To think I got ripped off in the charity shop?

[Rosbeet]

Disclaimer, I'm just kidding, it was a small amount of money and I'm happy with the items but I pedantically I think I'm right!

Some matching cushion covers on a table, pick one up and it's attached to a 2nd one and the tag says 'set £2' So I pick up the other 2 that are with it and they are individual, not tagged together. So I think a set of 4 for £2? Great!

Get to the till and the women says they're £4 as it's £2 a set. I say OK and pay.

BUT it's bugging me a bit because

A- if they were being sold in pairs would they both be attached in 2's? Rather than 2 together and 2 alone?

B- Both pairs of pillows would have tags on with the individual price if they were being sold separately as pairs. As if someone bought 1 pair the 2nd pair are left tagless, suggesting the tag was indicative of all 4.

C- Wouldn't the workding on the tags say 'pair £2' rather than set? A pair is 2? A set sounds more like 4?
And as they are all the same cushion they're a set?

BTW I'm autistic and things like this really play on my mind because I don't know if I've misinterpreted.

So if you picked up a cushion and there was 4 of them exactly the same and the tag set 'set £2' would you expect all 4 of them to be £2?

I'm know I'm overthinkining it (joys of ND) but I'm just genuinely curious!

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It should have said £2 per pair.

I am also autistic and this would bug me.

However, new cushion covers for £4! Bargain!!

I would have read it like you. The whole set should be £2. However there's obviously been some sort of a muddle and they meant £4 for them all

I read it as a set being two. That's why the two were clipped together. That's the set.

I suppose "pair" would have removed any confusion!

I feel like ‘set’ implies more than two.

Two is most definitely a pair.

I don't think they're new but they're very pretty!

But whey weren't the other 2 clipped together with their own tag saying 'set £2' if they were 2 separate items? They were all in a pile with 1 tag between them saying 'set'

I agree, unless it says "set of 2"

I think they must have been in sets of 2 and the tag had come off the other set maybe?

Misread about the others not being clipped together, sorry!

In that case, I'd probably think they'd somehow become loose too.

Maybe they used to be a set of six but a customer came in and only wanted two?

So they split them to save kerfuffle?

Its annoying but don't be mad at the workers in the shop. It's retail hell but for no wage. I know the post isn't too serious.

They possibly had been put out clipped into two pairs. Customers sometimes don’t always leave things as they find them. A volunteer may have written the tag, and thought ‘set’ could mean two. I agree ‘pair’ would have been clearer.

We find things pulled out of boxes, as an example, a couple of days ago there was a new staple gun set where the staples were all over the floor and the box all torn.

For the love of (insert deity of you choice). You got cushion covers you liked for £1 each. Whilst doing so, you benefitted your karma by donating to charity. The people who work in the shop are doing so on voluntary basis - if they didn't you wouldn't have got the cushion covers for £1 each.

I think you should go off and seriously reflect on why you feel so put out about what you perceive to the unfairness of the situation that you feel the need to spend time posting about it on an internet forum.

And why anyone is seriously replying about how said cushion covers should have been clipped and priced is completely baffling to me. I completely despair about humanity.

If this makes you despair for humanity I really hope you never watch the news!

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You're a silly sausage aren't you?

Yes, you are right. I am autistic and this would play on my mind too!

It's for the two, they just hadn't got round to tagging the others. Couldn't get excited about it, see it as a donation to charity

You don't understand about being autistic, clearly! 😂

I'm not upset/mad/anything.

I was absolutely happy to pay £4

I'm just asking because I can interpret things wrong sometimes and my mind looks at things very analytically and to me the word set means more than 2.

It's not about the money or anything like that or being upset because Im not. Not a jot.

Its just the use of language and the situation confused me because to my mind it was clear it was a set, my ND brain just goes over things repeatedly trying to figure it out and sometimes it's helpful to get other views to see if it would be something another person might think too.

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I don't know. It seems quite logical to me. If two clipped together are £2.00 then the other two, loose, cushion covers are also going to be £2.00, as 50 pence each seems low even for a charity shop.

I realise you said you were only kidding and you're happy with your bargain!

A pair is a set of two, but I understand why that might cause confusion.

If it helps, think of it like people. You can have a family of 2 people, even though we'd generally refer to 2 people as a couple.

2 things is a pair, but that doesn't stop it being a set of 2.

Enjoy your new things:)

That's nothing compared Tommy charity shop swindle earlier this year: I put on a bit of weight and wanted to try on a load of stuff but they don't have changing rooms so I bought about 20+ things for around £60-70

Went home and tried it all on - happy to keep about half of it but had £30 worth of stuff to refund which I was assured when I paid would be ok if I kept the receipt.

I took it all back, they did the refund but when I got home I realised they'd actually charged me again for all the items!!! So I paid more like £100 and this time didn't have a receipt or any goods to take back. Luckily, I can afford it plus I still saved a fortune on what I needed to spend if I'd bought it new - so decided to write it off as a super generous donation instead!!!

You mention being autistic, and this is something I am used to dealing with, though of course it varies from person to person. This may or may not be what is preventing you from seeing the bigger picture.

You are focusing on the fact that the cushion covers said "set" and you think it's fair to think that means all four and not two.

However, you could think, overthink, and debate that one for the rest of your life and it will still be subjective. Why do you have to be "right"?

Work with what you do know, which is that chazza shops are run by unpaid volunteers, the likes of whom may have some sort of difficulties too, which means they have displayed something incorrectly. They may be perfectly fine, but just got it wrong when they wrote the ticket. Or maybe the person on the till got it wrong and in fact it should have been £2 for four cushion covers. Who knows - and why does it even matter? And I mean that last point genuinely - talk to me about why this is a problem, so I can better understand why it's on your mind.

Fact is an unpaid person working in a charity shop told you that four cushion covers would cost you £4. To have argued it would have been embarrassing, and clearly you realised that which is why you paid up & left. You paid the bargain price of £1 per cushion cover, and you supported a charity. There have been times where I've paid more for things in a charity shop because I told them they were underpriced. Conversely, I've not bought a great many things because they were very much overpriced, but that's another story.