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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 11:52:30 AM   
proudsub


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Status: offline 		I get my best deals when stores go out of business and we have had a lot of them around here the last few years: Lamonts, Gottchauks (sp?), K-Mart and a few weeks ago it was Mervyns.  Also at my outlet mall Casual Corner closed last Spring and I got a whole new wardrobe. If you wait until their last week things are often reduced 90%.

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 11:54:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oh yes Proud, we've got a Jo-Anne's moving locations soon and they are liquidating their inventory.  I'm keeping a close eye on it.

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 11:55:22 AM   
proudsub


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I was shopping at Marshall's a couple of years back and went to the register with a bunch of stuff, including a black suit that was $100. She was scanning and bagging everything and I noticed that she missed the suit. And I didn't say anything and ended up getting it for free.

LOL I felt like I won the lottery that day.


Am i the only one that sees this as stealing?  I've gone back in a grocery store and paid when i noticed i wasn't charged for something in the bottom of my cart that was overlooked.

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 12:39:41 PM   
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I was shopping at Marshall's a couple of years back and went to the register with a bunch of stuff, including a black suit that was $100. She was scanning and bagging everything and I noticed that she missed the suit. And I didn't say anything and ended up getting it for free.

LOL I felt like I won the lottery that day.



ProudSub:   Am i the only one that sees this as stealing?  I've gone back in a grocery store and paid when i noticed i wasn't charged for something in the bottom of my cart that was overlooked.


Interesting question.  Is it stealing?  Among the subjects I teach is professional ethics, and every once in a while this "sin of omission" comes up (you are "omitting" to tell the clerk at the store that she forgot to ring something.) 

For many, this is a classic example of situational ethics.  A person who wouldn't dream of shorting a friend who miscounts the change at the local family-owned grocery store (and thereby gets an extra $10) has no problem when an unknown clerk at Walmart forgets the $10 item at the bottom of the cart.  

On the otherhand, absolutists tend to not have many friends at the end of the day.

So, do you agree with Proudsub that it is stealing?

E.

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 1:28:32 PM   
Emperor1956


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Status: offline 		Bad Me, I hijacked without posting an awesome deal:

Outside of those "Antiques Roadshow" moments like julia notes (when what you thought was just an old funny picture of a dead cow skull turns out to be an early Georgia O'Keefe and you auction it at Sotheby's), I guess one of our personal bests was when my then 16 year old daughter needed a formal.  Nordstrom's Rack, a $600 designer dress that was obviously several seasons old, but still beautiful, for $40.  Even after $110 of alterations, a steal.  And it looked great on her.  And dad LOVED the deal.

E.

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 1:36:55 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Solinear

The best deal to me:

Getting in and out of the store quickly.



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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/29/2007 11:37:13 PM   
Sinergy


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ORIGINAL: proudsub

quote:

I was shopping at Marshall's a couple of years back and went to the register with a bunch of stuff, including a black suit that was $100. She was scanning and bagging everything and I noticed that she missed the suit. And I didn't say anything and ended up getting it for free.

LOL I felt like I won the lottery that day.


Am i the only one that sees this as stealing?  I've gone back in a grocery store and paid when i noticed i wasn't charged for something in the bottom of my cart that was overlooked.


I do the same thing, proudsub.  I have to look myself in the eye when I brush my teeth.

Sinergy

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/30/2007 3:23:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Had one not been aware of this at the time and only noticed once they got home they were not charged then I'd concider it an honest mistake. But watching the cashier ring up the things and see right there  some thing was not charged for. I would of spoken up. Witnessing it at the time and knowing its wrong I'd call stealing.

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/30/2007 5:45:04 AM   
petdave


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Status: offline 		Own an old Cadillac hearse. Had it parked at work, guy came in off the street one day said he had a limo from the same year in rough condition, wanted $1k for it. Rare car (1 of 937), but not desireable, and it was in rough shape. Too much money.
Two weeks later he came back. Neighbors had filed with the court to get the car removed from his property, was parked at a friend's house, and now HIS neighbors were pissed. New price: $200. Paid $0.037/pound for it, drove it for six months (after reconnecting a loose spark plug wire), took the engine, transmission (which i badly needed) all the air conditioning gear, and some random trim for my car, got $250 for miscellaneous stuff on eBay, and sent the rest to the yard. And i never had to go to the mall.

Now THAT'S my kind of shopping

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RE: Awesome Deal! - 1/30/2007 6:02:13 AM   
Aileen68


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Status: offline 		I use to work in an art gallery for years and was able to get artwork at cost along with the framing.  As a result, I have a lot of artwork that cost me maybe two to three hundred each that I can now turn around and sell for three to four thousand each.  My best buy was a limited edition print that I got for $150 that now sells for four thousand.
I'm also getting a flat screen tv that retails for about two thousand dollars for about one hundred dollars through my amex rewards points. 

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