A Need to vent!

[DJD]

Screw them! I won't usually cause a scene but if some dimwit retail turd isn't going to accept the fact that I'm not trying to cheat them and gives me some attitude and calls the manager someone is gonna get a talking to.
Might possibly talk to the next on the food chain too because I'm not gonna stand by and be accused of something that stupid. Dang customer service gets forgotten alot these days.

[bassin_bug]

I'm reasonably sure that, several years ago, when the "Truth in Sales and Lending Law" (I think that's what it is called) was enacted, it said that if an item was not correctly priced, the store had to sell it for the sticker price. I have used that on several occasion and the store had to sell my item to me for the sticker price and take the loss. You should have told them about that law and threatened to report them. They may have neglected to enter the sale price into their cash register system.

It also comes under the Act where businesses had to post their prices because the merchants were charging whatever they felt like charging at the time; it helps to keep them honest and stops them from showing favoritism to their family and friends. I think I would go back for another round with the manager and if he didn't see it my way, I would call their corporate offices and kick up a storm.

just my 2-cents

[GeoFisher]

I'm reasonably sure that, several years ago, when the "Truth in Sales and Lending Law" (I think that's what it is called) was enacted, it said that if an item was not correctly priced, the store had to sell it for the sticker price. I have used that on several occasion and the store had to sell my item to me for the sticker price and take the loss. You should have told them about that law and threatened to report them. They may have neglected to enter the sale price into their cash register system.

It also comes under the Act where businesses had to post their prices because the merchants were charging whatever they felt like charging at the time; it helps to keep them honest and stops them from showing favoritism to their family and friends. I think I would go back for another round with the manager and if he didn't see it my way, I would call their corporate offices and kick up a storm.

just my 2-cents

So you're going to SCREW a business be damned if it was marked wrong.

If you KNOW the price is wrong and the you demand they sell it for that price.......well.

I personally don't need the money that bad. This surprises me a little bug, because you usually take the "moral" high ground on this type of stuff. This doesn't sound like high ground.

Later,

Geo

[SLP]

So you're going to SCREW a business be damned if it was marked wrong.

If you KNOW the price is wrong and the you demand they sell it for that price.......well.

I personally don't need the money that bad. This surprises me a little bug, because you usually take the "moral" high ground on this type of stuff. This doesn't sound like high ground.

Later,

Geo

I agree, knowingly trying to take advantage of someones mistake for profit is dishonest. No different then when given the wrong change, keeping it.

[bassin_bug]

So you're going to SCREW a business be damned if it was marked wrong.

If you KNOW the price is wrong and the you demand they sell it for that price.......well.

I personally don't need the money that bad. This surprises me a little bug, because you usually take the "moral" high ground on this type of stuff. This doesn't sound like high ground.

Later,

Geo

I do take the moral high road and ALL store managers know, or should know, the law without having to be told. I did not screw the store, the store screwed itself. I resent your inference that I "demanded" something I wasn't entitled to or did something dishonest. I don't make demands or a public spectacle of myself; there is a place for shoppers to go for sensible customer discussions.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I wouldn't be offended about the mistake on the price, I'd be let down and feel like I missed an opportunity for a great deal.

What would have pushed me to pursue this, was the attitude and thinly veiled accusations of the store folks.

Okay....just me here. But when I get treated that way at a store, I don't bogart or avoid the store. If I need something they got, I go right back, and seek out the same folks that were rude to me before for round two, or three or four. Firm, not rude to them, I just won't let them win, or chase me off. My rule of thumb with store folks is, if you treat me rude, I'm going to be back to make your day miserable again and again until you find away to calm things down. Not stalking, just if it's in the store, and I need it, I'm coming to look and I do plan on giving the store folks another chance to get it right.

Like a Chinchilla, sometimes you just got to give the anmimal the opportunity to get themselves upset for it to become uncomfortable enough for them to decide to stop bringing that upon themselves.

Now you know why my wife lovvvvvvesssss me so much