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| bohemiangel |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:22:27 AM
Dicks Sporting goods had a Northface jacket for 29.99! I thought wow great deal. Here I went to check out and the lady said 99.99!!!! WHAT. Oh that was tagged wrong. I said that's false advertising :-p Aren't stores supposed to give you the price that it was marked. It's their fault. I know it wasn't a customer that marked it. GRRRR
**~~Farmgirl Sister #60~~**
"... to thine ownself be true."
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| Georgia Girl |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 3:37:59 PM
I worked retail for years and agree, the price marked is the price that has to be charged. Always argue it! My mom, 2 daughters, and myself once got us each a pair of Birkenstocks at Parisian for only $120!!! We didn't have to fight, the manager said "Our mistake, enjoy your shoes." At that price, we enjoyed them even more!
Denise
Proud Farmgirl Sister #113
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| kissmekate |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 12:58:00 PM
I worked retail in the past as well.
They are supposed to give you the marked price, in this case the $29.99 price. Next time demand to see the store manager. If he/she refuses to sell it to you for that price, make sure to note the date, time and their names, and call/email your state attorney general, and copy the corporate as well. Follow through on it too.
On a similar note:
I was at Target on Friday night and they had "40" watt CFL light bulbs marked on their little price signs (in fact, several of the signs)for $0.87.
Knowing it was probably mis-marked, I grabbed one of the little price signs and all the bulbs (six) they had sitting there. When I got to the check out, they rang up at $3.83 each. He had to give it to me at the $0.87 price.
So, now my son's lamp that sucks up the old incandescant style, now are fitted with CFL's, and I have an extra one to use on something else.
It was meant to be, because I had just thought to myself a day or two before that I wished I had the spare cash to replace them with CFL's before all of the incandescants needed to be replaced.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
| bohemiangel |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 12:17:50 PM
Yeah, I wasn't in the mood to get down to it. I was just confused. I should write to them. Ok I thought it was usually a store policy! Thanks guys
**~~Farmgirl Sister #60~~**
"... to thine ownself be true."
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http://liggygirlslonggreen.blogspot.com/
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 12:04:19 PM
Kohl's Department store is really great (to a fault) about customer satisfaction. When I worked there part time, before we got married, a woman successfully returned 4 snow tires that she argued were purchased there as a gift. They gave her $250 in a store credit to make her go away. Duh.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:59:36 AM
That is so funny Jonni because I bought the down comforter at Kohls!! HA!!!
Cheers,
Heather |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:46:26 AM
Kohl's would give you that price AND a bag of chips. Well, maybe not the snack, but they definitely stand by their marked prices....most retailers would.
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:45:40 AM
Yes, they are. I worked in retail and they price marked is the price paid. This happened to me once when they advertised down feather blankets for $40. They tried to charge me $120. I showed them the sign and they gave it to me at the $40 price tag. I would have said that is the priced marked and let me talk to your manager. I too would shoot a letter off to the company.
I always liked Dicks Sporting Good..hmmm!! : (
Cheers,
Heather |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:44:04 AM
I know that if they advertise it in writing, they have to sell it to you for that price. But I don't know about mis-marking. I'd go over her head to someone else, too. Maybe you should have asked for the store manager right then and there.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
| Peanut |
Posted - Jan 14 2008 : 11:24:51 AM
Shoot off an email to the company...
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
