Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

si_guru · 21-06-2011 9:50pm

ManFromAtlantis wrote: »

serves the shop for trying the ole X.99 con job.

x.99 was used to force the less than honest cashiers to ring in the price and open the till for the change.

Donny5 · 21-06-2011 10:02pm

si_guru wrote: »

x.99 was used to force the less than honest cashiers to ring in the price and open the till for the change.

That's a load. It's purpose is make the price seem lower than it is.

Edit: In fact, here's a link.

Tipsy McSwagger · 21-06-2011 10:17pm

goat2 wrote: »

this happened eighteen years ago,
i was new to gardening, so one day i bought about one hundred daffodills they were on offer for a fiver, when on my way home from town i picked up a neighbour, the neighbour saw the daffs and made the comment i bought alot, home i got and planted the bulbs in batches of ten, while speaking with neighbour on way home i told them that i would plant them straight away,
and while speaking to the neighbour i told them i had a doctors appointment at eleven o clock which was two hours drive from me the following day, well the following day early i got a call to say that i should not come in but leave it for the following day, so i slept in until ten got up made me some tea, while in my slippers walking around house as i was not feeling great it was misty outside, when i looked out window, who was there but said neighbour with a childs spade and bucket digging up all i had planted, i was raging of course, but held my breadth and
watched quietly as i had mesh curtains to look through, so a day later when i cooled down, i decided to buy double the amount of daffs and put them in to where i had originally put them, i can only what thee neighbour must of thought when they saw i had double the
amount come up when they had not let a bulb there in the first place, to this
day i have never said a word about this to anyone nor the neighbour, i would
not mind but they knew i was fairly ill in the first place, that is what my good
deed got me in picking them up and bringing them home in the first place, but
i did and could not trust the person again

Jaysus that is shocking. It would have been sweeter though if you dug up the stolen daffodils and stuck a load of cannabis seeds there instead:)

ColeTrain · 21-06-2011 10:18pm

goat2 wrote: »

this happened eighteen years ago,
i was new to gardening, so one day i bought about one hundred daffodills they were on offer for a fiver, when on my way home from town i picked up a neighbour, the neighbour saw the daffs and made the comment i bought alot, home i got and planted the bulbs in batches of ten, while speaking with neighbour on way home i told them that i would plant them straight away,
and while speaking to the neighbour i told them i had a doctors appointment at eleven o clock which was two hours drive from me the following day, well the following day early i got a call to say that i should not come in but leave it for the following day, so i slept in until ten got up made me some tea, while in my slippers walking around house as i was not feeling great it was misty outside, when i looked out window, who was there but said neighbour with a childs spade and bucket digging up all i had planted, i was raging of course, but held my breadth and watched quietly as i had mesh curtains to look through, so a day later when i cooled down, i decided to buy double the amount of daffs and put them in to where i had originally put them, i can only emagine what thee neighbour must of thought when they saw i had double the amount come up when they had not let a bulb there in the first place, to this day i have never said a word about this to anyone nor the neighbour, i would not mind but they knew i was fairly ill in the first place, that is what my good deed got me in picking them up and bringing them home in the first place, but i did and could not trust the person again

Probably the worst thing I've read on this thread. Unreal to think that there are people out there who would go to the trouble of digging up €5 worth of flowers, you'd laugh if it weren't so pathetic.

goat2 · 22-06-2011 11:34am

ColeTrain wrote: »

Probably the worst thing I've read on this thread. Unreal to think that there are people out there who would go to the trouble of digging up €5 worth of flowers, you'd laugh if it weren't so pathetic.

they were the good old days when charlie was in power telling us to tighten our belts, while his own was good and loose, we had huge interest rates on our mortgages, it was a struggle to survive, when you bought half pound of butter instead of the pound. buying everything in smaller quantity just to survive a few more days to pay day, fiver on petrol, a fiver would just about keep lawnmower going these days

vincenzolorenzo · 22-06-2011 1:16pm

The bould charlie wasn't in power 18 years ago!

