I once tried to ripoff a charity shop
I guess that counts as a greed, right? 'Twas just a few days before leaving for China for the first time, back in the mists of time (2007). I was idly browsing through an Oxfam bookshop one afternoon when I noticed there was a Chinese language grammar and character-writing set - two books for about 3.50 each. Good deal, and it struck me that learning a bit of Chinese might come in handy - you never know! So I went up and paid for them.

Except the nice lady at the till assumed they were 3.50 for the pair, not each. I kept schtum until she started to bag them, at which point she noticed the price on the smaller of the books. "Oh," she said. "This one is 3.50 too."

"Oh right," I said, obviously rumbled. The nice lady pretended not to understand, but she knew, and I knew she knew, that I'd been trying to con the shop out of this tiny amount. I paid up and got out of there as fast as I could, never to return. And that's how I tried to ripoff a charity shop.
(McChinaman banned, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 7:13, 5 replies)

i love mis-prices and shop errors (when the are in my favour)
Although, maybe not in oxfam.

Heat of the moment though, with an expensive trip to China ahead. I am sure the internet will let you off.

There will however be a few sanctimonius cunts on here who may not.
(OTT, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 8:33, closed)

Not all charity shops are lovely, fluffy places anyhow. There's one near here who got busted for donating the absolute minimum he legally could in order to qualify as a charity shop, playing fast and llose with 'unsold' stock, etc. He got his labour free, his stock free, 80% off his rates, gave as little as possible away, and skimmed a very nice house and a few cars off the top.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 8:49, closed)

Oh... Oh...
Well, I know of someone who will return items to charity shops if they don't fit.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 9:38, closed)

psss... it's Oxfam, they can afford it.
Ubercharity shops tend to blow the smaller independent ones out of the water.
( rjmrjm, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 10:26, closed)

All the same, it was humiliating

(McChinaman banned, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 14:05, closed)