Damaging an item when shopping?

ADAM001

I am just wondering if anybody has any experience of this,we were looking at a bed for my three year old daughter today,and she had an "accident" whilst sitting on it,the shop attendant basically said i had to pay for it,which i did,but i was wondering,am i liable?
I was a little shocked at being made to pay for it there and then and my wife was even threatened with the police as we had no money to pay for it at the time,i had to use a credit card.
Do stores not have insurance for that kind of thing,makes me now very wary when out shopping with my kids,if they damage something accidently then i could be well out of pocket,is this law?
It was a matress costing £150.00,which i am now the proud owner of!

Blackpool_Saver

ah, but would they?

vyle

ADAM001 wrote: »

Do stores not have insurance for that kind of thing,makes me now very wary when out shopping with my kids,if they damage something accidently then i could be well out of pocket,is this law?
It was a matress costing £150.00,which i am now the proud owner of!

Why should the shop pay for your carelessness though? The way you wrote this implies that until now you happily let your kids run around breaking stuff in shops and banging on TV screens.

I hope you didn't, but if you did, consider this a wakeup call.

daveboy

Another irresponsible waste of space parent.

Do not pass go, do not collect £150.

Instead pay a 'stupidity' fine of £150 while we all laugh. :rotfl:

Mupette

vyle wrote: »

Why should the shop pay for your carelessness though? The way you wrote this implies that until now you happily let your kids run around breaking stuff in shops and banging on TV screens.

I hope you didn't, but if you did, consider this a wakeup call.

And how was the parent careless, his child had an accident, not like she did it on purpose.

daveboy wrote: »

Another irresponsible waste of space parent.

Do not pass go, do not collect £150.

Instead pay a 'stupidity' fine of £150 while we all laugh. :rotfl:

again another judgemental comment, the parent was irresponsible how?


geese come on ppl how many of you !!!!!! your pants when you were kids, i bet your own parents would have tales to tell.

dmg24

Mupette wrote: »

geese come on ppl how many of you !!!!!! your pants when you were kids, i bet your own parents would have tales to tell.

No doubt everybody did at some point, but why does that mean the parents should not pay for the damage?

Mupette

Judas, Op has not said she wets herself on a regular basis..

dmg24, i never said that the op should not pay, i'm in the you damaged you pay boat, i was just taken back that it was all the op and partners fault becuase their child wet herself....

the op has only mentioned this one occasion, we don't know if she wets herself lots or anything, but people are calling them irresponsible and careless, with not much fact.

MrsBartolozzi

I remember a little shop near where I grew up had a sign which said:

Lovely to look at,
Lovely to hold,
But if you break it,
Consider it sold.

I never broke anything in there, but the rhyme served as a warning that the items in there were not mine til I paid for them and if I broke the shop's property I'd have to pay.
If your daughter peed on a friend's bed/sofa would you not pay to get the mattress/sofa cleaned? I would hope so - as cleaning won't make the mattress brand new and saleable and the shop is not at fault the only thing you can do is recompense them by buying it.

vyle

Mupette wrote: »

Judas, Op has not said she wets herself on a regular basis..

dmg24, i never said that the op should not pay, i'm in the you damaged you pay boat, i was just taken back that it was all the op and partners fault becuase their child wet herself....

the op has only mentioned this one occasion, we don't know if she wets herself lots or anything, but people are calling them irresponsible and careless, with not much fact.

Ok, careless or not, that part is irrelevant. Allow me to rephrase, why should the shop pay for OP's child's accident? If the shop came into OP's house and broke/damaged something of theirs OP would want something in return.

That's for other people who may not consider shops charging for stuff that gets broken in store fair.

faithcecilia

I am fairly sure that I saw on one of the consumer rights TV shows that a shop is not allowed to profit from damaged goods, so if they ask you to pay for it then it is the wholesale price they should charge you. What I wouldn't know, though, is how this would work if you then take the item home - ie in this case its actually a perfectly usable mattress.

ADAM001

daveboy wrote: »

Another irresponsible waste of space parent.

Do not pass go, do not collect £150.

Instead pay a 'stupidity' fine of £150 while we all laugh. :rotfl:

What an utterly useless,ingnorant,judgemental and insulting thing to say.
Have kids of your own? I bet if you have yours are impeccably behaved,make no noise whatsoever and are toilet trained by 6 months,i was merely asking a question,not asking for some self righteous knob to come on here and make sweeping statements about people he has never even met!!