A Consumerist reader was scammed into giving a donation to Livestrong that he didn’t consent to, as he found out when he got home and discovered an unauthorized donation on his receipt.
Here’s the quick version: employee asks for a Livestrong donation, guy declines, employee charges him for a donation anyway. The customer has been calling and asking for a refund, but all Radio Shack personnel keep telling him to waste gas driving back to the store to get his dollar back.
Yes, it may just be a dollar, but it’s called a donation for a reason. Make sure to check your receipts when you exit the Shack, it smells like RS employees are getting some sort of kickback for getting Livestrong donations. [Consumerist]
matt
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:09 PMI went to skirmish with my school friends once.
great day, then probably a few months latter after I got home from the movies I checked the atm recipt that I’d got while I was out and thought that something didn’t add up. (I was at school, no job, so I didn’t keep track of my bank account). I went to go show my mum the receipt and pulled out what I thought was the ATM receipt and by the biggest fluke EVER ( as I never kept any receipts), I noticed that this was not infact the atm receipt saying I had $400 in my account, but the skirmish eftpos receipt saying that I’d been charged $440 for a pack of paintballs! they’ed added everything up right, but simply mistyped the total into the eftpos machine! charged $400 more than I should have been! and I might have never known!
I rang them up and they fixed everything immediate.
but lets just say LESSON LEARNED!