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Organised mum argued with me over a refund on a typo error on their diary

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  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 36,267 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Savvy Shopper!
    Angel_A wrote: »
    Consumer Rights....Otherwise why have a forum for discussion.
    Maybe I should have posted in Vent...

    Exactly - it's a forum for discussion and advice.

    Just because you post something here (or in Praise, Vent & Warnings) doesn't mean you're right.

    Regardless of which of the 2 boards your posted on, I'm sure you would have got pretty much the same reaction.
    The reason I noticed it, is because its my daughters birthday. So I was not happy with this. It will probably not bother anyone else. But for me its the principle and not a nice date to be replaced with.

    I think this is the telling paragraph - you say it probably wouldn't bother anyone else but because it's your daughter's birthday you're turning this into a 'principle'.
  • aliasojo
    aliasojo Posts: 23,053 Forumite
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    Angel_A wrote: »
    No worries, as I said I've done what I felt was right IMHO

    Which is your right to do, regardless of what other people feel about it.
    Herman - MP for all! :)
  • Gavin83
    Gavin83 Posts: 8,757 Forumite
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    What are you going to do with the rest of the diary, destroy it?
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    edited 26 January 2011 at 9:10AM
    What's wrong with the 13th? It's just another day. That's mean to the approximately 3.3% of the population whose birthday falls on the 13th of the month.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    edited 26 January 2011 at 9:10AM
    I agree, and I would make a joke out of it - 'Your birthday doesn't exist according to my diary - it's like a special leap year so you can stay younger for longer!'.

    I don't think I have one academic text that does not have an error in it - would save me a fortune if I could get a full refund just for returning one page!
    Gone ... or have I?
  • chipmunk
    chipmunk Posts: 529 Forumite
    Oh, how I wish that this was the worst thing that was happening in my life at the moment ..............
  • Morty_007
    Morty_007 Posts: 1,496 Forumite
    Well speaking as someone who owns this diary as a direct recommendation from the OP's post in grabbit, I can honestly and truly say....My enjoyment of the month of November has been ruined. The 3rd is payday and I JUST don't know how i'm going to cope without that money. It's going to be 8 weeks between paydays!!:eek:

    Man I wish the 13th was pay day....:o
    Good Enough Club member number 27(2) AND I got me a stalkee!
    Closet debt free wannabe -[STRIKE] Last personal loan payment - July 2010[/STRIKE]:T, credit card balance about £3000 (and dropping FAST), [STRIKE]Last car payment September 2010 (August 2010 aparently!!)[/STRIKE]
    And a mortgage in a pear tree :D
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    Morty_007 wrote: »
    Well speaking as someone who owns this diary as a direct recommendation from the OP's post in grabbit, I can honestly and truly say....My enjoyment of the month of November has been ruined. The 3rd is payday and I JUST don't know how i'm going to cope without that money. It's going to be 8 weeks between paydays!!:eek:

    Man I wish the 13th was pay day....:o

    I would sue for loss of enjoyment ... maybe some emotional distress too? ;)
    Gone ... or have I?
  • hertzyabazas
    hertzyabazas Posts: 34,148 Forumite
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    Surely you remember your daughter's birthday without the need to write it on the offending page?
  • veruccasalt
    veruccasalt Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    hertzyabazas wrote: »
    Surely you remember your daughter's birthday without the need to write it on the offending page?

    I think we all will, for evermore....:D
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” Charles M Schulz
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