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Posted by Coup on Aug-22-2003 16:40:

Are Argos this stupid?

I have to take an alarm clock back tomorrow. i bought it yesterday but the cable wasnt long enough for it to reach my socket. so i took it into work and opened it up, cut the cable inside and crimped on another one, which is a different size, still black tho. closed it back up but i hadnt cleaned my bench properly so i put a proper fuck off scratch on the front of it. so i took it into the spray shop and we tried to cover it with silver hammerite

Basically now i have to take a clock back saying "it has a scratch on it" when its got a proper gouge, attemped to paint over it, cable is a different thickness and also longer, but i didnt do it! think they'll fall for it?

Posted by [mart] on Aug-22-2003 16:44:

I reckon so. Good luck!

Posted by Fundamental on Aug-22-2003 16:45:

Yeah, people who work at Argos are generally spackers (no offense if any of you work in Argos).

You could probably put a dead rabbit in the box and say "my clock has a scatch on it" and they would still go through the replacement procudure like a robot...

Posted by Ste on Aug-22-2003 17:06:

why is there a "nah" option?!

Posted by *HaRRy* on Aug-22-2003 17:24:

yes. they are very stupid, but i'm not complaining.

i ordered a bed from them costing �159 including mattress

they delivered me the wrong mattress, but i looked it up in the catalogue and it should have been �250 by itself.

Posted by Unknown DJ on Aug-23-2003 14:32:

quote:
Originally posted by Ste
why is there a "nah" option?!

Posted by Coup on Aug-23-2003 17:22:

yup, they took it back

Posted by Anaardvark on Aug-23-2003 18:35:

Result

Posted by gatecrasher on Aug-23-2003 22:13:

Lol good stuff

Posted by flystyler on Aug-23-2003 23:41:

Ok if a sparky comes round, i hope to god its not u, thank god my dads an electronics engineer

Posted by Coup on Aug-24-2003 18:26:

quote:
Originally posted by flystyler
Ok if a sparky comes round, i hope to god its not u, thank god my dads an electronics engineer

there was a small piece of wire left on my bench, that was all

Posted by Streakfury on Aug-24-2003 20:56:

I used to work for Argos. And no, no offense taken you lot! If you took it back within 16 days of purchasing it, you could have put a dead rabbit in the box and got your money back, just so long as the rabbit displayed the time and was of the same or greater value as the one you bought. Thank god for the '16 Day Money-back Guarantee'!

Work at Sainsbury's now - it sucks.

Posted by Andy C on Aug-25-2003 20:32:

I work at argos STILL, thank you (has to buy all these records somehow)

*switches on big head mode*

Our store was the highest performing last year in the area *off*

, and believe me i woulda noticed that. the idea of 16 day money back is that u return it as new in theory, whoever served u must a been one thick twat
u were lucky mate

did u know u can also view items before u take em away

bet ur thinking WOW! right now

Posted by irishclubbing on Aug-26-2003 12:15:

I hate Argos. Every time I go to buy something I've to wait ages. Once they even gave me a �5 gift voucher for waiting so long !

TITS !!

Posted by Streakfury on Aug-26-2003 15:10:

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Originally posted by theb
I hate Argos. Every time I go to buy something I've to wait ages. Once they even gave me a �5 gift voucher for waiting so long !

TITS !!

Still, you gotta voucher out of it. Cant winge!

Posted by Coup on Aug-26-2003 19:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Andy C
and believe me i woulda noticed that. the idea of 16 day money back is that u return it as new in theory, whoever served u must a been one thick twat

to be fair hes not going to argue the toss on a saturday with my word against his with a queue full of people

Posted by Andy C on Aug-26-2003 20:29:

I wouldnt either, id give u a straight up no

and then if u argue, you'd hold up the queue making u the enemy in everyones eyes

youd back down eventually

Posted by Coup on Aug-28-2003 18:43:

haha id back down coz its blatently obvious id trashed it, the cable is totally different and everything, i wouldnt have a leg to stand on!

Posted by Andy C on Aug-29-2003 17:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Coup
haha id back down coz its blatently obvious id trashed it, the cable is totally different and everything, i wouldnt have a leg to stand on!

fear me and my store

especially on a sunday if ive been out