I have a list of about 8 things I need to get for Xmas...and I have £120.00 of Argos gift vouchers which I won at work. I had a choice of Argos or Tesco and I chose Argos because I thought it would be much easier...you can use them online, collect at store etc.
So I merrily spend 20 minutes finding the items (all quite standard and nothing random- a few board games, a paw patrol scribbler, a chopping board) and putting them in my basket to click and collect at my local store. 2 of the items are only available for home delivery. Grr.
Anyway, I suck it up, go back through my basket and change everything else to home delivery as I just as well. 3 of the items are only available to collect in store, you can't have home delivery. Double grr.
So I go back though again, remove the click and collect and purchase the home delivery only items with my giftcard. Done. Go in again separately and add the 6 items available for collection. 2 of the items will take 4 days to be available...fine, I can pay online in advance with my giftcard, so the immediately available items will be there for 7 days anyway meaning I can get it all at the same time. Nope. The 2 4-day items cannot be paid for in advance with a giftcard, only the immediately available items (took me a while to work this out and a call to customer services - there's a temporary block on this for some reason). Grrrrrrrrrr.
So I have to empty my basket of the 4 days items and buy just the immediate items. Then go back in and reserve the 4-day items seperately, which I need to go into store to pay for with my giftcard.
AIBU to say that Argos is a pile of horseshit? The only reason I persevered (for 2 hours including a couple of incidents where my basket was randomly emptied) was because I had free money to spend...would never have bothered if I had the choice of going elsewhere.