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Anyone ever done this??
Bought a piece of clothing, worn it and took it back?
I read a whole article ina newspaper about it a couple of weeks ago.
Only thing I've ever done it was with an expensive dredss from Oasis
. Planned it so I cut the label out, with the tags attached and sewed it back in.
My friend did it with a top she wanted for a halloween costume. Just wondered how commen it is?
Bought a piece of clothing, worn it and took it back?
I read a whole article ina newspaper about it a couple of weeks ago.
Only thing I've ever done it was with an expensive dredss from Oasis
. Planned it so I cut the label out, with the tags attached and sewed it back in.My friend did it with a top she wanted for a halloween costume. Just wondered how commen it is?
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I returned a bra once that i wore for a couple of hours and it was soooo uncomfortable. I took it back
I dont get it, why would you wanna do that
Personally I've never done it.
Tsk
Douchebags own damn fault for not having a return policy, really.
But aye, having worked in a few shops before, there's a trick to removing and putting back on labels. Get a needle (something slightly thicker than a pin) and SLIGHTLY widen the hole where the kimble tag goes through the label. Turn the 'T' bit of the tag on its side and push it through the widened hole. When you want to put the label back on, turn the 'T' on its side again and push it back through. The hole will still be small enough for the tag/label to stay on.
THE MORE YOU KNOW!
When i got to the shop they said the souls were too damaged to take them back, so the shop girl just got out a pair of plyers and ripped off the zip and gave me a refund claiming they were damaged.
Mental..........
if its really cheap i sometimes dont even bother to take it back, waste of petrol/time etc..
So it's kind of annoying when people wear and return clothes especially when it's expensive stuff.
I usually only take stuff back that I've bought, and then felt guilty for buying - I bought a pair of Uggs recently, but took them back the next day (unworn) because I couldn't handle the guilt of spending £170 on sheepskin slippers lol.
When I worked in M&S the number of refunds we gave to skanky people who did this was beyond belief.
Thats gross :yuck:.
To be fair though its more likely to be expensive stuff people do it too...
I'd be happy to hire nice clothes for a night out, then return them washed or something, would save me a lot of money.
PS When you rent, you do have to pay!!
I also like people who are like "I've had it 6 months, it shouldn't be doing this" i.e. a button falling off a coat. I mean if you look after things, in general they last and fair enough if you've had it a fortnight and it's ripped or all the buttons have fallen off, but there is no year long guarantee with clothes. Debs are really good about returns and let some through the net they shouldn't, but I personally won't budge when I know someones out of order so they have to request management to tell them the same thing.
I don't think it is ok to wear something once and bring it back. If you shop around you can always find something nice and cheaper if you look hard enough.
sorry but if you had worn them, how could they be clean?
do you not sweat? did you not go near anyone who smoked? etc...
if you cant afford to get it, then get something you can afford to buy, or wear something you already have
its really not fair on the person who buys it next imo
Yeah, I'm a bit like that, I work at Asda but on the customer service desk so I have to do George clothing refunds sometimes. Its annoying sometimes though having to get the manager though to say the exact same thing. people just take the piss dont they. do you get people who bring stuff back STINKING of smoke? you know you can just tell its been hung up or shoved in a bag in a room with someone who just sits and smokes all day. it makes me feel sick, i've not worked out what to say yet to refuse the refund. haha.
the wearing things then returning them iv never done. i sort of thought about it with this skirt i got for halloween one year but then my friend spilt beer on it :thumb:
Haha always a risk...
personally, i would never do it. if you've seen something you like, save up, or look for similiar things. alternatively, you could half it with a friend who is the same size as you, provided you both like it, and you're reasonably close.
besides, if you'd had an experience like the one with the £100 top, wouldn't you be totally raging?
Nor can most people, but the majority of people who've replied to this thread think it's wrong.
the thing is though, sense of smell vaires
you can never quite smell your own "smell" like other people can
i have a VERY sensitive nose, i work in a shop and a kid had dropped a wrapped watermelon chewy under a grate in work, no1 else could smell it, but i could smell it for weeks, and no1 actually believed me until the grate was lifed up and there it was....
therefore your sense of it "not smelling" and some1 elses can be v.different
if you wore it, it'll smell, its as simple as that
it'll have picked up the smell of your house, your smell, places you've been...
and even if it doesnt smell, that doesnt make it clean
if people wanted to buy summat someone had already worn, they'd go a charity shop
i'm no having a go...just saying that saying it "didnt smell" doesnt really justify anything
I really really dislike the thought of buying something that someone else has worn before (especially if it's expensive!), so I guess that would put me off potentially doing that to someone else.
once i was working at a shop that sold really crappy merchandise, like the type you would buy to use once. There was this really cheap wallet that kept breaking on this woman and she kept coming back to get a knew one and she just wouldnt take a refund :mad: