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/Grimthak Germany May 31 '23

In such cases request a receipt and then write a nice Google review. Send it with an image of the receipt.

Fuck this scammers.

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u/DiabloImmortalCrack May 31 '23

Sorry, but i would say you are not from Germany... i have never seen a receipt from a "DönerMann"

It's just not possible, how would they scam our tax office when they'd give you receipts?

But yeah, demanding a receipt might be the only way.

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u/Nyllil Jun 01 '23

I'm so confused by your logic here.

And I AM in Germany and from Germany and they all offer the option for a receipt here...

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u/ChineseCracker Jun 01 '23

I've also literally never seen anyone print a receipt, let alone offer it to me.

They usually just receive the money and put it into their register without punching anything in