House of frazer, free knife, chat only

kylieM_2

Hi all

Around 3.00 this afternoon I decided to have a late lunch and then take a stroll into house of Frazer for a look in the warehouse section for the discount one day only special. I then heard a voice; telling all to make their way downstairs to the kitchen department, for a free surgery steel knife giveaway, no purchase necessary, now remember that point.

As I am a huge MSE freebie fan, I jumped at the chance for yet another freebie of the day (have already received today a dove sample, Pantene shampoo and conditioner, whiskers kitten pack, wellbeloved kitten food, also complained at MacDonald’s because one of the girls had an attitude problem and received a free dessert).

Once downstairs awaiting my free gift, a very ‘David Dickson’ man started rambling on about giving us our “thank you, gift” once we had endured his very over the sales demonstration. (Obviously he didn’t say that) I thought to myself, what’s 5 minutes out of my time for another freebie.

Twenty minutes later, still intent on getting my gift and watching the girl opposite fascinated by everything he said, even though she had previously stated she had every knife in the collection and how wonderful they where:question: . Mr David told the audience to buy the fabulous set “you are saving a massive, massive amount on buying today” he then had the cheek to tell the audience to bring back the receipt, once we had made our purchase to receive our free knife.

By this point I was fuming, no purchase necessary my a**e. Since I am MSE freebie fan, I have no shame when it comes to receiving freebies, walked straight up to him, insisted on my free knife that beckoned me down in the first place, which with evil eyes he passed over to me reluctantly. I then decided to blurt out in front of everyone "that girl worked for him, and she is a fake". In this time she went bright red and shouted no I am not (I hope she was after that, poor girl)

I would be interested if this happened in the other branches today?

FrostySnow

:rotfl: hilarious story! Yeah, I'm with you..sure hope she was a fake after you said that :rotfl:

Yeah, not today but they had this offer before, like months ago.

House of Fraser Oxford St. and Victoria.

Gf got a free sharpie both times but yeah, had to endure the 'thinnest tomato slices' line.

But you're right, no purchase necessary. lol@that guy trying to make a purchase first. Glad you told him whats what.

:T

Edit: apparently they also gave away citrus juicers for free

auntynet

Thanks for telling your story Kylie - I was PMSL. :rotfl: I love it when people like that are put in their place. :T :beer: I'm offf to bed now with a smile on my face........ DH had better watch out;)

Oh - and I do hope that girl did work for him after what you said.

Enterprise_1701C

Done this before - I just interrupt them half way through, saying I'm in a hurry, can I have the slip of paper you need to purchase it from the till and the free knife, then walk off with knife. Needless to say, no visit to the till!!

tashamarie70

done this other day got a free juicer thing but he went on and on about a knife so i just left when i saw everyone who was there to they all have purchased a bigger knife !!!! this was house of fraser norwich on thurs !!!!

leytonlisa

Are these the supposed "sharpest knives in the world" by any chance? The same thing happened in Asda the other week! I was less than happy!

kylieM_2

Thanks for your comments guys. It was in Aylesbury, Bucks. Yes the sharpest Knife in the world, you can even cut metal don't you know:rolleyes:

Seakay

House of Fraser in Cardiff this week is a mini chopper thing, The freebie for watching the demo is a spiral cutter (makes those twirly ribbons of cucumber etc)
You don't need to purchase to get that freebie but there are other extras with the chopper (v shaped knife for tomato flowers etc)
I have never know House of Fraser allow 'plants' - so well done on getting your freebie but I'm afraid that you have publicly humiliated an innocent member of the public with no justification whatsoever. She must have been a very nice person as you make no mention of suffering physical injury as a result of your accusations

sandwichkiller

My mum bought the whole set of knives she got all of the free stuff plus she was with a mate so they got another set free that was in debenhams ages ago but to be honest the knives are absolutely brilliant they will cut absolutely anything whatsoever more than what our other knives can cut!!!!!

carmen6grace

this happened to me in my local asda. there was a tanoy anouncement saying that every 'adult' in the store could claim a free knife. at the start of the demo i asked if i could get my free knife and the man said i would recieve it after he finished doing the '5 minute' demo and that i would be the first to recieve one. 20 minutes later he finally finishes and begins to give out the free knives. i was standing right at the front with my hand out ready to recieve my knife but the man continued to avoid eye contact and gave everyone around me a knife except me. then after a couple of minutes he has the cheek to say 'thank you for all coming to the demonstration. please come back for another demo in 20 minutes where we will be giving away more gifts.' meanwhile im still standing there like 'hellooooo!! do you not see me standing here?? why do i not get a knife?!' at which the man shrugs his shoulders, rolls his eyes and says 'sorry pal, youre not over 21' and just walked away from me!!!!!!!!! how rude!! how the h*** does he know im not 21? he didnt even ask me and he didnt ask any of the other people that day how old they were. (im 19 but thats besides the point). so apparently i wasnt 'adult' enough to handle a tiny wee blade. needless to say i was absolutely mortified and humiliated. stood and watched his awful demo for 20 f****** minutes to be refused at the end. if i 'didnt look 21' then why the h*** did he not say that before when i asked him! i promptly stomped out of the store RAGING!!!!!!!!

edit: im not sure if im allowed to use the h*ll word so im gona put asterisks in just in case my post gets deleted...

taxiphil

Yes, I've been to one of these 'presentations' in Debenhams and they definitely have stooges in the crowd to whip up excitement.

This was 6 years ago, and their sales pitch was that they were about to launch the knife set in the UK at about 10 times the retail price they were offering it on the day, so this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to get an amazing bargain.

Looks like it's still not been launched and those amazing once in a lifetime opportunities are still the only way of buying it!