose I should call the investigating officer. Again, bland unconcern as you'd expect (not in a bad way)- but she was interested in getting details right and ended with "I'll go down and have a talk with some people."

It didn't pan out. I got another call later. The manager had explained that the receipt had accidentally been taken from the wrong machine, and I could come back to get a proper receipt.

I tried. I reported, I explained. It's not my job to watch out for the owner of some gas station/convenience store beyond that.

Im sure they get calls like this all the time from x boy/girl friends and such considering the type that works at a gas station.

Hey, if you want to meet up PM me. The wife is going to her daughters house Saturday and Sunday. I'll get you my email addy and phone number. If you want to come down to the Burg y'all can look at my project, but I sold the Insight a while back. It would be interesting to see what I could do in a manual, mine was a CVT.

regards
Mech

Fat Charlie, you did more than most others would!

To my knowledge, I've never been ripped off by a gas attendant, but one has saved me from being scammed.

I went to pump my gas late one night, and some kids approached saying they ran out of gas and didn't have enough money to make it back home. I asked where they lived, and figured $10 would get them home. Instead of paying them, I went into the store, handed the clerk the $10 and said it was gas money for the kids.

Just as I was getting back into my car, the clerk came out and said the kids were asking him to give the money back to them instead of using it for gas. The kids jumped in their car, started it, and took off. The clerk gave the money to me, and I gave it right back to him.

I'm impressed when people keep their integrity, even while working a minimum wage job, and when nobody is watching over them.

Yeah, most people are nice. I like those who wear name tags and use their name as if I know them in conversation. :D

Ome time recently in a MacDonalds the cashier gave me back about $2.50 too much. I never put the money in my pocket and told her she gave me too much back. You would have thought I had exposed myself the way everyone around me was looking at me when I returend the excess change.

It wasn't my money.

I always say when you get short changed or over charged, if it was accidental, then it would randomly be 50% of each scenario. In my experience it's about 99% overcharge which is no mistake.

I worked in a gas station when I was 17. One shift I was working with the owner and when we closed up shop and balanced the register, it came out to the penny. He was flabbergasted, told me that had not happened in over 20 years. I told him I thought that was they way it should be every time.

Once in a bar in Key West Florida I ordered a drink, gave the barkeep a $20 (Think it was Sloppy Joe's or Captain Tonys). He gives me back change for a $10. I immediately questioned that and eventually the manager told me he would refund me the money if his register balance was over by $10 at the end of the night.

I told him I did not realize that when I bought a drink I was assuming responsibility for balancing his register with every payment. It really PO'ed me since I only had $25 in my pocket when I walked into the bar and had driven 20 miles to get there.

I went back to that bar, probably for a year, and every drink I bought , I only gave them enough paper to cover the drink cost, put the change in my pocket and gave no tip. It probably cost the thief 30 times the amount of money that they had stolen from me when they took that $10 that they did not deserve. I always ordered from the same barkeep that had shortchanged me initially.

I can't stand a thief.

regards
Mech

Heck, my wife returned 4 apples she bought yesterday. They had them on special for 99 cents but the cashier had charge her twice that. She did not catch it until she got home. They gave her her money back and let her keep the apples.

regards
Mech

Ive and my room mate has been screwed over by walmart. Charged twice for single purchases. Charged more than the sticker on the shelf said. Then once in a while purchased something with an expiration date that had passed.

Now at one of my old jobs was a food truck that came by and had a guy and his wife who spoke little engrish. Every day his prices changed. Some days we got back more in change than you handed him. :eek: Some days we told him to keep the change. :thumbup:

I was in Uganda a few months back and you would not believe how poor the math is there. It was almost a daily occurance that someone I dealt with would give me back completely wrong change. On more than one occasion I received back more than I had payed by double. Honest mistakes happen allot I think, especially in the undereducated.

I can believe it.

I agree with mistakes happening a lot, or at least I don't want to believe there are dishonest people everywhere.

I fear dealing with money in another country myself. I like to think the American money is pretty straight forward, but Ive seen people too have problems and some of them are Americans from birth by several generations. :eek: