every time I get cash back with my debit card I feel like I just Jedi mind-tricked the cashier

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"yeah that's right, I'll take this microwave popcorn and whatever you got in the till"

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

then I act extra smiley and polite until I get out of the store to distract everyone and keep them from realizing what's just happened

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I imagine the other customers speaking amongst themselves in hushed whispers, wondering: who is this suave motherfucker who breaks all the rules?

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

I like doing this because, HELLO! No transaction fee!

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE

― braveclub, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

little kids tugging on their parents' sleeves, demanding an explanation for the outrageous occurrence that they've just witnessed. their mothers shush them and shoot nervous, apologetic glances my way.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

I like doing this because, HELLO! No transaction fee!

-- Oilyrags, Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:14 PM (1 minute ago)

well yeah, obviously it's practical and economically sound, but I just can't get over how weird it feels! I keep waiting for the day when a clerk sees through my web of deceit and realizes that I'm supposed to give him money.

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

You mind-trickin' yo self

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

I still feel like I'm getting jobbed when I see that "$20? $40? $60" prompt come up on the pad. Like, there's gotta be a catch. I'm not falling for that "13 records for a penny" scheme or whatever it is they're trying to pull on me.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

The key is to first walk around the store for 2 hours with an empty grocery bag for no reason.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

"I walk out of here with this bucket of trail mix and twenty bucks in cash? NOT TODAY, TRICKSTERS."

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

I dont understand this thread. Is EFTPOS with cash out a new thing to you guys or something? I get extra cash out with my atm purchases all the time.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

The SHIFTY EYES is the new phenomenon, the constant nose, scratching, and the dashing out after cashier gives you HELLA BONUS. The flying pig waving and entertaining you while you wait in line is not.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

the constant nose?

― kenan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

I ALWAYS get called back to the register to actually get my cash. If I'm ever rich I'll just say "keep it" and keep walking.

― negotiable, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

xpost truth be told, there's a lot in that post I do not understand apart from the extra comma.

― kenan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

I dont understand this thread. Is EFTPOS with cash out a new thing to you guys or something? I get extra cash out with my atm purchases all the time.

Oh, here we go. Nothing like being asked "Savings or Check?" when trying to pay for something with my CREDIT card down there...

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I get extra cash out with my atm purchases all the time.

Wait, you buy things at the ATM? Is there a chocolate bar chute in Australian cash machines?

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

I dont even know why they ask that PP! Who the fuck has a cheque account anymore anyway?

― Trayce, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry by atm I meant EFTPOS.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Do Australians say "EFTPOS"?

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

When I get cashback, I don't feel like I've tricked the cashier, but I always worry that they think I'm a fraudster who's just buying something in order to get the cash. I always make my "Ooh, yes I will have cashback please" sound insouciant.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

yes, please give me $3000 with my pabst six-pack

― lfam, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

I think £50 is still the cashback limit in shops here, but I don't like to ask, for fear of looking like a fraudster desperate for as big a time a swindle as I can pull off.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yes Australians say "EFTPOS". But it's more "efposs"
xxxp

― Drooone, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yes they do say EFTPOS but more commomnly, from K mart to Woolies the masses in checkout aisles reverberate in unison; BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! Impulse confectionary never had it so good.

― Kiwi, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: ooh yeah, that's a paranoia I'd almost forgotten about: the "they'll think I've stolen the card and am now using it to get 40 bucks from every grocery store in town rather than just buying a motorcycle (or whatever it is that people with stolen debit cards do)" one

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

truth be told, there's a lot in that post I do not understand apart from the extra comma.

Serial comma is just fine, I'm not writing for the AP here.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

ok then tell me about why this nose is so particularly constant.

― kenan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, this always makes me feel a little tricky. Especially at the supermarket. I get paranoid that everyone is glaring at me and thinking "WTF, this is not a bank. Go to an ATM like a normal person. Just buy your Jell-O and let's keep the line moving. Oooh, we'll all just wait while Mr. I Don't Have $40 and Ms. Can't Find Any of 10,000 ATMS on This Block get their precious money."

― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I almost always do self-checkout now anyway.

― kenan, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

But every time I'm at the supermarket the checkout chick/d00d asks me if I want cash out. I don't feel bad about it at all.

― Drooone, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

What they NEED is a magical system that can give you cash back when you pay with cash. I mean, that's when you NEED more cash, right? Cause you just spent some. Thus I'd totally support allowing you to use the swiper as an ATM while they're sorting out your cash transaction and bagging up your stuff.

xpost Yeah, I kinda wonder why they're so good about asking you -- is there some kind of incentive for them to do that? I can't imagine why there would be; your bank surely wants you to use cash as seldom as possible, so ...

― nabisco, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

The glory days were when you could do this on your credit card, until they wised up.

― stet, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah, I kinda wonder why they're so good about asking you -- is there some kind of incentive for them to do that? I can't imagine why there would be; your bank surely wants you to use cash as seldom as possible, so ...

I heard/imagined that it was because shops have to deal with an excess of banknotes and would rather be left with as few as possible at the end of each day.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

(plus I guess it's another service that might pull you into the shop)

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

So the stores are trying to pass off the odds of being mugged to their customers.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

"Sorry I don't have much in my till, but I just gave that guy in the blue jacket eighty dollars!"

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

Exactly! It's like pass the parcel with high stakes.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Russian pass the parcel.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

One packet of styvey blues, one packet of tallyhos and $8.50 on eftpos please

― badg, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

nah softpack thanks

― badg, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

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