Have you been scammed/overcharged at 7-11?

[JoseThailand]

This happened to me a few times at 7-11's frequented by tourists in Pattaya. When they see that you don't pay attention to how they scan the items or are talking to someone or in a rush, they may inflate the bill. And of course they won't give you a receipt. Even when I asked for it, she lied some BS. Has this happened to you?

 

Now I want to catch them red handed. I will pick lots of stuff and check the prices and then pretend that I am in a rush or talking on the phone and don't care about what they are doing. And then confront them with clear evidence.

[CharlieH]

In all my years here, and a frequent visitor to 7-11 I have never known them NOT give a receipt complete with change on top of it.

 

YMMV

[JoseThailand]

2 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

In all my years here, and a frequent visitor to 7-11 I have never known them NOT give a receipt complete with change on top of it.

 

YMMV

 

Like I said, this happened at 7-11's frequented by tourists. Many of them are drunk/high and don't really care about receipts.

[JoseThailand]

5 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

In all my years here, and a frequent visitor to 7-11 I have never known them NOT give a receipt complete with change on top of it.

 

YMMV

 

Forgot to mention. It happened when I payed with credit cards or truemoney wallet, so there was no change.

[Nick Carter icp]

4 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Like I said, this happened at 7-11's frequented by tourists. Many of them are drunk/high and don't really care about receipts.

 

   How do you know this ?

[JoseThailand]

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   How do you know this ?

 

Know what

[Nick Carter icp]

2 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Know what

 

  That tourists get overcharged in 7/11 's 

[JoseThailand]

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 That tourists get overcharged in 7/11 's 

 

Like I said, this happened to me at 7-11's frequented by tourists

[Nick Carter icp]

12 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Like I said, this happened to me at 7-11's frequented by tourists

 

  So why didn't you speak to the cashier and query the change ?

[JoseThailand]

18 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

  So why didn't you speak to the cashier and query the change ?

 

Like I said, it happened when I was in a rush or busy and only realized that I was overcharged later when I counted the items. I'm not new to Thailand and can remember the price of each item that I buy and I was clearly overcharged

[Nick Carter icp]

4 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Like I said, it happened when I was in a rush or busy and only realized that I was overcharged later when I counted the items. I'm not new to Thailand and can remember the price of each item that I buy and I was clearly overcharged

 

   How do you know about other people being overcharged ?

[JoseThailand]

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

   How do you know about other people being overcharged ?

 

Where do I talk about other people being overcharged?

[Nick Carter icp]

54 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Like I said, this happened at 7-11's frequented by tourists. Many of them are drunk/high and don't really care about receipts.

 

  ^Here 

[DonniePeverley]

Not scammed but had an over zealous clerk for the first time last night. It was 11:58pm (even by his own watch), but he refused to serve alcohol saying it was no midnight. 'Cannot do midnight'.

 

I then showed him my watch, showed him the world clock on google, and asked to look at his watch, but then i think it became about honour and not wanting to climb down. 

 

An odd one. 

 

 

[tomazbodner]

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  ^Here 

Maybe he was talking about himself there...

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, DonniePeverley said:

Not scammed but had an over zealous clerk for the first time last night. It was 11:58pm (even by his own watch), but he refused to serve alcohol saying it was no midnight. 'Cannot do midnight'.

 

I then showed him my watch, showed him the world clock on google, and asked to look at his watch, but then i think it became about honour and not wanting to climb down. 

 

An odd one. 

 

 

 

   It was more likely that the till refused to allow the transaction to proceed .

   The till clock may have been a few minutes wrong 

[DonniePeverley]

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   It was more likely that the till refused to allow the transaction to proceed .

   The till clock may have been a few minutes wrong 

 

Actually just had a quick look at my receipt, and the crisps and chocolate i bought showed 11:59 so timing was fine.

 

Issue is he became so entrenched into the 'no alcohol' that he couldn't back down even when he realised he was wrong. It's an honour thing here - we call it ego in the west. 

[JoseThailand]

20 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  ^Here 

 

I don't say a word about other people being overcharged. I only said where this happened to me and what type of customers frequent this 7-11.

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

Actually just had a quick look at my receipt, and the crisps and chocolate i bought showed 11:59 so timing was fine.

 

Issue is he became so entrenched into the 'no alcohol' that he couldn't back down even when he realised he was wrong. It's an honour thing here - we call it ego in the west. 

 

   There are some 7/11's that cannot scan alchol past 11.55 PM (for some reason)

[Upnotover]

1 minute ago, JoseThailand said:

 

I doesn't say a word about other people being overcharged.

No you doesn't, but the inference is clear.

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Forgot to mention. It happened when I payed with credit cards or truemoney wallet, so there was no change.

I've never experienced it at 7 Eleven but it's easy to prevent, work out the cost before you get to the till.

 

Burger King and Mister DIY tried the 100 baht short trick

[Bangkokhatter]

1 hour ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Forgot to mention. It happened when I payed with credit cards or truemoney wallet, so there was no change.

If you paid by credit card or True money, how does the cashier gain from this over charging ?

[JoseThailand]

1 minute ago, Bangkokhatter said:

If you paid by credit card or True money, how does the cashier gain from this over charging ?

 

I don't who is benefiting from that, maybe not only the cashier or they work as a team. 

[LespaulAN]

Never happened to me or rather I never check. Just be careful next time. We are in foreign land, its good to be careful whether at the cashier or on the road. 

[rwill]

I've received too much change a couple of times and pointed it out to them.

[HappyExpat57]

One time I went in, bought a few items, and got shorted 100 baht. I know because I only had a 1000 baht note on me at the time. I STRONGLY suspect the cashier knew it - she was damned cute and quite a distraction, flirting heavily. I figured it was worth it. For sure a lot less than a lady drink.

[bluemoon58]

14 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

Has this happened to you?

No, never! 

[supersomchai]

If the cashier (in 7-11 and most supermarkets ) gives too much change to the customer it gets deducted from their salary (my thai wife used to work in a supermarket ,happened to her).

Not good when they are already on low wages.

[AhFarangJa]

I have had items scanned twice, so now I always look on the receipt for the number of items purchased. I also say out loud to them what money I am giving them, such as 500 Baht or 1 Thousand. 

[jerrymahoney]

3 times it happened to me -- once at FamilyMart and twice Tesco-Lotus Express:

After leaving the store I realized that I had been given change as if I paid with a 1000 baht note and I had actually given the cashier a 500 baht note.

And it actually took some convincing each time for them to believe me when I went back to the store and explained in Thai what happened. At the FamilyMart they had to review the store video recording the next day.