5 Epic Billing Blunders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video I talk a bit about times people got accidentally ripped off, AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK. Save yourself. Watch this video. It'll change your life (not a guarantee). Also, what would you do with $123,000,000? Turn it in? Spend in? Get hunted down by a Russian gang or maybe spies?
ALSO, here's the bank thing I was talking about: www.revolut.com/en-CZ/referra...
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"This one's slightly illegal... A roommate of mine at university..."
Good cover, Simon ;)
If this happened in the US, he would be clear in 7 year by the statute of limitations. If it happened in England, then he would still be in trouble since England has no statute of limitations for criminal offenses.
Could be one of the reasons he lives in Prague. Next TopTenz video: top 10 (criminal) reasons why Simon no longer lives in England (on the lamb)
@@timothyneiswander3151 Hahaha, yeah, I had to flee ;).
me and a friend did the exact same in college with crates of coke and redbull we almost got caught when we brought 10 crates back to class ending in one idiot exploding some cans in an elevator putting it out of use OOPS.
"Just asking for a friend guys" - Simon
@@timothyneiswander3151 wait are you fucking kidding.... theres no statute of limitations??? That's sort of terrifying lol
"Who does that? Who checks their mom's shopping receipt?"
Probably someone whose mother spends 71 britbucks on bread
My mother checks my receipts. Of course I am a whippersnapper of 56, male and therefore incompetent.
True.
@@brainblaze6526 Something tells me I should check your receipts. I have my club cards on a keyring.
Love the term "britbucks", btw!
My question is more for the mom than the child. How do you pay for your shopping without noticing that your bill is way more expensive than the amount it should be? Maybe it's just me, but if my shopping were 70 more dollars than what I expected to pay- I wouldn't have the fucking money to pay it. That poverty life, yo.
"....a few extra zeros.".... in America we call that a medical bill.
That comment hurt in my pocket more then you'll ever know.
@@Jennifer_Devote Right
Unless it's GrayStillPlays.....then whatever you started with was "rookie numbers". :P
Maybe stop voting against your own interests then.
@@chuckphilpot7756 while essentially every other country has a public medical system ?
Simon’s friend is the exact reason there are employees at the self checkouts that stand there (or walk around) and watch you.
I once drove a neighbor who I found out later was a professional shoplifter. He went through the self check-out at Walmart, and didn't scan over two-thirds of the groceries, and then paid for what he did scan with food stamps. Another time he said that he grabbed a power tool from Home Depot and was walking out the store with through the Gardening department, when an Employee said something to him. Without batting an eye, he just turned and said "don't you just hate waiting in those long lines?" and kept on walking out with the merchandise.
Actually they stopped doing that here aside from the fact they need someone on staff to help with any STUPID shit that happens like when you improperly scan something or just move stuff around in your bag and the self-check out freaks out thinking you removed something.
Unless thry are understaffed and busy with something else or just talking with other.
@@_Abjuranax_ first time i met one of my best friends we stole a plastic lid from wallmart. She needed something to put her dishrack on top of to keep water from spilling out and there was this plastic box that had a cover that was perfect for that, but she didnt feel like paying for the whole thing. Since the cover didnt have any code or sensor on it, we just grabbed it and left. Right past the security guard. He didnt say a thing
@@badrequest5596 Thug life
The title should of read.
“Top 5 of Simons shopping stories”
I love it!
Hahaha true, but who wants to click on that? Gotta clickbait the shit out of it.
But you never go full-clickbait.
@@brainblaze6526 - ....or it should have at least had the word *"POTATO"* spelled correctly.
Many years ago, I was doing my "single guy" shopping. Beer, cigarettes and Ramen noodles. The cashier was scanning the items and neither one of us were paying attention. I thought the final bill was a little low, but the cashier said nothing. When I got home and looked at the receipt, I realized I had gotten a $15 carton of cigarettes for 19 cents, which is what each bag of Ramen noodles cost. COMPUTER ERROR! Not my fault.
I quit smoking 10 years ago. 😁
I love this channel. All the cussing. He’s so prim and proper on the other channels.
Ron Geissler exactly!
Glad you're enjoying it :)
Same here, love the other channels but this is far more chill.
