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Around here Tuesday tends to be the cheapest day for fuel. It's also the day for would-be scammers to try things like:
Wow, the car's actually blue! Not brown like it was before we washed it!
SC gets petrol and the most basic option for the automatic car wash. I note that the car is caked with mud all down both sides
SC: If the car wash doesn't clean my car, can I have another go for free?
Me: No.
Car wash removes 95% of the mud from the car. SC returns, parks where he's sure we can see him...
SC: Look! It didn't clean the car, give me the free wash you promised!
Me: I didn't promise anything. It removed most of the mud...
SC: But it didn't clean it all!
Me: And an automatic wash just won't remove what's left. You have to get in there with the high pressure hose and a sponge.
He left without his refund/freebie.
Believe it or not, this is not the worst scam attempt I've had
SC: How long have you been scamming people for?
Me: (WTF stare)
SC: As soon as I picked that up it went to $4. I want you to calibrate it.
Me: It was calibrated 2 weeks ago (true), if there's a problem I'll take your details and we can get back to you after the department of weights and measures look at it.
SC: No, I'll just lodge an official complaint with weights and measures.
We get people filling 5 liter cans all the time (for lawnmowers etc) and they always come in around 4.85-4.95 liters, so if there really is an error it's in the customer's favour. Just like the Trades and Practices Act specifies.
This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction.
(SC buys two drinks)
Me: That's $6.40.
SC: No they're 2 for $5.
Me: That special finished on Sunday.
SC: No it didn't, I bought them for that yesterday. (not true, the specials automatically revert to regular price at midnight midnight on the last day of the month)
Me: Are you sure it wasn't Sunday?
SC: No it was yesterday. And there's a sign there.
co-worker: I'll check... nope, no sign.
SC: Sorry that was my mistake, there's a sign somewhere! (points at co-worker) And you gave them to me for $5 yesterday.
co-worker: No you must be thinking of Friday, I've just had three days off.
SC: Fine! (at this point he seems like an older, fatter Napoleon Dynamite only with worse hair).
He paid full price and left.
More on specials
SC: Not 2 for $5 any more? F*** that! I'm never coming here again!
20 minutes later, he returns and buys petrol. After he left my co-worker said she nearly made a comment like "Your identical twin brother was in here a little while ago!"
Wow, the car's actually blue! Not brown like it was before we washed it!
SC gets petrol and the most basic option for the automatic car wash. I note that the car is caked with mud all down both sides
SC: If the car wash doesn't clean my car, can I have another go for free?
Me: No.
Car wash removes 95% of the mud from the car. SC returns, parks where he's sure we can see him...
SC: Look! It didn't clean the car, give me the free wash you promised!
Me: I didn't promise anything. It removed most of the mud...
SC: But it didn't clean it all!
Me: And an automatic wash just won't remove what's left. You have to get in there with the high pressure hose and a sponge.
He left without his refund/freebie.
Believe it or not, this is not the worst scam attempt I've had
SC: How long have you been scamming people for?
Me: (WTF stare)
SC: As soon as I picked that up it went to $4. I want you to calibrate it.
Me: It was calibrated 2 weeks ago (true), if there's a problem I'll take your details and we can get back to you after the department of weights and measures look at it.
SC: No, I'll just lodge an official complaint with weights and measures.
We get people filling 5 liter cans all the time (for lawnmowers etc) and they always come in around 4.85-4.95 liters, so if there really is an error it's in the customer's favour. Just like the Trades and Practices Act specifies.
This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction.
(SC buys two drinks)
Me: That's $6.40.
SC: No they're 2 for $5.
Me: That special finished on Sunday.
SC: No it didn't, I bought them for that yesterday. (not true, the specials automatically revert to regular price at midnight midnight on the last day of the month)
Me: Are you sure it wasn't Sunday?
SC: No it was yesterday. And there's a sign there.
co-worker: I'll check... nope, no sign.
SC: Sorry that was my mistake, there's a sign somewhere! (points at co-worker) And you gave them to me for $5 yesterday.
co-worker: No you must be thinking of Friday, I've just had three days off.
SC: Fine! (at this point he seems like an older, fatter Napoleon Dynamite only with worse hair).
He paid full price and left.
More on specials
SC: Not 2 for $5 any more? F*** that! I'm never coming here again!
20 minutes later, he returns and buys petrol. After he left my co-worker said she nearly made a comment like "Your identical twin brother was in here a little while ago!"
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