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03/25/2006 02:35:03 PM · #1 |
| Okay, you are at a store looking to buy a lens. You see a really nice one that you like, but you know it is out of your price range. However, you decide to ask the clerk how much it is and the clerk misreads the price and tells you the lens costs $120.00 instead of $1200. If you buy the lens are you stealing or did you just get one heck of a deal? |
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03/25/2006 02:36:49 PM · #2 |
The best question is: Are you smiling really big now? :-)
Message edited by author 2006-03-25 19:38:21.
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03/25/2006 02:37:11 PM · #3 |
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03/25/2006 02:40:47 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by toddhead:
Okay, you are at a store looking to buy a lens. You see a really nice one that you like, but you know it is out of your price range. However, you decide to ask the clerk how much it is and the clerk misreads the price and tells you the lens costs $120.00 instead of $1200. If you buy the lens are you stealing or did you just get one heck of a deal? |
Since most registers are computers now, I would be surprised if you really got it for the $120. Then - can you live with your conscience?
Message edited by author 2006-03-25 19:41:30.
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03/25/2006 02:43:00 PM · #5 |
| Boy it would be tempting wouldn't it, but I just couldn't do it. I'd likely have pointed it out before I could even weigh the good vs. the bad. |
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03/25/2006 02:49:59 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Since most registers are digital, I would be surprised if you really got it for the $120. Then - can you live with your conscience? |
Okay, it wasn't a lens, but I thought that it would be better to pose that type of question here. I was buying a present for a friend's son at a local baseball card store. I found a card that I thought he might like and asked how much it was. The clerk looked at the back of the card:
And said "It's $2.00, but I will give it to you for $1.00"
Was I wrong to buy it? I didn't know it was worth $200.00 until I got home. However, I did know it was worth more than $2.00, but not $200.00.
Should I take it back? |
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03/25/2006 02:52:49 PM · #7 |
Just because the clerk mis read the price doesn't mean it's gonna scan that price at the register. I tried that with some software once. The kid said it was one price, which I knew wasn't right, the register scanned the right price. I still bought it anyway. Try it and see. Maybe you'll get an early X-mas present. I doubt you'll get it for $120 though.
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03/25/2006 02:53:10 PM · #8 |
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03/25/2006 02:53:21 PM · #9 |
In this case I'll totally reverse my position. The value of things like baseball cards is totally subjective and I think it's buyer (and seller) beware.
I do see what you mean about the price listed though. It does look like $200 doesn't it?
That's an interesting one. I'm not going to claim the moral authority to tell you the answer. It could go either way. Having been involved in collectible card games (Magic: The Gathering) way back in its infancy, I'll tell you I've seen more crooked dealers than honest ones. They'd be willing to sell a $5 card to a kid for $10 at the drop of a hat. That probably shades how I feel about things a bit and is perhaps unfair.
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03/25/2006 02:55:51 PM · #10 |
Keep it. but beware of Karma!!
Side-Note, was the card graded or just in a sleeve?
If its graded you probably can get near book value on it on ebay, if not have it graded.
Message edited by author 2006-03-25 19:57:48. |
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03/25/2006 02:57:14 PM · #11 |
Is that the actual card? 'cause if it is and has "200" written on it in Sharpie, it's probably only worth a $1 now.
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03/25/2006 02:59:25 PM · #12 |
Just keep it!! Stuff like that has no market value anyway. It's only worth what one is willing to pay for it. You were willing to give $1. Now it's yours.
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03/25/2006 03:07:14 PM · #13 |
Just to make it feel better, sell it, buy a lens and get your friend's son something else .. LOL
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03/25/2006 03:16:31 PM · #14 |
Alex Smith wishes he was worth $200 dollars. :P
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03/25/2006 03:32:33 PM · #15 |
| Do the right thing and take it back. Character is doing the right thing even when you know you won't get caught doing wrong. |
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03/25/2006 03:41:03 PM · #16 |
Let your conscience be your guide.
I couldn't deal with the knowledge that I took advantage of someone, especially knowingly.
All things come back around in one way or another...
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03/25/2006 03:42:24 PM · #17 |
I don't think you were wrong to buy it, even if you did know it was more than $2.00. Like dsmeth said, the price of cards can be subjective. But the question of if you were wrong to buy it is different from if you would be wrong not to return it, and there I have to agree with eslaydog and BradP.
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03/25/2006 03:56:10 PM · #18 |
Say, you just lost your job, your wife has kicked you out and the car needs a new engine. You have ten dollars left in your wallet to buy your next meal or perhaps two. The clerk at a large grocery chain where you've just bought a loaf of bread, a tomato and some milk rings everything up, hands you a receipt but somehow forgets to take your money.
This is the same store that has charged you nearly twice as much as another one for the same items over the last twenty years.
Do you walk out or not?
For your sake, I hope you do, but if you don't and, instead, make the clerk aware of the mistake and pay in full, I won't think you a fool. I'd respect you for it.
It seems to me that when one has nothing left, dignity and self-respect shouldn't be squandered. |
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03/25/2006 04:05:15 PM · #19 |
| I plan on returning it, I just wanted to see what everyone thought. I wouldn't blame anyone for keeping it, but I just can't do it. |
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03/25/2006 04:06:09 PM · #20 |
if it was a little mom & pop store. I would take it back, if it were a big store I would keep it.
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03/25/2006 05:42:09 PM · #21 |
| It does look like 2.00, but I would take it back and try to clear things up. |
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03/25/2006 05:46:17 PM · #22 |
I'd hate to see the store clerk fired over making a mistake like that. I'd probably take it back. I think. LOL
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03/25/2006 06:37:31 PM · #23 |
IF you did not actually know the price yourself, and were not so informed, buying something out of impulse instead of comparing prices, and the world was on fire, then yes, I would buy it as well.
However, the part where the world is on fire, well, that is actually part of the deal.
There is always a trade off, and for you to take advantage of a situation when in your favor is not always the best way to get ahead in life.
What may be a good deal for you today, will be payed with interest back to you someday in the form of something you probly won't like.
Good deeds are always the best way, keeping your aura clear as well as your concious.
Message edited by author 2006-03-25 23:38:06.
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03/25/2006 06:52:16 PM · #24 |
Jralston. I don't know why you would care about a clerk getting fired over a mistake like that.
For starters, it wasn't the clerks mistake.
It was the mistake of the person who wrote the oversized 2 on there.
I doubt that was any clerk.
handwritten prices are always risky. If a boss makes a mistake like that and blames it on the clerk, he probably would have let him go for something else trivial. Not to worry.
On the other hand, the boss might not have even noticed. Guys who deal with goods with handwritten prices could hardly be said to have good record keeping. He probably hasn't noticed. But if you took it back and said this, he might notice and then fire the clerk...
I got a stereo system for my computer for around 6 dollars less than the price it was supposed to be because the computer came up with the wrong price (it had been marked down 3 times). I merely told them at the register, and they did a quick check... They left it as is and I walked away happy.
They probably wouldn't have done that if it had been marked down to an accidental 90% off though. |
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03/25/2006 06:58:29 PM · #25 |
Hmmmmm. There was a big debate about this on here earlier.
I usually seem to have the opposite problem, buying something that is marked low, but scans higher. I don't know how it is in other states, but in Michigan, they have to give it to you for the lower price. I don't know how that relates to prices stated orally.
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