Removing security tags?

matthew_o50 · 16 Aug 2007 at 01:21

I just returned from a holiday to Paris where I bought my mum a nice apron from Disneyland. When I got home I discovered that the sales assistant forgot to take the security tag off and it's one of those ink ones so I don't want to try and force it off. It's in a really bad place holding the apron closed so there's no option to leave it on and I'm not going back to Disneyland to get it removed!

Has anyone got any ideas how to remove these without them busting open? I tried the tag remover in work but it is the wrong shape so won't work.

Thanks

Matt

G-MAN2004 · 16 Aug 2007 at 01:23

http://blog.andrewwatters.com/tag/

matthew_o50 · 16 Aug 2007 at 01:27

I just came across that one when doing a Google search. Will that work for them all do you reckon?

Thanks

Matt

El Gringo · 16 Aug 2007 at 01:27

I´m liking the cretinous "if this had happened to me i would have sued the store" part.

Stretch · 16 Aug 2007 at 13:53

Go into a shop that uses the same tags and ask them nicely to remove it for you

"andy" · 16 Aug 2007 at 14:36

findindg a shop that uses the exact same style type and shape of taf may be difficult

finding one willing to remove yours will be even more difficult

hargi · 16 Aug 2007 at 14:58

we had the same trouble with one we got in florida,
ended up finding the disney number and phoned them put us through to customer service and they said send it to them and they would remove it, and they did

Muffin` · 16 Aug 2007 at 15:31

hargi said:
we had the same trouble with one we got in florida,
ended up finding the disney number and phoned them put us through to customer service and they said send it to them and they would remove it, and they did

Do you live in the States? Or was there a UK address?

hargi · 16 Aug 2007 at 15:36

it was a uk address, were in the uk.
the woman on the phone said that if the uk office could not take the tag off then they would post it to america and get it removed and they would pay for the p&p. but the uk office did it.

Murf · 16 Aug 2007 at 16:25

hargi said:
it was a uk address, were in the uk.
the woman on the phone said that if the uk office could not take the tag off then they would post it to america and get it removed and they would pay for the p&p. but the uk office did it.

That seems like a colossal waste of resources for a security tag.

Good service but I'd hate to see the aprons carbon footprint if it has to head back out to the states.

hargi · 16 Aug 2007 at 16:26

yeah TBH i think the uk one will be able to get it off.

matthew_o50 · 16 Aug 2007 at 16:40

Thanks for the info hopefully they will be able to sort it out for me. I've emailed them and will see what they say. I'm sure this type of thing must happen all the time.

I was in the Disney shop in Belfast today looking to see if they had similar tags but annoyingly they don't.