I hate been ripped off.

Im not on about the big things you see on watchdog, or the scams you hear of, Im talking about the little things that spoil your day, at least for an hour or three.

Yesterday I stopped at a corner shop in Netheredge for a couple of bottles of pop, paid for them and drove off. About an hour latter I was in Kimberworth and went to get one of them to find it was half drank.

This has happened to me three or four times now, they must have a swig and pop it back intending to finish it latter, or do they do it on purpose.

Its not worth going back so I just except it.

There are countless other little things, such as taking a day off for the areial man to come and he didnt, the list goes on and on.

Am I the only one to be turning in to a Meldrew or are there more of you out there:mad:

Know exactly what you mean.

Our roof sprung a leak a while ago. Arranged for a local well known roofing company to come and have a look. Took the afternoon off work and they never showed...<grrrr>.

Chased them up on it and they apologised and me being the good hearted soul that I am agreed to wait in for them a few days later.... and guess what, they never showed again <fume>.

Needless to say the roof got fixed but it wasn't by them.

And another thing. If anyone ever goes shopping at Sainsburys make sure you check your bill carefully before you leave the shop. No end of times I have checked and found that the 2 for £5 or 3 for the price of 2 hasn't been correctly processed. You go to customer services and they apologise mutting something about it being a new promotion and give you the money back. I wonder how many people buy these offers and don't realise that they haven't actually been such a good deal after all.

How do you NOT notice a bottle of pop that's been half drunk? It's obvious, isn't it? If it has happened before, you'd look out for it from that particular shop, surely?

Sorry to play Devils Advocate.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
Sorry to play Devils Advocate.
Quite appropriate for a fan of the Devil's music!
This is quite a good reason to drink beer.It's very diifficult to tamper with a crown top.

Try going into Kwik Save, if they have it in stock they make some lame excuse about it being different so not on offer that's if they can be bothered to find out,their other excuse is "it's not my department" and watch your reciepts the staff are prone to scan it twice.

Originally posted by owdlad
Try going into Kwik Save, if they have it in stock they make some lame excuse about it being different so not on offer that's if they can be bothered to find out,their other excuse is "it's not my department" and watch your reciepts the staff are prone to scan it twice.

I used to work for Kwik Save and the store wasn't big enough to have departments. The Fruit and Veg section and butchers were ran by separate companies though.

aye I know that dinp, but they still have to go over the same checkouts.......thats when they got the stock to start with.Since Somerfield took them over they have become the joke supermarket......or as some of their staff call it "the sorry shop" sorry we havent got this,sorry we havent got that.

I don't rate somerfield (stores or company) at all. I use the one on Pinstone Street and its crap - the way the company treated our Kwik Save was appalling - they sent us what they felt like, not what we asked for.

Somerfield is a rip off.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
How do you NOT notice a bottle of pop that's been half drunk? It's obvious, isn't it? If it has happened before, you'd look out for it from that particular shop, surely?

Sorry to play Devils Advocate.

I was in a rush and picked two different bottles up at the same time, different sizes, different wieghts.

As for the other times it has happened it was in different shops.
If I ever go into a shop for pop again it will be in a can.

Originally posted by hj dary

Yesterday I stopped at a corner shop in Netheredge for a couple of bottles of pop, paid for them and drove off. About an hour latter I was in Kimberworth and went to get one of them to find it was half drank.


:huh: Nope.... still don't get it.

Perhaps someone drank from it after you bought the bottle?

So the bottles were paid for and left at Nether Edge, and then drunk by staff who then teleported the bottles to Kimberworth where the bottles were found to be half drunk???!

Originally posted by t020
So the bottles were paid for and left at Nether Edge, and then drunk by staff who then teleported the bottles to Kimberworth where the bottles were found to be half drunk???!

No. The bloke in the shop had taken a drink out of one of them.
I didnt notice this, bought the pop and drove off.

The bottle remained in the glove box the whole time and I was the only person in that vehicle all day

Come on, its not that hard to follow.

I am horrified to read this. There are a number of points to consider and I am amazed you haven't raised it to a higher level.

Someone had drank out of a bottle and then sold it!!!!!!

Health and safety, Communicable diseases, Fraud, Theft . . . .

are just a few words that spring to my mind. If a shopkeeper sells a bottle with a broken seal he/she is liable for all sorts of action. Personally I would certainly make the effort to go back and stuff the bottle up their 'harris' then phone trading standards and everyone else I could think of.

