Biggest chancer customers you have dealt with?

well this summer during a festival the telephone line went down for the whole weekend so no laser, no atm etc. Now most people seemed fine about annoyed at the fact but ok about, nothing we could have done to help them.
the next morning when all the festival goers were trying to get food and one fella had no money due to the fact that the atm was down. He wanted cash from the post and was told that he couldn't get it due to no telephone line, siad he would give him his bank card for cash instead and got told no coz you can call in monday saying it was stolen. tried it then on the shop assiants and siad you tried once over there and it wont work here either

not really a customer thing, but I was heading home from college in the pissing rain when a car pulled up on the street and the driver signaled me to come round to his window. I thought he was looking for directions or something but he began to recite the sob story about how he was heading up to a wedding in Donegall and didn't bring his wallet. to add to this, he didn't have enough petrol to get there.
This man assured me that if I spotted him some money for petrol, he would give it back at the same time/place on his way home the next day!

I proceeded to walk off laughing.

Had a bizarre one when I worked in a pharmacy. I hadn’t been working there long when a middle-aged woman comes in and asks to have a look at a couple of painkillers, she was looking at the back of the packs and I just thought she was deciding which one to get. She was very vague, didn’t buy them but asked me for a sheet of paper, I thought ok well seems harmless and I gave her one. She goes off and sits in one of the chairs for customers waiting for prescriptions and starts writing stuff on the sheet, I’m thinking a bit odd but meh carry on with whatever I’m doing, I notice her going around the store, looking at things and writing on the sheet. I assume maybe she’s writing a list of stuff she wants to get another time. I’m not at the counter thank god when she comes back. I notice her starting to get very angry with the pharmacist dealing with her at the counter. She starts to shout her head off at him:eek:
It turns out she went around writing a list of meds and the instructions from the packs of them on the sheet of paper I’d given her. She had written a prescription for herself and was convinced she was allowed to because she was a medical student.
It was the most ridiculous thing, the meds she’d written on it were both available on prescription and over the counter so she could have just bought them as anyone else would. But she was utterly convinced she had the right to write a prescription, being a medical student she seemed to think made her a doctor, doctors aren’t even allowed to write their own prescriptions. I have never seen someone lose it so much, I pretty much hid in the dispensary during the whole thing, being so inexperienced I was terrified:o She was shouting like hell at the pharmacist, he was explaining to her as politely as possible that she couldn’t write her own prescription. But she wasn’t having it and the guards had to be called, nearly arrested her but she eventually left. Later turned out the guards had dealt with her before and also that she was a doctors wife!

Cake Man wrote: »

Work in a supermarket. Few weeks ago, an old woman was at the salad bar putting in just a tiny bit of coleslaw into the plastic container. Proceeds to weigh it and print out the sticker and then goes back over and stuffs as much more coleslaw into the container as possible! Fcuking chancer, the old aren't immune to it either! :rolleyes::pac:

Used to work in a shop and a guy used to do this all the time, but with the fruit. Ya wouldnt mind if it was a couple of extra grapes or somethin, but he load up, and only pay around 20c.
One day I said "oh its not scanning hold on and ill go and get another sticker for ya" Tried to say hed get it himself, but I was like "Oh its no problem, Ill sort it for ya"

Another woman used to come in and take all da magazines out of the papers.

Also at the end of the day, the pastry and cakes that had been sitttin out all day would get bagged, and youd get around 6 pieces for 70c and theyd sit in the bargain basket thing.

This woman used to fill them with all the expensive pastries that werent on offer, and swap the stickers. Shed have about 5 or 6 euros worth and try and get it for bout 70c.

Back in the dark ages my first job was in a book shop where we had to convert the UK price into Punts (the old money). Now this was before the like of barcodes and scanning products into the till and was all worked out via a trusty calculator and this ment that the price of a book could vary from one shipment to the next depending on the currency rate of the day/week.

One regular customer used to always peel the price sticker (remember them) off the book and expect to get it for the much cheaper Sterling price. So every time she came up to the counter with a book we would charge the max amount the currency rate could of been to make sure the shop never got ripped off.

She never wised up and paid over the odds for every purchase she made

Thankfully working in an Occult bookshop ment the owners always had my back and being able to tell pain in the arse customers to GTFO was never a problem

chirogirl wrote: »

Whilst I was a student I worked in NEXT in the UK. There annual sales used to start at 5am and would be manic. So people would panic buy. A few days after the sale a woman returned a bikini that had been purchased in a another branch to where I was working. She was complaining that the bikini bottoms had been soiled and she didn't realise until she got home. To our surprise they have been soiled big time with blood...yuk!!

