How far would you take it, for a $1.00?

Question

I had a hour to kill, so I decided to clean the inside of my car. I went inside this gas station, and bought 3 lottery tickets, and ask for change. I asked 1 of 2 guys behind the counter, if the vacum cleaner worked. 1 guy said, sure it works. I went prepare my car for cleaning and put 4 quarters in the machine. The machine didn't work. I was kinda of mad, that the guy misinformed me. As I'm walking back to tell him about it, I'm thinking is this really worth it, should I just go and never come back to this station. So, this time when I went in the other guy waits on me. I told him, that the the vacum cleaner was broke. First thing came out his mouth, was the machine is not ours. I said, but the other attendant told me it was working. He smiled and said, but its not ours. I said, so your not refunding my dollar? He just smiled and said no. What would you have done? Should I have made a scene? Would you have?

Answer 1

I would ask whose machine it was and how to contact them.

Answer 2

i wouldnt have said anything in  the first place its not worth a buck

Answer 3

I would have run over the vaccum machine then ram my car into the front of the store!

that will teach them not to **** with me!

Answer 4

rip his heart out.

i hate people like that excuse my language but ther di##heads

id complain to the station and try and make ur friends not go there that way theyl earn less money

Answer 5

i wouldnt have made a scene..but i would have been really mad

it's not about the dollar...but the fact that he didnt do anything about it

Answer 6

I would have cursed at him and then call the owner about. And then maybe punch him :P

Answer 7

What can he do?  The machine is not his!  So you should have said first, Well you need to put a sign on the machine that it is out of order, then ask for the number for the person who does own the machine.

Answer 8

i wouldnt care  

Answer 9

Yelling at the store people is just pointless.  I used to work in a gas station and we had machines that were not ours and we couldn't do anything.   It was really frustrating that I could not refund, but it was the policy of the store owner that I was working for.   I know that is is probably really frustrating for you as well.  The store clerk should have said  "use it at your own risk, we have no responsibility over that machine".  The store clerk is at fault for saying that it worked in the first place.  If I was the store clerk, I would have given you a dollar out of my pocket for telling you that it worked in the first place.  Contact the people who own the machine, and complain to the store owner.

Answer 10

It's not as much about the dollar as it is about the whole principle of the thing. They lied to you, you lost a dollar, now they must die. Just kidding.

The second guy probably lied too. After you left they went out and opened up the money compartment and took out your dollar, split it between them, yahoo'd and then went and spent it all at one place.

Just do what you feel you need/want/have to do. Pick your battles. If it was important to you, say something, if not, forget it. You could maybe have put in a complaint with the manager or something. Maybe called the Better Business Bureau and complain too.

Never know what kind of con games people got going at any time. Sounds to me like they tell unsuspecting customers that the vacuum works and then they put their money in and it turns out it doesn't work, then the old standby, "oh that's not our vacuum, sorry." Then it's all money they don't even report to the IRS. Filed under: money ripped off from unsuspecting people. Total B.S. I'd stick a sign on it that says out of order, but make it kind of small so these guys don't see it right away but so other people who may try to use it will see it and maybe other's some grief and put a little dent in their con game. Can't really call them con "artists" since ripping someone off a dollar at a time is a really slow way to go about getting rich. More like con "amateurs."  

Answer 11

first I wouldn't have gotten mad at the first guy, he probably didn't know it was broken. Second, I probably would have just cleaned my car at home where I could have used my own vacuum cleaner for free. But if I was at a station I would have just shrugged, gone home and vacuumed it there. Really a dollar isn't very much these days, it's almost like flipping out at one of those quarter candy machines at the mall/store when it didn't give you anything in return.