If you get extra items from a vending machine

[ShyGuyInChicago]

If you buy a candy bar from a vending machine and it gves you two is it stealing if you keep both?

[Amnesiac]

No, it's not the buyer's responsibility to make sure the vending machine works properly. If it give you two, it's not stealing.

I remember there was a Coke machine I used that kept giving out quarters. It spit out $20 worth, and the people who ran the place where it was said we could keep the money.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

No, it's not the buyer's responsibility to make sure the vending machine works properly. If it give you two, it's not stealing.

I remember there was a Coke machine I used that kept giving out quarters. It spit out $20 worth, and the people who ran the place where it was said we could keep the money.

I think it is because if i put in one dollar to get one Coke and it gives me two Cokes it would be stealing if I kept both because I only paid for one.

[Amnesiac]

I think it is because if i put in one dollar to get one Coke and it gives me two Cokes it would be stealing if I kept both because I only paid for one.

Sure, you paid for one — but what will you do with the other coke? Leave it on the ground and cost the company another dollar? Again, it's not your responsibility to make sure the vending machine works properly, only to take what it gives you. I'm sure if you notified the people who ran the place where the machine is, they'd give you the extra coke for free anyway. There's nothing else they could do with it.

[neigh]

If you buy a candy bar from a vending machine and it gves you two is it stealing if you keep both?

no - u did not steal it the machine is not working --

[Sage]

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It's a candy bar. Even if it is stealing, who cares? Who are you robbing of what? A big corporation of a single dollar? This is one of the most mundane threads I've seen in all my years on ROTW.

[huginnmuninn]

well if an atm pops out extra money and you take it it is stealing but we're talking about vending machines so nah its ok

[ShatteredWings]

This is one of the most mundane threads I've seen in all my years on ROTW.

Agreed.

And for god's sake, it's not stealing if the machine gives you 2. You didn't break into the damn thing.

[DarkHorses]

It's just one dollar. I doubt you'll be hunted down by the cops and taken to prison because of a candy bar. You might find it morally wrong but it's not stealing.

[steve1234]

Definatly not stealing. If you put the money in, and you get 2 cokes instead of 1, thats the machine's fault.
If you left the coke in the machine, someone else would just take it anyway.
Its one of those things that are designed to cheer us up, like finding money on the pavement

[Jess]

it wouldn't be stealing. What would you do with the extra, anyways?

[The Dark Lord]

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It's a candy bar. Even if it is stealing, who cares? Who are you robbing of what? A big corporation of a single dollar? This is one of the most mundane threads I've seen in all my years on ROTW.

agreed, what relevance does this thread have to anything?

btw if its a vending machine you only have two choices: take it or leave it. Either way the company misses out

[ericboi]

I'd keep both. It makes up for the times I lose money in vending machines,

[Suicune]

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It's a candy bar. Even if it is stealing, who cares? Who are you robbing of what? A big corporation of a single dollar? This is one of the most mundane threads I've seen in all my years on ROTW.

Agreed.


This happened to me once. The manager just put it back the machine.

Thread = Irrelevant.

[Rutherford The Brave]

I think of it as the vending machine giving me a present.

[INFERNO]

It's the same as if you go to a fast-food place and order a container of medium french fries but the clerk screws up and gives you large or extra large yet you pay for the price of medium. You can either walk away with a smile on your face about the luck or go back and tell them they messed up. If you walk away, you aren't stealing because the clerk who scooped out the fries should've been aware of what you ordered. But a realistic situation with the vending machine, if you leave the additional bar, someone else will grab it and take it without paying. So, it's best to do your part to society and avoid this happening :lol:. It's at most $3 so even if you do consider it stealing, it's insignificant, the company who supplies the candies won't care, the vending machine company and service guy won't care and it shouldn't be something that tests your moral judgment about life. It's a candy bar.

[huginnmuninn]

well what happens when you put a five in the vending machine but it only registers it as a one. would you get angry because you got cheated out of a few bucks but you think its ok if the business gets cheated out of a few buck.

and i mean this as a serious question im not trying to be condescending or anything

[Sage]

well what happens when you put a five in the vending machine but it only registers it as a one.

