Not at all sure about this.

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My friends son asked her to buy him one of the new games . He had seen it advertised in Asda at a reduced price if you spent a certain amount in the shop. He was paying for the game with his wages from his new Saturday job - he is 15.He gave her £30 for the game.

My friend agreed to get the game and spent the required amount to get the reduced price.
There was some sort of mix up at the till and she ended up with the game for free.Seemingly this was a glitch and was receipted properly.

So she went home and gave her son his game - happy boy . Then she told him there was a mix up with the price and gave him back....£10.

AIBU to expect her to have given him back the whole amount or is she NBU because ,as she put it ,she 'wouldnt have needed to spend the money unless it was to get the game in the first place'. She is adamant she is right.She didnt do it to teach him about money/bargains etc -just kept it because she felt she 'earned 'it.

They arent awash with money but dont struggle too much either. This was the boys first wages ever.

YANBU... She's just being dishonest.

Well I would have given mine back the whole 30.00, really can't understand anyone wanting to make money out of their children, but then I probably would have bought the game for him anyway:o

Maybe he should have just bought it himself?

Well, first of all she's been dishonest in how she came by the game.
Second she's being a nasty baggage hanging on to the money. But really, why didn't she tell the cashier that they had made a mistake? A few pence maybe, but £30 of mistake is a big mistake.

Well really the money belongs to Asda, not to either of them.

Split the profit?

Think that 'wouldnt have needed to spend the money unless it was to get the game in the first place' is irrelevant and a lie - I bet she only bought groceries that she would have bought anyway.

Your 15 year old has a game he wanted for a lot less than he would have paid if he had bought it himself - assuming it costs more than £30 if you buy it alone and he got it for £20. So he hasn't done too badly.

If you mean that there was a mix-up so that the cashier may have to pay out of her wages or risks being accused of fraud, that is really not nice at all.

The dishonesty is between the woman and her son. If ASDA mess up prices at the checkout and the customer benefits it's no big deal. But she spent £0, kept back £20 of his money and, in my book, that's stealing.

I would have pointed out the difference to the cashier. I would hate to have someone pay for that sort of mistake.

I would NEVER steal from my own children! To my mind, that is stealing. She should have explained what happened (athough like I stated above, she should have pointed out the error) and given his money back. All of it.

She is dishonest. [disapproving]

She should have given the money to him, or back to the shop.

SHE IS DOUBLY DISHONEST !!
SHE SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE CASHIER ABOUT THE MISTAKE - WHAT IF THE CASHIER HAS TO PAY IT BACK WHEN THE TILL DOES NOT BALANCE
AND TO TAKE THE MONEY FROM HER OWN CHILD - WHAT SORT OF MOTHER SETS EXAMPLES LIKE THIS ??

if it was a till error (and these do happen) that meant the price wound up as £0 then she wouldn't owe the shop, though i would think she should give it back o her son.

I have never heard of big supermarkets making up shorts out of wages....

That's horrible!

What a mean mum, to do that to her son

When a till or cashier messes up the money, it's just one of those things - I've had friends work in large supermarkets before and they have never faced repurcussions for what, to the business, is a minute loss.

When a mother lies to her son and also steals from him, that's just horrid. He gave her the money because he trusted her, and she's abused that.

Oh, so it wasn't even your son, it was her son.

She sounds like a right cretin. She's not owned up to the cashier (who might get disciplined) and now she's robbing her kid of the money that she robbed from the cashier in the first place.

Sounds like a right treasure.

Aw, poor kid was using his wages and being responsible enough to save, spot the cheap deal, and ask his mum instead of 'expecting' to be bought the game. And she does this? I feel really sad for the boy. She should be proud of him instead of being such a miserly, selfish liar.

She probably didn't even notice she had been undercharged straight away, if it wasn't scanned or came up as £0 the till won't be down, so no need to start thinking the cashier will have to pay out of her own money!!

I've been undercharged before and not gone back, didn't realise it was such a huge crime when I'd done nothing to instigate it

I don't think what she did was so wrong, if she wouldn't have gone there and spent that money if she wasn't getting the game then she did go out of her way to get him the game.

As I see it the game is on the receipt- but the till not the cashier discounted £30, it may be because of how much she spent, some other offer on the game or a voucher, either way it is up to ASDA computer bods to fix that.

He gave her £30 to buy him something
She didn't need to buy it in the end as she got one free
So she sold her freebie to her son for £20 a better deal than he could get elsewhere.

So she profiteered off her son, perhaps to make up for all of the times she has freely given in the past

BUT She lied to her son about how he came to get such a fab deal, and sadly having a dishonest relationship with your teenager doesn't bode well in parenting.