Argos/Homebase 49p telly discussion thread

Sarahsaver

Got my letter today but they still have my money. They must have made a killing out of all the interest from these payments...

dadada

Sarahsaver wrote:

Got my letter today but they still have my money. They must have made a killing out of all the interest from these payments...

Could you estimate how much ? Please, I am really interested. A rough figure will do. Go on. Please.

In fact, I bet they have LOST money. I bet they have spent more in staff wages, and lost productivity, stamps and stationary in putting this situation right.

The general MSE attitude is tiresome, ill informed, ignorant, prejudice based and one sided.

" Big companies are screwing us. We can screw them back by buying their goods cheap then screwing other consumers for an even bigger profit than the evil big company would have made by selling it on Ebay. That will show them that consumers won't stand for being screwed for big profits. "

" They made interest out of us. I don't know how much, but they are a big company. Got to, innit. "

" They have to give us whatever we want. We have a contract. We will sue. We want our free thing and compensation. I don't care what the law says. "

" It's true. Bloke down the pub told me. "

Tenbearz

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4204002.stm

Eagle_1

I still have received NO email and NO letter.

maneesh_2

cool

10,000 orders, one ordered 80 of them wow

redfox

Tenbearz wrote:

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4204002.stm

this link has already been mentioned in the Argos TV follow up thread so I am merging your thread into the existing one. Follow up threads shouldn't be posted on the main Grabbit board - please see here for the Grabbit posting guide. Thanks

biglugs

Rough fag packet calculation:
10,000 orders deducting £5.44 each = £54,400 of OUR money
On deposit at say 6% per year
Hold our funds for 7 days before returning
Interest earned = £54,400*0.06*7/365 = £62.60 interest

10,000 order cancellation letters @ 2p per page printing & paper
21p second class stamp
Cost in postage = 10,000*0.23=£2,300

Leaving aside staff costs this leaves Argos £2,237.40 out of pocket.

Since they've had our money for 7 days (say) and lost this much shouldn't we PAY THEM 22p each for wasting their money?

Luckily they aren't able to charge us for the cost of their legal advice!

bugbod

Pity Watchdog is off the air just now!

biglugs

From BBC website quoting Argos: "We pride ourselves on providing our customers with some great value deals and we can understand why some customers thought this was too good an opportunity to miss - unfortunately on this occasion it really was an offer too good to be true."

I hate to say I told you so, but.......

Poppy9

Was it all in the MSE spirit though? See Martins mutterings here about Adversarial Consumers