unbelievable returns

[Rapscallion]

Interesting idea, but we'd need a list of confirmed spineless managers to attempt this on, and some sort of protection for the animal. I'm more concerned about the animal's welfare.

Can you think of something safer than a puppy?

Rapscallion

[Rocko]

A while back, I kept having problems with these two tarps that weren't in the system. They had been returned, and the packaging did not look like the tarps I sell in my department, so I kept sending them over to the garden department, thinking it was something that they sold. I kept getting them back. Finally, after picking them up from the returns desk for the thousandth time, I brought them back to my counter and actually looked at them.

What was written on the packaging in small letters you ask? "As distributed by Home Depot". I work at Wal Mart

[Tria]

If I broke a desk by getting jiggy on it, and found out it was covered under warranty/returnable.......I would BRAG!

(I'm a bad person).

Hell, I'd sell videos....

[CrazedClerk]

I won't go into any details but please imagine, if you will, the returns we used to get at the "adult toy store" I used to work at, and we got them, even though the 12 signs we had around the store said "ALL SALES FINAL."

SC...I need to return this.

Me...Sorry Sir no returns.

SC...but it's not big enough!

Nuff said.

I still wretch when I think of it.

That is both disturbing and amusing at the same time.

[Tria]

I won't go into any details but please imagine, if you will, the returns we used to get at the "adult toy store" I used to work at, and we got them, even though the 12 signs we had around the store said "ALL SALES FINAL."

SC...I need to return this.

Me...Sorry Sir no returns.

SC...but it's not big enough!

Nuff said.

I still wretch when I think of it.

Hehe, just call him or her "Gappy".

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

1. Woman calls in demanding replacement for her year and a half old water cooler. Proceeds to call back every hour to check our stock.

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, what makes people think we get deliveries of items every hour? We get two or three trucks a week and that's it. Except, of course, for those items that are delivered by vendors.

Now, my example:

Years ago, the DC used to have lots of problems with stores not processing returns properly and sending back stuff they shouldn't have. They sent out a memo with some of the most common offenses committed by the stores in our district.

The most memorable one was the case of the jeans that were returned to a store because they had been "urinated on".

Mistake #1: They accepted the return (they are not supposed to accept anything that has bodily waste on it, for obvious reasons).
Mistake #2: They slapped a defective sticker on the jeans, stating they had been urinated on, and then sent them to the backroom, where they were packed up and sent back to the DC. Instead, they were supposed to destroy the jeans at the store.

Still, I can't help but think: Who the hell returns clothing because it got peed on? Toss it in the wash and it should be just fine.

[AFpheonix]

Interesting idea, but we'd need a list of confirmed spineless managers to attempt this on, and some sort of protection for the animal. I'm more concerned about the animal's welfare.

Can you think of something safer than a puppy?

Rapscallion

A drawing of a few stick figures on notebook paper, tastefully framed?

[Rapscallion]

That would be hilarious, except that we'd end up looking like the sort of SC we complain about. Would be interesting to see the footage from the security cameras.

Rapscallion

[ToasterQueen]

Even better. That one painting they always break out on TV with the crying clown on it.

Double points if it's painted on velvet.

[Gurndigarn]

Can you think of something safer than a puppy?

Check garage sales for the most biziarre, "why did someone design this?" thing you can find. Bop-it <shudder> would be great if you can dig one up.

Don't worry about a receipt. Why bother? The SCs don't bring them in.

[mrsjfreak]

When I first began at GNC, we had a guy come in with Muscle Milk (2 BIG containers) in a WalMart bag. Doesn't have a receipt, and he's told that we can't do it without management's permission, since it's not exclusively a GNC product. It's sold at many other stores. He orders ME to do the return, I decline. He opens up the container and yells "I HAVEN'T EVEN OPENED IT!" Anyone who knows anything about Muscle Milk containers, there's a seal on the outside of the container. He starts getting all huffy and screaming "Call the manager" at us. Considering the time of night, we couldn't call the manager, so this guy starts threatening us, saying that if we don't do the return he's going to stay in the store and drive out our business. I managed to sneak out and get mall security (neither of us dared to call from the phone in the store). When I come back, security was in the store, but the guy had left, saying he'd be back. In the meantime, we had no choice but to call the manager to figure out what the heck to do, and he told us not to do the return, and he'd take care of it. The guy came back, and we told him what the manager had said, and then he got all pissy and left. Turns out he called the manager the next day, and the manager pretty much told him to screw off

[ISellCars]

Can you think of something safer than a puppy?

SC...I need to return this.

Me...Sorry Sir no returns.

SC...but it's not big enough!

I think we found our something safer!

[Gurndigarn]

Check garage sales for the most biziarre, "why did someone design this?" thing you can find. Bop-it <shudder> would be great if you can dig one up.

Oh, and don't forget that you're going to need multiple items, because you'll actually make some returns.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My idea was to use something really old and out of date, but something the store also concievably could've sold.

Like, for example, a portable 8-track player, a bagphone, or an Intellivision.

[Gurndigarn]

My idea was to use something really old and out of date, but something the store also concievably could've sold.

Like, for example, a portable 8-track player, a bagphone, or an Intellivision.

Yeah, but some of those, the managers will process the returns just to get the cool retro item for themselves. That's why I suggested Bop-It. Ain't nobody going to want one of those.

(Of course, it will be just my luck that, as much as I ignore fashions, that's the latest craze these days.)