It's rather refreshing.
Yes! It was like after watching her as Rose on Golden Girls, I saw Betty White in Lake Placid..."if I had a dick I'd tell you to suck it" I still laugh when I watch it. Simon always makes me smile lol
Around thanksgiving of 2003, the bolt on the starter that held my car's starter grounding wire dropped off (just a couple of inches, but the starter was still ungrounded, so it didn't work). I went to AutoZone to pick up a new starter. Ford sucks, so the starter was easily accessed by simply removing the entire engine, and I'm not really a mechanic (I can change the oil, but a lot more than that and I need an adult). I picked up the starter, paying for the part but somehow negotiating away the need to pay a core charge.
I got home, noticed the loose wire, secured it, then drove the part back unused and got a refund. Different employee also refunded the core charge. I informed him I hadn't paid it, but he insisted I had. All in all, I left $40 richer. When they had closed for the evening, I received a call from the manager. Seems that register was short $40 and they had me on file. I took the money back, and told the manager I informed the cashier that I didn't deserve the money because I never paid it.
Everyone calls me dumb for not keeping it, and that's fine. Is rather be called dumb for doing the right thing than push a lot of crap that I didn't deserve.
That's really sweet. At one time, I was at a highschool for kids with behavioral problems, and in the school- if you were good on your "school work", they'd have you work up to four days a week. Mostly local businesses- but you were more or less free labor for them, as it was actually the school paying you, rather than the business.
For awhile I was working at CVS. I was on cashier a lot, but since I wasn't working through corporate, I didn't have an employee ID number and had to use my co-workers. So there wasn't a record of who was at the cashier at any given time. One day I went into work and got pulled aside by the boss who said I had left the till 50 dollars short the previous day, despite the fact that I had only rung two people out for small transactions. Clearly my co-worker had either fucked up or pocketed 50$ and planned to blame it on me. It really sucked, as I already had enough stigma- having grown up in poverty, in a not so great part of town, and had gotten kicked out of mainstream highschool. I was able to keep working there, but I constantly got side eyed by my boss and a few coworkers.
Good on you for being honest. There's a good chance you saved someone's job.
I always check my reciepts. Have saved thousands over the years, from computer errors to sales persons to missed sale prices.
"wasn't actually me" safe with us dude
"Jesus Christ that must of been a slow news day." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the biggest price blunders in US history was the Montgomery ward “microwave blunder” back in the 70s, when $199 microwaves were sold for $1.99 due to a printing error in the Montgomery ward catalog. Although the price was obviously an error, it is illegal to advertise misleading prices to customers in most US states and company had no choice but to honor the $1.99 price until the sale ended on the date printed in the ad. As microwaves were still extremely expensive at the time (think Keurig coffee machines as a modern price equivalent ) Hundreds of thousands of customers flocked to Montgomery ward to take advantage of the super low price, costing the company tens of millions of dollars and heavily contributed to the company’s downfall a few years later.
I once got an LCD monitor for $12 from CompUSA they said you sure you want it? It does not work and there's no power cord. This was 2006. All it needed was a power cord. YAY! for me
Gotta like the more casual, comedic approach on this channel.
Glad you enjoy it :)
Coming to this channel after watching Simon on his other channels is like seeing your teachers outside of school for the first time... at rap concert.... totally smashed!!
That "Ba Da Bom Bom Tiss" was so epic, I had to rewind to watch it twice!
I've taken a while to appreciate your new style. Stodgy with hot undertones was your old vibe. But this 'We're all fools & friends here' version has definitely grown on me. TgT
I love getting baked and watching these videos, keep it up man
lol aye
👍👌
@@brainblaze6526 this channel made me a fan imho give simon more freeeedom on other channels
Why do you think its called Business Blaze? I think Simon might blaze it up before shooting blaze. Lol
I ALWAYS check my grocery recipes when in the car before I pull off.
Simon: They are houses that are in a row.
Me: What?
Words: The Harry Potter ones
Me: Oh!
I had a company som ten years ago that once accidentally billed $32.000.000 for an annual subscription for a domain and a website.
We call terraced houses, Town Houses in the states.
