Rastislav Bednar's Blog

Act honestly! January 19, 2010

One interesting event has happened to me 2 weeks ago. I have purchased ring through an online shop for my girlfriend as a birthday present. All I have duly ordered, and they offered me that when the cost is over 50 EUR, delivery is  cost-free. So the final price of the ring was:

63 EUR

A week later, courier was calling me, that if anyone is at home, that there is a package worth 16 eur. I told him that it’s not possible, because my order was worth 63 EUR and not 16 EUR. I had doubts, what is going on. However, I have received the package, because I knew that it must be the ring. And it was!

I have been shocked, because I didn’t know whether I should be happy or worried. You know, I had special glamorous feeling as when you win something and now you say: “What if it’s the trick?”.

Thus began my hunt for a mysterious origin of amount (16 EUR). I had cost-free delivery of the package, for that is 16 EUR nonsense amount. And whereas it arrived to me invoice a few days later with final amount 63 EUR. I was quite thrown out of balance and I didn’t know what to do and I began to invent admirable theory about how they want everyone deceive and cheat me and things like that. It totally makes me sick.

When should I admit, the 16 eur I paid and I didn’t care anymore, I was happy that I saved 47 Eur. But as I said, more and more I was concerned that it will reveals the truth and I will look like a fraudster, thief and I don’t know what else. But there were still those 47 EUR, which I saved (I am still only student without my own income …).

OK, so I have decided to call the office first, if there is anything what should I pay when I have actually paid courier (I didn’t mention the amount ). They told me, if I paid to the courier, everything is OK.

As soon as I put the phone down, I felt a strange feeling of fraud, It’s not just me. My deed was and my heart felt that it’s wrong. Uffff … I tell you, it took me about an hour before I was sure that I will call back and tell them the truth. Before that I wrote a message to a friend to ask, what does she think about it. I wanted to know the opinion of another person. In essence, this would not be so, because every person should always act according to the will of the heart, and not to ask again for the opinions of others. Mainly for this reason that they do not know how you feel and how it all actually took place. Each of us are unique and each will decide about something, we do and feel in the same situation differently….Nevertheless I asked her, and she confirmed to me to call back and confess the mistake they have done. So I called them and corrected  made the mistake.

And that was it!

Message for you:

It  should be noted, that when something lucky happens to someone, someone else happens to be unlucky in the same time and vice versa. And the worst is, when you are aware that you have a good luck at the expense of someone else. In this case, it was the people in the company and the employee who incorrectly entered value of the goods. He/she would have to pay from his/her own wallet and you must think that he may have a family to be nourished or he/she  may have difficult period in life and so on. And I still bought the ring for my girlfriend, because I love her so much and money are losing their value for me!

If you do unfair and petty things, you need to realize that and evaluate all the consequences of your action. It’s simply not right to take from people what you yourself  feel as scarcity.

I know that you know that…