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medlar · 06-21-2007, 08:33 AM

I don't like to shop, I will avoid it all costs but sometimes you have to bite the bullet..

I just recently bought a package of socks..there were nine socks inside.

Did they short me a sock or did I get one extra. I also bought myself a pair of pants..the sales clerk failed to take off the plastic security thing,(which obviously proved to not work when I left the store) Back home when I discovered this was not part of my denims, and tried everthing short of welding it off..I had to bus it back to the store and sort it out with the dim clerk. Did not make my day at all.

But my real rant:
A month ago I bought a brithday card at a local shop..I also got a gift card and a couple of other things. The girl rang up my order and I noted she scanned my card twice. I thought maybe at the time it hadn't scanned through the first the time..but I get my reciept and check it and I saw she had scanned it twice. I ask/point out, to her about this and she says "oh you have to pay for the envelope, its seperate" What the hell?? So I'm wondering what a bizarre country I'm in that charges something that I last checked, was part of the purchase price. I tell her she's doing this all wrong..there's no bar code on the envelope. She gets all red in the face and borders on this attitude, and says for me to take it up with her supervisor as the line up behind me grows. Well it took me fifteen minutes to get the damn money back for the over payment..I know it wasn't much money, but it's the principle, you know? The retail business must thrive if they have to bleed us of every bit of cash.

"Life is like a doughnut, round on the outside
Empty in the middle." Homer Simpson.

Now, thats off my chest. But I'll be damned if I go to another store again

06-21-2007, 08:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
medlar Tilted Location: In this flesh and bone thing	retail rantage.. I don't like to shop, I will avoid it all costs but sometimes you have to bite the bullet.. I just recently bought a package of socks..there were nine socks inside. Did they short me a sock or did I get one extra. I also bought myself a pair of pants..the sales clerk failed to take off the plastic security thing,(which obviously proved to not work when I left the store) Back home when I discovered this was not part of my denims, and tried everthing short of welding it off..I had to bus it back to the store and sort it out with the dim clerk. Did not make my day at all. But my real rant: A month ago I bought a brithday card at a local shop..I also got a gift card and a couple of other things. The girl rang up my order and I noted she scanned my card twice. I thought maybe at the time it hadn't scanned through the first the time..but I get my reciept and check it and I saw she had scanned it twice. I ask/point out, to her about this and she says "oh you have to pay for the envelope, its seperate" What the hell?? So I'm wondering what a bizarre country I'm in that charges something that I last checked, was part of the purchase price. I tell her she's doing this all wrong..there's no bar code on the envelope. She gets all red in the face and borders on this attitude, and says for me to take it up with her supervisor as the line up behind me grows. Well it took me fifteen minutes to get the damn money back for the over payment..I know it wasn't much money, but it's the principle, you know? The retail business must thrive if they have to bleed us of every bit of cash. "Life is like a doughnut, round on the outside Empty in the middle." Homer Simpson. Now, thats off my chest. But I'll be damned if I go to another store again Last edited by medlar; 06-21-2007 at 08:36 AM..