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you are walking past a shop window, and you see an item on display (oh, say, a 5 litre water container) there is a price label on the item, this is what is clearly printed on it:

845
£3.50

how much does this item cost?

would you walk into said shop, and ask "is that water container 45p"? And when the shopkeeper (obviously) says "no" (looks at price tag) "it's three pounds fifty". What do you do? Possibly say "oh, it doesn't matter then" and leave.

To-daY,
I h8 people.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds like people are asking for it.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what does the 845 stand for?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That is the radio frequency on which the government (and probably Tombot) are listening in to figure out if you are using the water bottle for terrorist purposes or not!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

come now, that isn't fair. I don't want to needlessly provoke him again today.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a character that didn't come out right in this post? Or is "8" the symbol for pence? I don't get it. (Silly British...) ;-)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

hahargh

if I type "845" into the stock control program, it brings up the following line:

"114603 5LITRE CONY.2.01 3.50"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

basically the guy was just trying it on. I get it all the time, people think that if they erroneously quote the stock number as the price, I am legally obliged to sell them some item at a 400% loss. Fuckers.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe he has a sight problem?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"First pour a few gallons of concentrated hydrofluoric acid into your uranium oxide, converting it to uranium tetrafluoride. (Safety note: Concentrated hydrofluoric acid is so corrosive that it will eat its way through glass, so store it only in plastic. Used 1-gallon plastic milk containers will do.) Now you have to convert your uranium tetrafluoride to uranium hexafluoride, the gaseous form of uranium, which is convenient for separating out the isotope U-235 from U-238."

― TOMBOT, Friday, 4 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You should have refused to let him leave the shop until he paid up the full eight pounds and forty five pence.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You keep away from me, you government agent, you! I know how to make a geigercounter with a radio, a glass tube and one of HSA's electrical machines! You cannot touch me with your waterbottling ways!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway Pash you have my empathy, working in retail sucks.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't it just. I'm fucking sick of it right now.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You should have said:
"Actually, it's 845 pence, or £8.45. However TODAY ONLY it's on sale for £3.50. A bargain!"

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

probably i should have just beat him up and taken all his money.

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here, I ph34r I've posted a similar thread in the past when someone else tried to pull this one.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"There's no price tag! That means it's free, right?"

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have actually had some fukcwit try that one on seriously.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Just the once, like, but it was quite memorable.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

you should have sold it to him for £845.00 and then punched him in the face, norm

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"There's no price tag! That means it's free, right?

You have no idea how often people say this and expect you to laugh laugh laugh. I hate everyone

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"£3.50 or 845 press-ups. You choose."

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

I amn a dealer for a very expensive german folding bicycle. The new price of the machine, w/all the extras on it would be abt 2150 quid, I'm looking for oiro 1400 quid. the machine is being sold w/a full warranty. Every one of the phonecalls I've had so far have been from very well spoken people, for some reason, and they have all made me ridiculous lowball offers - one of them offered me 700 quid for it, because - get this - "I just want the rear hub" (the machine has a rohloff 14-sp gear hub which retails at about 700 quid. Fucking cheapskate bastards "hello can I have something for nothing, or a reasonable facsimilie thereof, please" FUCK OFF.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, sorry, the machine is my demo model, which I'm attempting to sell off. Note to ILX0rz - do not start a bike shop.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

if only I had the money i would zap it to you for that bike as it is a great deal, unfortunately I don't. I have got 2000 pakistani rupees in my desk drawer, would you accept that?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I sold it for the asking price to someone who walked in the shop to buy a tyre (true! he came in for a 17 quid tyre, and walked out w/a 1400 quid bike!! WTF??) 20 mins after I posted the above. Sorry ed. I have a Challenge Recumbent demo m/c you can have at a good price if that's any consolation. (yeah I know, probably not)

I think what annoys me is the condescending way in which a lot of these people talk down to you when they're lowballing you, as if they're actually doing you a favour by offering you 1/2-2/3 of of your asking price (when yr asking price = 3/4 full rrp) some of them said they'd call back "in a month or two" grr fuckers.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

ok, i'm also the dealer for the market leading folding bike. I sold a used one yesterday to this guy, he kept bleating on about the price, trying to beat me down on it. The bike currently has a 7 week waiting list, b/c demand has skyrocketed b/c of the london tube/bus bombings & the fuel thing. Still he keeps on and on "can't you do it any cheaper", "can't you throw in some free extras" eventually I get annoyed enough that I can't hide it, and he realises he's overdoing it. He buys the bike. To-day, he phones up, he wants the model w/more gears, can he bring the used one back and pay the difference! Fine, I say. He phones again 10 mins later. How much cheaper can he get it if he pays cash? FOR FUCKS SAKE. This despite the fact that I repeatedly told him yesterday that I prefer debit card to cash!! Then he starts on, I looked on the internet and someone advertising them there is offering the bike with a bag thrown in free! THE DIFFERENCE IS, I ACTUALLY HAVE THE MACHINE IN STOCK!! LIKE HERE, IN FRONT OF ME!! I'M NOT SELLING THE PROMISE OF A MACHINE, I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE P|-|YSICALLY HERE, IN MY PRESCENCE!!!!1

I told him to bring the bike back and I'll give him a refund.

Fucking shitehawks.

The worst thing about someone like this is that they are NEVER HAPPY WITH WHAT THEY GET. I mean, he buys the best machine of its sort on the market, and I know exactly what he'll be thinking when he l,ooks at it.

I could have got this cheaper

Jesus christ, retail will be the end of my fucking sanity.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 24 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Aaah yes, those types. They will never be content because they had to spend money. No matter how good the deal is, they'll still feel like they've been cheated.

We don't really do refunds in our shop. I'm lucky I don't have a shop in England/Japan or the US where this is possible. I do swaps, but I don't do refunds.

We buy jewellery. God, the amount of asshats that come in thinking we'll buy the price they paid minus ten percent. *rolls eyes* I try to explain to them that the shop where they bought it probably did 2.5 mark-up so how can I pay ten percent less than the retail price... Doesn't matter. But I see it as a good opportunity to vent my anger. hahahaha

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

We sell satellite internet in the middle east (Iraq, mostly). They are the cheapyassest bastards ever. They buy the lowest end speed link they can (like 128 or 256k) then try and run half a dozen PCs on it, with no firewall, thus getting shitloads of viruses and worms and mail relay shit, and within twenty minutes they're on the phone bitching that its "too slow" and can we just upgrade it for a "free test" for a few days. Apparently we've been told to deal with their cultural attitude that they "complain first" about everything. Eff that. One big reason why I'm resigning.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

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