posted on May 9, 2001 04:14:40 PM new
I just had to share.. this made me feel so bad today! I went into one of our local thrifts, a nice church thrift staffed solely by very elderly volunteers. They had a chalk board on the wall behind the counter with the colors of tags that are on special, and chalked in on the entire lower half of the board in LARGE letters was the following:
[b]We made a mistake!
Whoever bought the $300.00 cameo set for $3.00, please return it.[/b]
I asked if they had really sold a 300.00 cameo set for 3.00 and the gentleman behind the counter said that the elderly person who had checked the buyer out just didn't see the 300.00 price tag. There was an appraisal done by a local jeweler valuing it at 600.00, it had a large card with $450 on it, and had just been marked down to $300 the day before. (I do remember seeing the cameo set with the appraisal and the card with the large print pricing.)
Now who, with any conscience at all, would actually only pay 3.00 for something that was clearly marked 300.00? Can you imagine how that elderly sales person must have felt discovering their mistake?
Man, I think that buyer just seriously threw his karma in reverse and blew the tranny!
I'm really just posting this hoping that whoever "bought" the cameo might somehow read this and actually return it, or pony up the cash for it!
Trying to get by b's to work
[ edited by sugar2912 on May 10, 2001 03:49 AM ]
[ edited by sugar2912 on May 10, 2001 03:50 AM ]
posted on May 9, 2001 04:55:47 PM new
I think when a sentence ends, such as the ! did it. You have to but the [/b] after the ! , and restart the next one with the [b] again. It won't recognize all of that as one statement.
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[ edited by mint4you on May 9, 2001 04:56 PM ]
posted on May 9, 2001 06:10:47 PM new
The place sounds sloppy enough in how they do things that the tag on it may well look like $3.00 and the person who bought it may have no idea they "ripped" anyone. If the person is not a regular it may be a long time before they happen back.
I had the experience this weekend of thinking a tag on a sale said fifty cents when it was supposed to be five dollars.
posted on May 10, 2001 03:56:06 AM new
I don't know why my b's won't work. I edited the ! out and it still isn't there. Oh well, you get the idea anyway.
Gravid, they are certainly confused there, but not sloppy. The manager is a younger elderly man who is on the ball. I've dealt with him before and I do remember seeing the 450 price tag, though I didn't see the marked down one.
Who would look at a 450.00 price tag, read the card that said the appraisal was done at 600.00, and then honestly think it was marked down 447.00 down to 3.00?
But I have looked at an item I thought was 5.00 (should have been 5.00 anyway) and it was marked 50.00! I don't shop at that thrift anymore. They think they are a boutique!
posted on May 10, 2001 06:55:38 AM newsugar2912: I think your bold didn't work because there is a spac you need to get rid of. Try clicking right after "mistake!", then hit your delete button to get rid of any extra space between it & the next sentence.
I was speaking of the ! at the end of We made a mistake! I think also when you drop down one line in your text you may lose the [b] also.
Test:
We made a mistake! Whoever bought the $300.00 cameo set for $3.00, please return it!
In the above I left both ! in. Just moved the second sentence back up to the first one, that's what the problem was in this case. The UBB was reading it as to separate UBBs.
posted on May 10, 2001 07:04:33 AM new
Well sure if they keep marking the same trag and not cover or put a new one and you can see the whole markdown history there it would be obvious. My brother-in-law would steal it if he could to save the $3.00 - too many people out there like that.
posted on May 10, 2001 10:31:55 PM new
AAAaakKkkk!
it's allll so clear now! I have been hesitant to 'classify' myself, a little shy, dontcha know? But sugar2912 phrased it so casually and yet clearly that I'm now certain I'm a younger elderly person, thanks shug!
