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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I really wanted sushi earlier, even though they do a 20% holiday surcharge. Whatever, I wanted sushi, I just sucked it up and paid for it. But then when I got home I saw they actually charged me 6 cents more than what they said my total was, and what the receipt says my total was (after surcharge). On the one hand, it's only 6 cents, hardly worth fighting for, but on the other they essentially stole it from me. If you tell me one price, and your screen says that same price, and the receipt says the same price, I'm pretty sure that's illegal

I actually do normally fight these sorts of things, as pathetic as it sounds, on the principal alone. But it takes a lot more motivation to when it involves physically going down there and complaining. A lot easier to do when I can write half an angrily worded email and get ChatGPT to do the rest. I also went to one of those franchise places, and I never have a very high success rate with those. And the ACCCs about as useless as tits on a bull

Sometimes I really just wanna flee to one of those fancy countries where they do weird foreign things like caring about their citizens and not letting shady businesses do dodgy things. The only problem is they are always really really cold