Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Noo

upandcumming wrote: »

padd b1975 wrote: »

Hang around boards for a while, its only a matter of time before it reappears.
Some muppet will swear it happened to them and have photos to prove it.

Hold on... this is the story where someone met Bono in a restaurant and didn't realise he was sitting with Springsteen? And Springsteen took the photo?

Ya left out the part when he left the restaurant and met an American at a beeping pedestrian crossing who couldn't believe we let blind people drive here.

cloud493

My leaving cert business course has taught me that the retailer doesn't have to sell it for the advertised price, its called 'invitation to treat" :cool:

votecounts

ffs, ye are ruining a great thread

Tipsy McSwagger

Im only reading posts that have 5 or more thanks, too many non stinge posts lately.

phasers

for the record my Dad has done that delivery trick a couple of times. he's a regular at the Chinese though so they don't mind.

skylight1987

So, i know someone who brings home the salt and red sauce from mac donalds there is a big tin of them in the house . now thats stingey

Martyn1989

skylight1987 wrote: »

So, i know someone who brings home the salt and red sauce from mac donalds there is a big tin of them in the house . now thats stingey

The odd time when a drive thru McDonalds is brought home they throw a ketchup or two into the bag, one forward thinking individual stuck them in a drawer, we ran out, but we didn't really

Infairness stealing Heinz is better than buying Chef!

padd b1975

upandcumming wrote: »

Hold on... this is the story where someone met Bono in a restaurant and didn't realise he was sitting with Springsteen? And Springsteen took the photo?

Yeah thats the one.:-)

emeraldstar

skylight1987 wrote:

So, i know someone who brings home the salt and red sauce from mac donalds there is a big tin of them in the house .
now thats stingey

Meh. I do that. Not ketchup, but salt and sugar. Not from Maccy D's though as I never eat there. I use them that rarely, practically never, that there's really no need to buy full containers of them so it's handy to have the mini ones lying around.

edellc

When I was a student I had a friend who was working and earned a decent wage and lived at home not paying rent and stuff so she was fairly well off always looked groomed and dressed well, anyway whenever we went out she would try discretely go around the empty tables in the pub/bar that still had left over drinks on them and pour the leftovers into a glass and drink it....it was f*cking disgusting and I called her on it but she totally denied she was doing it :eek: she never bought a round of drinks but was quite happy to let others get one in

admiralofthefleet

skylight1987 wrote: »

So, i know someone who brings home the salt and red sauce from mac donalds there is a big tin of them in the house . now thats stingey

i do that and im anything but stingy. ive paid for the meal so if there are sachets on the tray i may as well bring them home and use them rather than seeing them going in the bin. thats just waste

Royal Legend

Huggles wrote: »

One of my mates is pretty bad. When we all go for a meal together she will take a calculator out and calculate her portion of the meal down to the last cent.

She's not in the south east is she, if she is I know who it is

Gingernuts31

chatterpillar wrote: »

No, this may be the policy in that garage, but it's not the law!!

I didn't get that policy from the garage I got it from Dunnes Stores. Thats why you see epos going around every day with their gun and printer checking prices.

The Big Red Button

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

I didn't get that policy from the garage I got it from Dunnes Stores. Thats why you see epos going around every day with their gun and printer checking prices.

Maybe I'm getting old. What are epos?

(Also, you're still wrong.)

QuiteInterestin

It stood for Electronic Point of Sales Equipment back when I worked in a shop. i.e. a fancy word for a till and scanner


As an aside, I love that this thread is still going, makes me laugh everytime I read it!

Gingernuts31

chatterpillar wrote: »

Maybe I'm getting old. What are epos?

(Also, you're still wrong.)

Wrong or not I don't want the hassle from a customer so if the manager can't be bothered to make sure everything scans and all the labels are correctly priced i'll sell it at the price thats advertised unless the item in question is marked with a specific price.

Amirani

Group of lads I know in college collect free Argos catalogues to use as fire starters in their rented accommodation.

upandcumming

NiallSparky wrote: »

Group of lads I know in college collect free Argos catalogues to use as fire starters in their rented accommodation.

Right job and all.

coffee_cake

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

Wrong or not I don't want the hassle from a customer so if the manager can't be bothered to make sure everything scans and all the labels are correctly priced i'll sell it at the price thats advertised unless the item in question is marked with a specific price.

then you get fired, the end

HalloweenJack

I remember in DIT, they used to charge something like 75c for a cup of hot water to make tea with.

fasttalkerchat

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

I didn't get that policy from the garage I got it from Dunnes Stores. Thats why you see epos going around every day with their gun and printer checking prices.

That's to make sure they're not charging more or less than advertised. Charging more pisses off customers and charging less can lose money for you. Tesco gave the product for free if you were overcharged by even 1 cent.

fasttalkerchat

NiallSparky wrote: »

Group of lads I know in college collect free Argos catalogues to use as fire starters in their rented accommodation.

They leave too much ash.

admiralofthefleet

HalloweenJack wrote: »

I remember in DIT, they used to charge something like 75c for a cup of hot water to make tea with.

when i ran the catering for roches stores i charged 10c for hot water in the canteen after women started bringing in their own teabags. they were using the hot water without making any contribution to the cost of heating the water so i was well justified in doing it

fasttalkerchat

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

when i ran the catering for roches stores i charged 10c for hot water in the canteen after women started bringing in their own teabags. they were using the hot water without making any contribution to the cost of heating the water so i was well justified in doing it

You charged staff for electricity used during their break? That is stingy!

Squ

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

thats just waste

The War Cry of the scab

bigneacy

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

Wrong or not I don't want the hassle from a customer so if the manager can't be bothered to make sure everything scans and all the labels are correctly priced i'll sell it at the price thats advertised unless the item in question is marked with a specific price.

If you worked for me, you'd be fired - hows that for stingy?

Enough of the stupid boring arguments and on with the tales of stingosity. Best thread on boards.

dsmythy

More people should be "stingy".

Kolido

dsmythy wrote: »

More people should be "stingy".

For the sake of this tread I totally agree

artvandelay48

My brother in law stayed with use for four months, expected us to feed him and he gave us 200 euros... He had a very well paid job at the time and just came off working at a client site where his company put him up in an apartment, rent free... he spent nearly a whole year not paying rent...

BunShopVoyeur

Gingernuts31 wrote: »

the customer has the right to get it at advertised price

Incorrect.