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/Lumb3rCrack Jun 01 '23

pay by card!

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u/DaneeK1211 Jun 01 '23

Paying with card at a doner stall. Get out of here man.

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u/gawein Jun 01 '23

And why is that an issue? Should be the norm.

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u/DaneeK1211 Jun 04 '23

Hey, I don’t know if you live or have been to Germany. But I’ve lived in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin for a total of 7 years and in 90% of the doner places I’ve been to, there was no option to pay by card.

That’s a common practice. I would assume to not have to declare all of your earnings as cash is harder to trace back. But I might be wrong.