Revenge or To Practice Forgiveness?

[GoldenEagle]

I doubt I will do anything, but what do you all think?

 

Sounds like to me JTC that the cashier may be stealing? If this employee is scamming you then they're possibly scamming other customers as well.

 

Personally, I would at the very least tell the owner/manager.

 

I worked as a manager for a movie theater. One of the biggest causes of shrinkage was stealing from employees.

 

Tax evasion is also a serious crime as I understand it. Not sure about that one.

 

God bless,

GE

[GoldenEagle]

On a side note I think quitting smoking is a great idea to save money. Assuming $31.50 spent a week this habit costs you $1,638.00 on average each year.

Or also have you tried the patch?

[nikki1]

I would take the problem to the store manager.  Have the cost all tallied up on a piece of paper plus what you buy, just like you explained here in your OP,  and ask the manager why the difference in price.  I hope you saved your receipts, because if it turns out the manager tells you you are right, then the store owes you a refund. 

[Guest man]

Thank you to all who side stepped the issues, and didn't answer the question. That's what I get for being honest with you all.  Suppose it was notebooks and the same thing was going on. I wonder what you all would have said then?

 

 

 

What are you doing with all that paper? You must do a lot of writing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not that I have to answer this, but I've been trying very hard to give this nicotine addiction up.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I get tired of people telling me I should quit smoking. I've been smoking for over 40 years. I'm well aware of the hazards. I smoke because I want too, plain and simple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for going to another store, there really isn't another store I know of that sells these brand cigars, this cheaply.

 

 

 

 

Which is cheaper?

 

Losing a buck or two every week to bogus taxes or finding another outlet that offers your brand of tobacco?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I asked for advice here and received condemnation. So if any of you has wisdom, answer as if it was something other than cigars. Since I'm sure none of you do anything sinful anymore.

 

 

 

I don't believe anyone here is condemning you. Everyone was pretty much in agreement. Change retailers. 

 

Speaking for myself, I wouldn't give those people another dime of my money. I would go in and have a talk with the owner and tell him what's been happening and then I would tell him I wasn't coming back to his store. (you might get some free cigars    )

 

You mentioned you only go to this store at night when the owner isn't there. Is there a reason you can't go during the day?

 

 

 

 

 

I kind of want to try and call the owner and tell him. Although that may do no good. Or I suppose I could rat him out to the government. 

 

If I did 1 of those things is that taking revenge?

 

 

 

I don't believe that reporting a crime can be considered "taking revenge".

 

But, if you're reporting them in hopes of people losing their jobs, that could be seen as payback. What are your motives for turning them in to the IRS?

[JTC]

Thank you for better answers. I don't see it as revenge because I don't want anyone getting in trouble, such as being fired. I just want the 6th cigar free, as the sign says. But I don't plan on doing anything.

 

I have tried the patch before with fairly good results. I intend to use it again as soon as the weather cools off. Some people sweat like crazy while others barely sweat at all. I'm in the 1st group. I found in the past that the patch falls off me when I sweat. So pretty soon I should be able to use it, if I can afford it. I know in the long run the patch will be much cheaper than the cigars. It's just not easy to quit nicotine. And there's 2 parts to the addiction. One is the craving for the nicotine, and the patch helps that. The other is the sensation of the smoke going down into the lungs. And that I have to beat in my mind.

 

Thank you again.

[other one]

Hi Folks,

 

I want some opinions on this. This issue has been going on over a month now. I realize this involves something that is a sin, but there's other issues.

 

I still smoke tobacco, and that's the sin. I smoke cigars. I live in NY state where the sales tax is 8.75%.

 

True cigar shops include all taxes in the price of the Cigar. But convenience stores do not. And most people know, that small privately owned stores never pay all the sales tax they collect. I know this for a fact because I once had a friend who is a CPA, and he told me this.

 

Some convenience stores that sell good cigars have a sign in the window that says, but 5 get 1 free. The store I'm talking about is open 24 hours and I go there at night when the owner isn't there. The people who work in there are probably Mid Eastern.

 

So I buy 4 cigars at $5.99 each, and 1 at $4.99 which equals $27.95. Add tax and I get  $30.40. I am then allowed a free cigar so I take a $3.99 one as the free one. But when they ring it up, the total is $32.50. Sometimes it's $31.50. I tell the clerk this doesn't make sense, and they say I still have to pay tax on the free one. So sales tax on $3.99 = 35 cents. So the grand total should be $30.75. But it never is. I go in there once a week and but the cigars which last all week. 

 

But I'm getting sick of this. I say they are not just being dishonest, and in Proverbs we read the Lord hates dishonest scales.  But they are breaking the NY State tax laws.

 

I kind of want to try and call the owner and tell him. Although that may do no good. Or I suppose I could rat him out to the government. 

 

If I did 1 of those things is that taking revenge?

 

Or do I just keep trying to forgive them because where they come from, dishonesty is probably the name of the game.

 

I doubt I will do anything, but what do you all think?

I'd have to see your receipt, but the problem might be in the programing of the cash register.

If the employees are being dishonest, the owner needs to know.  If it effects the tax they collect it could get the owner in trouble.

 

I'd go by when the owner was there and see if it is the same