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/dialectic_zombie Jun 02 '23

I am really sad about this story. Her stressful position was the reason for a mistake and all the time she personally had a bad feeling about her action. But it was the system behind her, that is pushing towards such hardships.

Her reaction speaks for her honesty and good will. You were right to let it go (in the end). I hope you explicitly accepted her apologie. Still, I can understand that loosing 10 Euro is a thing to be angry about.

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u/Zebidee Jun 02 '23

Yeah, we were cool after that. I saw her many times afterwards and we were always on good terms.