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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: saint on January 31, 2012, 09:58:06 am ---
--- Quote from: thefearsomefearful on January 31, 2012, 08:32:26 am ---I haven't gone in a Best Buy for months. Anyone else feel like telling them to shove it when they ask for your receipt when you try to leave?

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I do tell them to shove it. I do not show my receipt. Pet peeve of mine.


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+1

Unwarranted search or some such. There was a paper a few ago about how stores don't actually have the right to examine your receipt or bag once you paid for the itmes as a condition of leaving the store. Stores are getting "smart" about that. Shove-it-in-your- ass -Mart will try to refuse the refund if  the receipt isn't "marked".

yotsuya:
99% of the time, a kid peeks in my bag, marks my receipt, and I'm on my way. Takes 5 seconds.  :dunno

The other 1% of the time, they count items. Adds maybe 3-4 seconds at the most.

In any case, I wouldn't take it out on the worker. They didn't make the policy.

saint:
I'm never rude, but I simply refuse. Unless it's a member club of some kind where I've agreed to those terms, I refuse. Walmart never asks anymore. One time I got a bit of flak, and I told the door person if I showed them my receipt it would be the last time I ever shopped at their store. They sent me on my way without looking at the receipt.

I never gave Radio Shack my address either when I was paying cash.

yotsuya:
Saint-

I'm curious why you feel that way. No judgement on my part, but why does it bother you?

DaveMMR:
While I agree Saint and the others are right about not showing the receipt, I'm like yotsuya in that I just show my receipt, let the guy mark it and skip on my merry way. I kind of understand why they do it (loss prevention - in theory at least) and I'd rather just be out the door by complying instead of getting into anything. Then again, I'm not in these stores all that much anymore anyhow.


--- Quote from: hypernova on January 31, 2012, 08:00:07 pm ---I will not buy any big ticket items on the internet.  TVs and such will be bought in stores.  I'm not wasting a vacation/sick day just to wait for my stuff that the deliveryman might not even deliver on time...or in one piece.  And I'm certainly not leaving a large box outside that looks suspiciously like a 50+ inch television for anyone to take while I'm still working if I don't take that vacation/sick day.

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That is a bit of a downside but when I got my TV off Amazon, they sourced the delivery out to a indepdent company with which I set a scheduled time. And Amazon made absolutely sure everything went smoothly with the shipment by contacting me after all was said and done to ensure I had my item, was satisfied and this company didn't mess anything up.  And even without all that bending over backwards, the fact that I saved a couple of hundred dollars made any inconvenience worth it in my opinion.



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