Receipt for $1 gas station purchase

I don't have a problem asking for a receipt if I didn't get one. And if someone looks at me funny I talk about my hubby who likes to make sure the budget balances to the penny each month and then I give a funny look. They usually laugh with me. Of course they have no idea I'm not actually married. LOL.

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Thanks again for all the helpful tips. I just completed the first gas station and it was no problem. I wound up having to get my gas receipt inside, too, so I just asked for both at the same time. Nothing said, no funny look, etc.

I've always got the combo discount. You are not lucky!

What discount, minute00? I'm new to Sonic.

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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I did one a couple of days ago. The clerk didn't ring up my purchase on the register. He just took the money and put it in a box under the counter. I asked for a receipt. He kinda looked surprised I needed a receipt for $1.25 purchase. He then got a charge slip and used the manual credit card imprinter and manually wrote me a charge slip receipt.

Oh yes...........the name tag.

As soon as I handed her the Authorization letter, she said, "I'll be right back" and left the cashier area. Same thing, took a piece of paper, wrote her name on it and stapled it to her uniform. Except, I told her that she's not playing fair and I would not take her picture that way. And, I waited and waited. She finally gave in and took the paper off.

CotePony Wrote:
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> Oh yes...........the name tag.

As soon as I
> handed her the Authorization letter, she said,
> "I'll be right back" and left the cashier area.
> Same thing, took a piece of paper, wrote her name
> on it and stapled it to her uniform. Except, I
> told her that she's not playing fair and I would
> not take her picture that way. And, I waited and
> waited. She finally gave in and took the paper
> off.

What gas stations are you doing that require (or even allow) you to take the employee's picture? I perform several different gas stations and my guidelines state that you can't take the employee's picture.

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I'd go ahead and take the picture with the name-on-piece-of-paper. Someone's eventually going to look at those photos, I'd assume.

I know there's one gas station audit that asks you for a photo of the employee, if the employee is willing. Half my photos are named: CounterWithEmployee, and the other half are named: CounterCameraShyEmployee.

I recently did a bunch (140) gas stations that did not pay for the inside purchase but you had to purchase something. How about asking for a receipt for a .20 piece of candy!!

I ask for my receipt for all of my purchases, whether it's a shop or not. I do it so I can track all my expenses - business and personal - and it's just habit now. Just ask for it, don't offer an explanation or mumble anything. What is that saying about he who doth protest too much?

I always allow the employee to put a nametag on after the fact, and always do the following. "No" to the employee wearing a nametag. In the note section "employee was not wearing a nametag upon arrival. After revealing myself, the employee put on a nametag."

As a former gas station worker, I can tell you this is a large part of how we twigged to who our shopper was in a few minutes flat. Best make the request part of a simple explanation, eg: "can I get a receipt for my boss?" If our shopper had added those three magic words, she would have reduced so much suspicion because our own boss was that anal-retentive. Don't be needlessly elaborate, but if you can do something simple like that, it'll help.

If you are doing Exxon Mobil, you can put it in your profile to print credit card receipt automatically. then pay with the credit card and wave the little wong around and it prints automatically, inside or out. Other companies have it too.

@ KateH ~ I could be wrong but I thought the guidelines for that project say that you can't use your Exxon Mobil credit card. I am guessing that the wand thing counts as a credit card.

Wait, there are shops that ask you to take pictures with the employee?

I wonder if that one weird guy was shopping me once and couldn't come up with a good excuse . . . . I had a guy tell me to smile and when I did (as fakeish as I could manage because who are you to tell me to smile) he snapped my picture. I asked what he was doing and he told me I was pretty. I told him to delete the photograph because I hadn't consented to a photograph.

. . . . y'know, on second thought, if he was doing a shop of some kind he was awfully unprofessional, because he got really mad that I wouldn't let him keep his picture of "such a pretty young girl."

Never mind, back to the first question. With weirdos like that walking around, WHY would anyone with half a brain ask a shopper to take a photograph of an employee?!

ninamason Wrote:
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> Never mind, back to the first question. With
> weirdos like that walking around, WHY would anyone
> with half a brain ask a shopper to take a
> photograph of an employee?!

The guy in your story--he's a weirdo plain and simple. If you ever see him again, call the cops!

The shop I'm thinking of is a revealed audit. So, what the employee hears is, "I need to take a picture of the front counter. They'd like you to be in the picture, but if you don't want to be, you can just step to the side." And at this point, they've seen me trotting back and forth for a while, taking pictures of everything from the restrooms to the gas pumps.

I haven't done too many of these--I have a bunch coming up next month--but I haven't gotten any bad reaction. As I said, I've gotten 50 percent posing with a big grin on their face, and the other 50 percent slipping discreetly out of camera range. No one showed any sign of feeling bothered, either way.

Oh, I saw him one more time. File that one under "stupid stuff people did with cops in the store" as I mentioned in some other thread. He started berating me over the picture and the officer getting a cup of coffee behind the bar wandered over and said "trouble, Nina?"

I never saw anybody turn that white that fast or speed out of there that quick. Messing with me with cops in the store was a stupid idea. I used to give them free drinks and hot dogs and made it generally known that if you were a cop with me on your beat and I was working the night shift, you could call me with your ETA and I'd have fresh coffee ready for you (fresh dogs, too, if you asked). I don't think a day went by that we didn't get two or three visits from cops who'd come in to freshen a drink and buy some chips.

I've asked for receipts all over the country for any amount of purchase. When my full time job requires me to travel, I have to get receipts for everything. I never think twice about asking for a receipt, and I've never had anyone give me any trouble.

Even at a 25 cent toll booth... I just say, "Receipt please!"

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/25/2014 06:18PM by barnabas1969.

Yes, several of the shops require photo's of the cashier with the name; after the mystery shop, you return with a Letter of Authorization, in which they sign.

For BP shops, which will no longer exist due to Marathon purchasing them, those required photo's. I never had anyone turn me down. CITGO and Chevron, same as.

I just did a few gas station shops where they asked for photos to be taken as discreetly as possible. But if asked what I was doing I could show the letter.
These were rural, tiny little gas stations, not much chance of not getting asked... 2 of them the owner was sat in a rocking chair outside the front door. One has been shopped before I guess, because when I told him what I was doing he said for me to tell them that until they update his pump so he can turn it off at the correct amount, the paper warning signs were staying on it. Ahh well. will do more of them, but a rural route like that will not be done for $10 each with an unreimbursed purchase. Not bad for my first big run but I miss judged timing and the amount of time for the reports, didn't even come close to minimum wage.

@Shop2LiveinFL, the wand is connected to any credit card you want. I have it linked to my personal Amex and have set the profile to print/request a credit card receipt automatically. That way in the inside purchase as soon as the cashier rings the item, the receipt prints by itself when I touch the wand. In addition, with the wand my credit card has never been blocked with the gazillion $2 gas purchase in a day,

@ KateH ~ Thanks. I will have to look into that wand thing. But you only have $2.00 gas purchases? I have $5.00 gas purchases.

Okay..what is this "wand" thing you're talking about? I don't understand..

wand=speedpass
[www.speedpass.com]

"It knows what credit or debit card you wish to use. Speedpass even knows whether or not you want a receipt."

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/2014 01:55AM by KateH.

HA! This just came across my twitter feed:

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There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind

Ha! Love that. Before this, I couldn't imagine a scenario where I'd need a receipt for a lot of things.

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