Tesco misprice discussion area part 12

the_postman_2

taxiphil wrote:

It's a lapel badge with the logo of the local Council on it. If you don't have one you can easily make your own, Blue Peter style, by buying a blank perspex badge from W.H.Smith, cutting out the logo of your council off their letterhead and sliding it into the badge.

If they want to jump to panicky conclusions that you might be a Trading Standards official, it's up to them. But I'm just wearing it because I'm a big fan of my local council

It's amazing what a bit of reverse psychology does. All of a sudden you see the guilt written all over their faces as they fawn over you with apologies and cross your palm with silver in accordance with their advertised policy.

wh smiths??

do you have a pic of the badge?

ben500

I'm getting a Terry Leahy face mask made for me:rotfl: :rotfl:

306NOTOUT

bkm wrote:

So now expecting a letter from HO Tesco’s saying please don’t darken our doorsteps again. I know I’m not legally doing anything wrong but really don’t want to get banned! Will give it a rest for a bit I think. Until I find the £800 tv!

Dont worry BKM it will take a bit more than a couple of phones to get you banned. Just make sure you shop around at different stores and at different times of the day

thelurch

Just thought I'd add my adventures today.

Only my second visit to the nearest extra,so went straight up the escalator to the tellys, no stock, mobiles had the new offer up so I continued the hunt, thought I got them on a 39.xx iron but scanned at the lower of two labels. No Champers, biscuits, meat.

Was thinking it was a wasted journey so I thought I would have one more go upstairs, just got on the escalator and a display caught my eye.

It was at the end of the sandwich fridges adjacent to the end of that aisle, saw 10% off mobiles....up I went and straight back down!
They had 2 of the A4 signs still advertising the 10% off and two different handsets, a motorola for about 80.xx and the samsung E900 both with yellow SEL stating the discounted price...BINGO.

The best thing was the display was about 6 foot from the CS desk!!

took the cd case to the scanner and scanned at 169.97 instead of 155.xx

Paid for 2, and had to go back to the electrical desk to collect. Went to CS and told them of the overcharge, was told that the offer was for 20.00 off with airtime, no I said I mean that offer, and pointed to the display right by us.

She stood at the display, removed SEL and the A4 flyer but stood there reading it for ages, I could almost see her thought process!

She talked to another bloke who was passing then came back and pointed out the small print about " offer subject to availability, while stocks last" She said that the offer is subject to availabilty.

Confused I said well the phones are here on the desk so they are available!
She then said nothing and she started to re scan the items at the lower price and went to give me the difference. I then mentioned our favourite blue sign and she told me that that only applied to food items!

I asked to speak to the manager and she said she had and he had said to give me the difference as goodwill. I asked to speak to him and borrow a phone to phone head office, so off she went ,gone ages, came back, re scanned the phones, asked for debit card ( I know I should have used cash) and gave me my phones.

Then the best bit, she said " oh you have missed out on lots of points here, have you got a clubcard", no i said so she then went to get a spare and tried to get me to fill out my address!

£339 R+R

wlfc1

thelurch wrote:

Just thought I'd add my adventures today.

Only my second visit to the nearest extra,so went straight up the escalator to the tellys, no stock, mobiles had the new offer up so I continued the hunt, thought I got them on a 39.xx iron but scanned at the lower of two labels. No Champers, biscuits, meat.



£339 R+R

nice one ! and well described

taxiphil

the_postman wrote:

wh smiths??

do you have a pic of the badge?

I'm not posting a pic of my actual badge on here for obvious reasons as loads of Tesco staff come on here. But you can get the blank ones from W.H.Smith or any stationery supplier (Office World, Staples, etc). Their proper name is Combi Clips and they look something like this (apologies for the small image size).....

Alan_Thompson

nice one, kinda makes me feel better about my failed £99 mobile.
My nightmare scenario began when I returned to the phones with the CS lady to show her the £89 SEL - it had been removed!! After that it went downhill.
I was so !!!!ed off I went and got a R&R chicken from a different store on the way home from work to make myself feel better.
It's addictive this, isn't it ?

redhot

hi all - are the scanners still working for everyone else, i've tried my 4 local (ish) tescos and all have scanners turned off or not working.

the_postman_2

taxiphil wrote:

I'm not posting a pic of my actual badge on here for obvious reasons as loads of Tesco staff come on here. But you can get the blank ones from W.H.Smith or any stationery supplier (Office World, Staples, etc). Their proper name is Combi Clips and they look something like this (apologies for the small image size).....

ta this is the pic i wanted!!

not your badge!

hmm ideas,

what can i be? an inspector of summat

im young , and look young and dress casual, baseball cap, jeans etc.

ill put on a casual jacket, grab a clipboard, and generally wear some sort of comedy badge!

what do you think?

thelurch

Dont worry the next biggie is just round the corner, me thinks the TVs are gone now.