Staples - Free 40 Piece Electric Screwdriver Set [CLOSED]

dadada

" .... I do not give a monkeys what you 'suggest', so what if I am in the minority of your estimated 1% (would you like to provide an example of how you have arriven at this figure?), are you aware of the number of members of MSE? I am sure any company would welcome just 1% of those as new customers ... "

Well why don't you read most of the forum again then.

The people who wanted "£20 Free Postage" had absolutely no need, nor no intention of keeping the Franking Machine.

The people who wanted the "Free Wine" had absolutely no need, nor no intention of purchasing an orthapedic bed.

The people currently chasing their "Free £15 M&S Voucher" have absolutely no need of purchasing a Renault.


" .... Have you actually thought that perhaps if the companies thought "we're going to get well and truly ****** here if we offer a free screwdriver set", they would not offer it for orders over a set amount? No, they offer it to entice the customers in the hope that they will return, and I beg to differ that it is more than your 1% that do so ... "

MSE forum people. No way, they are locusts with no loyalty whatsoever. They will screw any company for a "freebie" or "bargain" and waste the time of the employees and even threaten to sue if they don't get their own way.

Perhaps you missed my original post.

Staples have sacked staff.
Staples have closed stores
Staples have slashed product lines, perhaps putting suppliers out of business.
Staples have merged with Office World, closing more stores, sacking more staff.

Perhaps they are offering a free gift in a desperate attempt to win some customers.

Conundrum: If a company is not making any profit, and therefore not screwing anybody, how can they be screwed back ?

dadada

abijanzo wrote:

Staples shouldnt offer such 'free gifts' without a minimum spend if they can't afford for people to order low priced items and still get the set.
My heart certainly doesnt bleed for them...they should take such things into consideration.
Trying to make people feel guilty for ordering low priced products purely to take advantage of these 'free' gifts is not going to work - especially when companies such as Staples charge over onflated postage rates to start with and are not considering environmental issues by sending out tiny single items in huge cardboard boxes!

Ummm, perhaps thats because they are for Business Customers Only.

Perhaps that is because their Business Customers Only purchase enough to enable them to give free gifts and send out big boxes.

Perhaps these postage rates also include the cost of actually employing somebody to pack and post the boxes to their Business Customers Only.

Perhaps that is because they are for Business Customers Only, not timewasters making up a bogus company name and ordering one pencil to get a free gift.

Allexie

abijanzo wrote:

And another thing...Staples marketting department may borrow my screwdriver set...they obviously have a screw loose if they think people won't take advantage of a no minimum spend freebie.

:rotfl:.........................

dadada

I'm always amused by the amout of indignance and anger any discussion or criticism raises here.

It's almost as if the little moral vaccuums some people operate in have been pinpricked, and hot air gushes out.

bbford

dadada wrote:

It is truly a shame to see the shameless locusts of MSE swarming over Staples.

I run a small business, and believe me, I have a far greater understanding of economics, profit margins, the business of business now than I ever did, and how peoples time and effort is more costly and more valuable than many products.

In setting up my business, I discovered Staples. Staples were without question the best office supplier in Britain and a great resource for small businesses. They offered superstores with an unrivalled product range, without doubt truly unrivalled and unbeatable everyday prices on stationary, nevermind great special deals, and extended opening hours. My nearest store WAS open 7 AM till 12 midnight five days a week and I would travel miles to shop there, or bring my important reports for copying and binding for an early morning meeting.

Facing financial difficulties the company tried to address these. They slashed the staff, with most of the knowledgable, helpful full timers put out of a job and under-replacing them in numbers, worse with gormless part-timers. They slashed the product lines from over 10,000 different products to less than 4,000. They slashed the opening hours. They shut branches. Then they merged with closest competitor Office World, in doing so sold off stock at perhaps 10% or less of the RRP, and rationalised branches in various areas putting more people on the dole.

