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Would you be embarrassed if...

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  • #62
    JavaBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭JavaBear


    On a unrelated note, I hate the way AIB machines don't have a defualt selection of 50 or 60. And I hate the way they're always out of 20s.


  • #63
    Trojan911
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Trojan911


    Dudess wrote: »
    Or if the alarm sounded when you left a shop because the security tags on your purchases hadn't been desensitised?

    This would annoy me more than make me embarrassed.
    Dudess wrote: »
    In the case of the first two, is it because people might think they're attempting to carry out fraud/theft?

    I know of a case where this recently happened to a shopper who paid for her purchases and left a large retail chain store. She went up the street & entered another shop & the tag activated their alarm & their security searched her bag at the door.

    She sucessfully sued the initial store for negligence & causing her embarrassment for leaving on the tag. I know this because her solicitors called me as a witness. She got a handy sum of money, it was settled out of court.


  • #64
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    ... your laser/credit card was rejected (for whatever reason) at the till?

    No. In work, when on tills, it happens ALL the time and the person always look like it's the worst thing that ever happened to them. The salesperson does not care, why are people so concerned that they do? The queue doesn't know what's going on either.
    Exactly. Fukking morons really. And they kinda look at you as you're trying to "pull a fast one" with their card or something - you know, keep some money for yourself. Because yeah, the whole shop is part of a big anti-customer conspiracy :rolleyes:
    One of the myriad of reasons why I got out of retail a long time ago - fast.
    Far worse though are the feckers who've bent their cards/forgot the pin (the arrogant ones, 'Don't know my pin, so you've to swipe it' so the cards have to be swiped/typed manually which the banks hate and force us to get manager authorisation.
    Whatever about damaging your card, simply not bothering to remember the PIN is appalling.


  • #65
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Not embarrassed no...


  • #66
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I had made a large deposit and then went to get some shopping and the laser card wouldn't work so I just threw the credit card on the table and said "Right, try that one" and laughed, so did the checkout person. :)
    I often have issues with the security tags from the Mach 3 razor blades, more often than I would like.


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  • #67
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    Whatever about damaging your card, simply not bothering to remember the PIN is appalling.

    Not only that, but with Chip & Pin the banks have shifted all liability for losses to the merchant account holder. So you can override the requirement for the PIN but in the event of a dispute over the transaction the retailer is left to take the loass.


  • #68
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I was in lidl a while ago and was told they only take laser card. I had my c/c out so it could have looked like it was being refused, wouldn't bother me, but not being able to buy stuff after spending all the time going there and shopping would well piss me off. Luckily I had a secret €50 stashed that I had nearly forgotten about.


  • #69
    Susannahmia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Susannahmia


    Dudess wrote: »
    ... your laser/credit card was rejected (for whatever reason) at the till?


    Slightly if I had no other money and had already availed of a service.
    Dudess wrote: »
    ... Or if the alarm sounded when you left a shop because the security tags on your purchases hadn't been desensitised?

    No happens to me all the time.
    Dudess wrote: »
    ... Or if you were attempting to take money out of an ATM machine and a message came up advising you that you had insufficient funds??

    Why would that be embarrassing? No one can see.
    Dudess wrote: »
    ... Or if you were getting a few groceries and you discovered you didn't have enough cash so you had to put stuff back?

    Nope


  • #70
    BubbleWrap85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭BubbleWrap85


    I'd have to say no, I wouldn't be embarrassed, as all of those things have happened to me! The insufficient funds one used to happen quite a lot last year when I was at college. Beingn at the till and not having enough money has happened a few times as well, perhaps just a few cent off though so I've been lucky enough to get off with it. As for the alarm going off because I'd tags still left on, there's a particular Sasha shop that I think really doesn't like me as the last 3 occasions that I was in there, I walked out the door with tags still on thus setting off the alarm! Another time I walked through 3 different shops setting off the tag each time, then it got embarrassing. Arrived in Virgin Megastore and just sighed and stopped to pull what I'd bought outta my bag! A lady that worked there came over and I found the top that still had the tag. We laughed. Then I growled as the shop was way down the other side of the shopping centre. Twas funny that I'd managed to get into 3 different shops though without turning beetroot! Wow, long post! Sorry!


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