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Old Mar 14, 2007 | 9:19 am
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Rounding Up Tips - By Restaurant

I have never had this happen before, but am not really good about checking my credit card statement against receipts unless something glaring occurs, so maybe I have.

I transited MEM last month and stopped for dinner at one of the BBQ places (C gate area I think). I was looking at my statement and saw a charge for $30.00 I also happened to be going through expense reports and saw the receipt was for $29.33 - $25.33 plus $4.00 tip. Normally I would probably throw on another $, but service was rather poor, so went with 15%.

I could see a typo entering the final charge could end up $29.93, $293.30, $2.93 and so on, but rounding up to the next even dollar seems intentional. 67 cents is not a big deal to me, but I wonder if this is happening to hundreds of customers a day transiting airports. It is probably not somewhere you are going to frequent, go back to fight over and so on - as opposed to a local place you might go weekly that would lose repeat business.

Anyone else ever see this? I did an online dispute with my CC company to get it corrected it and flag it to VISA.
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