I was an accomplice to bringing down Woolies!!
yes.... I will admit, I did my own fair share of taking advantage of Woolies when it was was down for the count!

A few months ago (before Woolies was known as a risky business) I popped into my local branch and noticed that Heroes series 1 & 2 boxset cost £30 so I snaffled a copy from the shelf, walked over to the counter and handed it over to the spotty freak behind the till. He scanned it, asked me for the princely sum of £30 and I paid the man in cash (didn't want much of a paper trail for this transaction!)

Anyway... I checked out the cost of the same box set in both Zavvi and HMV - £54.99 in both! THE THIEVING SHITES!!!! So I felt pleased with myself (to the point that I did indeed go home and "peel my banana" in excitement at my money saving expert ways!)

Anyway... an idea sprung into my head, go and buy another box set and flog it on ebay! I was expecting to make some money from this venture, using Woolies as my cash-n-carry style supplier, and ebay as my trading platform as a cheap DVD vendor. However, after popping in the next week to check on my stock levels (aka how many more they had left) I noticed the price had gone up to *gasp* £45 quid!!

Thank God I'd bought my copies when I did! So I waited a week, and the price had rose to £54.99 on the shelf... same as HMV/Zavvi. So I walked in, had a word with the girl behind the counter and said "I bought this the other week, and the mrs has also bought a copy from here. How do we bring one back please?" She asked for receipt and I handed it over, and instead of checking the receipt, she scanned the DVD!!!! (and she wasn't blonde!)

Till opens, £55 out (and asked if I had 1p) which I did. She hands me my money back, and puts the receipt in the till (didn't even bother to read the price, simply looked at what it was for!!) so off I went with my £24.99 profit!! No frigging wonder they went bust!!
(The Funky Monkey played with his banana on, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 14:12, 2 replies)

haha
click
(addikt, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:08, closed)

thank you
cheers!
(The Funky Monkey played with his banana on, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:39, closed)