Caveman1 · 22-06-2011 1:22pm

I guy who used to drink in the pub I worked in used to keep the empty cans his of 7up his wife would get with her vodka, he said he collects them and every couple of weeks he used to sell the bags of empty cans

stingey animal

number10a · 22-06-2011 1:46pm

In Spain, the Catalans are known for their stinginess. I always put this down as a regional stereotype until I did my few months Erasmus there. Then I noticed that it's a very common sight in restaurants all over Barcelona to see the locals examining their bill with a fine toothcomb, dividing up the prices of the dishes between each person (all fine there), but then to go even further a lot of them will start counting up how many olives someone had/how many pieces of bread one person ate/who drank the most water or wine. It's really staggering to hear it happening!

Actually the Catalans stinginess has meant that the restaurant on the top floor of El Corte Inglés in the centre of Barcelona has had to become self-service because none of the staff would serve locals and would always go to tourists or other Spaniards first as they were far more likely to tip.

minidazzler · 22-06-2011 3:38pm

Caveman1 wrote: »

I guy who used to drink in the pub I worked in used to keep the empty cans his of 7up his wife would get with her vodka, he said he collects them and every couple of weeks he used to sell the bags of empty cans stingey animal

Not really stingey at all. It's economically sound and environmentally sound.

goat2 · 22-06-2011 9:56pm

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

The bould charlie wasn't in power 18 years ago!

how long ago was he in power then, still we had remnants of him for a long time after

goat2 · 22-06-2011 9:59pm

Caveman1 wrote: »

I guy who used to drink in the pub I worked in used to keep the empty cans his of 7up his wife would get with her vodka, he said he collects them and every couple of weeks he used to sell the bags of empty cans stingey animal

when he bought the drink, he paid for can anyway, so he is getting a fraction for what he paid for the can anyway,

goat2 · 22-06-2011 10:04pm

si_guru wrote: »

x.99 was used to force the less than honest cashiers to ring in the price and open the till for the change.

when i worked behind till, we always kept a small glass of the one cents, was handy when the change would be one cent, i just think it is wrong of a shop to keep back change, and this 99 cent thing is only fooling people into thinking an item is cheaper anyway, when in fact the shop had a good markup on the price they paid for it in the first place, i wonder if the lady had 14.90 would she be let have the book,

Bob Z · 22-06-2011 10:06pm

goat2 wrote: »

this happened eighteen years ago,
i was new to gardening, so one day i bought about one hundred daffodills they were on offer for a fiver, when on my way home from town i picked up a neighbour, the neighbour saw the daffs and made the comment i bought alot, home i got and planted the bulbs in batches of ten, while speaking with neighbour on way home i told them that i would plant them straight away,
and while speaking to the neighbour i told them i had a doctors appointment at eleven o clock which was two hours drive from me the following day, well the following day early i got a call to say that i should not come in but leave it for the following day, so i slept in until ten got up made me some tea, while in my slippers walking around house as i was not feeling great it was misty outside, when i looked out window, who was there but said neighbour with a childs spade and bucket digging up all i had planted, i was raging of course, but held my breadth and watched quietly as i had mesh curtains to look through, so a day later when i cooled down, i decided to buy double the amount of daffs and put them in to where i had originally put them, i can only emagine what thee neighbour must of thought when they saw i had double the amount come up when they had not let a bulb there in the first place, to this day i have never said a word about this to anyone nor the neighbour, i would not mind but they knew i was fairly ill in the first place, that is what my good deed got me in picking them up and bringing them home in the first place, but i did and could not trust the person again

The nieghbour would have got a shock if you had out to your back door with a cup of tea and said asked him what he was doing

goat2 · 23-06-2011 12:36am

Bob Z wrote: »

The nieghbour would have got a shock if you had out to your back door with a cup of tea and said asked him what he was doing

i was shocked, speechless, it was a low blow, they had some neck, coming on others property when they were supposed to be out, i would not go inside their gate if i knew they were out, lock everything since, i have not told my children even though now they are adults, and the worst is they went to school with this persons children, and they always got drives to and from school from me, they still dont have a clue that i was watching them that morning, it is just something i was embarrissed to bring up with them, dont know how embarrassed they would be, i would not bother telling them now,

