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Article #8636Officeworks and Jae carpet cleaning - misquotes.
From: Angela Connell
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 00:00
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I wanted a good quote for some software and i got the best one at officeworks but when I went there (after being stuffed around for about 20 minutes - the clerk brings me a label which said that the programme was not available and I had to point out to him that it wasn't t even the programme I'd asked for!) The guy told me it was $10 more than what I had been quoted, I told him that but he did not go and ask anyone (yes the clerk was quite young) so I ended up having to pay $10 more for it as I didn't have the time to go anywhere else! Is there something consumers can do about being misquoted?? I recently had my carpets cleaned and was quoted $80. guy comes around and says it will cost $110! I had no choice as i had to move out that day. I did manage to talk him down to $100 but I do think this was extremely unfair! Also I am begining to dislike officeworks since they have "low prices guaranteed every day" yet they had microsoft mouses (mice?) for $70 when elsewhere I found them for $40.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a0c5,e6481b51d0d88e17,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a0c5,public From: s328103@student.uq.edu.au.REMOVE (Angela Connell) Subject: Officeworks and Jae carpet cleaning - misquotes. Date: 1997/01/25 Message-ID: <5cc539$cv$5@nargun.cc.uq.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 212192305 distribution: world organization: University of Queensland, Australia. newsgroups: aus.consumers