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  • 26-02-2006 03:22PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭


    i found a voucher for 400 euro last night just on the floor

    it's for brownthomas and it was in a box the black card was still inside

    iknow i'm such a cheapskate if i found it in a club or something i would have handed it in

    does anyone know if i can use it or is it linked to the person who paid for it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    If it's got a serial number there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to return it to its rightful owner if they paid by credit card (pretty likely for a 400 quid voucher).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Have a good time shopping


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Aporia


    Have a good time shopping
    they'd know though like murphaph said since it has a serial number thingy wouldn't they


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,457 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Bring it back to BT's and tell them you found it. Imagine how you would feel if you lost a €400 voucher...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    try and get it back to the person. I would go mad if i lost a E400 voucher. It could have been a present for someone! Even worse.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    You can cancel those cards as soon as you realise you've lost them, so it could already be cancelled, in which case you'll get a spanking from BT's if you try to spend it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Aporia wrote:
    they'd know though like murphaph said since it has a serial number thingy wouldn't they
    Vouchers are usualy given to people as gifts. The staff at BT would have no way to prove if it was yours originaly. Well, unless the the voucher got cancelled. Then you're in trouble :D
    gandalf wrote:
    Imagine how you would feel if you lost a €400 voucher...
    Imagine how you would feel if you found a voucher worth €400.
    I know what I would do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Taffy89


    ^^yes whoever lost will most likely go back to BTS and report so that if anyone does come in with a 400e voucher it will be taken off..

    There will be a serial number on it..It happened me before I lost A River Island voucher..i cant remember how but they got the serial no. or something like that and said they'd call if anyone did try and use it..
    Come to think of it they never did call,...........?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,457 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Rabies wrote:
    Imagine how you would feel if you found a voucher worth €400.
    I know what I would do.

    Yeah I can imagine, I suspect some of the twats from yesterday will use that as an excuse for looting as well....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Pretty sure theres a diff between looting and finding a voucher


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Aporia


    i might aswell hand it back like

    but could it have already been used and i'd be just wasting my time handing back a used card

    im from cork btw


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Spend it.
    Brown thomas relaesed figures that showed that 80% of all gift vouchers purchased for them are never actually spent, so chances are, the recipient would never have actuall spent it anyway. Enjoy it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    Spend it.
    Brown thomas relaesed figures that showed that 80% of all gift vouchers purchased for them are never actually spent, so chances are, the recipient would never have actuall spent it anyway. Enjoy it

    lol,that is the worst justification I've ever heard!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭scuba steve


    I heard some competition on the radio yday for 400voucher for BT, cant remember what the competition was tho


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Aporia


    i'd rather spend money knowing i earned it though i don't like the idea of it being someone elses and i'd be upset if someone spent my 400 euro

    it is tempting though...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    Spend it.
    Brown thomas relaesed figures that showed that 80% of all gift vouchers purchased for them are never actually spent, so chances are, the recipient would never have actuall spent it anyway. Enjoy it
    Have you not been reading the thread? It's quite possible he'll get done if he tries to spend it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Aporia


    im a she haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    spend it. if the question its validity, play dumb. say you got it as a gift and have no idea why it has been cancelled. then get angry and storm out of the shop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    imo, anyone that who has enough spare cash to go out and buy a 400 euro voucher won't miss it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭daiixi


    imo, anyone that who has enough spare cash to go out and buy a 400 euro voucher won't miss it

    I wouldn't say that - it could have been a Christmas bonus or present from a boss or the like. I've not got a spare penny but we got our (much needed) bonus last year in the form of a gift voucher. If I'd lost mine I'd be devastated!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭Aporia


    okay now my aunt was saying that it could be from bt ie. credit points because she got the exact same thing in a box for 50 euro because she had 50 points


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    imo, anyone that who has enough spare cash to go out and buy a 400 euro voucher won't miss it
    My parents gave me a €500 voucher for BT for my 21st birthday- are you assuming that we wouldn't have missed it? Childish.

    I spent the last bit I had on it this year on a coffee machine. Just because there was 400 on it doesn't mean they would blow it all on shoes on one trip.

    Also, if they were loaded, I doubt they'd buy themselves a voucher. If they were used to spending that much money in BT's regularly, they'd have a Store Card, or just use their credit card.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Spend it.
    Brown thomas relaesed figures that showed that 80% of all gift vouchers purchased for them are never actually spent, so chances are, the recipient would never have actuall spent it anyway. Enjoy it

    yes but i doubt those 80% have vouchers to the tone of €400.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Brother To God


    I got to say I feel so sorry for the poor person who lost the voucher!
    what if an old dying granny got her grand daughter it as a gift?
    If your unsure flip a coin to decide!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Stick it in the Buy & Sell for €300 :v:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Some criminal gang could have been using BT to launder money using the gift vouchers, spend it and feel proud that you have broken an illegal operation, you are a good citizen ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭MarinoMark


    TimAy wrote:
    lol,that is the worst justification I've ever heard!

    Sounds ok to me...May I recommend the "Beautifully Tailored" Gucci Gentlemans shirts on the 2nd floor, or failing that, "To Die For" Cowboy Boots in the footwear section...Only do up to size 11 though ! Strut your stuff down Grafton St...:D :D ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭Dizzyblabla


    how can you tell it's for €400? I thought they were on kinda swipe cards now like Roches Stores and A-Wear have? They don't have the value written on the card...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    give it back. its the decent thing to do.

    ''with great power....."

    wait that quote doesnt apply.

    ah well. still, give it back


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭MarinoMark


    how can you tell it's for €400? I thought they were on kinda swipe cards now like Roches Stores and A-Wear have? They don't have the value written on the card...
    Well obviously its written on it or how would he know.....:confused::confused:


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