MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Should Kate return a sale frock with a full price receipt?

Maggots

Yep, I have been doing this for ages. The stores make enough cash as it is. As long as the article has not been worn, you are perfectly within your rights to a refund! :j

MummyMoney_3

I'd go for it!

little-miss-little

The £25 is better off in my pocket than any major retailer...

Mum_of_3_3

I did this with a birthday present a while ago.

It was my eldest dd's friend's birthday & a few of us clubbed together & bought an expensive present from Argos.

A few days after the party Argos had a sale & it was reduced, so I bought the item & took it back with the original receipt, I then gave the child the cash so he could buy something else (he was delighted!).

Better in my pocket than theirs I say!

M_o_3

PS I definately would not take back anything I had worn or used unless it was faulty.

mojo7

erik99 wrote: »

If the item in question is a gift you have received but don't want, and you don't like to ask the giver for the receipt, you can often change it or get a credit note by returning it. The trouble here is that if the item has gone into the sale by the time you return it, you will only get the sale price back.

But not if Kate has a receipt for £50 - looks in her handbag and ...voila!! there it is! :j Take the new, unworn dress back with the original receipt and beat the shop at their own game - I 're-bought' an expensive digital camera as the first one my son bought was faulty but I had lost the receipt and therefore no proof of purchase - not until I bought the second one, took the original one back with the new receipt, got my money refunded and everyone was happy!

mimie

nope.. its morally incorrect..deceiving.

Tescoa

jinty47 wrote: »

I have a policy with debenhams which avoids this happening for £19.99 a year I can claim back any money I have overpaid on sale goods and I have 100 days to claim

My girlfriend has a Monsoon store card and one of the T & Cs is that if any item is subsequently reduced, she can claim the difference between the original price paid and the sale price within 3 months (I think). She tells me that a lot of store cards have such conditions. I don't think that she pays for this.

Money_saving_Martyn

Hi all!

I do not see a problem with doing this. Where's fraud come into it?

This girl bought a dress for £50.... and is returning the exact same dress (in that it's the same colour, style, make, model, engine size etc etc) and getting £50 back for it. She's not tried to copy the dress and knit one in her garden shed and pass it off as a genuine one - it IS the same dress. She's not scanned in the receipt and changed the price she paid with the help of MS Paint..... it's the genuine receipt......with the genuine dress.

Suppose that she was a very dizzy kind of girl (and that you are too) and had not worn dress 1 and it was 100% clean. She bought dress 2 (identical) because she liked it and it was on sale -SHOCK horror - it's the same dress.

Are people here telling me that:

1) Because they've put both in the wardrobe they not sure which was £50 and which was £25 (since they're 100% identical with tags etc) - they'd take neither back incase it is spiritually the wrong one - and that's fraud(!")
or
2) they'd take back the CHEAPER dress (having identified it with the help of tarot cards) and keep the expensive identical one... (still within necessary time limits for the store etc)?

Unlikely I feel.

When the product is 100% identical, including labels, I do not see anything wrong.

Mazzie

Yes of course she should take it back. In the USA & Canada Wal-Mart have a policy that if you purchase something from their store and it goes on sale within 14 days of it being purchased you just take your receipt into the store and they will refund you the difference. So if you paid $50.00 10 days ago and today it was on sale for $25, they would refund you $25 for just showing them the receipt. Doesn't matter if you have worn it or not, you don't have to take the item into the store either. This is a great policy and probably would solve a lot of headaches for retailers in Britain if they adopted the same policy.

Mike_J

Yep...no problem with her doing it!!