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ARGOS excluding NI in vouchers-im not happy
happymummy24-7
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Just to let you all know we are being excluded from the argos £5 and £10 vouchers this year-i wait every year for this offer as it really helps with the kids xmas toys but this year argos have seen fit to exclude us and i think its really not fair.
WHY now?what have we done?its racism(sort of!!)
what do you all think-can we take them on for unfair discrimination!?
laura.
WHY now?what have we done?its racism(sort of!!)
what do you all think-can we take them on for unfair discrimination!?
laura.
it takes more energy
to hate than to love...
love and relax!
to hate than to love...
love and relax!
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I will be taking my christmas shopping elsewhere this year-i usually spend the cuts of £700 in argos at christmas-even more this year as our youngest will be 1 on the 19th dec!!
to hate than to love...
love and relax!
to hate than to love...
love and relax!
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ArgosPromoViewSeven?langId=-1&storeId=10001&pageName=HT06Voucher&tag=HP1_1a
It makes no justification or explanation for excluding northern ireland.
If you place an order online or over the phone for home delivery and qualify for this offer, the voucher will be sent separately from your order and will arrive no later than 12th November 2006.
Alternatively, why not collect your order in-store? Use our Check & Reserve service to make sure your items are in stock at your chosen store. Please remember that you must collect your item(s) between 18th and 29th October 2006 to qualify for this offer and you will receive your voucher in-store.
All vouchers must be redeemed in-store by 14th February 2007.
* Excluding delivery charges. Offer not valid in Northern Ireland.
So it's blatant discrimination. On what grounds? Sexual ideology of the nation? Religion? Nationality? We eat more spuds per head than they do?
Sure it's a raw deal, and no, I'm no more impressed by this move than anyone else. But there is no legislation in place that says a retailer from another country must offer the same prices/products/deals as it offers elsewhere. Quite aside from any political discussion, NI is not England, Scotland or Wales. We have our own legislation, and with a bit of luck, soon we'll have a government to call our own. We're a different country, and so the same rules don't have to apply here as other countries within the UK, or indeed the rest of the world..
You don't see any English insurance companies getting lambasted in any court for applying far higher charges to our policies, simply because they don't have to apply the same rules. They're not discriminating....just adjusting for local economic climate. Different country, then make a new set of rules for them. (Let's hope that changes too :rolleyes:).
I agree with the principle of contacting Argos and asking why, and should they not seem bothered, then, yes, vote with your feet. But don't start playing a 'discrimination' card, because that's not what's happening here. A business decision has been made, that's all, and it looks like we'll just have to lump it. ROI aren't getting this deal either, and I doubt very much we'll hear any claims of discrimination from there. But then they're aware that they're a different country, whrereas, some of us seem to have forgotten that bit.
England, Scotland, Wales and NI are all classed as countries.
'T[SIZE=-1]he United Kingdom (UK) is the nation state consisting of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.'
Taken from https://www.statistics.gov.uk an English Government website.
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