Blitzkrieger · 23-06-2011 11:11am

I'd have either gone out and made the ****er re-plant them all or I'd have filmed him and called the cops and/or put it on youtube. It wouldn't be the lost fiver that would upset me - it'd be the effort of planting them gone to waste. I'd have made sure he suffered for it.

goat2 · 23-06-2011 11:52am

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

I'd have either gone out and made the ****er re-plant them all or I'd have filmed him and called the cops and/or put it on youtube. It wouldn't be the lost fiver that would upset me - it'd be the effort of planting them gone to waste. I'd have made sure he suffered for it.

it was the hard work digging new ground at the time and putting in good soil that was most bother, but they would get fright if they were a member of this forum, they would know it is them, and finding out i knew what they did that summer, i guess they would find it hard to look at me with shame,

Borat_Sagdiyev · 23-06-2011 1:18pm

goat2 wrote: »

it was the hard work digging new ground at the time and putting in good soil that was most bother, but they would get fright if they were a member of this forum, they would know it is them, and finding out i knew what they did that summer, i guess they would find it hard to look at me with shame,

The question is, do you still know what they did that summer?

Rick Deckard · 23-06-2011 7:15pm

Princess Peach wrote: »

I work on tills. One day had no pennies left in my till. Ladies book came to €15.99, she gave me €20 and I gave her back an even €4. She said, wasn't the change supposed to be €4.01.

She made me call a manager to open the other till to give her back her penny.

I've come across the likes of you before, very generous with other peoples money.
The scorpy kid in a garage made no apologies for not having sufficient change in her till, so I said why not give me 2c and I'll owe you..

(in a scorpy kids accent) "I'm not allowed to do dah"..

With the que building she thought she'd embarass me, and stood up, dug out a cent from her jeans, and says "here!",

I sais thanks very much, and just dropped it into the SVDP box beside the till and walked out.

ColeTrain · 23-06-2011 7:22pm

Rick Deckard wrote: »

I've come across the likes of you before, very generous with other peoples money.
The scorpy kid in a garage made no apologies for not having sufficient change in her till, so I said why not give me 2c and I'll owe you..

(in a scorpy kids accent) "I'm not allowed to do dah"..

With the que building she thought she'd embarass me, and stood up, dug out a cent from her jeans, and says "here!",

I sais thanks very much, and just dropped it into the SVDP box beside the till and walked out.

Taking a stand were we? No better way to do over a cent and getting one up on a kid making minimum wage.

wonderfulname · 23-06-2011 7:24pm

Rick Deckard wrote: »

I've come across the likes of you before, very generous with other peoples money.
The scorpy kid in a garage made no apologies for not having sufficient change in her till, so I said why not give me 2c and I'll owe you..

(in a scorpy kids accent) "I'm not allowed to do dah"..

She's not, she was only an employee, not the owner, she probably would have gotten a serious earful had the till not added up at the end of the day.

Rick Deckard wrote: »

With the que building she thought she'd embarass me, and stood up, dug out a cent from her jeans, and says "here!",

I sais thanks very much, and just dropped it into the SVDP box beside the till and walked out.

Congrats, you harassed a penny out of a child because her boss can't manage their shop, this is in the right thread all right, but not for the reason you think.

qz · 23-06-2011 7:44pm

wonderfulname wrote: »

She's not, she was only an employee, not the owner, she probably would have gotten a serious earful had the till not added up at the end of the day.

Congrats, you harassed a penny out of a child because her boss can't manage their shop, this is in the right thread all right, but not for the reason you think.

From my not inconsiderable retail experience, tills rarely square off to zero at the end of the day, it's almost guaranteed to expect a variance of some sort. The company I was in had a threshold of €5 above or below what was expected before it had to be reported to management. Only once in three years did the tills add up correctly down to the penny.

wonderfulname · 23-06-2011 7:49pm

Well if the "all those pennys add up" argument here is valid for the customer, then its valid for the employee

The point is she was just doing as she was supposed to, she can't be deemed in the wrong for that.

qz · 23-06-2011 7:52pm

wonderfulname wrote: »

Well if the "all those pennys add up" argument here is valid for the customer, then its valid for the employee

The point is she was just doing as she was supposed to, she can't be deemed in the wrong for that.

