Sunday Shopping
My sister Julie came over today and we went into Harrow shopping. First stop was M & S to bring back some stuff I'd bought Julie for her birthday (which was yesterday by the way) and to change the size of a couple of bits.
While I was there I found a pair of trousers reduced from £39 to £19 - a bargain!!! I also bought a few other bits and pieces.
A quick sarnie and a latte in Marks and we were off to Debenhams, which is where the fun started....
So they had a sale on in Debenhams mainly 20% off but there were some 30% and 50% off things too. Julie found a couple of jumpers in the menswear section that had "50% off the ticket price for today only"on them. Now the price on the ticket had been marked down from £30 to £15 with £15 written on the ticket in red, so as far as we were concerned the price to pay today was £7.50. She picked up 2 jumpers and went to pay.
The price shown at the till was £15 so we queried it and when we explained the young lady agreed and gave us the jumpers for £7.50 so we thought cool that was a bargain and went upstairs to the ladies section.
We picked up a few bits up there and then Julie found a red wrapover top that had the same ticket as before, was originally £15 and was marked as £7.50 on the ticket and so we expected to pay £3.75 for it just like before.
However, the girls on the till weren't as accommodating and despite us explaining ourselves very clearly and telling them that the same thing had happened downstairs, there was no budging them, so we asked to see the manager.
The only manager available happened to be the menswear manager and eventually he arrived on the first floor and instead of admitting that perhaps there had been some mistake labeling, he was a complete jobsworth and refused to accept what we were saying.
So by this time it was the principle of the thing (Julie would have happily paid £7.50 for the top btw) and as he appeared to be a snotty nosed 20 year old we took great delight in telling him that someone from his department had already sold us the jumpers having agreed with us. His face was a picture!!!!
Anyway Julie mentioned trading standards and asked if we could have one of the labels but he refused saying they were debenhams property but agreed to me taking some pics with my phone - which I won't bore you with by the way.
So the upshot is Julie is going to contact trading standards tomorrow and see what they have to say. So watch this space!!
My final great bit of bargain hunting was in BHS where I bought a belt which I thought was going to be £10 but was reduced to £2.50 :D
Retail therapy is always soooooooooooo good for the soul!!!!!
My sister Julie came over today and we went into Harrow shopping. First stop was M & S to bring back some stuff I'd bought Julie for her birthday (which was yesterday by the way) and to change the size of a couple of bits.
While I was there I found a pair of trousers reduced from £39 to £19 - a bargain!!! I also bought a few other bits and pieces.
A quick sarnie and a latte in Marks and we were off to Debenhams, which is where the fun started....
So they had a sale on in Debenhams mainly 20% off but there were some 30% and 50% off things too. Julie found a couple of jumpers in the menswear section that had "50% off the ticket price for today only"on them. Now the price on the ticket had been marked down from £30 to £15 with £15 written on the ticket in red, so as far as we were concerned the price to pay today was £7.50. She picked up 2 jumpers and went to pay.
The price shown at the till was £15 so we queried it and when we explained the young lady agreed and gave us the jumpers for £7.50 so we thought cool that was a bargain and went upstairs to the ladies section.
We picked up a few bits up there and then Julie found a red wrapover top that had the same ticket as before, was originally £15 and was marked as £7.50 on the ticket and so we expected to pay £3.75 for it just like before.
However, the girls on the till weren't as accommodating and despite us explaining ourselves very clearly and telling them that the same thing had happened downstairs, there was no budging them, so we asked to see the manager.
The only manager available happened to be the menswear manager and eventually he arrived on the first floor and instead of admitting that perhaps there had been some mistake labeling, he was a complete jobsworth and refused to accept what we were saying.
So by this time it was the principle of the thing (Julie would have happily paid £7.50 for the top btw) and as he appeared to be a snotty nosed 20 year old we took great delight in telling him that someone from his department had already sold us the jumpers having agreed with us. His face was a picture!!!!
Anyway Julie mentioned trading standards and asked if we could have one of the labels but he refused saying they were debenhams property but agreed to me taking some pics with my phone - which I won't bore you with by the way.
So the upshot is Julie is going to contact trading standards tomorrow and see what they have to say. So watch this space!!
My final great bit of bargain hunting was in BHS where I bought a belt which I thought was going to be £10 but was reduced to £2.50 :D
Retail therapy is always soooooooooooo good for the soul!!!!!
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