Costco receipt checking

Macro · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:44

Still waiting to hear exactly what unlawful act was committed - seems to have gone quiet on that one despite the OP being online and answering every post other than the "inconvenient" ones.

Seeing as you can offer no evidence of anything unlawful having taken place I can only assume you are indeed an advocate of "guilty unless you can prove you're innocent" or, and frankly much more likely, an attention whore looking for someone to sympathise with your fantasies of persecution.

Either way once the snow clears I suspect there's an overdue delivery with a large quantity of fail with your name on it on the way. :rolleyes:

orderoftheflame · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:45

gambitt said:
They shouldn't have agreed to take MY money then. I used MY card with MY pin number, therefore they are legally MY goods.

Perhaps you shouldn't have allowed them to take your money if you weren't happy with it. :rolleyes:

gambitt · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:47

orderoftheflame said:
Or you shouldn't have allowed them to take your money if you weren't happy with it.

I was happy with it :rolleyes:

hudson86 · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:50

Have you tried Amnesty International ?

Your lucky you didn't get caught, as your not the member you may well have been classed as a "non member shoplifter" & forever sent to shop at Camp Lidell without any chance of a fair trial.

Lol @ human rights.

gambitt · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:50

Athanor said:
Still waiting to hear exactly what unlawful act was committed - seems to have gone quiet on that one despite the OP being online and answering every post other than the "inconvenient" ones.

I answered this 3 posts up. I don't know yet. But it would come under the same legislatation as any other unlawful detention. I cannot refuse you permission to leave if you have entered my home unless I had some damn good reason. And I can't just say "It's my house policy, you agreed to it when you entered".

Athanor said:
Seeing as you can offer no evidence of anything unlawful having taken place I can only assume you are indeed an advocate of "guilty unless you can prove you're innocent"

Guilty until proven innocent is exactly what I am not happy with. Being searched by a member of the public without reasonable suspicion of any wrong doing. :rolleyes:

hudson86 · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:52

Guilty until proven innocent is exactly what I am not happy with. Being searched by a member of the public without reasonable suspicion of any wrong doing.

Again as asked before why didn't you refuse and insist the Police were called, or did you clearly realise what a fool you'd make of yourself , a bit like now ?

gambitt · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:56

neil473 said:
Again as asked before why didn't you refuse and insist the Police were called, or did you clearly realise what a fool you'd make of yourself , a bit like now ?

If I was on my own I may have. But my friends would not have taken so kindly to it.

JBuk · 27 Dec 2010 at 19:59

Guilty until proven innocent is exactly what I am not happy with. Being searched by a member of the public without reasonable suspicion of any wrong doing.

in a normal shop I would find that unreasonable no matter what the good intentions are, but as the goods in the trolley should have technically belonged to his friend who is the member then they thought they were in their rights to check as he had agreed to their terms.

@op Learn from it and move on

johnny6 · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:00

gambitt said:
If I was on my own I may have. But my friends would not have taken so kindly to it.

So you'd happily wait the length of time necessary for the police to turn up just so you didn't have to wait 30 seconds while someone checked your receipt.

Are you also the sort of person who spends thousands of pounds on a brand new car just to save 20-30 quid a year on road tax?

Infam0us · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:04

Is it too late to include this in the top threads of 2010 yet?

gambitt · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:06

johnny6 said:
So you'd happily wait the length of time necessary for the police to turn up just so you didn't have to wait 30 seconds while someone checked your receipt.

Actually no, I wouldn't have waited for the police. I would've left happily in the knowledge that I had committed no crime. It wasn't 30 seconds anyway, more like 5 minutes after the checking, re-checking, walking back into the store and checking again...

johnny6 said:
Are you also the sort of person who spends thousands of pounds on a brand new car just to save 20-30 quid a year on road tax?

My car is 9 years old and the road tax is around £220 a year if that helps. It's also white with a black and red interior.

quickshot89 · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:06

gambitt said:
Being searched by a member of the public without reasonable suspicion of any wrong doing.

Wrong, you were in a private paid membership shop and by walking into their land with your friend you obay their law (T&C) the person at the door is not a member of the public but an employee working for a private company

you really dont understand how membership T&C's work do you

(sorry for feeding the troll)

JBuk · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:08

quickshot89 said:
Wrong, you were in a private paid membership shop and by walking into their land with your friend you obay their law (T&C) the person at the door is not a member of the public but an employee working for a private company

you really dont understand how membership T&C's work do you

(sorry for feeding the troll)

Sorry but that is rubbish, a companys policy or rules cannot overide the actual law

gambitt · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:09

quickshot89 said:
Wrong, you were in a private paid membership shop and by walking into their land with your friend you obay their law (T&C) the person at the door is not a member of the public but an employee working for a private company

you really dont understand how membership T&C's work do you

(sorry for feeding the troll)

Since when does a T&C take presidence over UK law?! Have you ever heard of the expression "your statutory rights are not affected"?

quickshot89 · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:11

JBuk said:
Sorry but that is rubbish, a companys policy or rules cannot overide the actual law

by signing a contract that states they must check your items before leaving the building, yes, it can

Kenai · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:11

I've only skim read but has anyone actually quoted any part of a law that says shop staff can or can't stop you and check your purchases?

There are a lot of mentions of overriding UK law but no one seems to actually know what the relevant law says which surely makes the whole argument an utter waste of time so far?

gambitt · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:14

quickshot89 said:
by signing a contract that states they must check your items before leaving the building, yes, it can

Absolute rubbish. Have you ever heard of the Unfair Contract Terms Act?

NathP · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:14

I'm a member of both Makro and Costco and they both have checked my receipts when leaving but in the last year or so Makro have stopped doing this to me lol.

I hardly ever shop at Costco cause the range of food items is no where as good as Makro!

johnny6 · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:16

gambitt said:
Actually no, I wouldn't have waited for the police. I would've left happily in the knowledge that I had committed no crime. It wasn't 30 seconds anyway, more like 5 minutes after the checking, re-checking, walking back into the store and checking again...

So maybe you should be requesting compensation from your friend. After all they are the member, they should know the T&C of said membership including the trolley check at the door. They agreed to let you leave with their goods but did not provide you with the necessary documentation to do so.

So a normal check from experience is 20-30 seconds but lets say you where inconvenienced for a futher 5 minutes. Take your friend to the cleaners for distress and time wasted.

quickshot89 · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:17

taken from http://www.costco.co.uk/Membership_home/Terms_conds/terms_condition.htm

Miscellaneous

1.

Parents are responsible for their children, they must be kept with them at all times.
2.

Costco can refuse entry to anyone at any time at its sole discretion.
3.

Smoking is not permitted at Costco warehouses.
4.

Members will be required to purchase any packages opened or damaged by them or their guests.
5.

Costco reserves the right to search member's belongings and purchases.
6.

All transactions, including returns, can only be made by a cardholder.

notice 5 and 6 please

point 5) nuff said, if you dont understand this, well, please dont bother replying

point 6) while you may have paid for the items, it still went onto your friends card and the reciept shos his membership number. Costco do not care whos payment card it is, as long as the items are 'bought' by a registered card holder.

the whole idea of a gust is to make the gust buy membership, much like anything else that is membership, such as a gym