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Re: layby cancelations
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 03:24:38 GMT
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Actually, I must apologise, Michael is correct for Kmart which charges a
$1.10 service fee and (if I'm reading their layby T&C correctly) an
additional $2.20 establishment fee if you cancel (or possibly it means you
get back the original $1.10 service fee so you'd lose $2.20 rather than
$3.30). So it would be cheaper to collect and return a layby from Kmart
rather than cancel. The only possible downside is that in my experience
Kmart tends to want to give you a credit voucher rather than a refund (this
is based on returning faulty merchandise purchased outright, not laybys).
Deidre
In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Michael Dickinson writes:
> > It is often cheaper to pick up a layby than to cancel it as most places have
> > a cancelation fee.
>
> Not for most places. The cancellation fee is usually the service fee that
> you pay at the time you place the item(s) on layby. You pay it either way,
> there's no difference b/t picking up the layby and cancelling it. If you
> pick up the item and then return it you have the extra hassle of the return,
> for no gain (and that's assuming that you can return it). It would make
> sense to pick up the layby rather than cancel if you lost the deposit rather
> than the service fee, but I'm not aware of anywhere that keeps the deposit
> these days (that's not to say they don't necessarily exist, but they'd be
> rare mainly due to consumer protection laws which put limitations on what a
> store can keep and under what circumstances).
>
> Also does anybody know which toy company is selling pirate
> > ships cheap soon( toyworld or toy kingdom)?
>
> Make an educated guess and then ask for private clarification from the
> original source! This might seem strange, but it's possible that we won't
> get this sort of advance info in the future if the retail/distribution
> sources feel compromised. If this wasn't an issue then the chain would
> probably have been openly stated in the first place.
>
> Deidre
> drb@tasmail.com
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| (...) Not for most places. The cancellation fee is usually the service fee that you pay at the time you place the item(s) on layby. You pay it either way, there's no difference b/t picking up the layby and cancelling it. If you pick up the item and (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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