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Posted by Derek Janssen on 05/04/07 07:26
Martin Heffels wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 00:19:18 -0000, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I saw an article that a
>>cashier at a Burger King accidentally charged a customer $2200, instead of
>>$2.20. The mistake was immediatly caught by the cashier, but there was no
>>way to transfer the money back in a timely fashion, resulting in all sorts
>>of problems for both the restaurant and the customer.
>
> The cashier had to punch in the ordered items a hundred times then :-) Each
> and every fastfood-chain has a register where the cashier pushes a button
> with the name of the item on it, and in the end a "total" button. The
> register and the cardreader are connected, so the right amount should be
> there on the machine, without any human intervention.
> Now it could have been a computererror somehow, but it's very unlikely it's
> a human error.
Agreed, and it has all the earmarks of Fear Urban Legend (from one who's
studied these things:
Me, think I once had a $15.00 purchase rung up as $150...from a mall
kiosk that still used those handwritten carbon-paper slips, and required
only one phone call to clear it up.
Haven't seen too many of those old things nowadays.
And while we're on the subject, most credit card companies *encourage*
you to use your debit cards as credit cards, since it also involves
extracting a transaction fee from the merchant--
Which isn't usually the problem with self-service gas, grocery or
mass-market credit readers which offer you the option of a debit/ATM
purchase.
(And although we all know the sacred tradition of the Loopy Additional
Crosspost Group, does anyone know what the HELL alt.tv.american-idol was
supposed to do with the thread?)
Derek Janssen (no, I mean, that's just *silly*!)
ejanss@comcast.net
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