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7 foot tall Kentia Palm plants........

  • 16-11-2011 10:39PM
    #1
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭


    .......for 26 euro in Ikea today.

    Someone in Ikea made a boo boo on the pricing today,and that led me to pick up 6 of these lovely indoor monsters for 26 euro each.:D

    Should have been 50 euro each,but I pointed out to the shopfloor manager the bit about "consumer rights" and selling at the price marked down.

    They are all around the 7 feet tall mark,so Im well happy with them,


    Result so.:D


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  • #2
    jprboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭jprboy


    Well done, Paddy.

    You were wrong re your rights, though, and lucky that the manager didn't know his consumer law ;)

    This:

    If a retailer makes a mistake the buyer does not have the right to demand that the goods be sold to them at the marked price.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer_affairs/consumer_protection/consumer_rights/consumers_and_the_law_in_ireland.html


  • #3
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    jprboy wrote: »
    Well done, Paddy.

    You were wrong re your rights, though, and lucky that the manager didn't know his consumer law ;)

    This:

    If a retailer makes a mistake the buyer does not have the right to demand that the goods be sold to them at the marked price.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer_affairs/consumer_protection/consumer_rights/consumers_and_the_law_in_ireland.html


    ......."her" consumer law.


    Manager was a she.

    Must have been a lucky day for me so.:D

    They are very tall and wide palms,and my girlfriend loves them


  • #4
    jprboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭jprboy


    paddy147 wrote: »
    ......."her" consumer law.

    Manager was a she.

    That explains it................. :P

    /gets coat


  • #5
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    jprboy wrote: »
    That explains it................. :P

    /gets coat

    I got the whole "Ikea values its customers" talk from her too.:D


  • #6
    jprboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭jprboy


    paddy147 wrote: »
    I got the whole "Ikea values its customers" talk from her too.:D

    In fairness, though, retailers probably often feel it's better to take the hit than have a disgruntled customer whose going to go off and post on Boards about not getting their consumer rights !!


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  • #7
    Ophiopogon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Ophiopogon


    Jaysus Paddy how big is your house...12 foot Christmas trees, six 7 foot Palms. Do you even have any furniture :D


  • #8
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,824 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Ophiopogon wrote: »
    Jaysus Paddy how big is your house...12 foot Christmas trees, six 7 foot Palms. Do you even have any furniture :D

    Pic of a few of the Kentia Palms.

    2 well known garden centres are selling these for 70 euro at the moment,so me thinks that 26 euro each in Ikea was and is a hell of a good bargain/price.:)

    Just got to figure out where to put them all now.


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