Severed heads will swell the streets and the skies above will crackle and boom with crimson rain in a downpouring torrent of blood and thunder. The Coca-Cola Company will now I am the LORD when I lay my vengeance upon them.

[Zephyr]

There's a vending machine at the college that always does this, it dispenses coffee and a few times it's given me an extra one.

It's the vendor's responsibility to make sure that their machines are in working order and stocked correctly. If you get an extra one, what are you going to do? Just leave it there for someone else to take? Throw it away? Either way, it's a loss to the company unless you really feel like tracking down building security just to give it back. Even then, how do you know that once it's in security's hands that it's going to go back into the machine?

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, just take it. It's the vendor's error, not yours.

[huginnmuninn]

Severed heads will swell the streets and the skies above will crackle and boom with crimson rain in a downpouring torrent of blood and thunder. The Coca-Cola Company will now I am the LORD when I lay my vengeance upon them.

haha man can i put that on my facebook

[The Joker]

haha man can i put that on my facebook

Point = missed.

[huginnmuninn]

Point = missed.

what you mean?

[JimSauce]

LOL @ this thread being next to one about burning Korans. Of course it's not stealing, the machine is broken and either way it's just a dollar.

[Azunite]

Of course it is not stealing.
It gave you two chocolates, so ? How do you plan to put one of them in the machine again ?

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Of course it is not stealing.
It gave you two chocolates, so ? How do you plan to put one of them in the machine again ?
Call the number on the vending machine and ask what to do.

[Amnesiac]

Call the number on the vending machine and ask what to do.

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Nobody is going to take the time to call a vending machine company and ask what to do with their extra $1 item because they're afraid of "stealing" it. The company itself would tell you to just take it. It's not like they care about losing less than a dollar of income when they take in billions a year.

[huginnmuninn]

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Nobody is going to take the time to call a vending machine company and ask what to do with their extra $1 item because they're afraid of "stealing" it. The company itself would tell you to just take it. It's not like they care about losing less than a dollar of income when they take in billions a year.

and plus they probably get an extra million because of money people put in that the machines dont register

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Part of the reason I thought of this thread is that years I saw a TV show where a girl went to a vending machine to get a candy bar. She put in money for one and ended up with several candy bars. She then did the same thing again to get more and began selling them. Then she gets caught by her mom and is grounded for two weeks for stealing them.

[huginnmuninn]

Part of the reason I thought of this thread is that years I saw a TV show where a girl went to a vending machine to get a candy bar. She put in money for one and ended up with several candy bars. She then did the same thing again to get more and began selling them. Then she gets caught by her mom and is grounded for two weeks for stealing them.

idiot girl shouldnt have got caught

[Sage]

Part of the reason I thought of this thread is that years I saw a TV show where a girl went to a vending machine to get a candy bar. She put in money for one and ended up with several candy bars. She then did the same thing again to get more and began selling them. Then she gets caught by her mom and is grounded for two weeks for stealing them.

I applaud her entrepreneurship but I can't image that she made a lot of money off of that. Better off with minimum wage.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

OK, I will rephrase the question. If you put in money for one item from a vending machine and it gives you several extra like in the show that I saw, is that stealing?

[huginnmuninn]

OK, I will rephrase the question. If you put in money for one item from a vending machine and it gives you several extra like in the show that I saw, is that stealing?

no because the machine giving you a two for one special

[ShyGuyInChicago]

no because the machine giving you a two for one special

What if you put in money for one and the machine gives you 3, 4, 5, or more items?

[Rainstorm]

There is no way you could put it back in. The machine requires a key to open. The people on Customer Support will tell you to keep them. Either way, you got more for your buck.

[JackOfClubs]

I don't see it as stealing if the vending machine at work gives me one extra bag of 60cent Sun Chips. Its 60cents. Not much can be done with that. Sure, it ads up, but really, its a bit excessive to call it stealing. Now, if it was like 3 or more extra, I'd probably go tell the front desk, and see what they say. If they say I can keep it, its their loss.