The two are different in the UK, their both terraced but to be a town house it generaly needs 3+ floors where as most terraces have just 2 (and maybe a cellar which is just a damp coal bunker inder the front room)
@@jhfdhgvnbjm75 in the states, both are called town houses, and what you call terraced is more common.
Indeed.
If ever my bank account suddenly has a couple million dollars rather than just cents it has currently, I will definitely be taking Simon's advice and earn the interest.
Dont forget to send me my cut ;).
@@brainblaze6526 I already calculated your commission.
That happened to us! Well, sorta kinda. In 1976 we were moving about 3 hours away so we went to close out the account. Come to find out there were several thousands in there, not the $150.00 we expected. So we took it and ran! Come to find out it was brother in laws money! Oopsie! 🤣 MIL opened accounts for all the kids when they were little. It was done all at the same time so the accounts had sequential numbers & similar names. The bank had been putting the money in Hubby's account accidentally! Bank paid back BIL & we had a little more moving money! 👍😁
Damn how do you sleep man. You have like 5 channels
Actually he is the host of 7 channels atm, but yeah, busy man.
He's a clone
Or he's a deep fake.....
Exactly Doug, he’s CGI. I haven’t seen him at a grocery store *ever*
@@boarder6246 Of course not... he has to be stealthy now that they found out about his self-checkout weighing scam.
I love Simon Whistler’s style on Business Blaze! This video is everything I love about this channel. :)
Thanks :)
Yis
"Harry Potter ones" for the America's... LMFAO!
I had to wait 22weeks for a new bank card for some reason or another, after complaining to the bank about the wait, I received an apology and was credited with £10 to cover any phone calls that I made to customer services, but all the calls I made were from inside the bank on their phones so I basically got £10 for nothing........
You clearly don’t value your time highly
I LOVE Simon. Initially when I first started watching his vids, he seemed so stiff and staid, but over the years he's loosened up and now shows us his sense of humor. Seems like a he'd be a fun person to know.
My opinion of a company is much more dependent upon how they handle mistakes, then on not making mistakes.
Yeah, your "roommate" . Wonder if it made the DVD taste better too 😎 lolz
I've never heard "Terrace Home," before, but apparently the word in America is "Townhouse."
It depends on where you are. Here in Pittsburgh and other Eastern cities such as Baltimore the term is simply "row house"
I had to come over here to watch this video to keep myself from verbally abusing the people in the comments of your top ten typos video. Talk about people with nothing better to do! Love this channel and can’t wait for the zebra mask 😘
@Bo Reed No. The whole point of the promo was to have people come over from that channel. And I like people who support me in what I do. Thank you Jessica.
Discovered you had this channel yesterday and I cannot stop watching and laughing! Amazing work, this format of videos is fantastic :)
Thanks :D
Oh-Oooh, take the money and run!
- Steve Miller Band
One topic that you can delve into is how LEGO almost went bankrupt, and how the company were able to make a remarkable recovery. Here’s a few general points:
•LEGO hired a bunch of people that were smart, but didn’t know toy design
•Lego’s core themes, especially Town, got neglected as they kept trying all sorts of new things. Despite being beloved, Bioncle was among these, but it actually succeeded.
•Among all these new ideas came Galidor, widely regarded as the worst LEGO theme ever
•When the then new CEO took over, he immediately went to work to reverse the near bankruptcy the company was facing
or how Circuit City switched from commissions to hourly salespeople, causing a massive death spiral of employees with absolutely no incentive to help customers. www.sfgate.com/business/article/Circuit-City-firing-its-best-salesmen-2635042.php
I like the infamous Quayle potato in your thumbnail.
It's called "not knowing how to spell"
Has Simon put on the zebra mask yet? I may not have watched closely enough on recent videos ;)
I have been watching every video. It has not happened yet.
Recorded the video with it yesterday :D. Coming next week I should think ;)
I love all of your "Allegedly" stories. I know a lot of TH-camr don't view yourselves as celebrities, but for many years you have been to many of us. But you're so much more relatable and human than traditional celebrities.
I only discovered your new channel this afternoon and I’ve already watched all your videos. Keep up the great work!
