argos tried to refuse me phones

James&Shell

We wanted to by to identical phones the other week and the assistant said as long as they are on diffrent recipts she wasnt bothered.

So just pay for them separatly.

zeke

trickytrolleys wrote:

I'm pretty sure zeke was joking

Well spotted- Argos staff have all my sympathy, even after spending 45 minutes waiting for them to find a Singstar Rocks with microphones the other week.

larrylamb_2

Its not just argos with the 1 phone per customer policy many other retailers have this policy. As mentioned before its because they only get paid once the phone is registered.

h4x3r

zeke wrote:

I tried to buy 10 the other day for ebay, manager refused, big argument and I ended up punching him. Court on Tuesday.

why did u punth him? as far as his concerned he doesnt have to sell u anything or dosnt even have to allow u near the premisses

trickytrolleys

h4x3r wrote:

why did u punth him? as far as his concerned he doesnt have to sell u anything or dosnt even have to allow u near the premisses

good lord above - can you not read ??????????

plumb1_2

trickytrolleys wrote:

good lord above - can you not read ??????????

:rotfl: theres always 1

reehsetin

yup it is common policy now because of box breakers! phones are subsidised as the networks expect to make money back from top ups etc! shipping them off abroad looses them money!

3 even went to the extent of glueing in sim cards in some of their phones!

good policy i think, not always easy to realise what is a genuine customer and if the non genuine buy all the handsets then its the network and the genuine customers who suffer

zeke

trickytrolleys wrote:

good lord above - can you not read ??????????

Quite possible- definitely can't spell

TheFlyingGerbil

trickytrolleys wrote:

I'm pretty sure zeke was joking

Well, don't I just feel like an idiot! Problem is though, it was totally plausible as while I haven't been hit I've been intimidated and had to cover other staff who went off in tears after dealing with nasty customers - working in Argos has pretty much made me hate most people off the bat instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt. There are so few people who are genuinely nice even when you are telling themsomething they may not want to hear.

Joe

withabix

trickytrolleys wrote:

good lord above - can you not read ??????????

...or spell? (or has someone just punched him??)