further change adventures

[pauraque_bk]

I should have known it could get worse!


Customer gives me credit card, I swipe credit card. Customer starts rummaging in purse.

Customer: "Wait, I have change."

Me: "...You just gave me a credit card. Do you want to pay cash instead?"

Customer: "No, I just want to give you the change."

Me: "......Uh."

Customer: "Can you do that?"

Me: "............Technically, yes, I could ring in a few cents of cash and the rest on a credit card. But WHY?"

Customer: "It just makes it a nice round number."

Me: ".....................But it's a credit card."

Customer: "Well never mind, you don't have to."


wat

i just

Does this make ANY sense to any of you?

Comments

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who tips additional change to make his bill come out even. But......
Yeah no. That's a little too much.

[pauraque]

Oh, you mean like when he's charging it, he writes in a tip that will make the amount #.00? Seems kinda pointless but doesn't actually hold up the proceedings, so whatever!

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'm not really sure why, since other things you charge aren't always going to be even amounts. Unless you are that customer. And undoubtedly go inside at gas stations to make sure you only pay $20 and don't have to play chicken with the pumps. Or something.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

...maybe they like their credit card statement to be neat? I really don't know! I had a teenager try to buy $21 of makeup with silver coinage (5c, 10c, 20c, 50c) today. She ran out at $14.35 and asked if that would do!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

*blink, blink*

maybe it's OCD, maybe it's Maybelline.

[http://users.livejournal.com/lady_alatariel_/]

Unfortunately it does make sense, but only because I know how CRAZY people really are!!
I regularly have a customer who brings in her payroll check and deposits like $233.68 and gets $487.34 or some weird amounts like that back in cash. Weirdos

[ook.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes it does. When I buy gasoline, I always round off the dollar amount. And when I make bank deposits, I always make deposits in rounded-off amounts (like $1100.00 or $600.00).

This does NOT carry over to purchases where another person rings me up (or where I can't control the final dollar amount). I do like it when I make a purchase and it comes out to something odd like $23.23 or $6.66. :)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

No, it makes no sense whatsoever. You are correct.

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

Customers can be so ridiculous. Seriously. I love the people who think they're just making your day by standing there counting out their tiny change and holding up a glaring line. Because it's not way faster to just put their twenty in the till and give them whatever change the machine says, lol. *eyeroll*