Tesco Misprices Discussion area part 5

smartie1976

garyboys wrote:

Hi pls cud u post da miss prices in bold or a different colour cos it takes ages 2 look through this thread fnx.

This is not the misprices thread - this is the discussion thread. You need to look in the dedicated misprices thread, however people probably won't remember/ have the time to make everything bold for you.

Ps. Your "text speak" makes your post difficult to read.

rdwarr

webrits wrote:

Please could YOU SPELL your words as it annoys the CR*P out of me reading your stupid abbreviated grammar.

Thanks.

I was astonished to see a "u" in "colour"! Many of the poster's contributions are in nice-to-read English though; I wonder if there is more than one of them?

big_mama_3

webrits wrote:

Please could YOU SPELL your words as it annoys the CR*P out of me reading your stupid abbreviated grammar.Thanks.

Webrits,
Not that this comment was aimed at my post.... but welcome to the age of texting (i.e. mobile phone texting). I am afraid they have their own spelling… I believe there is even a texting dictionary on line somewhere.

It is real shame that progress in modern technology has resulted in degradation of human consciousness on almost all levels. Instead of users of technology becoming smarter …. quite the reverse can prevalently be observed. Just try a call centre and have a query outside of the "computer knowledge base" from which the operator is parroting from and then you realise how the new generation are losing their ability to think independently.
This situation is somewhat ironic as there are great similarities between now and what happened in the early 19th century after the industrial revolution but the parallels are in different realms. Then the link between men and the land from which he produced his food was broken. (There is a great book on this called "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George written in 1879).
Now the link between man and his conscience mind (i.e. ability to think independently and to discriminate between truth and false) is being severed. Just observe what is in the news…. you have to make an effort to observe without your current human conditioning and then you'll see my point.

Just take the Tesco misprice issue and how people are abusing it. Here we have, probably law-abiding citizens undertaking an action that deep down even they themselves know to be wrong. But the current human conditioning is such that in our minds we make perfectly convincing arguments about the merits and justification of doing this act. Now to somebody without our current human conditioning this would be nothing short of stealing. But since Tesco is ripping us off then it is ok for us to do the same eeeerrrrrmmmm... is this a good enough argument !!

There is an old saying that people get the government that they deserve…. So no one on the Tesco threads should be shocked by all the news of sleaze etc……

Anyhow not to wonder too far from the Tesco mispricing…… here is one which is almost a mis price…..but not quite!

Most of the old stocks of Mobile telephone hands free kits and in car battery charger connections are going through at 1pence each. I believe they are just clearing discontinued line. The products are priced at 4.99 on the packaging but mostly go through at 1p… some go at £1.25 and some at £4.99. The SEL said £1.25 I think but even at £1.25 they are a bargain if you need one but at 1P....... :rotfl:

In this present time there is little difference between Democracy and Hypocrisy 

Constantine

big_mama wrote:

Most of the old stocks of Mobile telephone hands free kits and in car battery charger connections are going through at 1pence each. I believe they are just clearing discontinued line. The products are priced at 4.99 on the packaging but mostly go through at 1p… some go at £1.25 and some at £4.99. The SEL said £1.25 I think but even at £1.25 they are a bargain if you need one but at 1P....... :rotfl:

Nice post. I didnt quote it all to save some space

The 1p price point is for write-offs. The price is reduced centrally so the store can waste any remaining stock without it costing them a fortune. But a nice bonus if you find something you need still on the shelf :cool:

hokers

big_mama wrote:

Webrits,

It is real shame that progress in modern technology has resulted in degradation of human consciousness on almost all levels. Instead of users of technology becoming smarter …. quite the reverse can prevalently be observed. Just try a call centre and have a query outside of the "computer knowledge base" from which the operator is parroting from and then you realise how the new generation are losing their ability to think independently.


What an incredibly unsubstantiated, off-topic rant.
"The youth of today are becoming more stupid, see these call centre staff as an example"
The only thing preventing you from going on my ignore list is that you posted a misprice, thank you for that, it's better than some of the posters on here.

