You know how sometimes you wish your mama hadn't done such a good job of teaching you right from wrong? How you wish your conscience would go on a two-week cruise while you did what almost anybody else would do without a second thought? That's where I am now.

I ordered some Star Wars light sabers as Christmas gifts from the Wally World website. One of them was the Darth Maul single light saber for just under $100. What I received was the Darth Maul double-ended light saber, which costs twice as much. I didn't realize it until I got the boxes home and was showing the light sabers to the Professor.

It would be nice and straight forward if we could just return what we received and get what we ordered. But the web site no longer lists what we ordered. So there is the possibility that they deliberately substituted the more expensive one. Maybe they figured that they had already charged the credit card and now could not fill the order, and they would risk making me really mad if they just cancelled it. But if that's what they did, they made no profit at all.

I have sent an email and am waiting to hear back from them. I suspect they'll be surprised that anyone would even tell them about this kind of mistake in the first place! A lot of people would think that if the store makes a mistake, the store has to bear the consequences.

What do you think? If you realize you are getting a really good deal due to an employee's mistake, should you speak up, or take the merchandise and run? Do you think the good deals compensate for all the times you were overcharged, or is it always your responsibility to make sure the price is the right one?