Thread: I whined, I won

Did you check the product to make sure you had all the parts before heading home this time?

Yup, opened it when we got to the car. lol

Winning is nice

DARN IT!!

Typed a whole rant about the local dollar store, and when I clicked "submit", it took me to the log in page and then gave me a blank page again.



If this one works, I'll try again.

Good job at whining!!! Way to go!

OK. . . take two.

I've figured out that managers have a lot more control over what policies they can change than they like the average consumer to know.

I live in a very small town, so we have two grocery stores, three dollar stores, and a Rite-Aid for our shopping pleasure.

One dollar store used to have a "check acceptance policy" like none I've ever seen. Their "database" was a plastic file box with index cards. If you wanted to write a check, you had to fill out a card which had to include name, address, home and work phone numbers, SSN, bank name, bank account number, and a copy of a driver's license AND a second ID or CREDIT CARD. I try really hard not to pitch fits in public, but I couldn't believe that one. After voicing my opinions on their "policy", I left my intended purchases on the counter and left! The manager met me at the door where she told me that she'd be happy to take my check without the "requirements". I didn't do it that day, but I did go back another day--and I wrote a check, without having an "information card" on file.

I recently had to return a $10 item to another dollar store, and I had an interesting conversation with the manager. At first, the cashier told me that I couldn't have my money back until 10 days after I wrote the check. (It had just been 1 day.) Typically, I'm a cash or credit gal. That time, however, I had used my debit card. I had no clue that a "check clearing" policy would apply to a debit card. Since I didn't need $10 of other items that day, I was prepared to go back home with my item and come back in a few days--no big deal, it was on my way home anyway. In the meantime, the manager--who was running the other register--told her she'd take care of it. She gave me my money back because she knows me. (I'm in quite a bit.)

She told me that they have multiple people PER DAY who try to return items that have been paid for with bad checks. She said that most of them get REALLY mad when they can't get their money that day. She also told me about the two women who always shopped together. One would buy items with cash, and the other would steal identical items. The next day or so, they'd return the "bought" items for the cash---and they still had the stolen items. I stopped in last week after work, and the police had some women detained. Two of them had asked the workers for assistance while the third made off with close to $1000 in medicines--and other supplies for making meth. Hubby takes Sudafed along with his prescription allergy medication--per doctor's orders--and I used to buy two packages (96 pills each) at a time so I didn't have to worry about buying it so often. Now I can't do that because of all the meth lab problems!

Geez. . . . crooks make it hard on the rest of us!!

You can say that again, Ima.

I get so tired of being treated like a criminal every time I try to spend my hard earned money in some establishment because some sleeze bag once screwed the company over. I get tired of having to go into gas stations to inform the clerk that I intend to fill up, here's my deposit and please turn the pump on and then have to go back in to pay the balance or receive my change. I've had it!

I dress respectably, act accordingly, and ALWAYS pay for my purchases. I have been known to inform a clerk of an error that they have made in ringing up my purchases even if they are in my favor. I'd like to stop paying for others immorality.

And now, I'm going to go back to being my happy-go-lucky self despite being oppressed at every bend.

Tom, my husband did bring up to the man how quickly the checks clear now. Maybe that helped, I don't know. It was when I asked him if the check had already been deposited that he went wherver to check.
And Ima, good for you for winning too! I know there are crooks that write checks then want refunds, but I sure had no idea it happened that many times a day. And right, WE pay for it.