Unbloodybelievable !

Double scanning of items...

Have you ever noticed that the item that gets double scanned is not the most expensive item (you'd notice it) or the cheapest item but something generally about mid-high to price range. Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Come on, its not that hard to follow.

Perhaps aliens have switched bottles? Do you feel any discomfort in the rectal area? Is it really worth getting that bothered about?

Originally posted by Whelk
I am horrified to read this. There are a number of points to consider and I am amazed you haven't raised it to a higher level.

Someone had drank out of a bottle and then sold it!!!!!!

Health and safety, Communicable diseases, Fraud, Theft . . . .

are just a few words that spring to my mind. If a shopkeeper sells a bottle with a broken seal he/she is liable for all sorts of action. Personally I would certainly make the effort to go back and stuff the bottle up their 'harris' then phone trading standards and everyone else I could think of.

Unbloodybelievable !

you forgot to add the dna testing to make sure it was the shopkeeper, when you get the 9.9 match, get dirty harry down there to blow his nuts off.

Originally posted by Whelk
I am horrified to read this. There are a number of points to consider and I am amazed you haven't raised it to a higher level.

Someone had drank out of a bottle and then sold it!!!!!!

Health and safety, Communicable diseases, Fraud, Theft . . . .

are just a few words that spring to my mind.

Not to mention that the pop would go flat.

Originally posted by hj dary
Come on, its not that hard to follow.

no, really, it is.. even if you buy opaque bottles (which most aren't), i really don't see how you could pick up, buy, and leave the shop with anything except unopened ones.. surely it would be obvious??

you say this has happened 3 or 4 times?! in all my god-knows-how-many years of drinking a multitude of soft drinks, i have never once even picked up an opened bottle from a shop, let alone carried it to the counter, waited in line with it, paid for it, left the shop with it, and put it in my glove box!

I to have been ripped off in my case it was a jar of jam. Having placed it in the fridge to cool I later went to retrive it, and discovered as I opened the fridge door and it fell out onto the floor that it was full of broken glass!

Originally posted by haggis
I to have been ripped off in my case it was a jar of jam. Having placed it in the fridge to cool I later went to retrive it, and discovered as I opened the fridge door and it fell out onto the floor that it was full of broken glass!

MY god! how did that happen - a dropped glass jar was full of broken glass!

amazing and disturbing ... and as for the bottles of pop - words fail me ... :rolleyes:

I hate putting my money in vending machines and then the bar of 'scrummy' chocolate you really didn't need... but felt desperate to have doesn't drop down but gets wedged half in and half out..... :rant:

You nudge the machine but nothing happens....you haven't got anymore change to try again....:mad:

:help:

Originally posted by nick2
Not to mention that the pop would go flat.

What shape should it be? :suspect: :D

Originally posted by Shiesh
I hate putting my money in vending machines and then the bar of 'scrummy' chocolate you really didn't need... but felt desperate to have doesn't drop down but gets wedged half in and half out..... :rant:

You nudge the machine but nothing happens....you haven't got anymore change to try again....:mad:

:help:
Hey Shiesh, I once saw someone put their 20p into a machine for a bag of crisps, pressed the code & every single whirlygig went round once & dropped one of each item from each tray!
:o :clap: B O N A N Z A !

It didn't happen a second time when they put another 20p in.
But they were struggling to carry their booty :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
What shape should it be? :suspect: :D


Hey Shiesh, I once saw someone put their 20p into a machine for a bag of crisps, pressed the code & every single whirlygig went round once & dropped one of each item from each tray!
:o :clap: B O N A N Z A !

It didn't happen a second time when they put another 20p in.
But they were struggling to carry their booty :thumbsup:

Thinks like that don't happen to me...:mad:

Originally posted by Shiesh
I hate putting my money in vending machines and then the bar of 'scrummy' chocolate you really didn't need... but felt desperate to have doesn't drop down but gets wedged half in and half out..... :rant:

You nudge the machine but nothing happens....you haven't got anymore change to try again....:mad:

:help:

We have a snack machine in my dept at uni that fails to deliver in the same way, the secret with that one is to run across the room and launch yourself at it, it then gives up its chocolate :)
It is VERY funny to see the look on newbies' faces when you tell them this, they seem to think its a bad thing to do, so they go to the office and complain, only to then watch one of the office staff run out, and launch themselves at the machine!!! :hihi: