Asda just rang

Go into the store and settle the dispute.

Failing that, give the person on the end of that phone number all of your money, bank details, mother's maiden name, keys to your house and car, and your favourite colour of pants for being that stupid to fall for a scam.
 
Wossi said:
It's so you can't find out the normal number for ocuk and instead have to use the 0845 number.
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It's actually 0870 numbers, they costs upwards of 12p/min which is really annoying, expecially when your calling a company to make a purchase. Although I guess it's worse when you are trying to call a company to sort out problems.
 
did the payment ever show up on your bill? if no, then you should have paid them last month when you asked about it! :confused:
 
i take it most these do gooders if they found a £50 note on the street would hand it in to the police. yeh right. Not paying for a supermarkets mistake is not exactly crime of the century, i thought he had a good point about the supermarkets robbing us!

does your wife remember him having a ugandan accent? :D
 
RobH said:
It's actually 0870 numbers, they costs upwards of 12p/min which is really annoying, expecially when your calling a company to make a purchase. Although I guess it's worse when you are trying to call a company to sort out problems.
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I knew it was a premiuim rate number of some description. Can't stand 0870/0845 numbers.
 
22B said:
I paid them :( they always win :(
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Not always.

Not an Asda story but I shafted "The Man" once.

Many many years ago I bought a TV from Radio Rentals on HP. It was a huge, for the day, 28" CRT jobby with, wait for it, Dolby Surround :D Well a month or 2 later I got a thick letter from them containing a finance agreement form and a letter saying that they had lost my original documentation and would like me to fill the new form in, sign it along with the direct debit form, and send it back to them in the envelope supplied.

As I was filling it in a thought crossed my mind. If no contract had been entered into, cause they lost the original, could they chase me up for it? Basically I'm a normal honest person, meaning I am not an angel and getting something for nothing from a large corporation wouldn't bother me at all. I decided to destroy the new paperwork and forget it.

Several threatening letters arrived and they threatened to take me to court, but I was young and stubborn so i held on. In the end they had to drop it as there was no record of me having purchased a TV from them other than the TV I had that I had had for around 6 months at this point.

Moral of the story is i got lucky. It was a time before the internet as we know it and I was a kid probably in my late teens or early 20's. I like to think I wouldn't do this now but the chances of something like this happening in this day and age must be virtually non-existent.

"The Man" doesn't always win but just like a casino or bookies, they win plenty enough.
 
ShaolinDreams said:
i take it most these do gooders if they found a £50 note on the street would hand it in to the police. yeh right. Not paying for a supermarkets mistake is not exactly crime of the century, i thought he had a good point about the supermarkets robbing us!

does your wife remember him having a ugandan accent? :D
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How is finding a £50 note in the street the same as not paying for your shopping in any way? :confused:
 
When i was a kid (now 22) i found a 20 pound note scruffled up on the side of a table in a shopping center, my mum was with me at the time. I wanted to keep it so bad i mean £20 to a small kid is huge, but my mum forced me to hand it in and pass on my details to the shopping centre.

About 4 months passed and I recieved a letter from the shopping centre, stating no one claimed the money so they gave the money back to me.

Karma works. If i found £50 note on street id hand it in to police or give it to a charity.
 
If you leave without "Checking your change" first then they won't reimburse you if you notice a discrepancy once you've left the store. So just tell them they should have checked before you left the store and as they didn't it's tough luck.
 
Azagoth said:
If you leave without "Checking your change" first then they won't reimburse you if you notice a discrepancy once you've left the store. So just tell them they should have checked before you left the store and as they didn't it's tough luck.
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Yes that would have been a really sensible clever thing to do, ruin your credit rating why not. :rolleyes:

He's already paid anyway so it would be a bit hard for him to follow your awful and completely irrelevant 'advice'.
 
LordSplodge said:
It's got to be a scam. Once you swipe your card and it is verified by the bank (they return an authorisation code) then the funds will be taken out of the bank.

Also why the hell would Asda ring chasing £76?

Odd.
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generally I would think that the swipe authorises it, that doesn't mean the money has to be collected then and there, its like a pre-agreement that the bank will at some point actually give them the money so you can have your goods.

then at the end of the business day everything gets paid out, at which point something screwed up.

As for why would Asda chase £76, that might be a fair comment, if it was one thing. but more than likely the error, later on, probably effected all credit card transactions that day. Considering several places can take 2mil a week, one day could be 300k, maybe the majority on to credit cards. IT might seem petty to only go after £76 but once they add up to 300k, you've really got to chase up everyone. Hell, if one person deals with it and it takes 3 months to sort out they still stand to gain a lot of money so its worth it to them and doesn't seem quite as petty. Fairly sure if you ran the company you'd let off £76 maybe, but you wouldn't dare possibly even consider just letting the 300k go to waste, mostly because you'd be fired.


Its their money, they need authorisation to get the balance, it probably wasn't their fault. Maybe just be happy we aren't at the point with banks that they can automatically rip that money out themselves. I hate this direct debit culture where so much stuff requires you to basically give companies the right to take more than they should be allowed.
 
Actually my wife rang them to pay and just to make sure for certain that this isnt all a scam. It isnt a scam but when my wife asked them what the original problem was the lady on the other end of the phone said " this wasnt our fault, it was the banks who refused authorisation of the payment" now this got me thinking. I wasnt anywhere near overdrawn at the time and I also have a £500 overdraft so there is no way I didnt have the funds to pay! and if it was refused then why would they send me the shopping? surely if my card payment was refused then any sensible retailer would not hand over the goods:confused:

Oh and let me just clarify, I am a law abiding citizen with no criminal record, I havent even got any points on my licence and I have payed tax sinse the day I left school so I wouldnt exactly call myself a criminal. It just makes me angry everytime I go to the supermarket and I feel as though i've been raped at the checkout:D
 
you should have just paid it when you next went in. They wouldn't have taken any legal proceedings or used a debt collection agency for a long time yet.

It was ASDA, not a mafia loan shark. (where's my money B*TCH?)
 
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