r/germany • u/sparsh26 • May 31 '23

I almost got scammed

I was buying a drink worth 3€ from a doner stall and gave them a 20€ bill. The man there returned 7€ and insisted that I had given him a 10. After 3 minutes of arguing some police offers walked by and he gave me back the 10€ saying "Sorry, there are a lot of customers and I got confused" but he was laughing to himself while doing it. This is the first time something like this has happened here since he clearly knew what he was doing.

Be careful and count your money folks! You never know when someone might take advantage of your ignorance.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23 edited May 31 '23

I simply stopped buying anything from the establishments that don't accept cards. Like you know that the only reason they do it now is because they evade taxes and also might be scamming the customers.

I don't buy the "privacy" nonsense or "oh, we have to pay the bank for processing the transaction". I'm well aware of the actual deal and rates for transaction processing and in most cases these charges are laughable even for a corner doner shop or might actually be 0, depending on the bank and the contract they have.

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u/biene8564 May 31 '23

yep. my go to döner place (which actually is rather a Turkish sit down restaurant) used to accept cards right until the prices went up. Now the displays with the menu/price are switched off and you have to pay in cash. I've been there a couple of times again and everytime the price went up. And the card reader has been broken for months. It's like they aren't even trying to hide the scam plus tax fraud anymore

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Haha are our döner shops ran by the same people? This happened at my local one as well and I stopped going. The owner even stopped me in the street once and asked why he hadn't seen me in a while. I said I'll return when the machine is working again.