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To wonder where the hell is my shopping and/or money?

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pissedrightoff · 11/07/2010 20:17

Last night I checked my bank account online, £105.00 is the balance. Fine, I'll do an online shop at asda to arrive tomorrow.
Total shopping comes to £80.76.

Shopping does not arrive today and when I call to enquire why, I am told that there were insufficent funds in my account.

I then check online balance,£24.24 suggesting that between last night and now £80.76 has been debited.
Phoned bank to make enquiries and indeed Asda have taken the amount and bank gave me the authorisation number.I ask if it is possible that it is a pending payment, bank says no, as it has come off the balance then the payment has went through.

Phone Asda back, not helpful in the slightest, They say that they have not recieved the money, I tell them I have an authorisation code from my bank and an available balance which says otherwise.They say they will look into it and call me back at midday tomorrow.

So I now have only £24,Very little food, live in the back of beyond so no shops, will have to take two buses to a tesco tomorrow to see how far my £24 will stretch for baby food, milk and wipes.

Where is my money if it's not in my bank and Asda say they don't have it????

OP posts:
BexieID · 13/07/2010 13:21

lol @ Dis

OP, am for you. I'm fortunate to live in town and have Asda/Morrisons 10 min walk away, but i'd be fuming in your situation. I have never done on-line food shop and this has put me off.

Really hope you get your food or money back today.

mumofthreesweeties · 13/07/2010 13:24

Have emailed Andy with a link to this thread

NetworkGuy · 13/07/2010 13:25

Looking at the right side of the page, I see no mention of this thread.

Perhaps someone can put it into the MN Twitter feed so it can appear (since the 'Discussions of the Day' might not update again for hours).

funkychunkymunky · 13/07/2010 13:27

I can't believe that this is still ongoing. Sort it out ASDA!!!

weblette · 13/07/2010 13:27

I can send the details to a chum at Working Lunch on BBC2...

Caoimhe · 13/07/2010 13:29

Unbelievable - what a PR disaster!!

FGS, Asda - what is your problem?

SwansEatQuince · 13/07/2010 13:30

Asda have a history of this but do not appear to have learned anything.

MizDemeanor · 13/07/2010 13:30

This is just awful, I won't be using Asda again.

veyron · 13/07/2010 13:30

I have just emailed Jeremy Vine at BBC Radio 2 with the link to this thread and said "This story would be very much in the public interest etc etc"

goldenticket · 13/07/2010 13:32

Good grief - hope this gets sorted soon PRO.

Comewhinewithme · 13/07/2010 13:32

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=34683787#post34683787

AdoraBelleDearhart · 13/07/2010 13:34

I have lurked on this since the start.
What do you think of a boycott of asda?

JustAnother · 13/07/2010 13:34

just lurking here, but jeezz, what a PR mess for ASDA. I don't usually shop there, but now I know that I will NEVER set foot in that shop again. To ASDA in Lower Early: "Bye, Bye"

WingsTHEangel · 13/07/2010 13:35

Just looking a doing next weeks online shop at Sainsbury's no Ocado here.

diamondsandtiaras · 13/07/2010 13:35

I'm definitely boycotting.........my DH was going to have stopped at ASDA on his way home from work to buy nappies.......he's now going to morrisons instead even though it's out of his way.

Fontella · 13/07/2010 13:37

How much is Asda worth?

Regardless of whether it's the bank's fault, the binman's fault, or the old woman who lives in the shoe's fault - IT'S CERTAINLY NOT THE CUSTOMER'S FAULT - and that's THE ONLY thing they should be considering at the moment.

To deliver her shopping pronto with a bunch of flowers a box of chocs and a bottle of something - plus a gift voucher to cover the cost of her calls would cost them oooh £100 quid or so?

Instead they sit there saying 'it's not our fault' refusing to offer any assistance whatsoever to a customer in desperate need who shopped with them in good faith, who has had to get tick from her local shop in order to feed her family, and has ended up a shit response like that from a multi-million pound company who should know better.

The damage being done to their credibility and reputation seems of absolutely no consequence to them which I find nothing short of astounding!!

FFS - someone as ASDA must surely have the common sense or downright human decency to see that this is completely outrageous and unacceptable?

diamondsandtiaras · 13/07/2010 13:37

Just in case you're watching ASDA, this is one campaign that is not going to fade swiftly into the background. Head in the sand Mr ASDA PR??

EricNorthmansmistress · 13/07/2010 13:38

Asda lost my weekly £50 a year ago when they did similar to me. How much is that a year? £260? £260 x however many MNers read this....hmmmmmm

Comewhinewithme · 13/07/2010 13:38

PRO do you need some help I am willing to donate some money so you get enough to get some shopping for the week?

wornoutbutstillwonderful · 13/07/2010 13:38

Another lurker here this has got me so angry though i've come out to have a go. The same thing happened to me but i had enough in my account to cover both payments but i have friends who have went overdrawn and been charged for it due to asda's brilliant payment options!
i don't ever do an online shop there with them now but after reading how they are happy for a little one to go without due to thier accounting i am refusing to enter the shop at all untill pissedrightoff gets a satisfactory outcome.
Hope your are getting all this asda your pissing alot of customers right off at the minute!!

Disenchanted3 · 13/07/2010 13:42

£2600 eric

diamondsandtiaras · 13/07/2010 13:44

at eric's maths!! And I thought mine was bad.......

EricNorthmansmistress · 13/07/2010 13:44

Just trying to work out how we could do a collection by paypal, trouble is it would still take a few days to get to OP's account. I for one would be happy to stick £1 in, as would many I'm sure.

MisSalLaneous · 13/07/2010 13:44

PRO, I know you say you're ok with corner shop, but I'm happy to donate to the paypall fund too, even if only to cheer you up a little. You have done nothing wrong, so deserve some help. I try cat-ing you earlier, but you're not set up to accept CATs.

belledechocolatefluffybunny · 13/07/2010 13:44

Sadly Ocado don't deliver to your area

They did send me this though:

Dear Belle,

Thank you for your e-mail.

We would like to thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. Unfortunately, Ocado are not able to in any way market our business on mumsnet.com, we can only deal with our own customer services issues. However, if you would like to forward on our details to the unhappy Asda customer, then we would be happy to help.

I hope this is of assistance and that you will continue to enjoy shopping with Ocado.

If we can be of any further help, or you have any further comments or suggestions, then please contact us by e-mailing [email protected], or by calling us on 0845 3991122 or 0845 6561234 (8am-11pm Mon to Sat, 8am-8pm Sun), seven days a week.

Yours sincerely,

S D
Ocado Customer Service Team