And so as not to be hypocritical, Bendicks Gorgeous chocolates, SEL 2.99, scan £3.49, expired 26/3, I'll post it on the other thread too.

pwood

i too was banned for using the R & R, so i writen to their M.D havent yet received a reply but will let you know of outcome. if all else fails then we will all have to report misprices to trading standards.

highguyuk

big_mama wrote:

Webrits,

Most of the old stocks of Mobile telephone hands free kits and in car battery charger connections are going through at 1pence each. I believe they are just clearing discontinued line. The products are priced at 4.99 on the packaging but mostly go through at 1p… some go at £1.25 and some at £4.99. The SEL said £1.25 I think but even at £1.25 they are a bargain if you need one but at 1P....... :rotfl:

Me and OH both need in car chargers, can you give anymore info on these?

GRFC1972

[Deciding not to alert the checkout operator to the mis-price I took 2 non-stickered ones to the till, remebering to photograph the shelf sticker. Sure enough the higher price was charged.

I have edited the above..............but you get the idea....

I know of one Tesco store over the weekend who has had a customer arrested....for fraud....

They were, shall we say, continual r+r's and for that reason were watched as they shopped in future. They had also taken a photograph in the past to show the price was displayed wrongly.....Nothing wrong with that (well we could argue about photos on private property but that will go on and on and on)....unfortunately they had also taken a sel from the store as an offer was about to finish and then brought it back after the price had gone up and replaced the new,correct sel with the aforementioned one.......all on CCTV...it was for a mobile phone by the way.

As I said in a previous post, the minority spoiling it for the majority!

If you really think that staff are removing sel's once you go to the CSD then my advice is to go with them once you have pointed out your overcharge.

rdwarr

highguyuk wrote:

Sum people, includin myslf, think ppl shld put da effrt in2 english lang. to get it rite, ...

highguyuk wrote:

Me and OH both need in car chargers ...

Meowwwwwwww

Mr_X_9

On Saturday evening I was overcharged at Tesco Irlam store.
I bought 3 Sony MP3 players that had the yellow price tag of £149.97 per unit.
On leaving the store I noticed that I had in-fact been charged £159.97 per unit.

Before going to C.S. I went to double check that the advertised price was £149.97 per unit, which it was.
So before going to C.S. I took a photo of the POS.

Spoke to C.S. who informed me that they would have to get the electronics manager to deal with the query.
So I waited at C.S. for the manager to arrive, which he did around 5 minutes later.
After explaining that I had been overcharged we went off to check the POS.
That is where I had my 1st shock, the yellow price tag had been removed, obviously the manage said that I had been charged the correct amount. I tried to explain to him that when I made the purchase and also when I came back into the store to check the POS, the yellow tag was indeed their. He said that there was nothing he could do.

So I asked to see the store manager, only the deputy store manager was available.
It took him around 15 minutes to arrive at C.S.
I then proceeded to inform him of my dilemma to which he was adamant that I was wrong.
After showing him the receipt which had the purchase time of 18:37, then show him the picture I had taken at 18:43 of the POS, he's response was "That is not our POS".
He then went on to insinuate that either I tampered with the POS or downloaded the picture "There are websites that you can do that from" ( I have done a quick Google search and can not find a single POS picture!).

I asked them to check the CCTV footage of me at the POS and of the POS to try and find out what had happened which the response was "Not all of the cameras work and record what is going on". They didn't even entertain the request.

Also the deputy manager stated that the yellow price tag had been removed over 1 week ago and all of the price tags have to be signed out. I know after witnessing a member of staff removing a yellow price tag, that the yellow price tags are placed over the original price tags, so this comment made no sense.

After approx. 10 minutes of going back and forth I left the store, MP3 players in hand, no refund.

Today I called H.O. who contacted the store and called me back to state "The deputy store manager will not give the refund because it is not a genuine overcharge"

Has anyone experienced anything like this before?

I can not believe that Tesco are acting like this.

I will be writing to HO, Trading Standards, The Manchester Evening News, Watchdog and any other organisation I can find, who might be interested with the way Tesco are treating it's customers.

Please let me suggest that in future anyone who find's that they have been overcharged to contact a member of staff at the POS and ask for the relevant manager to come to the POS before heading to CS. That way nothing can go missing!

Sorry about the length of my post.