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Electric shock from Asda christmas lights

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  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    OP, when you switched lights off, did you just unplug them from the mains wall socket, turn the switch off at the mains wall socket, or..... ????
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • Amistoso_2
    Amistoso_2 Posts: 1,216 Forumite
    mikey72 wrote: »
    God knows what you do with faulty tree lights, but fair enough, let the op put them in the box, take them back, Asda can restock them, you can buy them next.


    Hardly think that they would re-sell these highly dangerouse child harming lights to someone else after they were returned as faulty, do you? :rolleyes:
  • Valli
    Valli Posts: 25,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    rwhitehouse wrote: »
    Was hoping for some advice please?

    Opened a pack of christmas lights today. switched them on. nothing happened. went to switch them off and received an electric shock. Was very painful and made me scream. I was showing the lights to my six month baby and thank god they didnt fall on her and shock her.

    Have phoned the store and the manager is getting head office to phone me back tomorrow. What can i expect in terms of compensation? What should i do next?

    I would be very grateful for any advice

    thanks

    All you are entitled to is refund/replace...

    Personally I always feel that there are two options - return faulty goods to store OR contact trading standards.
    In this case (and I haven't yet ever felt anything serious enough in my experience to do this) I would have contacted Trading Standards in case there are other faulty sets out there.
    Don't put it DOWN; put it AWAY
    "I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness" Emily Dickinson
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    Thank you Honey Bear
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    Amistoso wrote: »
    Nobody is being a troll, this is clearly a wind up

    and do you have to be quite so dramatic? if it was "genuine" which I very much doubt, it could have been her electrics in the house and not the lights at all :rolleyes:

    Ok, abusive trolls then.
  • Amistoso_2
    Amistoso_2 Posts: 1,216 Forumite
    mikey72 wrote: »
    Ok, abusive trolls then.


    abusive? where? :rolleyes:
  • 4743hudsonj
    4743hudsonj Posts: 3,298 Forumite
    Amistoso wrote: »
    abusive? where? :rolleyes:

    abusive like draping electrical items over a baby?:rotfl:
    Back by no demand whatsoever.
  • vicx
    vicx Posts: 3,091 Forumite
    Where has the OP gone?
    A home without a dog is like a flower without petals.
  • Amistoso_2
    Amistoso_2 Posts: 1,216 Forumite
    4743hudsonj wrote: »
    abusive like draping electrical items over a baby?:rotfl:


    :confused:
  • Amistoso_2
    Amistoso_2 Posts: 1,216 Forumite
    vicx wrote: »
    Where has the OP gone?


    pretty sure this is a wind...
  • spankymonkey_2
    spankymonkey_2 Posts: 798 Forumite
    makes me laugh,these days something goes wrong and first thing in a persons mind is ' how much can i make out of this' when really i would be more worried of it happening to other people! is there something wrong with me because i think of others?
    spanky xx

    DFW weight watchers 28lbs to lose
    lost so far 11.5 lbs
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