My own one: I used my debit card for a £2 sandwich in the Stansted WH Smith and it randomly spat out about £4 in change
That’s a win
Just discovered this channel, I like the fact Simon is more chill and doesn't care about being serious as much as Today I Found out, and he just brings up stories and stuff, I like this style more.
Glad you like it :).
If someone deposited a few (hundred) mil into my bank account, I’d sit on it and collect interest. Oh, it’s yours? Here you go.
Walk off quietly with my thousands or hundreds of thousands in interest.
I always have a habit of looking at the prices on the Aisle and compare everything on my bills
Especially during weekly shopping! 50% of the time something is overpriced while on sale
Very few times I had to pay less for their mistake!
I've watched so much business blaze in quarantine last night I dreamed my Simon was my best friend and we had a tearful DMC
I absolutely love all of your channels and the content you cover.
Thanks :)
Legend has it, she's still receiving roses to this day.
Wasn’t sure about the informal style of this channel at first (all the other channels fronted by Simon are so tightly produced) but this is fast becoming my favourite of the Whistler empire!
Thanks :). Glad you gave it a chance :)
Love all your channels Simon
The electric company handed my mom a $4,000 electric bill one time because it turned out she was paying an "estimated bill" for many months without knowing (or being told by the company) that we were using more power than the estimated bill was for. So for all those months she was paying only a portion of what the actual bill was, then was suddenly told "oh by the way you owe us $4,000, give it to us or you won't have power".
Thankfully she was able to pay it off monthly over time, but if the bill showed what it was supposed to be in the first place we would have lowered our power usage considerably and we wouldn't have had the issue to begin with.
I’ve been watching these videos start to finish almost all day at work for the last few weeks. I am becoming a blazing legend.
2:15 - Chapter 1 - Not enough bread
5:15 - Chapter 2 - The invisible radium ass
8:15 - Chapter 3 - An alarming tale
10:05 - Chapter 4 - The biggest phone bill in history
11:35 - Chapter 5 - 123 000 000 error
I love this channel! It's very informal and Simon's character and personality really shines through!!! Love it. Keep up the great work!! ❤
Thanks :). Glad you're enjoying it!
I worked om checkouts for awhile I remember one day I scan some carrots they came up as $20,000 I ask the customer that will be 20k she said, what why, I replied they are Organic. we had a good laugh before giving them to her for free.
Wow, this one actually has the link spoken of in the video. Thanks for including it!
I know. But don't get used to it ;)
I enjoy all of your content. Thanks for creating it. I definitely have at least one of your channels playing on a daily basis when I am doing something.
Another Aussie received a huge deposit when a bank employee entered the BSB and account number in the wrong field - he also contacted them, got laughed at and ended up contacting the media to get the bank to take him seriously.
Also "Theft by finding" - if you find a large sum of money you're meant to report it or could technically be charged with theft if the police find out it was you. Assuming the person who lost it filed a report and they can prove that's the money you found
Thanks again dude, love ya vidz.
Simon: "How could someone not notice being overcharged for bread?"
Also Simon: "It took me years to notice I wasn't getting 50% discounts"
I didnt even know they had the self checkout thingy 10 years ago 😂
Walmart had self checkout in 2008, idk about before that because thats the first time i stepped foot in a walmart.
It was more common in the EU (or Europe and the UK for the brexit fans) back 20 years ago.
For sure, I worked in a store that had them around 2004.
We had them in some stores in Pittsburgh 20 years ago.
Many years ago I worked as a checkout attendant in a large village supermarket.
Was on the early morning shift and an old lady bought a pastie which scanned at £1,700. She was a little surprised by this (as was I).
They had reset some price codes overnight and this caused the error in the only 2 pasties on sale next morning.
This channel is a lot more casual I kind of like it
Idc how old you are or who you are, get the free bonus card 😂
As soon as they flashed "the Harry Potter ones" I understood what terraced houses are lol!
Love this channel❤ glad to see his sense of humor better
Got a bill for $0.00 great. Bug I kept getting it then threaded with more bills. I had to write a check for $0.00 they would not take cash, and I didn't give it, technically.
