House of frazer, free knife, chat only

Marvo434

Not the same at all, but talking about embarrasing and supermarkets....

Some years ago when my twins were still babies i went to my local Safeways to get some shopping, including weetabix. The woman behind me at the checkout was pushing her trolleyload tight against mine, and the weetabix fell to the floor.
She made no immediate attempt to pick them up! I was p***ed off with her, so quite angrily said "Excuse me, put those back on my shopping please" which she did.
Got home and unpacked my bags, and I had TWO packs of weetabix! She obviously went home without hers!

jockettuk

kylieM wrote: »

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:

must give you my mobile number lol and next time you need a hand in aylebury give me a shout, getting fed up with my family moaning about me getting freebies etc they wont come out with me now ha ha.. would love to have been there but dont go into house of fraser to expensive best of times..

connacher

Marvo434 wrote: »

Not the same at all, but talking about embarrasing and supermarkets....

Some years ago when my twins were still babies i went to my local Safeways to get some shopping, including weetabix. The woman behind me at the checkout was pushing her trolleyload tight against mine, and the weetabix fell to the floor.
She made no immediate attempt to pick them up! I was p***ed off with her, so quite angrily said "Excuse me, put those back on my shopping please" which she did.
Got home and unpacked my bags, and I had TWO packs of weetabix! She obviously went home without hers!

OMG how funny i really did just lol there

qwiksave

Hi, House of Fraser in Leamington Spa also had the 'knife guy' in yesterday and I got my free knife :T (I'm WA--Y over 21! LOL!) after enduring the sales patter. I was quite impressed with the demo but thought £23 for THREE of those 'World's Sharpest Knives' together with the Citrus Juicer AND the small paring knife was far too cheap. That reason alone put me off. Also, I was surprised at HOF for going down this tacky sales route. I have to say loads of the crowd bought the knife set though so I can see why they do it...

Footnote- there was one lady in the crowd that seemed to be 'saying the right things' - You've got me wondering whether she was a plant :think: ..??

jules_2

thanks qwicksave - saves me going into Leam now if they have already been! - got to be honest hardly ever go in HOF!!
Glad you got your knife!

kylieM_2

Seakay wrote: »

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

yes but I said it with a

devild_2

kylieM wrote: »

Hi all

blah blah blah.......
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?

No you blurted it. How do you do this with a smile? I don't think any other members of the public were humiliated in other branches. Did you go to any others?

kylieM_2

devild wrote: »

No you blurted it. How do you do this with a smile? I don't think any other members of the public were humiliated in other branches. Did you go to any others?

OMG are you the David? why would I put myself through that a second time?

She was without a doubt, placed in the audience. I shall tell you why!

1. She was on her own.
2. She had no shopping with her.
3. She said she had every single knife the man showed to the audience.
4. When asked if she liked the products, she said they where the best thing sinced sliced bread (no pun intended).
5. I watched her face throughout the demo, and she had her mouth open in amazement. (if she had all the products, wouldn't she now how they worked?)
6. Standing around at the end, didn't go to the till and didn't go up the man for a free knife.

It was a poor performance. If you look back through the posts a few others had seen demo's in other branches and agreed there was plants in the crowd

Dalkirst

Thye were doing these in Tesco's rainham(Essex) today and yes the missus wanted some:/
I get home and just now looked them up to see if they are cheaper anywhere else and you can get the exact same set for £15(£4 p+p) on Fleabay:(

He did say you can bring them back within 28 days to Tesco's so i will take them back to another store tomorrow,or maybe even later if i can be arsed to get my money back.The free gift wasn't a knife this time i can't remember what it was or is;)

jo132000

Yeah this was at the Tesco near me last night as well, I got a free twirly cutter thing, although I did feel the man was quite rude, there was a young girl next to me standing with her mum and her mum sent her up to get the free twirly thing and a pack of knifes as there was a huge mass of people around the man turned around and went 'No you can't have it because your not over 21, she was 8/9 and went 'They are for my mummy..' her mum came over and the man still wouldn't let her hold them even though her mum was there, so her mum just took them off him and handed them to the girl, all she wanted was the little juicer thing they gave out.

I mean ok they are sharp but they were in boxes and there was no need to be so rude to the little girl, she had tears in her eyes.