To argue with homebase over having to sign the copy of the collection of form I take home, as well as their copy

[BoundandRebound]

Well I just about stopped myself but really?

It's store policy Madame, I can call the manager but you cannot take the goods you've paid for until you also sign the copy that you are going to take home

Is it me or is that ridiculous?

It's absurd and would make me fume. I won't get cashback in M&S any more, because they make you sign your own copy of the receipt. I'm happy to sign, mark with an X or write the fucking Lord's Prayer on their copy if they want, but I object to being told what to do with my own paperwork.

But isn't it to stop people coming back in with their receipt and saying they didn't get the cashback? If they've signed it they have acknowledged receipt of the money.

Sorry but I think YABU. I used to work in mobile phone retail - ok, so there's more legal comeback if you get that wrong than Homebase - but we would have had our arses handed to us onna plate if we didn't make sure the customer's copies of their paperwork were signed as well as our copies. People occasionally needed to come back into store with their contracts and receipts to iron out problems, and if signatures were missing, it could cause all manner of hoo-hah.

Forgot to say YABU!

But they have a signed copy, surely the only signature needed on my copy is theirs and if I had an issue I'd sign it before going back

Or they should carbon copy it

But if you didn't sign it you could go back and say you didn't get the goods (I'm not saying you would do this). Their copy might have been sent somewhere else by then so they would use yours as evidence.

Why is it so hard to sign it though- don't see why you have such an issue with it

Wow I really wouldn't have found a problem with that.

Don't sweat the small stuff! Surely it takes less than 3 seconds to sign something?!

Does it take more than a few seconds to sign something? why waste time arguing when it could have just been done?

What a waste of energy! Just sign the thing!

Their paperwork will not be kept on site for long, ours is kept for 3 months.

You can go back and create hell and it would take ages for them to sort out.

Its a bloody signature, what's the problem?

"It stated that an employee would phone me with an appointment time."

That's why you've got to ring back. You weren't there to confirm the exact appointment time when they rang you. The online form probably saves them asking you all your details over the phone.

I wouldn't argue that, but I did refuse to fill in the 2 lengthy forms at the till in Morrisons, that they said were required to legally purchase 2 radio alarm clocks! Apparently it is illegal to sell a radio without filling these forms in as you need a TV license to listen to the radio

They still let me buy them when I said I won't bother then, though they did tut

Well in the time it took to post in AIBU you could have just signed the form ...

yabvu

If that's all I had to worry about ;-)