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xXBADGERXx
17-01-09, 11:51 PM
There is a Blue Cross sale on at Debenhams til tomorrow so I popped along on Thursday night and bought a couple of pairs of jeans . The jeans were £45 each knocked down to £9 . Nice to get a set of designer Jeans for less than the price of a Hardback book nowadays . So I get home and one pair is nice , the other pair I put on and am not too keen on them , bit on the baggy side . Now Debenhams policy is no refund on Blue Cross items but they will let you exchange for another item which is fair comment . I didn`t try these on in the shop as I had full winter Gear on the bike and couldn`t be doing with all the faffery and having to leave Gear in a changing room to go and grab a different pair if they weren`t right .

So I go and take them back today . I walk in and select another pair of jeans to take to the counter ready for the exchange . I plop the returned items on the counter and explain that I wasn`t too keen and wanna swap them for these ones and hand over my receipt . There is no problem , now usually they just scan the barcode of the old receipt , scan the exchange item and print out a new one and you are on your way . This guy starts faffing about with the numeric keypad on the till and umming as I am talking to him . He seems to be up to something and my Badger-Sense is on high alert ^..^ <----ears Perked up and nose to the wind as something smells a bit "Off" here .

I cast my eyes down at my original receipt and just as he says "There you go sir .... all done" I spot something . I was actually charged £15 for the Jeans the other day despite them having £9 on the ticket . I have taken another pair of £9 Jeans to exchange and it appears he has manually adjusted the price to suit . I eyeball him for a couple of seconds and he gives me a nervous look . I stare at him for a second longer and keeping my eyes on him I flick my Credit Card towards him and say "I think you know what you have to do here" ................... he gives me an odd look and I say "Look , that receipt there seems to say £15 for those Jeans , so I was over charged for them"

He does the fake "Oh yeah so it is" , and I carry on "And between the scanning of receipts and tickets , my new Jeans seem to have gained £6 in price so that the transaction was seamless , I think it best you scrap that new receipt , scan those back in , exchange the new Jeans and give me a £6 refund there lad" .

He stutters and tries to make some excuses and thats the point where I have lost interest in excuses and just want this to go better than it is . I eyeball him again until he shuts up and I inhale slowly and exhale and explain slowly "Less talky , more refundy as I am NOT interested in the excuses of somebody who is conning me out of £6 and has quite blatantly done so ..... that little tappety number on the numeric keypad there seemed to be the changing of a 9 to a 15"

He gulps and nods and gets a woman over to put a supervisor key in the till , she is asking questions about why this is being done and he stammers his way through some half-assed explanation but she has already got his number by the look on her face ....... that "Oh no you didn`t" look . I wonder what there policy is on all of this and are they trained to do this or is it something he has picked up from another worker there ? All I know is that from now on I will be checking ALL my receipts before leaving the premises of any shop from now on .

DarrenSV650S
18-01-09, 12:04 AM
You're a good story teller. If that was me I would have just said "Debenhams tried to overcharge me today! But I got my money in the end."

hob
18-01-09, 12:08 AM
You're a good story teller. If that was me I would have just said "Debenhams tried to overcharge me today! But I got my money in the end."

lol :D

DMC
18-01-09, 12:08 AM
Oh Badger, cant believe you fell for the Madness scam, its been going for years :(

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 12:15 AM
Oh Badger, cant believe you fell for the Madness scam, its been going for years :(

The Wha-What ?

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 12:16 AM
You're a good story teller. If that was me I would have just said "Debenhams tried to overcharge me today! But I got my money in the end."

I seem to have a photographic memory for the finer details and I do like to convey the meaning and sentiment in my little memoires :smt040

DMC
18-01-09, 12:19 AM
The Wha-What ?


They tried to screw you over a pair of Baggy Trousers :D

Sorry, Ill close the door on the way out :(

DarrenSV650S
18-01-09, 12:20 AM
They tried to screw you over a pair of Baggy Trousers :D

Sorry, Ill close the door on the way out :(
:cheers:

missyburd
18-01-09, 12:21 AM
Dear me, are you still very bored Badger? You seem to be loving the epic posts :-P Not that I'm complaining, amusing read hehe.

At least you weren't having none of it, nowt worse than being walked over by a shop assistant...I should know I was one :-D

ogden
18-01-09, 12:23 AM
And all over six quid.

missyburd
18-01-09, 12:26 AM
And all over six quid.
Ah but it's the principle!!

However I would be the same, £6 is a lot of money when someone is trying to make off with it!

DMC
18-01-09, 12:30 AM
And all over six quid.

Indeed, but say it happens x10 (Ill work it out for you, its 60 quid)

dizzyblonde
18-01-09, 12:32 AM
was he spotty teen saturday type shop assistant?

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 12:41 AM
No he wasn`t LOL , and it wasn`t over £6 , that was incidental and let`s face facts , that`s a new Oil filter for my bike come the next service I give her .

yorkie_chris
18-01-09, 12:50 AM
You can keep the designer jeans, they won't keep your skin on in the event of a crash. And have no pocket for fag tin. Oil filter however is serious business!

And regarding the length of explanation, t'other week you could have just written "b0llocks. Fell off." as well lol.