She is supposed to look after the customer in so far as is practicable, not to ensure that a customer is lost over the sake of saving a penny or a cent. Good customer service dictates that giving the customer a penny over what they were owed from the till is better than risking losing a customer.

robman60 · 23-06-2011 7:53pm

wonderfulname wrote: »

She's not, she was only an employee, not the owner, she probably would have gotten a serious earful had the till not added up at the end of the day.

She wouldn't have got an earful over one cent. The managers normally allowa couple of euro deficit.

I know someone who rigs the self-service checkouts in Tesco to get Tim Horton doughnuts for 35c as opposed to €1:30

Rick Deckard · 23-06-2011 8:05pm

it was more her stinking poxy attitude that got on my nerves..

jimbob86 · 23-06-2011 8:59pm

We used to go across the road for breakfest rolls at 11 o clock when i was in school,it was a small cafe that done rolls for the students for €2.50....but 1 of my mates never had money and used to go around the class and skab 50 cent of 5 people!! we'd all get a can with our roll but he'd gather all the little milk jugs off the tables and drink them!! you know the ones left on the table for people drinking tea....one time we got lucnh at another place and when we were walking up to pay he told me he had no money and asked me to pay for him,i only had enough to pay for my own food and said i couldnt pay for his...we stopped for a minute trying to think of what to do until(without telling me) he just legged it out of place and down the road!! when i payed they asked where he was after goin ...i said i think he's just out on the phone

UpCork · 24-06-2011 9:35am

Don't know if this is stingey or cheap but a friend of mine was involved in a voluntary organisation and one evening she (she was the secretary) had to go to the chairpreson's house to go through some documents before the next meeting. The chairperson is quite well to do beautiful, big home etc. Anyway, the lady goes to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. She re appears with the cups of tea and on the biscuit plate is one after eight divided into four pieces. Basically she offered her guest half an after eight. The box must last her a life time!!!

bijapos · 24-06-2011 10:48am

goat2 wrote: »

this happened eighteen years ago,
i was new to gardening, so one day i bought about one hundred daffodills they were on offer for a fiver, when on my way home from town i picked up a neighbour, the neighbour saw the daffs and made the comment i bought alot, home i got and planted the bulbs in batches of ten, while ......................................................................................... that is what my good deed got me in picking them up and bringing them home in the first place, but i did and could not trust the person again

Thats not stinginess. Your neighbours a fcuking thief, plain and simple.

cournioni · 24-06-2011 11:14am

I work with a Yorkshire man that puts labels with his name on them on his teabags in the canteen.

Cianos · 24-06-2011 11:53am

UpCork wrote: »

Don't know if this is stingey or cheap but a friend of mine was involved in a voluntary organisation and one evening she (she was the secretary) had to go to the chairpreson's house to go through some documents before the next meeting. The chairperson is quite well to do beautiful, big home etc. Anyway, the lady goes to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. She re appears with the cups of tea and on the biscuit plate is one after eight divided into four pieces. Basically she offered her guest half an after eight. The box must last her a life time!!!

Maybe it was the last one. If it wasn't though, that's fairly stinge!

UpCork · 24-06-2011 1:43pm

Cianos wrote: »

Maybe it was the last one. If it wasn't though, that's fairly stinge!

I know. If you know someone is calling, you nip into the shop on the way of home and buy a packet of biscuits, or most people should have a packet in the cupboard anyway "just in case". However, knowing this lady, I can see how they have money

Ken. · 24-06-2011 10:01pm

UpCork wrote: »

I know. If you know someone is calling, you nip into the shop on the way of home and buy a packet of biscuits, or most people should have a packet in the cupboard anyway "just in case". However, knowing this lady, I can see how they have money

That is stingy out, if i had only a few biscuit's left i'd just give the tea or coffee and say "sorry,i've no biscuit's left" or something like that.

