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Also, I think the comment made by the cashier was extraordinarily inappropriate and, as extraordinarily inappropriate comments often are, right on the money. I mean, really. How cheap can you be? Going on vacation (I assume that means travel, and I assume that doesn't mean just to the Jersey shore) and you're returning a coat that's 7 months old? Me, I would have smiled and refused to take back the jacket because of our 30 day return policy or whatever. I certainly would not have insulted you, even as you grew red in the face at my refusal to back down and support your legendary cheapness, and then would have cheerily waved good-bye as you stormed out with your Members Only jacket. But anyway, yeah. Highly inappropriate. People in customer service should only say those kinds of things in the break room long after the customer has left the store. Whoever this person will probably be the hero of that particular location to all the employees thanks to this, and as a result will probably ask for more money, which will lead to her leaving the job, going back to college, and getting something that pays her a lot more and allows her to interact with a higher percentage of people who treat her like a human being. And we can NOT have that in corporate America! |
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The visual of your girlfriend standing there outside the store waiting for your arrival and then both of you marching in there to get the store person is funny to me.
All of this could have been avoided if cell phones were outlawed. Unless of course she went to a pay phone to call you and you happened to be home.
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If the jacket is worth $20 whenever you return it...why does it matter when the return happens? Last edited by BrianD : 07-21-2006 at 12:31 PM. |
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Of course, the idea of these store employees sitting around the break room gabbing about how someone returned something that was purchased 7 months ago *gasp* is also amusing. I'm sure most of them could give a crap.
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Given the way fashion changes styles, this incident is probably pretty similar, only I didn't make a crack about the guy needing the dollar so bad. Personally, I'd have just donated the jacket to charity, but that's me. If you need 20 bucks that bad... but that quip has already been stated. |
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Is clipping coupons cheap? People will clip mad coupons to save a few bucks. Maybe I'm old, but I guess $20 is like a few pennies or something, but I just lived in Boston where my rent was pretty much 35% or more of my take home, add bills to that and saving (or re-uising) $20 is pretty good. Why wouldn't you return it, you'd just let the thing sit in your closet? I might take it to goodwill as well, but if the money is already spent, I'd at least rather get something I could use.
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I still don't get it. If you were looking through your drawers and found a birthday check someone had written for $20 a number of months ago, would you not cash the check because it wasn't recent? What if it wasn't a check, but a gift card for some place you like?
If the jacket was worth returning the next day for $20, it must be worth returning months later for $20. By your logic, there would never be a time where it was ok to return the jacket. There is also a difference between needing $20 and not wanting to throw away $20. |
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This is nothing like clipping coupons, sorry. Like it or not, it's cheap, and many people will think what the woman said. And on a side note, a big part of why some customer service people are snotty is the attitude put forward in the "comeback" listed above this post. They may not be making much money, but they are people, not your servants. |
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I think you're really barking up the wrong tree here. It's not cheap, it's lazy. We've got a bag or something from Kohl's in the car, that we've been meaning to return for, I don't know how long. We haven't used the product, so we're entitled to the cash back (of course, some stores have return policies that say you can't return things after X days -- if so, that's fine). This is even LESS cheap than clipping coupons, because it's your money involved. If you don't save money by cutting a coupon, you only lose out on opportunity cost. If you randomly decide not to return something you've never used, you're losing "real" money. The issue is laziness, plain and simple.
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Didn't know this evolved into a discussion on the benefits of the Monmouth Mall.
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You are entitled to think we are cheap if you like, however if you read the whole post you will see where I say my girlfriend and I do well for ourselves and have no need for the money back for the jacket, the jacket could be worth $20,000 and it wouldn't effect us. The point is that the woman had no right to judge who we are or what we do. Like I said, the money means nothing but since it was a gift I would rather exchange it for merchendise then let it sit around or give it away. Like I said if you think I am cheap thats fine but really all you are doing is trolling and trying to stir up a discussion that isn't there. |
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dola- and the woman can think whatever she wants to think and I really don't care, but she has no right to say a word .
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I'm sorry .
Mon Don was wierd. The private school so parents thought it'd give a better education (even though the public schools in the area were pretty good), but infested with drugs when I was in TR East from 94-98.
