Tesco misprice discussion area part 14

d0cketts

mikeywills wrote:

And who would determine the quality referenced here docketts. You may end up restricting yourself from viewing!:doh:

Well I'd rather that than not being able to get any R&Rs

BaileyB

something like 50 posts in good

d0cketts

You could just block unregistered users from seeing it

mikeywills

ukmonkey wrote:

Well said! I've been thinking the same for weeks, as this thread and the misprices spotted thread are too hard to keep up with.

If it had its own forum, someone could post a new misprice in a new thread, and then the discussion about that product could be kept in the same thread, which would make it easier for most people, especially newbie.

Also, for any n00b questions, they would get answered quicker IMHO, and it'd be easier for the n00bs to find the question that they asked and read the answer, thus decreasing the amount of newbie questions in with the discussions.

PLEASE can we have our own board? Pretty please!!!!

It would also reduce the amount of time it takes for good old mr T to find all the misprices and get them corrected instore. This would not be a good step forward. I would rather put up with lots of repeated n00bs (as you put it) questions in amongst good info than good info standing out as clear as though it were in red type face.

illmonkey

limiting to posts is useless as they will possibly just spam a little to get 50 posts and blocking it from unregistered users will just make them register (not all that bad!)

A invite only system MIGHT work, but again, they could still get invited.

mikeywills

d0cketts wrote:

Well I'd rather that than not being able to get any R&Rs

You just need a bit more practise docketts it will come, the eyes need to be trained on the SELS not the products when shopping.

smckay

maybe such a board already exists!

Whirly

d0cketts wrote:

Fair point but the delay I think far outweighs that fact that the deal would probably have lasted longer if people are right in their thinking that spys are on this board

I don't think it matters in all honesty.

Any Tesco employee who wants to get access to a restricted board wouldn't have too hard a time doing so.

Anyone who is interested simply needs to spend 30mins a day going through the 2 threads to find all the misprices.

Finally, if you have a restricted board, you are playing into Tesco's hands...less people see the misprice, less people take advantage. Add the fact that this is MSE and it is for everyone to save money, not for a select few to make thousands of pounds.

Finally, who would do the selecting when it came to who had access to the board? And what would be the criteria?

The sad truth is that there is no way of stopping any determined Tesco employee from accessing misprices published on this site.

On a slightly different note we should all be patting ourselves on the back a little and I'll tell you why:

Before these threads Tesco's were overcharging all of their customers regularly and were not bothered about fixing the problem. If 1 person noticed and got a refund, who cares, the next 10 won't and Tesco profit.

Nowadays I wander around my local Tesco and see meat that has been re-stickered with the correct price. Misleading SEL's are almost non-existant, and when an r&r is claimed the staff literally run to get the item marked up correctly.

The overall effect of this is that tens of thousands of customers are being saved money every day due to our efforts and they don't even know about it. Yes, we profit from the misprices, but we also keep Tesco far closer to the straight and narrow than they've ever been in my experience.

If there are any Tesco HO spies reading this they should call a high level meeting to discuss two things:

1. Get the damn prices right all of the time - overcharging your customers is not only a *criminal* offence but if the scale of the problem ever gets out it is a PR disaster. People shop where they are confident and if the general public ever gets the impression they can't trust Tesco's not to steal from them then there will be a significant number who simply drive the extra 500m to the Sainsburys/Asda.
2. Start sacking CS staff who make r&r'ing difficult. Remember, for every few pounds Tesco's save in fobbing off a customer you get an increased risk of that customer reporting it to TS. Now I know Tesco's don't give a damn about a few local TS officers poking around but sooner or later the weight of complaints is going to stack up and combine with politcal pressure (very few *like* Tesco's making billions in profit and "ruining" the high st) to result in, at the very least, questions in the house. From that point on it's a timebomb that will go off.

ukmonkey

mikeywills wrote:

It would also reduce the amount of time it takes for good old mr T to find all the misprices and get them corrected instore. This would not be a good step forward. I would rather put up with lots of repeated n00bs (as you put it) questions in amongst good info than good info standing out as clear as though it were in red type face.

Yea, fair point Mikey, didn't think of that!

d0cketts

Well maybe someone here should create their own tesco forum available by invite only then people will have the choice which one to go to