Have you ever been to a business that charged more if you use a credit card?

In this case, would you happily pay cash to save a little money, or would you question the legality of their business practices?

In today’s story, one young woman knows that the hair salon she goes to is breaking the law, but she doesn’t really care until one day when she decides to get revenge on behalf of her mother.

Let’s see what happens.

Don’t insult a customer when you’re doing tax evasion

Hello here. I’m from Korea and I just noticed this sub- you people are just hilarious!

So anyway, here’s my petty act of revenge on my (former) hair salon.

In our country, stores are not allowed to refuse issuing a receipt and 2) charge different prices to credit card and cash users.

If they do that, it’s tax evasion with a rather large fine, but the taxation agency can’t usually find out whether a store is doing such practices without a customer reporting them.

Which doesn’t happen often- I mean, why report a store when you get a discount for paying in cash?

Her hair salon gives a discount for paying cash.

My hair salon was no different- they charged $2 less to pay in cash, and had a habit of skipping receipts.

However, the last time I went there to do my hair with my mother, they charged extra prices for procedures that were to say the least, completely unnecessary, such as a so-called extra-vitamin hair cream (whatever that means), with the result that they charged $20 more from the original bill.

A rip-off, to be honest.

So my mother got mad when she saw the bill, and asked they remove the remove the extra charge.

It doesn’t hurt to ask, but in this case, it didn’t help.

They refused, and to tell a long story short, they were very rude with the refusal.

Won’t go into details here, but they actually called my mom a miserly beggar and obnoxious woman, and threatened to call the cops if she “didn’t get out this instant,”

My mother would have started a fight right there and then, but I stopped her.

She had a plan.

I simply turned on my recording function on my phone and paid the bill, innocently asking whether they charged more for credit cards and didn’t give out receipts.

Then when I was sure their admittance to tax evasion was on tape, I told them to apologize to my mom for what they said, or I would take matters into my own hands.

Now they didn’t know about one thing- I’m a business major with plans to become a lawyer, with the result that I know rather more about tax law than your average student.

They underestimated her, but she got the last laugh.

Of course, they laughed at me.

But you bet they weren’t smiling one bit when I pulled out my phone and reported their tax evasion practices to the authorities, with the recording as evidence.

From what I heard, they got a rather heavy fine-25% of their earnings-so I guess I won?

Good for her! And they need to find a different hair salon, one that doesn’t overcharge or break the law.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

The salon owner was pretty bold.

Say “wedding” and the price goes up.

Accurate business records really are important.

This was more than petty.

Definitely! It would’ve been much less expensive if they had just taken the extra fee off the bill.

Eventually someone would probably report them.

It was only a matter of time.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a customer who insists that their credit card works, and finds out that isn’t the case.