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white castle!? you gotta hit up the Cluck U Chicken across the street instead!
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And this is where the "cheap" aspect comes in. Clearly, you're confusing the idea of cheapness with the idea of poverty. Or thrift, in other cases... when you clip coupons, you're likely also going to try out a few products you wouldn't otherwise use, and that's why the manufacturers are willing to give you a little money off on that. Or, if you're getting the coupons from the store itself, you're conducting a business transaction with them wherein they get to sell off overstock and you get a deal. Do you see how both sides make well out of this? Heck, I'm not even talking about returns. Everybody gets something that they turn out not to want or doesn't work the way they wanted it to. If you return a product in a timely manner, the store at least has a chance to find someone else who might want that thing that you don't want, or send it back to the manufacturer if it's defective. When you just decide to return a jacket so late that the store in question won't even think of looking at a receipt because it's obviously not something you bought last week and they're just making up a price... well, that's not going anywhere. I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a defective article of clothing, and anyway if you don't see it in a store, it's probably in part because they can't buy it anymore, and if they can't buy it, they probably can't return it either. It is, by your own admission, out of style, so as I said they're not going to make any money back by selling it either. Basically, a customer who returns an item like this is saying "how much do you want to pay me to keep me as a customer?" And sorry, but I'm not a fan of this kind of thing. Anyway, I understand that I am rather ascerbic at times, but nope, I am not trolling. I just disagree strongly with your whole idea and thought that the little quip, while definitely rude, was also a bit true (as rude comments often are). |
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As a person who works with customers daily and has formally worked in retail for 5 years, I would not have said what the woman said to your girlfriend. That being said, I'm sure it was meant as a joke. As soon as the woman apologized I would have been fine with her.
As far as going to management, I can honestly say that they wont do anything at all. Unless you do something egregious, like curse at the customers, spit on them, etc nothing will happen to you as a retail worker. At least that is my experience in retail. My fiancee is constantly returning things for small amounts of money. I wouldnt do it, but she does, and it doesnt really bother me too much. I only return things that dont fit or dont work. Last edited by cody8200 : 07-22-2006 at 06:45 AM. |
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return policies are one of the factors for shopping at a particular store. some places have very stringent return policies, others have very liberal return policies. A place like this has a nice return policy as a "cost of doing business" to get customers into the store. It really has very little to do with how much they make back on the fucking jacket. It has everything to do with generating repeat customers. It's an overhead cost as much as labor, rent and heating are; is he cheap for taking advantage of the heat in the building? Of for using the bathroom, when he obviously could have gone at home? How about when I go to a restaurant that offers free refills? Should I try to only drink $1.75 worth of soda?
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People need to read the whole thread or not comment at all. THE MONEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!!
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Sorry I was going to respond, but I have a loaf of bread that has been sitting at my house the last month that I need to return.
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meh, I figured that was pretty much resolved at this point. the clerk's tone and the context of the conversation is pretty key here, as you could really see her comment as ranging from trying to make a joke, to being pissy about having to process a return, to just being downright snobbish. I personally peg it towards the jokier edge of the spectrum...and this is coming from someone who insults customers on a regular basis.
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I can't believe this non-thread about a non event is still around. At least someone is giving his some crap for over reacting, and rushing to the aid of his girlfriend in distress. Talk about high maintenance. Man she must be great in the sack.
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Handling complaints is part of my job description right now, and this is my $.02. Were this complaint brought to my attention, I would not care about keeping this customer's business. I would offer an official apology to the customer, and that's it.
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Ah yes, never mind that if it weren't for them you would have no job. But luckily for you, most people are sheep & will put up with that sort of crap. But you do provide a great example of why I sometimes bypass the location's management entirely & go straight to corporate/ownership and let the shit flow downhill from there instead. By the time it drops from great heights, there's a opportunity for it to pick up momentum. Often as not, piss poor frontline employees are indicative of their immediate management rendering localizing a complaint pretty much meaningless anyway.
