» The Credit Crunch

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!!
(Thu 22nd Jan 2009, 14:12, More)

» Tales of the Unexplained

Major disappearance at work....
One day last summer, someone at work was asked to send some information from one office to another. Since it's quicker to download this sort of thing to a CD and send it rather than take a day and hand it in personally, they decided to make a couple of CDs and pop them in the post.

Next thing, the CDs have gone missing, and no-one can find them...

Apologies for length, it's my first time and I'm nervous, it will be bigger next time! Honest!
(Thu 3rd Jul 2008, 17:50, More)

» The Credit Crunch

so poor I never have spare change....
So this credit crunch thing really is pissing me off now!!

First off, you can't get loans from anywhere and people are losing their jobs left, right and centre! this is serious people, it's affecting us all and we shouldn't make light of such situations!

Just the other day, I wanted a chocolate bar so popped into the local shop, picked one up and walked up to pay the girl. Lo and behold, no spare change in my pocket! Thankfully they take chip-n-pin, so I popped in my VISA (0% interest on new purchases for 9 months!) and paid for it.

As I was leaving, I took a bite of my chocolate bar and as I enjoyed the mixture of chocolate coating the crisp honeycomb centre, I realised that this was just another part of my "credit Crunchie life!"

Length? About 5 inches long (I'm sure they were longer when we were kids!)
(Fri 23rd Jan 2009, 20:54, More)

» The Credit Crunch

Workplace boredom
Phew.... just finished my work and now have chance to reply to the QOTW! How do I pass the time with workplace boredom....

oh... wait... cocksocks!!
(Thu 22nd Jan 2009, 13:50, More)