The company is a shadow of their former selves and I don't shop with them much any more, primarily because they no longer have the wide range of products that would make me travel there, and the opening hours that allowed you to get your copying and binding done in the nick of time. They have lost a pile of money, lost long time customers, but worst of all, real people have been put in real precarious positions due to their unemployment.

Do the MSE Locusts care ?

No, the MSE Locusts who various without shame pose as business customers to rip off Pitney Bowes, pose as disable people for a free bottle of wine from an orthopedic business, pose as NHS staff to rip off a variety of business, who fill Ebay with Oral B toothbrushes and Little Me gift sets, and who even boast about defacating at work rather than home so as to save money on toilet rolls are at it again. It's free. It's a misprice. We don't care. We don't need it. We want it for our "Christmas Cupboard". We want our free gift without ever considering that the value of the gift may be a minimal to the company compared to the time and effort of a variety of staff who are employed in providing the gift, or worse giving the orthapedic bed demonstrations, or the cost of couriering and collecting that Pitney Bowes machine. We want our bargains without ever considering the real economic picture. We want our BSE.

It will be truly Karma if one day a business that employs some of the most avid MSE Locusts is troubled by the swarm and an avid MSE Locust ends up on the dole.

Staples are in enough trouble.

One day all MSE fans will be left with is Tescos, because they are the only company able to survive this attitude.

As you say Dadada, Staples were in financial trouble already - Mse's didn't cause this to happen!

I do not think it is a mistake that a company as big as this would promote a free gift without a minimum spend. They obviously are reaching out to a bigger market.

I do object to being labelled a 'locust' - YES, i take up some offers,but only things that i would use -that is true Moneysaving. (i chose not to use this offer as i do not need a screwdriver set, as free as it is)

I applaud this website,for far too long consumers have been taken for a ride, i tell all my friends about it - it's time to WISE UP!

mking007

i got my kit the other day, thx

KarlKarlson

dadada wrote:

I'm always amused by the amout of indignance and anger any discussion or criticism raises here.

It's almost as if the little moral vaccuums some people operate in have been pinpricked, and hot air gushes out.

Can't......Breathe.......Stuck.....in my............Moral..........Vacuum........... - Don't know how I sleep at night all those poor national and multinational companies losing literally hundreds of pound to MSE 'locusts' like me. :j

gaahmad

KarlKarlson wrote:

Can't......Breathe.......Stuck.....in my............Moral..........Vacuum........... - Don't know how I sleep at night all those poor national and multinational companies losing literally hundreds of pound to MSE 'locusts' like me. :j

LOL, me too, I recommend sleeping tablets, I've been on them ever since I discovered this site!!!!

appleblossom

dadada: as you are posting on this site, you are a member and you ob. class yourself as a MSE forum person - I can therefore only assume that you are also a locust (which no doubt many ppl take offence from), but in doing so, you have saved me the trouble of thinking of another name for you. If you disapprove so much of this site, why are you posting on it? It's a very sad world when there are ppl like you who doubt everyones intentions.

Farhan

u know what dadada, i strongly agree with your argument in SOME sections.
e.g. the Free wine thing for disabled people; the people who did take advantage of an offer for the disabled are truly SICK, have no conscience and you are right to name them locusts. I commend you for speaking up about this :T , i was not aware of that offer till you spoke of it.

however naming 99% of MSE's as locusts is wayyyyyy out of line. i think i can speak for the majority of MSE's here when i say we are just here to get some good deals and save some money, not to create more of the "one toilet roll a month man" as you so elequantly put it.

do u by any chance work for staples??? some of the posters beforehand have put it exactly as it should be, if they dont want to be "screwed"(good pun-screwdriver set :rotfl: ) then they shoudn't be stupid enough being a multinational company to offer a free gift with no minimum purchase. Dont get me wrong, i do feel for those who have lost their jobs but it is not the fault of the MSE's. It is the fault of the tacticians and managment up at staples for not doing enough to secure these jobs and if they are stupid enough to keep churning out these sorts of offers then people will continue to take advantage of them.