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thebirdhouselady
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When I read the op I thought to myself, "Here we go, someone is gonna rip her a new one!" The peas never disappoint! | |
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Cincysis
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The karma thing might not be what you believe in but you seem to be digging yourself in deeper each time you post. I have been hand-slapped here before for posts and I see that it might upset you but come on. Now you feel you were overcharged on items and not given proper sale prices. I also live in a rural area and Michaels and all other stores are at least 30 minutes from me. I wouldn't have made the trip back but I sure would have made the phone call regarding all issues after going over the receipt. Readers Digest version. If you have no issues with it then so be it. | |
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purpledaisy
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OP, I mean this nicely, you might want to stop defending yourself. I think you've explained the situation pretty well by now. 
And in the hopes of making you feel better. I received a "free" chicken salad sandwich from Chick-f-la. We went through the drive through for lunch. One of us order the grilled chicken sandwich and I ordered a chicken salad sandwich. Both of us got fries. I handed out the food. When we were done eating (and almost home) I went to throw the trash in the bag. Behold. There was another chicken salad sandwich in the bottom of the bag that I had somehow missed. We kept it. Because we were almost home and they would not have taken it back anyway. |
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katybee8
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OP, it wasn't so much what you did as the tone of it. Everyone likes a "score," but it's not really a score when the store is out the money.
I think the right thing to do would be to call the store and tell them of their error. You can offer to make it right over the phone or the next time you come in. If the manager says not to bother, then you are off the hook.
I would feel like a thief if I didn't at least make the effort. | |
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scrapmaven
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What about calling the store manager and explaining the issue and seeing if she wants you to pay over the phone or if she just calls it a wash? I wouldn't go back, because it's their mistake and they need to do the work to fix it, but I wouldn't let it go either, because I didn't pay for the item. I'd call just to know that I'd done the right thing. |
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I got something free today.  And it wasn't by mistake.
There was a small jewelry item in the clearance bin at J's but without a sticker so I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be in there. I asked the lady at the sewing counter if they had a price checker and she said no but she used one of their do-hickeys to check. (All I meant was could she check the price.  ) She said it was 25c. Awesome! Well a bit later at the checkout counter when she scanned it it wasn't ringing up. Apparently it was no longer in inventory. So she decided since it was no longer in inventory I could just have it. 
Then I told her about this 2 peas thread (without mentioning the website). |
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WorkingClassDog
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weesheepea
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OP, it wasn't so much what you did as the tone of it. Everyone likes a "score," but it's not really a score when the store is out the money.
I think the right thing to do would be to call the store and tell them of their error. You can offer to make it right over the phone or the next time you come in. If the manager says not to bother, then you are off the hook.
I would feel like a thief if I didn't at least make the effort.
I agree with this, completely, especially the part about feeling like a thief, and then I'd worry about repercussions, karma, call it what you will (although I will admit I am a compulsive worrywart, always have to be gnawing on something). I also don't think being overcharged before and since then justifies it, but it's simply our different points of view.
Maybe call the manager to let him or her know about the error, and mention the other errors you found on your receipt as well. Perhaps you will be met in the middle, perhaps not, but if you also let them know of the overcharges then they might fix those. They can't fix what they don't know is broken. Just a thought. |
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dcasta
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I think a lot of "Peas" say what they think is the right thing but I don't really believe every single one would "do" the right thing. I would not have gone back. I probably would not have used the word "scored" in my post but hey.... that's me.I have been overcharged and been given the wrong change numerous times.
Once at Chili's I paid a $64 tab with a hundred dollar bill. The young man--who was an amazing waiter--brought me back $64 instead of $36. When he came back around I told him his mistake and returned the difference. If I had left before discovering this I would not have gone back. I only go there maybe twice a year and it is not close by. I would NOT have called and possibly gotten him in trouble either.
Calling the manager at Michaels will undoubtedly get the cashier in trouble. They sign into their registers so they will know who made the mistake. Let it go! Move on. Next time be a little more aware of what is going on but seriously it's over. The OP did not do this on purpose. Just bad wording. |
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WannaPea
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But I can't help but be excited I got something for free..
Everyone's acting like i stool the damm thing!!!
Noar is she stressing about it!