😂😅🤣 I pissed myself laughing with you in this vid. You have such a wicked sense of humour & quick wit. Loved this channel from the get go & has become my favourite channel of the Whistler Co. 👊🤘
Well thanks :)
"must have been a glitch in the system"? LOL, sounds like an Act of God to me, and good luck to the bank in proving it wasn't.
Oh man, I use those discount cards as much as possible. It’s the same when I order food online. I was a cashier in my much younger days so I go over my receipts every time. Simon, you crack me up on this channel. I love all of your channels but I giggle 🤭 every episode of this one. Carry on. 👍🏻. Edit: I worked in telecommunications for nearly 20yrs. I won’t say which one, but the horror stories of stupidity I’ve heard would fill volumes of books. It’s stunning.
Thank you Danny for the great script!
You should do a video on how this bald British expat on the internet named Simon Whistler managed to start his own little mini-empire of TH-cam channels and how he manages to do so many of them simultaneously.
It's magic.
Can't spell potato tho
In the 1970s, an energy company in Melbourne, AU, started using computers to do the billing; they were overconfident in their system (or their employees' ability to use it) and abandoned manual billing / checking too soon.
A customer received one of the new computer-generated bills - for $0.00. Deciding to make a point, he sent the company a cheque for $0.00. When that amount was entered into the system, mayhem ensued: the computer system crashed and it took days to reprogram it so that it could deal with the amount of $0.00.
3:50 That's how they make money, Simon; charge random people up at butt for random items *hoping* they don't care enough to change it
These videos are great, I appreciate the laidback humor
Glad you like it :)
This is number one on my Top10 Business Blaze episodes
it sounds to me based on the story that the grandma might have been being taken care of by the daughter, early dementia kind of thing. would explain why she's checking her mom's receipts and why grandma might have missed it.
Amazon almost gave me a $1500 TV. I let it go for a while thinking they would figure it out, but they never did. 3 months later, I called them and told them about it. My conscience was beating the crap out of me the whole time.
I know a guy who bought a $2.50 sandwich, but they somehow accidentally charged him $250. He noticed it on his VISA statement and went back to sort it out. They apologized, and attempted to refund the sandwich, but screwed up again and and instead charged him a further $250.
lol epic.
A friend of mine was once the 'victim' of a software glitch involving the company's time clock. He normally worked 30 hours per week but one week the time clock said that he clocked in on a Wednesday and didn't clock out again - at all that week. The automated system credited him with, and paid him for, over 90 hours that week.
He said nothing and the company never caught it.
Million billion? Are you messing with us? Lol great video
beats trying to slide "buzzillion" by us. lol
It would technically be a quadrillion. But people don't tend to know the numbers after trillion :)
Back when I worked as a cashier at a military commissary, one of our customers came to the store with a receipt showing that she'd paid $78.78 for a jar of hot fudge topping that should have been 78 cents. It was easy to see what happened - the person entering the prices into the computer stuttered on the keys. I once mistakenly rang up some cans of cat food as 50-pound bags of dog food, which resulted in a charge of more than $200.
The other day I had to stop the cashier because they rang up my $3/lb button mushrooms as $50/lb chanterelles!
There was a case recently about a kid who got arrested on trying that DVD trick but with PS4. The scam succeeded the first time, but he got arrested when he tried to do it again.
here in New York the little moron probably would have gotten arrested when he tried to return it for a refund. "Hmmm, my COMPUTER says this was stolen, and here is the video. Smile, you're on UNcandid camera, dufus!"
We (daughter & I + 5 grandkids, all boys age 7-17) stopped at the taco truck for lunch. Ordered 4 carnitas tacos a piece @ $2.00 each. Thats 28 tacos & should be $56.00 + tax. We got our food, I held up my debit card to the gal & she walked away! I waited. And waited. And waited! We could hear them chatting in the back but after several long minutes she never came back! So we left! Thanks for the free food! 👍😁
Love your French, Simon. It's called boo-y-gue, the telecom company ^^
Maybe cause I'm Asian, but since I was a kid, I always estimated how much the groceries would cost before checking out and seeing how well it would match. If it didn't I would automatically check the receipt
I am not Asian but i generally know how much things cost, so if the price seems to high or to low i check recipe. Several times i spotted errors, surprisingly most were in my favor and being a honest person would inform the cashier about them to correct, i do not leave the que before i verify, if i suspect something is wrong, because if you do they won't correct any errors that are in theire favor (is the law in my country and you need to do a scene to management and they can just say no)
I'm with Simon. If I found a ton of money I'd walk the eff away because that money would definitely come with a side of murder!