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 04:59 AM
Yeah , it`s not as if I am MAKING anyone read my stuff is it YC , if they don`t like it they can always click the little red X . Was making the point that it`s worth checking your receipts and to keep an eye on these Dodgy buggers :)

Stingo
18-01-09, 07:48 AM
Yeah , it`s not as if I am MAKING anyone read my stuff is it YC , if they don`t like it they can always click the little red X . Was making the point that it`s worth checking your receipts and to keep an eye on these Dodgy buggers :)

Quite right too. Well done for sticking up for what's right...however this and the punchline from DMC was more than just a tad funny...


Oh Badger, cant believe you fell for the Madness scam, its been going for years


:cheers:

Ed
18-01-09, 10:09 AM
You can keep the designer jeans, they won't keep your skin on in the event of a crash. And have no pocket for fag tin. Oil filter however is serious business!

And regarding the length of explanation, t'other week you could have just written "b0llocks. Fell off." as well lol.

Oh YC. You could rewrite Jane Eyre in a sentence couldn't you. 'Met high handed nob, decided he wasn't that bad after all, and married him.'

I like Badger's tales. This one was the truncated version though. In this one he didn't say how he went for a coffee when he got into the shop, liked the coffee a lot so went had a look at the kitchen gadgets but decided there wasn't any room at home for a coffee machine, went for a pee, had a discreet test of the after shaves and hoped that nobody would collar him and try to sell a bottle of CK whatever, and that the jeans were a bit of an afterthought as he went through the mens department on his way out of the store.

Biker Biggles
18-01-09, 10:40 AM
Wheres the love interest?How come you didnt tell us about the glamourous model in the lingerie department who you took out later and fell madly in love with?

larigos
18-01-09, 10:50 AM
tried to quote didnt work but 6 quids half a tank of fuel, a couple beers or a cheap curry.

Woz
18-01-09, 12:40 PM
The jeans were £45 each knocked down to £9 .

I have to question why (having taken so much time to study the receipt during the refund malarky) you didn't question the original sales asst when they said "That'll be £24 please" ?

Funny story though.

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 01:31 PM
I have to question why (having taken so much time to study the receipt during the refund malarky) you didn't question the original sales asst when they said "That'll be £24 please" ?

Funny story though.

Because she was a bit of a cutey and I was too busy taking sly looks at the lady bumps `n` stuff :) . And for some strange reason you want to get these home as quickly as possible to try them on trying to keep that smug feeling you have from getting a good bargain and hoping it all wasn`t a waste of time . I shall be scrutinising all receipts from now on though . Usually I am just one of those people that stuffs the receipt in the wallet and gets out of there quickly , and it was getting on for 7 at night and I hadn`t been home yet so wanted to get a wriggle on as well .

davepreston
18-01-09, 01:38 PM
And all over six quid.

thats why he didnt like the baggy jeans to easy to get his hand in the pocket to actually pay for a round :p

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 01:40 PM
Uh-Oh ...................... sussed

Woz
18-01-09, 01:59 PM
Because she was a bit of a cutey and I was too busy taking sly looks at the lady bumps `n` stuff :) .


A perfectly valid excuse :D

Biker Biggles
18-01-09, 02:09 PM
Ah I knew there had to be a love interest somewhere.

Dappa D
18-01-09, 02:40 PM
Because she was a bit of a cutey and I was too busy taking sly looks at the lady bumps `n` stuff :) . .

+1, bought a henlys t shirt other day, from £40 to £19, ..cutey charged me £25, and i didnt realise...its all a ploy im sure!..luckily i realised b4 i got out the shop!

missyburd
18-01-09, 03:04 PM
+1, bought a henlys t shirt other day, from £40 to £19, ..cutey charged me £25, and i didnt realise...its all a ploy im sure!..luckily i realised b4 i got out the shop!

Ever thought it's an excuse to get you to talk to her again? Although she's banking on you men being intelligent enough - always risky :p - to read the receipt at all.

#ducks#

DarrenSV650S
18-01-09, 03:12 PM
Ever thought it's an excuse to get you to talk to her again?
That sort of positive thinking can lead to trouble

missyburd
18-01-09, 03:14 PM
That sort of positive thinking can lead to trouble
Lol, not if you're single. Which I know DappaD isn't but that doesn't stop you men getting your hopes up :-D

Dappa D
18-01-09, 03:15 PM
Ever thought it's an excuse to get you to talk to her again? Although she's banking on you men being intelligent enough - always risky :p - to read the receipt at all.

#ducks#

lol, my mrs was at the other end of the shop waiting for with the little man with pushchair, she spotted it straight away!...

DarrenSV650S
18-01-09, 03:15 PM
especially if you're single

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 04:42 PM
Single or not , £6 is £6 and shows she is a conniving harlot trying to prise more money from my Wallet .............. as per usual LOL

davepreston
18-01-09, 04:50 PM
all she has to do is pick up another item in the shop run it through as a return replace it and pocket the cash, till is right and so is the stock

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 04:51 PM
I paid on my card so the till would be wrong if she pocketed cash when I bought them originally .

davepreston
18-01-09, 05:05 PM
refund for cash, put one on at proper price

xXBADGERXx
18-01-09, 05:35 PM
They can`t , they have to refund to the card that was used