So mother has decided to buy father an iPad for his birthday
(please don't get into an ipad / apple are shit debate)

She had one on order from Apple but it looked like it wasn't going to come before his birthday. So I said that I would try the shops around here.

A quick search online showed that my local Currys had one. So I reserved it online and set off to buy it.
I got to the store before they put it to one side for me, but a chappy went off to get one.
As the order was online the ipad wasn't scanned through the till.
While I stood there as the Currys bloke put it through the system I noticed it was a 32gb not the 16gb I had ordered.
The Currys chap then spend a good minute or so looking at the back of the box but didn't seem to notice the error.

So I got a 32gb iPad for the cost of a 16gb.
I know I should have said something but meh.

So my question is: When have you made a retail win?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:27, 39 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Never
my life is one crushing defeat after another.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:29, Reply)

I don't make retail wins
only retail fails. Though bookshops and antique places sometimes give me things for free which is quite nice
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:32, Reply)

I particularly enjoyed
selling a leather jacket I got at tk maxx for about three times what I paid for it on ebay once...Otherwise, it's mostly just me being too tight to buy things at full price and waiting until they go in to the sales.
(berk, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:32, Reply)

one of my gf's mates does this as a hobby & clears about £800 a month profit - mainly with handbags

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:35, Reply)

I'm not trendy enough to do that
I like what I like and I couldn't give two shits if it's in fashion, I'd never buy the right stuff to make my money back. And I'm also too lazy.
(berk, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:37, Reply)

Same here.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:38, Reply)

A HAAAAANDBAG??!!!

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:38, Reply)

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:42, Reply)

excellent

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:48, Reply)

I love that play. Only thing we studied I can remember from Eng Lit GCSE

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:50, Reply)

I can't remember anything
other than watching the RSS performance of Macbeth where they are all stood around in the dark.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:54, Reply)

with the strange green hue?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:56, Reply)

we only got taken to see one play - it was such a disaster that all future trips were cancelled.
It was the school's fault for only sending female teachers to accompany around thirty 15 year old's. The male pupils spending all their time locked in the gents at the theatre drinking cider & smoking. The lady teachers were too scared to gain entry.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:59, Reply)

I sold my old ipod to CEX
They gave me the money for a 16gb when it was an 8gb.
Do I have some kind of aura that stops people reading Apple memory properly?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:39, Reply)

I managed to buy Halo 2 for £2.97 a month after it came out
It'd been labelled incorrectly, but there was nowhere displaying the correct price in store, so I got it for that price. Win!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:38, Reply)

ipad / apple are shit

( broadsword, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:39, Reply)

12 minutes since the start of the thread to get the first anti-apple comment. This is poor. Try harder next time.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:40, Reply)

Sorry about that, only just got to the office, I'll walk faster next time

( broadsword, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:46, Reply)

Make sure you do. Tsk.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:47, Reply)

sounds more like thievery to me

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:49, Reply)

When I bought my current car
I got £1K knocked off the showroom price.
£1K trade-in for my old heap (which was only worth £500 max),
11 month's road tax refunded (from my trade-in),
I didn't have to put my trade-in through an MOT, which had already expired. It would probably have cost me a minimum of £300 to get it into a position to pass.
Branded floor mats,
A new set of alloys for my new car (worth around £1K) as there was a very small flaw in one of them and the car was still under warranty.

He was a really young salesman, and I think I took advantage of him. The next time I stopped by the garage I asked for him but was told that he no longer worked there. Oops.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:50, Reply)

The iron fist shoes I'd been looking for for over a year
Only my size left, half price in a sale. Beautiful.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:55, Reply)

just bought a new iron fist hoodie
I think it's the last 'yoof' clothing I buy. At 28 I don't know if Zombie hoodies are sending the right message.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:57, Reply)

I've got the blue muerte punk platforms.
I'm not too keen on the clothes really.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:58, Reply)

I will google,
the clothes take me back to the 80's when skateboard graphics were ace.

EDIT - good shoes!
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:01, Reply)

Cheers.
I love them.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:08, Reply)

I bought an ounce of weed once, that was actually 35 grams.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:02, Reply)

shit scales or lucky boy?
edit actually saying that I am going to be paying a tenner for a half tomorrow.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:04, Reply)

This was back in the days
when only class A dealers used digital scales.

Buying off a traveller who uses candles for light in their truck and old-skool pan scales, and who is also really pissed, can have its benefits...

I know one chap who consistently forgets he's ticked me coke as well - but he's also ripped me right off dozens of times so that's more swings and roundabouts than win.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:10, Reply)

still a result nonetheless.
So glad my guy is back tomorrow my tin is running too low for comfort. I ended up selling half my stash to everyone else as Bristol seems to have gone dry.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:15, Reply)

I thought I was running low the other day
but as I had divided my stash for going to a festival I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had twice as much as I thought
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:20, Reply)

I am going to restock heavily once the blip is over.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:22, Reply)

I thought Brizzle was chock-full of growers - is this wrong?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:49, Reply)

Oh well Karma has just hit.
Currys just phoned and said that they have noticed the error and could they swap it please.

I thought it might.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:11, Reply)

say no?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:12, Reply)

Well it's not right really is it.
I just couldn't lie.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:17, Reply)

yeah you could,
and should.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:21, Reply)

Too late
I've told the truth now.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:27, Reply)

I don't think this has ever happened
In fact, things I buy tend to go on sale the week after.

I bought my TV from eBuyer, and a couple of hours later I checked back to see if it'd been shipped, and the same TV was now £50 cheaper. Thankfully I emailed them and they refunded me the £50 though.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 16:14, Reply)