Imagine you being the journalist to write that loaf story.
There was a story from about 10 years ago about a petrol station in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK which, during a row about fuel pricing, in which a litre of fuel was being sold at 33p! Cue long queues as locals got to hear about the cheap petrol! However, it turned out that the price was a mistake, as the wrong price had been entered! As soon as the error was reported to the petrol station management, it was halted.
Right before my son was born we were shopping on walmarts website, looking for a play pen, or portable crib. They posted one for $2.00 so we bought two. Later that day it was reposted at $200.00. Can't beat that!
I like this new channel.
If the bank accidentally put that much money in my bank account, it would be wire transfered to a bank account in the Cayman Islands and I'd be following it to a non extradition country 😂
Video 22 Danny is back, as he always does. Figured the last few videos where recorded a while before the ones with Danny. Only the second rimshot ever! Danny is making Simon laugh again 😍
I always check that the specials are charged correctly. More than once I've gotten to the till and they haven't changed the prices. Another thing I do is, if something is labeled on special I take a photo of the tag on the shelf. This stops another practice I've encountered. It comes up at full price at the till and when you point this out, they send someone to go look to see if the price is right, they remove the tag, claiming it isn't on special anymore and that there was no tag, or that there is a tag, but it was for a different product or brand.
Which also brings me to another issue. Putting the tag for the wrong brand under something that is not on sale. Or if it is something like shampoos, they put it under the conditioners instead. So you land up getting the wrong item. This causes issues big time.
My local Walmart is inordinately fond of doing those.
I don't go there anymore.
Simon, thanks for the revolut tip! Going to use that in future for some of those annoying big companies that pull that on you.
It’d incredible for that :)
2 years ago, our monthly water bill came through as (South African) R330 633 (About $22 400). Our bill is usually about R600, so this was about 550 months, all charged in one bill. Long story short, it took us 11 months to sort out, during which they threatened to take our house to cover the bill (paid off and worh R1.2m, about $80 000), even though they admitted they had not actually taken a water reading from the meter in 6+ years! In the end, we got the account written off, R3600 credit and a new water meter at their expense, so we could try again.
We now take a photo of the reading monthly and take it to them, to work out the bill. We are also down to average R450 a month and they still have not come out to check!
They're often called "Townhouses" in the U.S. for anyone curious. But townhouses does technically mean it has to have multiple floors.
Edit : this isnt true about the multiple floors and in the replies we have figured out that people are split between rowhomes and townhouses.
Townhouses don't *have* to have extra floors. They just have to be connected together by a shared wall. I've been in some in where they were extra deep instead of having a second or third floor. In some areas they're also known as "Row houses"
@@SquishySenpai ah good to know!
I dont know where I got the multi-floor rule from haha
I'd go with "Row Homes"
In the UK, a townhouse is a big usually expensive terrace house, at least 3 or 4 floors tall. Which is because in the 18th century the term was used by the wealthy who had country houses as well.
In New York, we usually call the houses in a row "row houses."
Most memorable one is mispriced shot glasses. Big chain liquor store put 2 flats of 100 shot glasses on clearance but blundered and listed it as $0.10 instead of $1.00 each. I bought 10 and kindly pointed out the obvious mistake to the clerk, who then proceeded to try and charge me the $1/ea. I pointed that WI laws state you have to give it for the cheaper price and he was only losing $9 on my purchase. He still acted angry that I wouldn't let him charge the higher price, and I told him I'd just buy all 200 (cuz for me it'd be $20, big deal); he stared at me like I was joking as he was scanning some other goods, and I told him 1 sec while I grab a soda.....
Came back with both flats and said I was going to purchase these. The guy has always given me 'that look' ever since whenever I shop there. lol
Simon this stuff is really helpfull
I love how much you teach your followers. I'm getting that card.
I think this is my favorite Simon, along with the BrainFood Show Podcast
Thanks :)