A business altered a check I wrote

debodun

debodun

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Of course, it was to increase the amount. I paid what was originally asked. If they discovered a mistake they made in their calculation, it should be on their heads. I reported it to the bank and they went after the business and had them reimburse me for the difference. A few weeks later I received a letter from the business saying they wouldn't dispute the outcome, but I was no longer a customer of theirs. I didn't lose any sleep over it, though.
 

debodun said:
Motel
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Ah. I was thinking liquor store, but yeah, I totally get it. Pretty much the same thing.

Me and my cousin bought a liquor-convenience store from a seemingly nice guy who'd immigrated from Syria, and we allowed one of his employees, his cousin "Jim" to stay on til we got things arranged the way we wanted (to where it made sense), and one morning I see a customer walk out without the newspaper he'd just been charged for, so I called out, "'Scuse me, sir, you forgot your paper!" He said he didn't buy a paper, and Jim looked at me with a weird expression. Like he was scared or something.

Apparently, after making coffee, it was Jim's job to replaced that newspaper with a new issue every day, including his last, and he always left it lying there on the counter, unopened. People had little choice but to set their purchases down on it, he'd ring them up and bag their stuff, and the customer paid the total, which included $2.00 for the newspaper ($2.75 on Sunday), and left. Without the paper.

That happened over 100 times a day.

Needless to say, Jim was fired that very morning and left without his usual "bonus". I didn't even let him take his coffee. In fact, he didn't come back for his final check. But I didn't write it anyway, so that worked out.
 
debodun said:
Of course, it was to increase the amount. I paid what was originally asked. If they discovered a mistake they made in their calculation, it should be on their heads. I reported it to the bank and they went after the business and had them reimburse me for the difference. A few weeks later I received a letter from the business saying they wouldn't dispute the outcome, but I was no longer a customer of theirs. I didn't lose any sleep over it, though.
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Write a review on Google reviews or Yelp describing what happened. You'll be doing the public a service.
 
Pepper said:
Altering a check is criminal.
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Yes it is, and I would have reported something like this to law enforcement. Its theft!
debodun said:
A few weeks later I received a letter from the business saying they wouldn't dispute the outcome, but I was no longer a customer of theirs.
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Hopefully a decision you had already made well before getting the letter.
SeniorBen said:
Write a review on Google reviews or Yelp describing what happened. You'll be doing the public a service.
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Really good idea.
 
Why didn't you report it to the police? Or the local office of attorney General? Altering a check is a crime. If a business has an employee doing it they are probably depositing the actual amount in the business account and pocketing the extra. A crime has been committed and someone should face consequences.
 
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debodun said:
Dirty-minded seniors! ;) I took a day trip and had to stop overnight at a motel. Is that so hard to understand? 😆
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the last thing in the world I would have expected would have been for you to say it was a Liquor store.. no-one knows you on here if they thought that even for a second... now knowing your penchant for fancy motels and hotels it doesn't surprise me.... errrm.. whaaat?... a Motel ? :eek:...Ok whoever you are, fess up, what have you done with Our Deb ?
 
Did they have a reason why they thought the price on the check was wrong.

Whatever, it was more wrong/illegal to change the amount on the check.
 
debodun said:
I never received an explanation. I just surmise they discovered a subsequent error in the amount charged. I'm not going to beat a dead horse since I was reimbursed.
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See I would beat that dead horse all the way to the glue factory!

Yes you got reimbursed, so what, a crime was committed. You don't alter a check accidently, someone did it because they thought they could get away with it and wanted to steal your money. They may have done it a hundred times already, ripping off unsuspecting people, and because you didn't report it now they can rip off hundreds more.

Frankly I would not let this rest.
 

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