That's what happens when you buy a bikini during a busy period:D:D

I know a lady who is a multi millionaire but to look at her you would give her charity.

Everywhere she goes she is doing the whole poor mouth scheme.....

I just don't get their mind set at all.......

Like booking into a 5 star hotel and then complaining to staff about the prices of things....

Your right about the so called well to do people being the most obnoxious. Was working in credit control during the summer when I was in college for one of the phone companies and when disconnection Thursday came around the phones would be hopping. Anyway got this very grand D4 type lady (mid 30's) on the phone who hadn't paid her bill and wanted to be put back on. Told her grand and I'd put her back on if she paid the bill in full cash in the post office (procedure if cheques had bounced before this was in the so called good times mind you) and ring back with the receipt number and everything would be sorted there and then.
Got this snotty answer in her best ROCK accent. "Isn't it loike standard business practice loike to give 30 days credit loike and it was against her roights for us disconnect her and you should reconnect me loike pronto"
I replied well your Jan/Feb bill is outstanding, so is your March/April and so is your May/June bill (This was in July) Adding the days up roughly that's about 180 days credit from your first outstanding bill. Call me back with the post office code when you paid in full and I will happily reconnect you for our standard reconnection fee of €12.50 plus VAT. Needless to say she hung up.

JOCookie wrote: »

I worked in Xtra Vision during college, (a lot of these seem to happen there) and a Roma woman came in and bought a small bottle of coke for E1.25 i think it was, and handed me in a E100.00 note. I only had E20.00 notes in the till as we only keep small notes in it. I handed the change back with 4 E20.00 notes, in front of me she put one of the E20.00 notes in to her other hand

Than she started roaring saying i didnt give her the right change, and she counted it out infront of me, saying she was missing E20.00 (as it was in her other hand). I was getting annoyed at this stage cos she was always in other shops around trying this and there was a queue behind her, so i just took the E20.00 out of her other hand, took the rest of the change of the counter and took the bottle of coke of her and gave her back her E100.00 and told her to get out!! felt good.

This happens at least one a day with the Romas in the bank I work in, they ask you to change money into lower dominations, say 20's for 100's then they roar and shout saying youve short changed them - basically try to make you all flustered to the point where you dont know what youve handed out.
Its got to the point now, where all change requests have to go through an account because of the fu(kers.

johnmcdnl wrote: »

hahaahah - this happened to me once - except I was actually drinking coke :D:D Had it half finished and some guy from the bar came up behind me and said it didn't look right and took it back and gave me a new one :D:D:D:D

buyah - it felt good

saying that when it happened I was so young it didn't even register to me why he changed it but being the mean fecker that I am I still remember the good auld buzz of getting a free coke :D

I thought all the stingy cavan man jokes my da told me were made up!

jdooley28 wrote: »

Once had a customer swear blind he gave me a €50 for a bottle of Bud. I had just got a new float and he was the first person i served with it, was a great feeling been able to take the till and askin him could he he see his €50 note anywhere!

Aye, loved when that happened!

Rhamiel wrote: »

It was only when she left and I cleared her table I realized the fcuker had brought tea bags from home with her in her handbag to use instead of payin for a feckin cup of tea. The nerve of the snooty bollix :P

Mum brings her own teabags, as most places don't do green tea, or think that as the box is green, that's what she means :rolleyes: so she just asks for hot water.

EMF2010 wrote: »

Worked in the cinema years ago and had this chancer come in with his son. I went to take the tickets and noticed that the movie they were going to was rated 18s. All the staff had just gotten a long lecture about not letting underage people into movies, threats of massive fines, loss of job, death* etc.

I looked at his son, all of 10 years of age and politely explained that he wouldn't be able to go in and I could offer a refund or get him tickets to see another show. Instead of doing the usual and trying to persuade me to let it go, the man insisted his son was 18. At this point it was hard to keep a straight face, but I stood my ground and asked for ID to prove this. He went on a rant, insisting his word was good enough and why would he need ID to see some stupid film.

The very best part of this was the boy was standing there wearing his school uniform from one of the local primary schools! When I pointed this out he tore up the tickets, threw them at me and stormed off - only to turn around and collect the ticket bits and storm off again.


*this bit may not be true

i watched a woman in front of me at the cinema swear up and down her daughter was 12, even though she was about 5'8 and looked about 17. She was yelling she was tall for her age and was entitled to a childs ticket and no way was she as old as she looked - finally the cashier told her that okay she would accept that her daughter was 12 but the film they wanted to see was a 15 so she wouldn't be allowed in..... the whole queue was laughing.