Broken electrical goods and lost the receipt?
A few quick steps for a guaranteed refund:

1) Go to a shop, buy exactly the same thing that is broken.

2) Spruce up the old, broken one as much as possible, trying to make it look as new.

3) Take the old one back with the new receipt, say it's broken, get a refund!

Sorted.
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Wed 4 Nov 2009, 18:52, 13 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Hmm
I'm sure there is a flaw in that plan.
If I look long enough I'll see it.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 4 Nov 2009, 20:50, Reply)

nein
I've done that before with hair straighteners. Although the new straighteners then broke
(ignoramusaurus, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 13:44, Reply)

I work in a shop
.....Ive got my eye on you
(i should have joined myspace, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 22:58, Reply)

I've done that before,
with fishing rods!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 23:28, Reply)

've done this
with lots of things, particularly from 'The Argos'...including a kettle i had used for about 8 months
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 10:59, Reply)

This won't work
because the URPC code on the receipt wont match the one encoded on the old piece of equipment you're returning.

FAIL.
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 11:23, Reply)

yes......because the sharp witted 'staff' in Argos know what a URPC code is.....
They will just give you the cash so they can get back to talking about what public park they urinated in at 3am on Friday night.

WIN
( Bamboo Steamer, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 14:59, Reply)

FAIL?
Honestly? Have you seen half the baboons that work in these shops? Most of them don't know what a URPC code is, and the ones that do couldn't care less.



And I used to be one of the baboons.
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Tue 10 Nov 2009, 13:14, Reply)

One day, i went TOO far
In B&Q. I bought this electric plane, for shaving a bit off of the bottom of a door...it was about £60 and i only needed it for a few minutes work. So i planed the bottom of the door and enjoyed using it so much, i planed a whole load of other things...

I then took it back and the guy opened it all up and all this sawdust floated out and he turned it upside down and looked at the blade on the bottom that was totally chibbed, and had obviously been used.

he says he can't refund me, I say he should. After many long minutes he fetches the manager...by this time i am flustered and twitchy..the manager comes over, gives me the refund and tells me to fuck off.

I did.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 17:12, Reply)

The flaw in this plan is...
You will have bought the item twice, and only gotten one refund. It's a good plan if you want the item again, though!
(feels_goodman 's brain cogs whirred at, Sat 7 Nov 2009, 22:28, Reply)

But is it a flaw though?
You have a choice of paying once and having a broken one, or paying once and having a working one. No brainer Shirley?
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Tue 10 Nov 2009, 13:12, Reply)

paying twice
You can get round this if its from Argos, or Argos sell the same product.

Buy a new item with a credit card, return the broken item with the receipt for the new item and ask for a refund.
Go to an alternative argos store and return the new item, using your credit card statement as proof of purchase. They may offer store credit rather than a full refund, but its better than nowt.
(dave likes cheese, Tue 10 Nov 2009, 13:41, Reply)

I think this has a name.
Fraud dearie.

Interesting scam that was being pulled in a store I was working at a few years back: people discovered they could get a cash refund with an exchange receipt: so people were buying a ton of stuff in one store with a stolen/dodgy/mafia/hamster credit card, exchanging the stuff in another store, then finally going to a third store and asking for a cash refund based on the exchange receipt.

Funnily enough, chavs didn't see that they could do this with their provident vouchers...

Stopped once it was discovered: they now only offer store credit if the receipt doesn't use the original method of payment, which seemed to stop the money launderings via the shop's funds.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 6:34, Reply)