Life in 2014

[Doon frae Troon]

I recently bought an oak blanket box which was offered as 'shop soiled'.
I looked at it and all that was needed was a small two minute repair to the spring mechanism. All the bits were there but it seemed that the staff did not know how to repair it. Bought for £100 saving £140 on full price.

I also recently purchased some own brand wallpaper in a sale from a well known DIY store.
We changed our minds and took them back to my local store saying I had lost the invoice but can I swop these for some paint. Bought £39 worth of paint for the £10 I spent on the wallpaper. My 'good self' said that I should own up but then my 'bad self' thought if their system is so screwed they deserve it.

 

[JCW]

I recently bought an oak blanket box which was offered as 'shop soiled'.
I looked at it and all that was needed was a small two minute repair to the spring mechanism. All the bits were there but it seemed that the staff did not know how to repair it. Bought for £100 saving £140 on full price.

I also recently purchased some own brand wallpaper in a sale from a well known DIY store.
We changed our minds and took them back to my local store saying I had lost the invoice but can I swop these for some paint. Bought £39 worth of paint for the £10 I spent on the wallpaper. My 'good self' said that I should own up but then my 'bad self' thought if their system is so screwed they deserve it.

where is this store

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Glasgow

 

[JCW]

Long way to go ....................but you never know

 

[dufferman]

I often hear stories of online deliveries not being signed for therefor people get the item for free by complaining they never received it. A girl I worked with years ago would sometimes go to asos.com, order £100 worth of clothes, then a week later ask where the clothes were. Then, rather than get another lot sent, ask for a refund. Playing the system or stealing?

 

[FairwayDodger]

I often hear stories of online deliveries not being signed for therefor people get the item for free by complaining they never received it. A girl I worked with years ago would sometimes go to asos.com, order £100 worth of clothes, then a week later ask where the clothes were. Then, rather than get another lot sent, ask for a refund. Playing the system or stealing?

Stealing, definitely.

 

[pbrown7582]

Long way to go ....................but you never know

try any branch with an orange sign......

 

[pbrown7582]

I often hear stories of online deliveries not being signed for therefor people get the item for free by complaining they never received it. A girl I worked with years ago would sometimes go to asos.com, order £100 worth of clothes, then a week later ask where the clothes were. Then, rather than get another lot sent, ask for a refund. Playing the system or stealing?

stealing without a doubt

 

[cookelad]

I often hear stories of online deliveries not being signed for therefor people get the item for free by complaining they never received it. A girl I worked with years ago would sometimes go to asos.com, order £100 worth of clothes, then a week later ask where the clothes were. Then, rather than get another lot sent, ask for a refund. Playing the system or stealing?

Without question that's stealing!

An interesting idea I heard was for xmas shopping, go out late in December and get all your shopping done then in January when the sales hit go out and buy it all again, then return it using the receipt you got in December!

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

Without question that's stealing!

An interesting idea I heard was for xmas shopping, go out late in December and get all your shopping done then in January when the sales hit go out and buy it all again, then return it using the receipt you got in December!

But you then end up with one lot of goods, bought at January prices. Unless I'm missing something, you don't actually gain anything?!

 

[cookelad]

But you then end up with one lot of goods, bought at January prices. Unless I'm missing something, you don't actually gain anything?!

You buy all your prezzies in December at full price keep the receipt, then in January go out and buy exactly the same stuff again but this time you return all the goods and claim the money back from the receipt you picked up in December

 

[FairwayDodger]

But you then end up with one lot of goods, bought at January prices. Unless I'm missing something, you don't actually gain anything?!

You'd manage to buy all your Xmas presents at january sale prices.

Although most shops will mark the labels of sale goods to indicate they were from the sale.

 

[London mike 61]

I heard of a scam some time back where a bunch of toe rags were playing the system big time.

They went into a supermarket and bought a trolley full of groceries , then took the lot out side , the sometime later another member of the gang would go into the same supermarket and get an identical trolley full of the same items as earlier then either walk out with the trolley or if stopped , they would just produce the receipt and give some excuse as to why they had re entered the store.

They got caught eventually but got away with it for quite a while in whatever area it was.

 

[dufferman]

It is stealing, but you have to ask whether shops like asos.com could do more to prevent it. What they gain in saved shipping costs (not being signed for) they surely lose in scammers like her?

Arguably, it's the same as the OP effectively 'stealing' £29 of goods as it wasn't purchased?

Not that it matters. I'm just saying. There's no defending her actions, I'm certainly not! I'd probably not let the staff know I'm getting £29 of free goods.

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

You buy all your prezzies in December at full price keep the receipt, then in January go out and buy exactly the same stuff again but this time you return all the goods and claim the money back from the receipt you picked up in December

So you end up with the same thing, at January prices, a couple of weeks earlier? Why don't you just wait till the january sales..... then you don't have to find the same things twice!

I'm clearly still missing something!

 

[dufferman]

So you end up with the same thing, at January prices, a couple of weeks earlier? Why don't you just wait till the january sales..... then you don't have to find the same things twice!

I'm clearly still missing something!

'Cos you'd have given them away as presents... on December 25th...

 

[chrisd]

I often hear stories of online deliveries not being signed for therefor people get the item for free by complaining they never received it. A girl I worked with years ago would sometimes go to asos.com, order £100 worth of clothes, then a week later ask where the clothes were. Then, rather than get another lot sent, ask for a refund. Playing the system or stealing?

totally fraudulent!

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

'Cos you'd have given them away as presents... on December 25th...

Ohhhhhhh, I get you.

For some reason I was thinking of buying for yourself/family, where you would all be around in January. I did say I was missing something! (A few brain cells clearly)

 

[MegaSteve]

'Scams' are perceived as victimless so therefore making it OK...


Same as benefit 'fraud' there is not a 'victim' as such so what's the problem?

 

[FairwayDodger]

Arguably, it's the same as the OP effectively 'stealing' £29 of goods as it wasn't purchased?

Yip, the OP was also stealing albeit in a less premeditated manner.