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  • dawny10
    dawny10 Posts: 244 Forumite
    Of course losing £20 is not as bad as losing your job, but that is not the issue here.

    Anything bad that happened to yourself, your family, your loved ones, could always be dismissed by finding an example of someone worse off.

    People aren't being selfish by being unhappy that they have lost tens or hundreds of pounds by Zavvi's administrators refusal to accept the vouchers - that is their personal experience of this situation.
  • Broken_hearted
    Broken_hearted Posts: 9,553 Forumite
    Its a bit like that farepac or whatever it was called going under. People sat on tv saying they couldn't even have a christmas dinner. Christmas is what you make it, having time together costs nothing well maybe a tenner for the meat and veg for lunch.
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  • GracieP
    GracieP Posts: 1,263 Forumite
    opaque wrote: »
    I would say one of the reasons vouchers have lasted so long is because over time it's been considered to look more 'common' or less 'exciting' than getting cash for a present.

    There are certain advantages to getting a voucher. A few times in the past I have gotten my parents vouchers for restaurants because I thought it would be nice for them to eat out on occasion as they so rarely get around to it. They wouldn't accept money from me and if they did it would go into their savings account rather than on a meal out. I wouldn't have touched them this year though.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    disney_cjd wrote: »
    djective 1. making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming;
    in that sense.

    The perception that buying a voucher is inferior to cash.)

    I just don't quite see the point of them. I'd rather give a present than a voucher. Doesn't mean I think I have more rights than anyone else, and I wouldn't have thought of vouchers as particularly risky. My point was more that I've not really ever thought about them at all.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    pickalilly wrote: »
    I left them know Santa is not real at the same time if you like.

    And the tooth fairy too?

    OH is absolutely determined that we won't feed Isaac such stories. he thinks they are fundamentally dishonest.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • disney_cjd
    disney_cjd Posts: 1,249 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    OH is absolutely determined that we won't feed Isaac such stories. he thinks they are fundamentally dishonest.

    Serious? No Santa in your house? Wow.
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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Nope, not one in sight. We do have stockings, though (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Cat695
    Cat695 Posts: 3,647 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Nope, not one in sight. We do have stockings, though (-:


    Yours or his?
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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Neither. My Grandad's sexy navy stockings.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Cat695
    Cat695 Posts: 3,647 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Neither. My Grandad's sexy navy stockings.


    That reminds me I think I need to dig out my issued green thermals.....awesome
    If you find yourself in a fair fight, then you have failed to plan properly


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