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retail scams (was Re: FOTW at KMART)
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:11:13 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:52:24 GMT, "G. Benedikt Rochow"
> <rochogb@eng.auburn.removethis.edu> wrote:
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> > I finally got the manager (of "even if the coupon says 'one per
> > person', you can't do one coupon per person"-fame), who stated
> > that $2.12 was indeed the price. Why not on the menu? "Oh, we'll
> > correct that."
> > That was over three months and several complaints ago, no change.
> > (I.e., they unashamedly utterly refuse to honor their menu
> > prices - pay what the register says or leave.)
One option would be to refuse. If you have the endurance, just stay
there arguing loudly so that everyone who comes through finds out about
it. Eventually, they'll call the police and then they'll really be in trouble.
> You know what I'd do? I'd go by there on a regular basis, order LARGE
> quantities of food, bags full of special-order hamburgers, etc. Then,
> when I caught them in the act of overcharging - make a nice little
> scene and refuse to pay. That would be fun.
Unless they lowered the price, and you 'had' to pay it. But that would
be fun.
> > I'm wondering where this should be brought up. McD HQ?
How about your state's attorney general or your local district attorney?
> Definitely. I'm certain they'd want to know that a franchisee is
> carrying on like this. Not the McD is a pillar of justice and good,
> but I'm sure they'd prefer that their owners scam people in much more
> subtle, out of the public eye ways.
Probably. Especially if you told them you were also reporting it to law
enforcement agencies.
--Chris
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| (...) You know what I'd do? I'd go by there on a regular basis, order LARGE quantities of food, bags full of special-order hamburgers, etc. Then, when I caught them in the act of overcharging - make a nice little scene and refuse to pay. That would (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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