The Princess Bride · 24-06-2011 10:14pm

Have a friend who mows the lawn(field actually) for a very wealthy guy over the summer months while mr$$$$ is holidaying in Europe.

yer man gives him 2 bottles of tesco wine for his troubles.:(

Capt'n Midnight · 24-06-2011 11:54pm

goat2 wrote: »

dont know how embarrassed they would be

In broad daylight digging up your lawn ?

No embarassment at all. None whatsoever.

Unless it's made perfectly clear that they are being watched and there are consequences then there is no reason for them to change their behaviour.

Pity you didn't video them. Then name and shame because they are probably doing that sort of stuff to other neighbours, and worse innocent people may have been blamed.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

Capt'n Midnight · 24-06-2011 11:56pm

wonderfulname wrote: »

She's not, she was only an employee, not the owner, she probably would have gotten a serious earful had the till not added up at the end of the day.

actually would have been worse if the till had balanced.

I know someone who worked in a bookies and used to be able to balance his till every day, but had to invent a discrepancy as otherwise they would suspect that there was some scam going.

goat2 · 25-06-2011 2:09pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In broad daylight digging up your lawn ?

No embarassment at all. None whatsoever.

Unless it's made perfectly clear that they are being watched and there are consequences then there is no reason for them to change their behaviour.

Pity you didn't video them. Then name and shame because they are probably doing that sort of stuff to other neighbours, and worse innocent people may have been blamed.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

they were caught by someone else doing something else, and got burned,

Blitzkrieger · 25-06-2011 4:24pm

At the stake? Harsh, but I'm going to say fair.

Capt'n Midnight · 26-06-2011 2:45pm

goat2 wrote: »

they were caught by someone else doing something else, and got burned,

they don't know they were caught
so they probably still think they got away with it

dazed+confused · 28-06-2011 6:30pm

jellybeans wrote: »

on that topic I hate going out for meals with big groups of people, Im a vegetarian and don't drink so I always get stung. The last time I was out on a work night I got a starter of hummos and bread dip and for my main i ordered a salad (they brought me a starter portion) and it cost me 55 euro! I was rightly cheesed off because they spilt the bill NO MATTER WHAT you've eaten on drank

I'd do that purposely if someone invited a teetotallaing vegetarian on one of our nights out. Good nights out are about sharing everything that's on the table, not about spending twenty minutes disecting the bill.

And I suppose you're a teetotalling vegetarian for health reasons, yeah yeah, you're medically certified as boring.

*adele* · 28-06-2011 7:03pm

Thats not only ignorant but pretty offensive. I doubt Jellybeans gives a rats ass whether you think they'd be fun to go out with or not. And when I go for meals with my friends its more about actually being out with my friends than worrying about whether they're drinking alcohol and eating meat. What an exciting life you must lead! And splitting the bill is crap anyways, as I've said in this thread before.

tommy21 · 28-06-2011 7:25pm

dazed+confused wrote: »

I'd do that purposely if someone invited a teetotallaing vegetarian on one of our nights out. Good nights out are about sharing everything that's on the table, not about spending twenty minutes disecting the bill.

And I suppose you're a teetotalling vegetarian for health reasons, yeah yeah, you're medically certified as boring.

Bit stingy on the empathy aren't we?

Mint Sauce · 28-06-2011 8:03pm

Warning for dazed+confused

Abuse

dazed+confused · 28-06-2011 8:07pm

owenc wrote: »

My dad does my head in.. heres a list of SOME of the things he does. (every friggen week he starts new tight things:mad:).

-Turns off the shower when you've only been in it for 5 minutes and you are covered in soap, he says its wasting money. (like he can't afford it in a friggen 8 bedroomed house.) :mad::rolleyes:
-Doesn't let us eat more than two snacks in an hour because he will have to wash two dishes and he can't be bothered.
-Never goes into the shop, makes my poor sister go in everysingle morning to get his paper.
-Makes hang up the washing and then comes out and tells us its hung up wrong, what way do you bloody hang them up there is no bloody way!:mad:
-Sometimes we volunteer to do stuff for him and then he says that its all wrong and shouts for like an hour after, after us volunteering.:(
-Makes us get up at 10 in the summer and never lets us lie in.
-Never gets us any sweets, he makes us pay for it ourself.
-Puts a lock on everything so that we can't use it when we want to.:eek:.
-Acts like a baby.
-Annoys us so much with his ways that he makes everyone cranky and then when my mum shouts at him he says that shes backing me up, when shes only trying to get peace for us.
-Nags me everytime i see him.
-Sends us outside for hours in the summer because he doesn't want to see us.
-Never takes us out anywhere in summer because he can't be bothered and his excuse is "i never got that when i was a wane" (so my mother has to take the day off, of work out of her leave to take us out.)

