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I'd take it back, with an apology for doing so. But they have charged you a price based on its RRP and it's not useable. Suggest they check the others too as it gives a place a bad rep to be selling dud goods.
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@Miró - I agree with @C_J and @Brie that returning it is the thing to do. If it had been usable that would have been a good price but as it isn't you've essentially given them money for nothing. They can always sell the empty bottles and the boxes can't they.
I called into the Summertown charity shops yesterday afternoon and found this useful Pyrex dish, £6, and a very worthwhile DK book about the science of cooking, £2.50.
I also snapped up various pairs of trousers but haven't had time to try them on yet so will let you know the results tomorrow.
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Personally at that price I would take it back.
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Another vote for "take it back".
Regarding the "use within 24M" - I have always taken that to be "use within 2 years of opening/first use". But that seems not to be the case for this Opium.
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For all we know it could be a 1977 original 🤔!
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I would take it back too.
I ventured into Rayleigh today for the first time for a meetup and saw a couple of charity shops. I will go back there to have a good look at some point.🙂9 -
I spotted this account on Insta and her latest post says she's got a job as an expert on a new BBC series called "Shift the Thrift" which involves competing teams going charity shopping apparently. The series is apparently going to be shown sometime this year so this might be interesting to see.
May No-Spend Days 3
May Grocery Challenge Spend £31.18/£186
May Baking Fund Spend £7.45/£24
May Bulk Buy Fund Spend £18.00/£100
Decluttering 100 items by the end of the month 0/100
Try being A Bit More Nellie11 -
I was super-disciplined in January. Only went in one chazzer to drop off and another (more vintage than chazzer) and bought a couple of small haberdashery items.
Mum has a sack of clothing donations so I'm going with DSis to drop them off tomorrow here:
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Yet another vote for "take it back", @Miró ! £30 is well over 2 hours NMW and it's not fit for purpose, for all it's as described.
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