Basic Math 101

[Jester]

*sticks out tongue*
Of course, you're right.

My work is done here.

[AFpheonix]

I've had something similar happen to me before, too.
Sometimes, with uber-cheap medicines, it ends up being cheaper to buy 3 months' worth at the cash price w/o insurance than it is to buy each month w/ insurance copay.
Typically in that situation, I'll go ahead and fill it for 90 or 100 pills (if it's non-controlled and a maintenance med), and put a note on the bag explaining what I did. The vast majority of people understand this and appreciate the fact that we're looking out for the best deals for them.

Not one lady.

She was getting a script for some vitamin/fluoride tabs for her kid, which for a bottle of 100 costs $12.99. She'd have to pay a $10.00 copay each month for 30. I would be saving her over $20.00 plus the time and gas to come in every month. Even writing it out, she couldn't seem to get it, so I let her get 30 at a time for her copay, she walked away happy, Walgreens made a total steal, and I was left with a bit more mush in my cranial cavity.

[Banrion]

I've had something similar happen to me before, too.
Sometimes, with uber-cheap medicines, it ends up being cheaper to buy 3 months' worth at the cash price w/o insurance than it is to buy each month w/ insurance copay.

I have the opposite situation. My prescription is 1 dose every 3 mos. But my insurance company is screwed up in the head. If the pharmacy tries to put it through as 3 mos, the insurance rejects it, but if they fill it as a 1 month, the insurance accepts it. Good for me though cause I only pay $15.00 instead of $45.00. Been happening for 4 years now and the insurance has never questioned it.

[Moirae]

Uhhh Wow. Apparently some people need to go back to school.

[CrazedClerk]

Reminds me of this time we had a customer in to trade games and the games were worth MORE in credit than the new game he wanted to get, so he would have had leftover credit to use another day, but specifically told us he only wanted the one new game and not to bother with the extra credit.

Um.....ok....whatever you want buddy.

[Rubystars]

.

It's funny this thread should be going now. Just the other night, there was a man that came into my line at the grocery store. I scanned the chocolate milk, and it came up for $2.85, and he said "No, it's $2.58!" I was a little annoyed but my CSM was standing right there at the time and she said "Just give it to him." So I changed the price for him.

Then I rang up his bananas, and he said "I don't think that's right, are those really fifty cents a pound?" I said "yes, they are." He said "Ok, I'll pay for them and then I'm going to go check the price and come back because I don't think that's right!"

He payed for his groceries, went over to the produce section, and came back with a big triumphant grin on his face. He said "I was right, they're two pounds for a dollar!" I had to stop myself from laughing... I said "Sir, that's the same thing as fifty cents a pound!" A momentary confusion shot over his face, and then he said "Oh... ok." Thankfully he didn't press the point, and left.

My CSM, the cashier that was coming in to relieve me, and I had a good laugh over that idiot though.

[Sunsetsky]

When I worked at Burger King I used to get customers who wanted a junior whopper with only ketchup. They could have saved money by getting a hamburger...alot cheaper.

[AFpheonix]

I have the opposite situation. My prescription is 1 dose every 3 mos. But my insurance company is screwed up in the head. If the pharmacy tries to put it through as 3 mos, the insurance rejects it, but if they fill it as a 1 month, the insurance accepts it. Good for me though cause I only pay $15.00 instead of $45.00. Been happening for 4 years now and the insurance has never questioned it.

That's really common when people get things like Estring, inhalers, shots, etc.: anything that comes as a unit of use that I can't break up. Ah well....figuring days' supply is always so much fun, especially when you have to fix a mistake made by someone ahead of you. (say, if someone puts in a 15gm tube of cream as a month's supply, even though realistically it may only last a week)

[skeptic53]

I have the same thing happen to me at work, but it's with beer instead of chicken.

The other night I saw someone buying two huge cans of Bud Light. Why not buy one bottle of real beer, get more alcohol, and less bladder through-put? But then I don't understand the appeal of light beer at all, in any quantity. Worse than fat-free cream cheese (which tastes like plastic) IMHO.

[Jester]

But then I don't understand the appeal of light beer at all, in any quantity.

Light beer is a crime against nature. It is water with beer-flavor added. Give me the real deal anytime!

[Broomjockey]

Geez, all this arguing over light beer! American beer sucks no matter what kind. Get some Canadian beer! That's the real stuff!

[BusBus]

Geez, all this arguing over light beer! American beer sucks no matter what kind. Get some Canadian beer! That's the real stuff!

Euro-beers are even better

[AFpheonix]

Then I suppose y'all haven't partaken of all the fancypants Northwestern microbrews. Yay for Deschutes brewery!

[Rapscallion]

Try googling for CAMRA if you want some real beers. If I ever turned back to drinking, I can assure you that proper scrumpy would be on the menu.

Rapscallion

[Jester]

Geez, all this arguing over light beer! American beer sucks no matter what kind. Get some Canadian beer! That's the real stuff!

I disagree. Yes, American macrobrews (Coors, Bud, Miller, etc.) are utter dreck. And I include Corona in this...for all intents and purposes, it might as well be American.

But there are plenty of great American beers. Many are microbrews, limited to just their region, so not all of us have had the opportunity to sample them. (If you are ever in the Phoenix area, try some Kiltlifter, from Rio Salado Brewery. You will thank me.) But Sam Adams puts out some fine stuff, and there are other smaller produced American beers that are not too shabby, like Killian's Red, for example, or Yuengling.

As for Euro beers, yes, I like a lot of Euro beers, but some of them I consider horrible. Heineken, the most popular Euro beer over here, is to me the Diet Coke of beers. (I despise all diet drinks....get it?) I will drink a light beer before I touch a Heineken. Ick.

Amusing note: while I do like a good tasty beer, I also drink, on a regular basis, Corona in bottle and Bud on draft. For every day beers, yes, they are crap, but they are cold and go down easy. (I used to drink Bud draft and bottles, but a few years ago, found that Bud bottles were getting me ill, so I switched to Corona for my regular beer....close enough in flavor, really.)

When people who know that I like good beers see me drinking this Mexican pisswater, they do tend to ask about it. I tell them that I drink Corona for a very odd reason. It's sentimental, really. See, Corona reminds me of my ex. It's cold. It's cheap. It's tasteless. And it's available in almost any bar.

Never fails to get a huge laugh. Or sometimes, before they realize it's a joke, I get a few 's.