Argos wanted me to pay for a watch just to view it

[Drago]

I buy my Chromehooks from Screwfix and to be honest I've never had an issue, apart from being informed that my green shield stamps were no longer valid....

Did you get to try your laptop on in Screwfix?

By the way, I'm ignoring you

 

[T4tomo]

Did you get to try your laptop on in Screwfix?

By the way, I'm ignoring you

I got this Chrome hooks. Uncomfortable fitted to ones lap so I screwed them to the wall.

They were happy for me to try them, but it wouldn't boot up properly so i just took them home

 

[Dogtrousers]

I got this Chrome hooks. Uncomfortable fitted to ones lap so I screwed them to the wall.
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They were happy for me to try them, but it wouldn't boot up properly so i just took them home

I got myself a Gnomebook. Fits perfectly in my lap

 

[Mike_P]

I don't understand what yiou think you are gaining here?

Unless your card works in a very odd way, a debit followed by an almost immediate refund will result in nothing, as both will hit your accont within minutes of each other. The credit doesn't get applied before the debit.

On my card lets say a payment of £650 is due on the 14th of month.
Any refund to the card upto 14th gets classed as a receipt. So in the case of that £50 watch having been refunded on or before the 14th only the payment taken by direct debit would be £600 with the other £50 due deferred to the following months payment.

 

[Alex321]

On my card lets say a payment of £650 is due on the 14th of month.
Any refund to the card upto 14th gets classed as a receipt. So in the case of that £50 watch having been refunded on or before the 14th only the payment taken by direct debit woule be £600 with the other £50 due deferred to the following months payment.

Ah. If your card works that way, then it makes sense.

Pretty sure mine doesn't, though it isn't all that often I've had refunds. I'll have to check next time I get one.

 

[DRM]

Would that have been their jewellers, Elizabeth Dukes, bought by Boots?

Yes it was, but it did work, they had some examples on display, have a look, if you bought it they took the cash and a new boxed item came out of the stores out back

 

[Alberto Balsam]

I would assume there was an issue with the car if they won't let you test drive it.

Yeah, that's the conclusion I finally came to..

 

[gbb]

Maybe I’m more simple than you. I’d have bought it. Then kept or returned as appropriate. To get what I wanted - irrespective of their policy decisions…..

I think sometimes we get surprised by a process we weren't previously aware of.
I recall going to a Halfords tyre fitting bay for some new tyres.
I also wanted a TPMS sensor fitted (which id already got)...and his instant reply was...oh sorry we don't or can't do that !

I hadn't expected that and in that instant, it irked me. So I cancelled the fitting and drove off mildly irritated.

And within 10 minutes I realised, well that's their process, it's me that's wrong.

So I drove back and apologised (I wasn't rude, just perhaps a bit irritated) and asked if he would reinstate the order...which he was happy to do.

Sometimes we just get surprised by something and need a few minutes to digest it...
I got the sensor fitted later ...

 

[gbb]

Not Argos, but a few weeks ago my missus was interested in buying a Toyota Aygo from Motorparks in Preston. The salesman wouldn't let us test drive it until we'd committed to buying it. He said if we wanted a test drive we could go to the Toyota dealership, test drive one of theirs then come back and buy this one...!! Yeah right. Needless to say we went elsewhere. I've never heard the like of that before.

Funnily enough, this might be more widespread than you'd first think...I watches a YouTube short where a car dealer was complaining about the amount of people who book a test drive...and he said you just know they're not buying it and will buy one uo the road.

 

[Psamathe]

I would assume there was an issue with the car if they won't let you test drive it.

Dealers have been known to try to sell cars with known issues (even when they include a warranty). A year ago I went to a dealer to buy a car they had and they brought it round to the front leaving the engine running. So 1st thing I did was turn the engine off and on again except the "on" didn't work. Completely dead.

Walked away.

Ian

 

[Drago]

Dealers have been known to try to sell cars with known issues (even when they include a warranty). A year ago I went to a dealer to buy a car they had and they brought it round to the front leaving the engine running. So 1st thing I did was turn the engine off and on again except the "on" didn't work. Completely dead.

Walked away.

Ian

It's a known wheeze for even big dealer chains to send used cars out with faults on the hope the warranty company will pick up the bill further down the line.

Ever seen the ads reassuring buyers their used cars all undergo an eleventy-seven point check prior to sale? Not one of those ads state that any faults picked up during the check would be rectified before going put the door...

 

[Electric_Andy]

It's a known wheeze for even big dealer chains to send used cars out with faults on the hope the warranty company will pick up the bill further down the line.

Ever seen the ads reassuring buyers their used cars all undergo an eleventy-seven point check prior to sale? Not one of those ads state that any faults picked up during the check would be rectified before going put the door...

Dealers have been known to try to sell cars with known issues (even when they include a warranty). A year ago I went to a dealer to buy a car they had and they brought it round to the front leaving the engine running. So 1st thing I did was turn the engine off and on again except the "on" didn't work. Completely dead.

Walked away.

Ian

That's what happened to me when buying my first car. They said it was out of fuel and gave me £5 cash to fill it up (that was half a tank back then). Filled it up 10 miles down the road and when I got home it had an obvious leak in the fuel tank. Luckily my cousin is a mechanic so he repaired it for free. Of course the dealership "had no idea" there was a leak

 

[stephec]

That's what happened to me when buying my first car. They said it was out of fuel and gave me £5 cash to fill it up (that was half a tank back then). Filled it up 10 miles down the road and when I got home it had an obvious leak in the fuel tank. Luckily my cousin is a mechanic so he repaired it for free. Of course the dealership "had no idea" there was a leak

Did they have any idea how that brick went through their window one Saturday night? 😂

 

[Alberto Balsam]

Funnily enough, this might be more widespread than you'd first think...I watches a YouTube short where a car dealer was complaining about the amount of people who book a test drive...and he said you just know they're not buying it and will buy one uo the road.

I can't imagine why you'd bother to test drive a car that you weren't seriously considering buying. UNLESS you were buying new and were comparing various models with each other. In our case this was the car, the actual car, she wanted. It ticked all the boxes. She just wanted a drive to tick the last 'like' box. We ended up at Motorpoint who were happy to let us look at, and test whatever we wanted. And no hassle from the salesman there either. If you wanted him for owt; he was around. If you didn't he wasn't.

 

[DRM]

And no hassle from the salesman there either. If you wanted him for owt; he was around. If you didn't he wasn't.

It’s quite astounding how many places selling things can’t grasp this simple concept