Sweet Fancy Moses, lady. You've taken this thread from a simple noob posting, deserving of a bit of derision, all the way to 2peas gold.  |
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look4angel
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| Posted: 2/11/2013 8:36:01 PM
Okay let's talk about when it happens to the customer and the store refuses to fix it. Last year sometime I bought a couple of packs of clearance scrapbook papers at Hobby Lobby. They were prepackaged and shrink wrapped.
I live 40 miles one way from this store. When I get home and open my papers which are double sided I now notice they have put un-removable stickers on both sides of each sheet sometimes right in the middle of these papers, even though there is a tear away strip where is should have been placed.
So then I notice that the sticker price totals are LESS than I paid for the whole pack together. Which means they scammed me from the start. I also notice that the pack included 17 sheets of the same design out of a 25 piece pack, when it was supposed to include a large variety of DIFFERENT patterns.
So I call back and talk to the manager, I send them the requested photo's of the pages showing their stickers and what they looked like after I tried to remove them. Which left the paper torn and with nasty sticky spots. I also pointed out that they were priced less on the inside of the package per sheet than the total I paid for the lot of them, and they did not include a variety of papers.
His comment: Bring them back and we'll either return them or give you the difference back.. NO GAS MONEY offered, NO over the phone we'll take care of it by applying the difference to your card, No we are terribly sorry we intentionally screwed you over...blah blah blah...So apparently it's okay for the store to screw over their customers, but all of their customers are supposed to walk the straight and narrow.....but of course it's different if a company steals my money, I can see that now...
BTW I seriously doubt the manager lost any sleep because he screwed me over...and he certainly didn't drive to my house to refund my money, with a toddler in tow...and remember this IS the almighty Hobby Lobby, the one that is SO religious they are closed on Sunday's, and just can't pay for women's birth control... they must have had a slight lapse of faith on that day...I hope the manager made it to a confessional in time... I'd hate to think my small purchase, and they way they practically stole my money sent him straight to purgatory... ...and I can only hope he doesn't have children..Oy! Vey! the horror of the examples he's setting for them.... |
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canadianscrappergirl
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| Posted: 2/11/2013 8:42:00 PM
It amazes me that this gets 2 pages of comments/judgements unreal!!! | |
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WannaPea
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| Posted: 2/11/2013 8:45:38 PM
It amazes me that this gets 2 pages of comments/judgements unreal!!!
C'mon over to NSBR. I'll show you "unreal"! |
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LovMelrose
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| Posted: 2/11/2013 8:48:53 PM
Yup...not something I'd brag about as a "score".
I agree! At least not here anyway! You were already home so I wouldn't worry about it.
Enjoy your "gift". I'm sure you've been overcharged plenty of times so it all evens out in the end. |
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mebarnet
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This isn't NSRB?!?  |
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caspad
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I find it interesting that the ethics ruling of the masses on this post changed when a 2 year old and a long drive were added to the story. Makes me wonder. |
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Kelpea
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Wandered over here today to say...
This thread is AWESOME. |
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melanell
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Sad thing is how shocked the manager was that I came back....
I have seen that, too.
Because I shop with a toddler, I am often getting out to the car and finding something in the cart that we didn't pay for. Things roll under the diaper bag, coats, etc., and even though I pick those items up when I am emptying my cart, some items still elude me. Recent missed items have been toothpaste, a cucumber, and lip gloss. And of course, sometimes the items are shoved under a toddler leg or something, LOL!
A few weeks ago he was sitting on a pack of post-it notes. I went back in and blamed my klepto son when I paid for them. |
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 7:07:09 AM
I find it interesting that the ethics ruling of the masses on this post changed when a 2 year old and a long drive were added to the story. Makes me wonder.
I don't think the ethics change so much as the attitude/reaction to it. There would be more understanding, not necessarily saying it's still okay.
As for the person who posted the HL story. I don't think they require all their employees/managers to pass some religious test, do they?? I do understand being miffed though and explain the situation of how far it is and what he can do to fix it. If they don't want to help you out, you go up the chain. Because sometimes it's not the amount, it's the principle of the matter. |
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melanell
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 7:07:28 AM
You're "supposed to" include every tiny little detail about everything and you'd darn well better do it in your FIRST post, not a subsequent post.
