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What to do - xbox game missing the CD but no proof

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Biscuitsneeded · 21/03/2015 22:49

Went to ToysRUs on Fri in haste. Grabbed a packet of nerf gun bullets for DS' birthday at £8.99 (identical product also displayed adjacently at £9.99 but unsurprisingly I opted to pay a pound less). This IS relevant. I also picked up a copy of Tertaria for Xbox One. This is a present for DS' best friend and costs £17.89. More than I would usually pay but it is best friend and he had requested it.
Got to cash desk, young girl rang the items up and the price was wrong. The nerf bullets had come up as £9.99 so I told her they were displayed at £8.99. She didn't know what to do so called her colleague, who seemed totally unsurprised that they had 2 different prices on display, didn't question me in the slightest, or go and check, and said to charge me £8.99. First young girl then didn't know how to override the amount already entered, had to call colleague again, and in all the palaver she put through the Xbox game. I picked it up and it felt light, so I asked if the game was definitely in the box, but it looked as it had some kind of wrapping which I didn't want to tamper with as it was a present, so I believed her when she said it was all OK. I must stress I am a luddite and I didn't even know it would be a CD - for all I knew it was just a tiny little thing in there! I was in a rush and was just glad I had what I needed. This morning when I checked, I realised I have been given just the box and no CD. Have hunted through purse, handbag etc but cannot find the receipt so I have no proof of purchase. Even if I did, if I go back in there with the empty box how can I prove I'm not just trying to get another copy? The young girl was very sweet but clearly not very sure of what she was doing - I assume she should have gone to get the CD from somewhere but she didn't, and I didn't think to query this. What can I do? If I can tell them the date and time, and that they had to cancel the first transaction, and exactly what I paid, would their till receipts bear out my story? And especially if the young girl remembered our conversation about the two prices for identical products, and could support my claim that she didn't actually go and put the game in the box, would I have any sort of case? So annoyed with myself for not checking.

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Babelange · 22/03/2015 09:47

Go back today and outline exactly what you have described here. Be nice. Sounds like you picked up the display box? In which case they should have an odd disk perhaps? Look for the receipt! In the bag? In the car? In your pocket? Did you use a debit card and can show a transaction on a statement - print it out from online or show it on a phone app?
Good luck!

Biscuitsneeded · 22/03/2015 16:12

Thanks. I printed out an online banking statement and went in this pm and they didn't even quibble - just went to get the proper game. Maybe their staff need a bit more training!

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MsDran · 22/03/2015 16:24

Glad you got it sorted. A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. I bought DS a Nintendo DS Lite and game. That night DH and I tried it out but when we opened up the shrink wrapped game box it was empty. I went back to the shop the next day where the assistant was quite rude and insisted I must have dropped it, I was quite insistant so he got a new copy of the game, opened the box saying, "it looks just like this!" That box was also empty, I told him it looked exactly like that and he found me a copy that had the game in it. It did make me think though, how can you prove it was never there.

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