*dies laughing*

*laughs* LIES!

We'd have people try to return crap to us when I worked at Petsmart with receipts from other stores.

I can has kash back?

HAHAHAH oh, that brings back all my GameCrazy memories with a smile.

GIVE KAT KASH BAK NAOW!!!

I've had to do things like that in the past. At Target most of the return policy is right on the back. Flip it over and shove it back in the person's face.

Big problem at my work is people who try to use expired coupons, or coupons for a completely different event in a different city, on a different date!

Sales has taught me something very important: people, in general, are very, very stupid.

Reminds me of a story....

I work in a supermarket, thankfully not on the Customer Service Desk, but on one day I was plonked on one of the Basket tills (The 10 items or less type thing) which is directly opposite the CS desk... There a wonderful person with the patience of Job, my good friend Paul, was dealing with a woman customer who was trying to return a pair of Bathroom scales she said didn't work...

To put it bluntly, this woman was carting herself around in one of those 'Get-out-of-my-way-I'm-disabled-so-gimme-all-the-aisle-space' electric go-karts, and if she ever managed to get out of that thing, I'd imagine a roadside HGV Scale would have prolly protested having to weigh her...

Hearing a morbidly overweight woman complain that her scales don't work is chuckle-fuel enough.. but it didn't stop there.. After Paul demonstrated to her that the scales did in fact work (By standing on them himself) she accused him of calling her fat...

"I didnt say that, I'm just saying that it looks to me that the scales work fine."

Paul eventually relented, and said that he would be able to give her a receipt if the woman could produce a receipt or proof of purchase... She rummaged around in her handbag and produced a torn-to-hell strip of paper... After examining the paper for a while, Pail said to her that the item didn't appear on it...

"It's on there! But it got ripped, the scales are on the ripped bit!" She explained..

By this time, quite a que of people had formed behind the woman, as had quite a large group of onlookers...

Paul explained that he couldn't accept that receipt as proof of purchase of the scale, because the scale wasn't printed on it.

"I'm telling you I bought it on that day!" She screamed "I remember it was that day because Slimfast was on offer and I bought 19 cans!"

That was it for me... I had to stand up and walk away....

Eventually, Paul gave the woman her money back... all £3.50 of it (Give or take $5 - $6 in weird-money) How he kept a straight face through out all that I'll never know....

Sometimes I wonder whether I really hate or really love working in retail....

Good story. :]

oh.. my..

Still not as good as the lady who didn't want to pay sales tax on a coupon purchase, despite the coupon stating that the customer must pay all applicable sales tax.

Long story short, I worked the counterstrikeCustomer Service desk in that grocery store, and she came to me to complain about the "bonehead cashier who charged too much". I spent time explaining politely, and even showing her on the coupons that this is what it says: Customer pays all applicable sales tax; this is the law we follow ("You're committing tax fraud!" - o rly?), etc etc.

In the end, she ends up with a refund of exactly US$0.35 (Less than 25 cents in that funny double-lined € they use somewhere, and less than 18 hundredths of a funny shaped £, to boot), because she didn't want to pay tax on her purchase, and she felt proud of herself. :eyeroll:

*Nods.*

That's too funny! Best story I've heard all week.

Yea, I work in walmart., in seabrooke...which is a backwater, hick town full of insectual hillbillies.... I know what its like to deal with idiots >.>

Oh yes, I remember those days of working in retail. I don't miss those days a bit.

it would be more funny if there was a sighn for a competing game store somewhere (though seems all the main ones and some small ones are being eaten by gamestop)

I loved that policy last time I went to Gamestop. I showed that they mischarged me (by pointing to the large sign behind me, clearly declaring the price, and the number on the receipt that was clearly not said number); the clerk (who checked me out not ten minutes earlier) told me, "Sorry, no refunds."

One person tried to return a book to my university bookstore... until a chapters receipt fell out of it.

Our university bookstore takes returns from any store.... he might have thought that.

Well, it was from a retail store, not a campus bookstore of any shape or form.

yeah most campus bookstores take those too

Well that's news to me. Shit like that doesn't fly at my University.

yeah i think they are gradualy trying to make it where you pay them to take your books

Well, there are buyback programs for used books.

EBgames here gives cash refunds, i use it as a free game rental store

You wouldn't BELIEVE how many people try to return crap to WalMart... with a K-Mart Receipt. for a K MART BRAND ITEM >_<

Whats worse is when the twits take it back, when I worked at walmart I had found Foodlion and Farmfresh stuff in the things we were given to restock!

Ugh, yeah dayshift does that... We've taken keys from Ace Hardware and clothes we dont even stock the brands of! (And somebody once returned clothes I had taken to Goodwill a week before.... I REALLY wanted to beat somebody with a broomhandle that night >_<)

People come through the drive thru at my Jack in the Box all the time, wanting refunds or food replacement for shit that a DIFFERENT store got wrong because the other store wouldn't replace it for them.

That would tempt me to poop on a bun and hand it to them personally

Being the "man in charge" on over night shifts, that might be seen as detrimental to my next review. XP

Oh man! I worked at a sporting goods department store for 15 years, and I have seen the "Brightest" examples of humanity trying to prove they were right when it was sooooo very obvious they were wrong. The store hadn't been open a week when some homeless bum threw a cigarette burned, ripped and reeking jacket on the counter and said he bought it from there, and wanted his money back. Company policy insisted we give no cash refund even with a receipt, so we offered him $30.00 store credit. He wouldn't settle for that and stormed out of the building, darn near breaking the glass out of the doors while leaving. He also left the jacket behind, and it was my job to get rid of the darn thing. I picked it up with a pair of plyers and tossed it in the Dumpster. About a day later I saw the same bum lurking by the loading docks wearing the same jacket. No harm, no foul I guess.

I like the guys who bring back out dated receipts. XD

Return policy where I used to work was 14 days if it was UNOPENED to get cash back. We had people bringing us receipts back from four months ago for opened merchandise.

Some people are just R-E-tarded.

Where do you work?

Some people just don't care, they're looking for a quick buck even if they're technically not -making- money. Reminds me of an alcoholic who kept coming around here trying to get money and such off of me and my parents. Not exactly retail stories but it's fairly close lol. He just wanted something to get him enough cash to get his fix on booze.

*Snert.* Yeah.

"This coupon is expired.. .can I still use it?"

I worked in a video rental store for a while. I understand your pain. But the stupidest people in the world are dealt with in computer stores, believe me.

I'm part of a site where you can make that sort of lolzcats.

*laughs hard* That's funny. ;3

I work in retail too. What ive learned from the experience is that people are much more stupider than anyone could ever imagine.

Hear hear!

I work in retail myself...I can tell ya few :P

Faved :P

This is hillarious!

lol that is so funny!

Oh, and I know GameStop gives you refunds on used items returned within 7 days. They won't do that for new stuff, though,