[Dive to Survive]

It's not stealing, if it gave you two, take two. You got lucky. Enjoy it! :)

[sulutomy]

If you not provide the best vending machine than it is not responsibility of the buyer's. You must have to make sure that the vending machine works properly. There are so many bad views about the Coke machine users.

[Korashk]

To answer the OP: In a technical, legal sense; probably. In a practical sense, nobody gives a fuck and attempting to "do the right thing" will only piss off those that have to deal with you "doing the right thing" simply becayuse your actions force them to follow some sort of retarded protocol.

[Iceman]

Ah yes it is stealing. You should break open the machine in any way possible and place the candy bar neatly back inside.

Not really, its not your fault. If you go to a store and there having a buy one get one free is that considered stealing. No. And what would you do with it? Stand there until the person that refills it comes back. No just enjoy it

[TheSleepingInsomniac]

Part of the reason I thought of this thread is that years I saw a TV show where a girl went to a vending machine to get a candy bar. She put in money for one and ended up with several candy bars. She then did the same thing again to get more and began selling them. Then she gets caught by her mom and is grounded for two weeks for stealing them.

She was grounded because she said she was selling them for under privileged kids.
But it is steeling in the same way jaywalking is a crime

[Quahog]

No, it isn't stealing. You can't control it, if the machine has a malfunction, and spits out two candies.

[Modus Operandi]

Have I been away too long, or what? Is this representative of the types of threads that pop up in ROTW now? Damn. This seems to me like a TWPR thread.

In regards to the OP and their subsequent posts: no. If it spits out an extra, keep it and sell it for 200% profit. Guarantee someone will buy it.

If it spits out 3 or more extra and it's just this random-ass machine outside of a gas station, keep 'em. If it's somewhere like a hotel lobby, then go right ahead and ask the desk. They'll probably just tell you to keep them anyway.

[Daniel_]

Why would it be stealing? It's not like you can give it back, and it's the person who built the machine's fault. If they can't make their machines right, then they shouldn't put them in public and get angry when stuff like this happens.

[Jess]

Have I been away too long, or what? Is this representative of the types of threads that pop up in ROTW now? Damn. This seems to me like a TWPR thread.

In regards to the OP and their subsequent posts: no. If it spits out an extra, keep it and sell it for 200% profit. Guarantee someone will buy it.

If it spits out 3 or more extra and it's just this random-ass machine outside of a gas station, keep 'em. If it's somewhere like a hotel lobby, then go right ahead and ask the desk. They'll probably just tell you to keep them anyway.

This thread is over 5 months old :S





and I'm repeating myself and others

It's NOT stealing

[Iceman]

This thread is over 5 months old :S





and I'm repeating myself and others

It's NOT stealing

Let's all leave it at this.

[Daniel_]

Oh. I suck, didn't check dates. Sorryyyy.

[Modus Operandi]

This thread is over 5 months old :S

Well fuck, so it is. I've been gone for around a year though, so meh.

[Korashk]

Gah, you all should stop saying it ISN'T theft, because it IS theft. Saying this isn't theft is like saying that if I dropped an expensive necklace on accident without knowing it wouldn't be theft for you to pick it up and keep it. Which is quite obviously incorrect.

[Iceman]

Gah, you all should stop saying it ISN'T theft, because it IS theft. Saying this isn't theft is like saying that if I dropped an expensive necklace on accident without knowing it wouldn't be theft for you to pick it up and keep it. Which is quite obviously incorrect.

But it's NOT an expensive necklace, its a machine not a person, and you can pick up the necklace, it CAN'T.

[Sage]

Gah, you all should stop saying it ISN'T theft, because it IS theft. Saying this isn't theft is like saying that if I dropped an expensive necklace on accident without knowing it wouldn't be theft for you to pick it up and keep it. Which is quite obviously incorrect.

Were you to drop a necklace, I would have a choice between taking it for myself or picking it up so that I may return it to you. With a vending machine, however, I'm not willing to reach into the slot and try to put the extra item back in.

[Scarface]

If you not provide the best vending machine than it is not responsibility of the buyer's. You must have to make sure that the vending machine works properly. There are so many bad views about the Coke machine users.

Please don't bump old threads.
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