I am so aware of that rule that I often decide not to post my story at all. Because I figure that by the time I post all relevant back-story and minute details, the post will be too long for anyone to want to read. |
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jenp1024
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I am so aware of that rule that I often decide not to post my story at all. Because I figure that by the time I post all relevant back-story and minute details, the post will be too long for anyone to want to read
That is so true!
Or sometimes the thread takes a turn you didn't expect and so you have to provide additional details/backstory and people accuse you of withholding valuable information. It's infuriating! | |
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look4angel
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 8:20:33 AM
As for the person who posted the HL story. I don't think they require all their employees/managers to pass some religious test, do they?? I do understand being miffed though and explain the situation of how far it is and what he can do to fix it. If they don't want to help you out, you go up the chain. Because sometimes it's not the amount, it's the principle of the matter.
Ah.. but that's just it I did go up the chain, and got the same result. In order to get a refund "I" had to drive 80 miles, (40 miles there, 40 miles back) without a refund for my gas, but the best part is that I told the corporate office that they had many packs just like the ones I purchased still on their shelves, and two months later they were still there....I checked...so they were knowingly screwing over their next customers too. Priceless... |
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Jjmikrut143
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 9:25:56 AM
Look4angel,
I couldn't agree with you more.. And that's the point that I have been trying to make from the beginning!
& as far as me not mentioning ever single tiny detail of my life and exactly ever single steep I took at ever moment on that day.. Is because I hate reading longer then long threads so i try to be cautious as to how much I write so people won't just x the page out.. But I guess now i know how everyone needs those details! Smh! |
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 10:31:40 AM
Ah.. but that's just it I did go up the chain, and got the same result.
well, that just bites! In that case, I'd wait until the next time I felt like going down that way and then make the return.
Maybe you should've asked them WWJD?? And that you're pretty sure HE wouldn't screw you over.
Yes, there ARE certain details that make a difference when relating a story. |
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look4angel
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 10:43:30 AM
well, that just bites! In that case, I'd wait until the next time I felt like going down that way and then make the return.
Maybe you should've asked them WWJD?? And that you're pretty sure HE wouldn't screw you over.
Yes, there ARE certain details that make a difference when relating a story.
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Rebecca Delo
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 10:53:19 AM
as far as me not mentioning ever single tiny detail of my life and exactly ever single steep I took at ever moment on that day
I know this thread sort of took that turn over the past page or so, after all the justifications started to come out, but please don't lose sight of the original reaction to your original post: It's tacky to brag about a "freebie" that you shouldn't have received "for free" in the first place. |
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dcasta
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| Posted: 2/12/2013 10:56:10 AM
My problem with the people condemning the Op is that she did not intentionally try to rip Michaels off. I have been at a store where someone has a large bag of dog food under the basket or cases of sodas and they don't say anything about the items. THAT is stealing. She got undercharged by no mistake of her own and aside from the "bragging" about it did nothing wrong. She can make her own choice about returning or not returning it.
Fact is she will more than likely get the cashier in trouble if she does. I am always very aware of my total and usually keep a tab in my head so I have an idea of what I am spending. Kind of hard to do that with a 2 year old in tow. |
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Jjmikrut143
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Thank You!! |
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Scrapn Nana
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I don't think anyone expected the OP to go running back to the store immediately, whether she had a toddler in tow or not. The Michaels where I shop is a 20 minute drive. I probably only visit a Michaels once every 6 to 8 weeks, because I just don't get over that way very often. I'm not suggesting wasting gas running over there to correct the mistake. I'd wait till I was going there for something else.
However, I would keep the receipt and the bar code off the item, especially if I wanted to use the product right away. The next time I went to Michaels, I would go to one of the cashiers (since talking to the manager might get the gal in trouble), quietly explain the oversight, and offer to pay for the item. If there were other mistakes on my receipt that were in the store's favor, I would bring them up, too.
No, I don't think you were guilty of stealing, because you didn't deliberately shoplift it. I do, however, think that the honest thing to do would be to offer to pay for it when you go back the next time, even if it's awhile before you go back.
Product losses, regardless of whether they happened through employee error or deliberate shoplifting, usually get passed on to the customers as higher prices on everything else, because missing product happens often enough that most stores can't afford to just write it off. |
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