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Article #338Re: Warning about Best Buy!
From: joeh353
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:00
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I work in retail, and we will do a return without a receipt for anyone, unless they come in day after day without a receipt. There are many retail compamies in the chicago area that do the same even though the company police is as followed. Every company I have ever worked for has said give the customer what they want, or you won't have customers for very long. Frank Garcia wrote in message <35c92be0.3615502@news.flash.net>... >On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 02:20:21 GMT, ablang@my-dejanews.com wrote: > >>No returns without a receipt. >> >>No returns after 30 days, even if you possess a receipt and the product is >>unopened and unused. > > Nothing unusual here -- these are pretty standard in retail stores. > >>My main mistake was not reading the back of the receipt, which is where you >>will find the return policy. > > And on a big sign in the customer service area, and on signs located >on the counters next to every register. I'm sympathetic up to a point, >but their policy is reasonable and typical, and your ignorance of it >changes nothing. Short of having the cashier verbally inform every >customer of the return policy (an unreasonable and unnecessary thing >to do), BB has done everything they can to inform you of it. Your >failure to read what's in front of you is no one's fault but your own. >Having children admittedly makes these things more complicated but >doesn't entitle you to special treatment. 30 days is more than enough >time to return an item if you don't want it. > >>Please forward this warning to everyone you know. Thanks. > > Why should I waste bandwidth because you can't read what's in front >of you and live in a fantasy world where products can be returned >months later without a problem. The people I know have a clue, and >don't need a "warning" about silly things like this. But thank you for >sharing your foolishness. > >Frank Garcia >(remove NOSPAM to reply by email)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,8cd2765587fe6ce9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,8cd2765587fe6ce9 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 1002bf,8cd2765587fe6ce9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1002bf,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,ba6d3e7b8ca31dc2 X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public From: "joeh353" <joeh353@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Warning about Best Buy! Date: 1998/08/07 Message-ID: <6qekvk$m18@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 378803887 References: <6qb3t5$1sl$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35c92be0.3615502@news.flash.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: ICGNetcom X-NETCOM-Date: Fri Aug 07 5:30:12 AM CDT 1998 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.consumers.experiences,ba.market.computers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video