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Most people are sheep, yes - those folks don't require any energy at all. There are two significant categories of people that require a tremendous amount of my energy. PRIMADONNAS, who think they are entitled to whatever they want without paying for it; and WHINERS, who think that if they complain about something long and loud enough they will get what they want without paying for it. edit: Without those Primadonnas and Whiners, I would have a lot more time to post on fofc at work. Last edited by st.cronin : 07-22-2006 at 12:00 PM. |
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I know I said that I'd deny the return in an earlier post but in all honesty I'd probably allow it. It's only 20 bucks. My company can probably handle that better than the bad prima donna PR that would come from not doing it. You're still putting one over on the company, though. They're staying in business because people buy a lot of what they sell. Even with a company like Nordstrom's with a very liberal return policy I wouldn't do this myself. Especially with a company like Nordstrom's. If enough people return out-of-season clothing to a company like Nordstrom's, a company like Nordstrom's will de-liberalize their policy and then I won't have access to it when I really need it (for example, if I buy a pair of pants and a seam rips or something the 3rd time I wear them 6 months down the line - maybe a clothes-oriented person has a better example than that). |
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Nobody thinks about the situation the company is in. If they know a return-policy will let them return something they don't want, they will return it. If you don't want a jacket returned 7 months later when it is out of style, develop a return policy that will only take defective clothes after 3. You can't blame people for following a store policy.
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Well see, right there, you've just introduced a problem. You're actually expecting people to do the jobs they're being paid for, to expend some effort, to do something right other than just draw a check. Believe me, that's a problem.
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my thoughts are this....
1. tell K to stop being such a whiner! 2. if you are really pissed, go back and find the saleswomans' car in the parking lot and write shit on the windows with a bar of soap 3. tell your mom to stop buying you fucking jackets...this is like the 3rd time in the past few years, and you have never worn any of them once! Last edited by saldana : 07-22-2006 at 05:09 PM. |
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However, the sad fact is that you will never get the whiner quotient down to 0%. For one thing, mistakes will always be made and because of that people will always have legitimate gripes that need to be looked at. For another thing, as st cronin said, there are a certain class of person who believes that they deserve anything that comes to their mind regardless of stated store policy or whatever agreement they may have signed. And there is another, related class of person who believes that if they throw a big enough fit about something, somebody at some level will cave and give them what they're demanding. And I'm sorry, but I got the professional whiner vibe from the OP. 20 bucks for a jacket that is, by the admission of the poster, not actually being sold by the company, is a bit much. If that company's return policy is "return whatever you want whenever you want", then fine. However, not even good old Nordy's does that anymore, and when they did they didn't cut deals with customers - if you brought in a year-old pair of shoes, they'd let you exchange it for a pair that would be comparable if the shoes were new. More than likely, the cashier was going around policy, and while her stated quip was over the top, there is a sense that when you, as a person providing customer service, do this, you're doing the customer something of a favor. Perhaps there is information I've yet to hear and I've made assumptions based on my experiences just as others have made assumptions based on theirs in this thread. That's fine. But the fact that mine differ from yours is no reason to toss the "troll" invective around. |
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Bingo... when working at CVS, these two groups were absolutely brutal in taking time away from people on the floor (such as myself) and managers. Though it wasn't always getting something without paying for it (a lot of times it was). We had people who'd get offended if something wasn't on the shelf and it MAY have been in a bin in the back but we couldn't waste 2 hours to go and look through all of them to find if the lady's thingy was back there. Working in retail definately shows you that a good portion of customers suck and it doesn't matter how good or bad the manager is (and I ran through a few extremes), it won't change that simple fact.
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You will never get the whiner quotient down to 0%. In general, people suck. I'm sure for every bad customer service person, there are 50 bad customers they have to deal with. Not every situation ends with the customer service person being wrong. I just think that rude comments that seemed to come out of an otherwise civil situation is out of line. Quote:
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Actually BrianD, I believe that was me. And in spite of his humorous claims of innocence, that's what he is. I'm actually a little surprised more people haven't recognized him as such.
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Not to slightly take this off thread, but how do clothes "go-out-of-style" (Not talking about the 70's to the 80's to the 90's), but from one year to another (I understand the out-of-season)? Or is it like a "new car", where a '06 is not any different than a '05 with a minor change here and there? Just a marketing tool used to keep sales stable and growing?
Maybe it's because I'm a male. Last edited by Galaxy : 07-23-2006 at 01:22 PM. |
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