ARGOS Won't honour Stars Wars DVD Web price

jamiev

Just been down my local argos in Thetford, getting ready for a fight to get the DVD, had the email ready and the screen shot! Lo and Behold they handed it to me at £14.99! Result!

Kinda a little bit dissapointed though as I wanted a scrap!!! ha ha ::)

angelnas

Yeah i picked mine up yesterday around lunchtime when i reserved it that morning.  When i checked the stock checker it was out of stock, but because of my reservation they had still kept mine aside, and i did get it for £14.99.  Dundee Store. So worth pursuing them all the same.

speedyjoe

Oh what joy did I have today? Well it all went well in the end.

Reserved, it seems the last copy available in Norfolk, at the Cromer store as a christmas present for my wife. Got a lift there with my brother coz the waterpump has gone on the car.

Went straight to the "quick" pay terminal because I figured I might end up with the cashier refusing the £14.99 price. But at the terminal there's a couple of people infront ordering numerous jewellery trinkets and toys entering each number from one of the instore paper order slips. Bit odd I thought, why would they be using the terminal?, they were having real trouble.

Minutes roll by. I'm feeling a plonker coz everyone in the massive queue has gone through the tills but I'm still queuing at the quick pay. Then one of the numbers is wrong so one of them goes off to check, more minutes go by, the person left at the terminal says "excuse me I'm just going to see what colleague is doing" OK I say with an obviously forced smile.

There they are other side of the store going through the catalogue. I'm thinking, "brother and his girlfriend are going to be !!!!!! off, Oh well". Then up pops on the terminal "you have been inactive too long press continue or your session will be terminated" I'm looking at this and my bad side is saying "hmm if I leave it, it will log out and I can use it" but no my good side wins and I put my hand out and push the button. Still I stand there to the point where I'm not pushing the bl**dy button if it comes up again.

Then they come back no word of sorry or thank you for waiting. More muddling. Then they try to pay with an Argos card - card rejected. I'm beginning to get !!!!!! off now. So the other finds another card - no won't accept it , grrrr, then another card oh it works. fantastic.

I get to the machine, put in the code £14.99, so far so good. Put my card in - I have the receipts. Now there's no way they are going to reject me now.

Turns out the reason the muggles were using the machine - a girl is going along the queue saying "if you're paying with cards try the fast pay it's much faster" - only if you have a clue dear!!

So I wait, up comes the number. I go to collection point A, there's Dum and Dummer in front, Dummer who paid is now checking every box to make sure they have the items in "Because I want to be sure to get my money back!" Grrrrrrrr!!!

Finally I get to the collection point. Items not there. I wait ten more minutes. "Sorry Sir we're having trouble finding it, You might as well sign whilst your waiting" fine by me "binding contract" She takes the slip. I see lots of backroom staff wandering about, flustered faces. Something about "well you'll have to go and get that one" Finally I see someone take something off the shelf where everyone was looking in the first place. It's the Box! Think I got the copy a member of staff has stashed away. I wait some more. It's sitting on the collection shelf.

I wait and I wait, I'm about to blow. Then someone else comes "oh is this yours" "YES it is" "where's the slip?" "that woman took it" "Maureen did you take the gentlemans slip?" "no I don't think so" "YES YOU DID" "oh yes I think I did" Thank F*** for that. "sorry to keep you waiting sir" Yes I should think so, 40 sodding minutes!

Brother and girlfriend were really cool - "oh I've shopped there before" So if you are in a hurry don't use Argos Cromer!

What stress? at least I know the wife will be really pleased.

Much thanks to the original poster.

muchtoospeedyforargosjoe

StephenB_2

That's because it should be https://www.argos.co.uk  

Ooops :-[