It appears that not all good deeds are rewarded as this gentleman discovered.

The candy giant Haribo, best known for its gummi bears, was missing a $4.7 million check.

A good Samaritan found the check, written for Haribo by the supermarket Rewe, on a train platform and contacted the company for assistance.

Anouar G., a helpful citizen, destroyed the check for them as requested. Unfortunately, Haribo was not keen on rewarding him afterward.

According to the Independent, Anouar was taken aback when he discovered the check was addressed to Haribo.

“There was such a large sum on it that I couldn’t even pronounce it,” he told the German tabloid Bild, the Independent reported.

That sum was €4,631,538.80, or about $4.7 million.

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Anouar then reportedly contacted the company to inform them of what had occurred, and they asked him to destroy the check and provide proof of its destruction.

He did exactly that. His reward for his suffering? Six Haribo product packages.

“I thought that was a little cheap,” Anouar said, according to the Independent.

That is an understatement.

Since then, Haribo has defended its decision.

“Because it was a named check, it could only have been redeemed by our company,” Haribo said in a statement. “As a thank you, we sent our standard package.”

It appears that Haribo is missing the point: Is it saving the company the heart-pounding anxiety of searching for a $4.7 million asset worth only a few dollars in gummi products?

Furthermore, what company is informed that a good Samaritan has done something extremely beneficial to them out of the goodness of their heart, only to tell that good Samaritan to do more things for them at no cost?

This man had no reason to document his shredding of a check — a check that the company said was inert because it was only addressed to Haribo.

Sure, Anouar probably didn’t deserve a new BMW, but there’s a world of gratitude between that and six packages of gummies.

Even if the company disagrees, consider this: the next time Haribo requires assistance from the community, will this incident make people more likely to contribute?

Obviously not. Hopefully, Haribo won’t have to rely on strangers’ kindness any time soon.