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So . . . this afternoon I give Evil Empryss a call to see if she wants to go to Our Toys with me and maybe grab some lunch. I needed to go over there to buy the Evil Prince's Christmas present. We get to our local Our Toys and find out they are out of stock on the game he wants (darn it; they were in stock when I was in there yesterday--should have gotten it then).
So we head to the town up the road when the CSR tells us they have 20 in stock at the other store.
We get there, head straight to the product we're looking for, and a very helpful CSR named Earl, with a dead pan face, says, "We're out of stock." We knew he was kidding cuz we'd just looked at it in the case, so we all had a good laugh. I told him he was taking his life in his hands making jokes like that just before Christmas; we all had a good laugh and then EE and I went to get in line to pay.
The place was crowded, but not too crazy. All the lines were short, so we went to the first one. EE decided she wanted to look at another game, and left me holding our place in the line. My eyes wandered over to a very overly large women: with sticks for legs. When EE got back, I whispered to her, "OK, I've got to get serious about the weight. This gal has my body type . . . at this rate, one day I'll be her."
*note: I'm very tall, with a BMI of 30 . . . and my weight is not in my legs*
That's when EE realizes this woman is buying multiple packs of batteries: at the Our Toys inflated prices. She couldn't believe anyone would pay inflated prices for batteries when you could get as many for less at Wally World.
Anyway, the line was moving way too slowly because this woman was arguing with the cashier over something, so I motioned EE to move over to the next line. Realizing we had a SC incident in the making, we managed to get the gist of it over the din of the store.
The SC was pissy because the cashier would not give her a gift card for the games the SC was also buying. The store was running a promotion: buy one game for 19.99 or $20-39.99 and get a $5 gift card. If you bought more games, or more expensive games you could get gift cards for amounts up to $40, but there were clearly spelled out rules on signs all over the game dept that showed what you had to spend to get the gift cards (For example, I bought two games for $39.99 each and got a $25 gift card).
SC was buying games out of the clearance bin, which was specifically excluded from the promotion.
SC: I don't understand the difference between $19.99 and $20. If I spend over $20, I should get the gift card.
Cashier: It is explained very clearly here. You have to buy one game that costs either $19.99 OR one game costing between $20 and $39.99 to get a $5 gift card.
SC: I don't understand . . . *lather, rinse, repeat*
Heck, they even SHOWED her the promotion, and she still wanted to argue.
At one point, they had 2 other employees plus the cashier trying to explain it to her (one I think was a manager). She continued to argue. Finally she said,
SC: Fine! Then just give me cash!
Seems she thought since she couldn't get a gift card she could get cash back.
Uhm. No. Fortunately, the manager did not cave. So the SC demanded her money back. She was filling out the refund paper work as we were leaving.
Meanwhile, I left happy. I got the game the Evil Prince has been jonesing for, and he's going to get the gift card as an extra Christmas present
Worth every mile to get there.
So we head to the town up the road when the CSR tells us they have 20 in stock at the other store.
We get there, head straight to the product we're looking for, and a very helpful CSR named Earl, with a dead pan face, says, "We're out of stock." We knew he was kidding cuz we'd just looked at it in the case, so we all had a good laugh. I told him he was taking his life in his hands making jokes like that just before Christmas; we all had a good laugh and then EE and I went to get in line to pay.
The place was crowded, but not too crazy. All the lines were short, so we went to the first one. EE decided she wanted to look at another game, and left me holding our place in the line. My eyes wandered over to a very overly large women: with sticks for legs. When EE got back, I whispered to her, "OK, I've got to get serious about the weight. This gal has my body type . . . at this rate, one day I'll be her."
*note: I'm very tall, with a BMI of 30 . . . and my weight is not in my legs*
That's when EE realizes this woman is buying multiple packs of batteries: at the Our Toys inflated prices. She couldn't believe anyone would pay inflated prices for batteries when you could get as many for less at Wally World.
Anyway, the line was moving way too slowly because this woman was arguing with the cashier over something, so I motioned EE to move over to the next line. Realizing we had a SC incident in the making, we managed to get the gist of it over the din of the store.
The SC was pissy because the cashier would not give her a gift card for the games the SC was also buying. The store was running a promotion: buy one game for 19.99 or $20-39.99 and get a $5 gift card. If you bought more games, or more expensive games you could get gift cards for amounts up to $40, but there were clearly spelled out rules on signs all over the game dept that showed what you had to spend to get the gift cards (For example, I bought two games for $39.99 each and got a $25 gift card).
SC was buying games out of the clearance bin, which was specifically excluded from the promotion.
SC: I don't understand the difference between $19.99 and $20. If I spend over $20, I should get the gift card.
Cashier: It is explained very clearly here. You have to buy one game that costs either $19.99 OR one game costing between $20 and $39.99 to get a $5 gift card.
SC: I don't understand . . . *lather, rinse, repeat*
Heck, they even SHOWED her the promotion, and she still wanted to argue.
At one point, they had 2 other employees plus the cashier trying to explain it to her (one I think was a manager). She continued to argue. Finally she said,
SC: Fine! Then just give me cash!
Seems she thought since she couldn't get a gift card she could get cash back.
Uhm. No. Fortunately, the manager did not cave. So the SC demanded her money back. She was filling out the refund paper work as we were leaving.
Meanwhile, I left happy. I got the game the Evil Prince has been jonesing for, and he's going to get the gift card as an extra Christmas present
Worth every mile to get there.
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