Damage to belongings from leaking can of drink?

neilmcl

matilda.cs wrote: »

Wait, LBA to Boots or to Monster?

As above, you're legal rights are with the seller, in this case Boots.

matilda.cs

£40 leather bag
£199 Gold 32GB iPod Touch
£30 portable charger
£5 cloth iPod case
£3.29 on spoiled lunch
£20 small tool kit in a leather case (case is damaged and the tools are showing signs of water damage/rust despite best efforts to protect them)
£15 pack of 24 staedtler pencils
2 hours of notes and work, which while it has no direct monetary value, had to be reproduced (£10 per hour?)


Total damages of £332.29 (£312.29 without work reproduction)


To be honest, it's really just the iPod I'm concerned about, being that it belongs to my 10 year...

neilmcl

bris wrote: »

So why wasn't it leaking in the shop? Something happened to it is the obvious answer.

It might not have been obvious whilst in an upright position.

neilmcl

matilda.cs wrote: »

£40 leather bag
£199 Gold 32GB iPod Touch
£30 portable charger
£5 cloth iPod case
£3.29 on spoiled lunch
£20 small tool kit in a leather case (case is damaged and the tools are showing signs of water damage/rust despite best efforts to protect them)
£15 pack of 24 staedtler pencils
2 hours of notes and work, which while it has no direct monetary value, had to be reproduced (£10 per hour?)


Total damages of £332.29 (£312.29 without work reproduction)


To be honest, it's really just the iPod I'm concerned about, being that it belongs to my 10 year...

Are you able to provide physical evidence of all the damage?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

neilmcl wrote: »

You do it and let us know how easy it is then, I would be very surprised if indeed it was that simple.

It doesn't have to be that easy. Let's say one out of every thousand people in the UK puts a can in a bag on a given day. That's 64,000 cans in bags. If there's a one in a million chance of it breaking the way the OP's did, then this happens to somebody in the UK once every 2 weeks.

powerful_Rogue

neilmcl wrote: »

You do it and let us know how easy it is then, I would be very surprised if indeed it was that simple.

Send me the items the OP is claiming as being damaged and i'll give it a go.

powerful_Rogue

matilda.cs wrote: »

£40 leather bag
£199 Gold 32GB iPod Touch
£30 portable charger
£5 cloth iPod case
£3.29 on spoiled lunch
£20 small tool kit in a leather case (case is damaged and the tools are showing signs of water damage/rust despite best efforts to protect them)
£15 pack of 24 staedtler pencils
2 hours of notes and work, which while it has no direct monetary value, had to be reproduced (£10 per hour?)


Total damages of £332.29 (£312.29 without work reproduction)


To be honest, it's really just the iPod I'm concerned about, being that it belongs to my 10 year...

Good luck with that!

neilmcl

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

It doesn't have to be that easy. Let's say one out of every thousand people in the UK puts a can in a bag on a given day. That's 64,000 cans in bags. If there's a one in a million chance of it breaking the way the OP's did, then this happens to somebody in the UK once every 2 weeks.

With those odds I'd say that favours the OP

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

neilmcl wrote: »

With those odds I'd say that favours the OP

Why?

If something happens to somebody once every 2 weeks then it would hardly be a surprise that it has happened to somebody once that we know of.

I'm not saying my figures are in any way correct, just pointing out that seemingly unlikely things do occur quite often when the circumstances that can lead to them are repeatedly overwhelmingly often.

peachyprice

matilda.cs wrote: »

£40 leather bag
£199 Gold 32GB iPod Touch
£30 portable charger
£5 cloth iPod case
£3.29 on spoiled lunch
£20 small tool kit in a leather case (case is damaged and the tools are showing signs of water damage/rust despite best efforts to protect them)
£15 pack of 24 staedtler pencils
2 hours of notes and work, which while it has no direct monetary value, had to be reproduced (£10 per hour?)


Total damages of £332.29 (£312.29 without work reproduction)


To be honest, it's really just the iPod I'm concerned about, being that it belongs to my 10 year...

Hmm, strange that there is so much damage really.

In your youtube video it clearly shows that it was leaking at a dribble and it clearly shows that there is still drink left in the can. That's an awful lot of damage to happen in 'a short while' for not even a whole can of drink.