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I have just been accused of fraud!

149 replies

KittyBump · 26/05/2011 15:54

Right, first post on AIBU

On Tuesday I went shopping for clothes for two events I've got coming up, I had my 5 month old DD with me in a carrier so wasn't able to try anything on so I bought a few things and tried them on at home.

One of the items was a dress, I'm a bridesmaid at my friend's wedding in July, it is very informal and she has asked us to wear floral maxi dresses. I was happy with the dress when I tried it on and sent her a link to it and she likes it too, so great - all sorted.

Yesterday I wrote an email to the other bridesmaid and sent a link to the dress again and noticed it had been reduced from £39.50 to £25.00. So I thought as I had lots of stuff to take back I'd return the dress too and then get it at the sale price.

I went into the shop and explained to the assistant that i wanted to return some items and about the dress and she said fine about the returns but not about returning the dress and rebuying it as this was fraud! Shock

I really don't see how this transaction could be considered fraudulent in anyway - yes I can see how it is a bit cheeky and annoying for the shop but not that I was asking to do anything illegal.

So I said fine I'll return the dress then I got my DH to come over and asked him to go and get another dress off the rack and buy it. The sales assisatnt was not happy at all and said she would have to get another member of staff to serve him. Then followed lots of tutting and 'we really shouldn't be doing this...' etc.

We were made to feel like we were committing a crime,

So..... AIBU or was she?

OP posts:
fuzzywuzzy · 26/05/2011 19:43

I used to work in Ladies clothes shops as a saturday girl many years ago, the shops I worked at had a policy of offering the difference back if the item bought went on sale within thirty days of purchase, but only offered this to customers holding the store card, and who had made their purchases on the store card.

I dont think it was rude of you at all, you were nice about it and upfront.

I once had a woman walk in during a sale and complain voiciferously about the cut of a jacket, I really couldnt do anything about the way the jacket was tailored as I was not the one who designed it, she promptly demanded the jacket back after checking the sales floor and realising she had returned the only one in her size. That was cheeky as she had wanted to have it at sale price and had been incredibly rude to me about a perfectly good jacket!

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 19:43

Isn't that just soda water and sugar with bits of mint?

Hmm sign me up.

bupcakesandcunting · 26/05/2011 19:46

and spit
Yes that's right, LOTM. Tasty, yes?

SarfEasticated · 26/05/2011 19:49

What have I missed? I got some peanuts too. Has the thread been closed down because of overuse of the word Keeyunt? (as I like to pronounce it)

Oh i see LOTM has a penis and is pregnant...

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 19:50

Looks like pond scum.

Smells funny too. Then again with your gob in it, I'm not surprised.

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 19:50

Bupcakes- We should go back to your Transgender thread...I can be the exception to the rule.

People with penises can give birth. Hoorah.

bupcakesandcunting · 26/05/2011 19:52

Pond scum? No, love. Cocktails don't look like the ones that Del Boy drinks in Only Fools and Horses any more. It's not the seventies any more.

So you can throw that awful kaftan away. No neeeeeeeeeeeed

SarfEasticated · 26/05/2011 19:52

isn't mojito pronounced mo-hee-to?

bupcakesandcunting · 26/05/2011 19:53

I don't want to go back to the transgender thread it was making my brain hurt pleasedon'tmakemegobackin

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 19:53

Yes Sarf, but Bupcakes isn't cultured.

kingbeat23 · 26/05/2011 19:57

Right, let's sort this out. If you refund an item, the shop needs to have it on the salesfloor for 24 hours before it can be sold to that same person again. I have no idea why as I am too sleep deprived to bother writing it out in full, but reading through the Buppy and LOTM arguements, I felt I had to respond.

Once my brain starts working again, i'll have look up why, but as someone stated above, it is not in your statutory rights to buy it at the reduced price and the item was not damaged or faulty, therefore you were lucky to get the refund in the first place.

bupcakesandcunting · 26/05/2011 19:58

It is pronounced mo-hee-to. My friend and I pronounce it mo-jee-to after we overheard an anonymous starlet Lily Allen order one, pronouncing it JUST like that, in The Social.

Note to self: your in-jokes don't work on MN :(

jeee · 26/05/2011 19:58

I bought a trampoline from Argos a few weeks ago for £180 - before it was delivered I picked up the paper and saw it was reduced to £100. We rung up Argos who told us we could cancel the order, and reorder, or they'd give us a cheque for the difference. They didn't seem to see it as fraud.

OP - you're not a fraud, just too honest.

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 20:00

There, there.

bupcakesandcunting · 26/05/2011 20:03

Go and have a lie down an a arsenic Horlicks, LOTM.

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 20:06

I would. But I am trying to finish a bastarding article on multi culturalism...all the while defending the fact that I don't have a penis, don't drink, don't shop in erm weird shops and I do indeed know what an orangery is (other thread).

It's been a long day.

Just piss off and be nice to me. you cunt.

SarfEasticated · 26/05/2011 20:08

I like to pronounce chardonnay cardonnay as an homage to Cath & Kim but that doesn't always get appreciated either.

EmmaBemma · 26/05/2011 20:11

This has been said before, but you weren't being fraudulent because you were totally honest about what you wanted to do! In your position I probably would have done nothing, because I am lazy, but if I was going to return the dress in hopes of getting it cheaper, I would probably have pretended it didn't fit or something so you are much more moral than I.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 26/05/2011 20:14

LOTM, I think you should keep that new name. Grin

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 20:14

Yes, I shall.

Have moved my profile over an' everythin'.

bupcakesandcunting · 26/05/2011 20:15

I knew I had turned into a cunt when, one night sat down for a meal in a french restaurant, I overheard a fellow diner pronounce Claret "Clah-ray" and I laughed out loud.

DH said it's the only time he's been ashamed of me :(

LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 20:16

I don't believe that for a second.

Really? The only time?

AmazingBouncingFerret · 26/05/2011 20:20

I would love a cunt name but i'm far to nice and friendly to live up to it unlike some

Grin
LadyOfTheCuntryManor · 26/05/2011 20:21

Really? Who told you that?

Confused
TrillianAstra · 26/05/2011 20:21

I returned a dress to John Lewis this week that I'd bought from them online. I had the printout showing that I'd bought it when they had a 20% off day, so that's how much I got back. They were so laid back about the whole thing that I swear I could have gone to them without a receipt and got the full label price (it was now for sale at full price again).

Now that would be fraud. I'd have no dress but £20 of theirs.