Hi guys need a vote,

Ordered a digital 17" monitor to replace my failing 15" one from a mail order company, package arrives with delivery note today stating 1x17" digital monitor £115 + vat, ok so far but open up and inside is a full PC (minus monitor) spec as follow

Pentuim 111 1 GH

20 G Hard drive

8 mb Graphics card

128 mb memory

Dvd player

floppy

keyboard

speakers

software bundle

win 98 (pre loaded)

 

This a brand new machine for £115+ vat my question...do I ring and tell them they have made a mistake or keep quiet?????? or ring a friend???? or am I been plain stupid even asking????

 

Jeff TT

 

 

Really take the piss, ring them & tell the the monitor you ordered hasn't arrived

 

On a serious note: If the delivery note states that they sent you a monitor, they can't realy prove that they sent you anything else.

 

Who did you order it from? (I need a new monitor )

You have admitted it on here so I think you have to return it!

 

'Hi guys need a vote,

 

Ordered a digital 17" monitor to replace my failing 15" one from a mail order company, package arrives with delivery note today stating 1x17" digital monitor £115 + vat, ok so far but open up and inside is a full PC (minus monitor) spec as follow

 

Pentuim 111 1 GH

20 G Hard drive

8 mb Graphics card

128 mb memory

Dvd player

floppy

keyboard

speakers

software bundle

win 98 (pre loaded)

 

This a brand new machine for £115+ vat my question...do I ring and tell them they have made a mistake or keep quiet?????? or ring a friend???? or am I been plain stupid even asking????

 

 

Jeff TT'

 

I would have kept very quiet

 

Tim

 

 

[This message has been edited by TT Tim (edited 21-03-2002).]

When i ordered my pc from a high street retailer i ordered a celeron 400 or similar. when the order arrived i received a PIII 450 and extra hard disk space and other advantages. i thought yipee and didn't bother to tell them.

 

A couple of weeks passed and i received a letter from the company asking for the return of the computer and if i did not comply they would bill me for the extra.

 

I ignored them and have never heard from them since

 

Bollocks to them is what i say, just turn it on load some porn and then its second hand

 

All IMHO of course.

assuming i ordered a pair of headlamp bulbs from you, and you sent me a pair of bacofoil upgraded headlights by mistake, and marked as bulbs on the delivery note, what would you want me to do about it ?

I withdrew 2.5K from the bank 18 months ago and the cashier gave me 5K!!!

 

I bout shat my self, in the end though I gave it back.

 

Yeah you have to give it back now, unless you get google to remove this thread from all of it's caches and craig deletes the thread. Should have kept quiet. Then rang them in two days and said where's me monitor.

 

Good adrenaline buz though isn't it.

I got sent about 2grands worth of stuff by mistake once basically they cocked up because I phoned up and said they hadn't delivered my power leads so they 5 days later i got a huge parcel, when opened it was a duplicate order from before minus pwoer leds (grrr)

 

good news was 2 days later 2 packages of power leads turned up :O)

 

I didn't tell them because it was there fault, you are ok unless they realise their mistake and ask for it back, btw they can only ask for it back within the first 28 days or so :O)

 

Mike

To show im not that dishonest hears another story,

 

Got my MG fixed at a garage and labour came to £560 so i paid in cash, me and the garage owner counted out the cash 3 times and we swore it came to £560

 

I got home and realised i still had £700 out of the £1000 I had drawn out, I umed and ared for 2minutes until my consciene got the better of me and I drove back down the following morning and game him the extra money, he hadn't even noticed :O)

 

Mike

I'd call up and ask for another of the same !

 

Seriously though, being a fundamentally honest person I would tell them and expect them to collect it.

 

Years ago I was buying a bike or something and was getting some cash out of the building society. I needed something like £520 and they started counting out the £20's. Cos there was loads I asked if I could have £50's instead. She said OK, but it would just take a minute while she got them out the safe. So off she went, came back and counted me out 11 £50's. I went away and everyone was happy - except the BS who had to straighten their books that evening ! (I guess this was a while ago [15 yrs] and I wasn't so honest then!! )

there's two camps of thought here....in the tooley/ginger/latz and other genral all round lovable rogues camp the pc would be up and running on the desk now with a cup of coffee in ure hand and a rye smile on your face because just for once you'd had a lucky break......in the other camp there's those who themselves have been had over and know how it feels so would be on the phone clearing their conscience as we speak.....take your pick but if you choose the first delete this thread alltogether as your admission of guilt is written for all to see also keep your delivery notes for the next 28 days and if you hear nothing the goods are legaly yours

Ask them if you can keep it in return for some handy bacofoil work

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

 

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Last year I exchanged 10,000 Drachams about £5.00 and the girl at Natwest said, "How would you like it sir??" (no rude jokes pls!)

 

I replied "Errr £50's would be good."

 

She started counting to nearlly 2,500pds and I felt sorry for her as it was her first day and she seriously got the exchange rate wrong!

 

Jeff mate, I'd have kept it and kept quiet. You know have reached a moral dilemma by telling us!

Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Jeff TT

Jeff,

 

Your best bet is to ask the missus what you should do and then you can only blame her for your actions.

 

And don't forget to lie to us over what you did!!! Even if you keep it just say you didnt and stick to that story!!

 

Ta Ra!

Flip a coin and let fate decide, you may not like the answer but then who are you to argue with fate.....

 

Mark

 

ps I consider myself to be honest and decent, and i would have kept stum

I assume the person who ordered the PC will complain when they get your monitor. :-) At that point the company will probably ask for it back.

 

What I'd do is ring them up and tell them what happened before they contact you. Who knows, they may even reward you for your honesty. (Unlikely I know )

Stay stum Jeff, Sounds to me like the bargain of the century. Nice specs... Hey can you ring them and ask them if they have any more...

 

P.S. Any joy with the UK Speedo....

The only time I remember people being rewarded for their honesty is when you find a lost pet!

 

Keep it and Craig delete this thread for Jeff TT, so his consiounce can forget too!