A Georgia woman’s routine lunch run to Subway turned into a nightmare after she left an accidental $7,000 tip on a $7 sandwich — and then had to fight her bank for a refund over the costly gaffe.
Vera Conner had ordered her usual — the No. 4 “Supreme Meats” sub, better known as an Italian with ham, salami, pepperoni and cheese on a roll — from a Subway in the Atlanta suburbs last month.
When she went to pay the the $7.54 total, Conner said she mistakenly typed in a tip for $7,105.44, according to NBC News.
“I could have gone to Italy and got the sandwich,” Conner told Channel 2.
Conner claimed that when she was typing her phone number into the checkout kiosk to obtain her Subway loyalty points, the screen glitched and turned the end of her phone number into a lofty tip, NBC reported.
“When I looked at my receipt, I was like oh my God!” she said in a separate interview with NBC.
“I thought this number looks familiar — it was the last six numbers of my phone number. Who would leave a tip like that?”
She spent the past month desperately trying to get the charge reversed — contacting her lender, Bank of America, calling the Subway outpost in College Park and even showing up in-person to get help.
The Subway manager couldn’t offer much assistance, per NBC, and told Conner that her bank would have to process the chargeback.
“You hear all the time that you should use your credit card instead of your debit card so that these things don’t happen,” said Conner. “I’m even getting mad at the bank because I’m like how did they not think $7,000 was suspicious at Subway?” Connor told NBC.
Bank of America initially denied Conner’s refund request, she said.
“I thought it would be an easy fix … then I got the denial from the bank,” said Conner, noting that the letter didn’t even specify why the charge dispute was denied.
“That’s when I started worrying.”
Connor resubmitted her claim to Bank of America and was finally issued a “temporary credit” on Monday, according to NBC.
Conner told the outlet that this snafu has made her ditch using loyalty programs.
A spokesperson for Bank of America told The Post: “We asked Subway to refund the money to the client and we’re please they have agreed to do so.”
Representatives for Subway did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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