The list can go on, next he'll be locking the fridge, so we can't get food.

Not sure that any of this is stingy, just sounds like he resents having children. Sounds like he had a bad time of it himself though and so maybe he doesn't know how to act. The church has a lot to answer for, its still messing up this country with all the damage it did to previous generations.

dazed+confused · 28-06-2011 8:17pm

tommy21 wrote: »

Bit stingy on the empathy aren't we?

If it was a "personal issues" forum then that's the place for empathy. In a stingy thread in AH then surely we're looking for signs of stingyness? Motion towards person eating the side salad on the side of a glass of water.

vincenzolorenzo · 28-06-2011 10:44pm

dazed+confused wrote: »

The church has a lot to answer for, its still messing up this country with all the damage it did to previous generations.

How can you blame nordy owen's dad's stinginess on the church???

He's a protestant acually father...

booboo88 · 28-06-2011 11:02pm

goat2 wrote: »

i was shocked, speechless, it was a low blow, they had some neck, coming on others property when they were supposed to be out, i would not go inside their gate if i knew they were out, lock everything since, i have not told my children even though now they are adults, and the worst is they went to school with this persons children, and they always got drives to and from school from me, they still dont have a clue that i was watching them that morning, it is just something i was embarrissed to bring up with them, dont know how embarrassed they would be, i would not bother telling them now,

but i would, just for the purpose of showing them up, i mean you did thea favour for them to steal from you? out of order

wonderfulname wrote: »

She's not, she was only an employee, not the owner, she probably would have gotten a serious earful had the till not added up at the end of the day.

Congrats, you harassed a penny out of a child because her boss can't manage their shop, this is in the right thread all right, but not for the reason you think.

i used to work on tills, even once 1cent under i had to listen to mr hanky(his actual surname) moan for 20 mins

Rick Deckard wrote: »

I've come across the likes of you before, very generous with other peoples money.
The scorpy kid in a garage made no apologies for not having sufficient change in her till, so I said why not give me 2c and I'll owe you..

(in a scorpy kids accent) "I'm not allowed to do dah"..

With the que building she thought she'd embarass me, and stood up, dug out a cent from her jeans, and says "here!",

I sais thanks very much, and just dropped it into the SVDP box beside the till and walked out.

its 1cent? seriously?

Daemos · 28-06-2011 11:34pm

At the salad bar in Dunnes, I saw a woman put some salad in the box, weigh it and stick the label on, and then put more salad in it

As stingy as it is genius

bijapos · 29-06-2011 12:35am

Daemos wrote: »

At the salad bar in Dunnes, I saw a woman put some salad in the box, weigh it and stick the label on, and then put more salad in it

As stingy as it is genius.............

................as it is old. Seriously that "trick" has been around since around 5 minutes after the invention of the self service scales.

djPSB · 29-06-2011 12:50am

Know a man who went to the shop one day to do a bit of shopping. When the cashier asked him did he want a bag, he said he did but he wasn't going paying for it. She gave him a bag. The man went home and was inspecting his receipt and noticed he had been charged 22c for the bag and felt he had been taken advantage off.

He went back to the same shop the next day to buy the paper and demanded that the 22c for the bag be taken from the price of the paper. Instead of paying €1.90 for the paper, he instead paid €1.68.

Tight as..

Hal Emmerich · 29-06-2011 1:11am

Daemos wrote: »

At the salad bar in Dunnes, I saw a woman put some salad in the box, weigh it and stick the label on, and then put more salad in it

As stingy as it is genius

Seen a post on here where someone mentioned the Junkies help themselves at the salad bars "NOM NOM NOM"

shudders

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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