Am I an A$$hole for saving $20.00?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I had a $35.00 gift certificate to the Honey Baked Ham store. I dropped by there today to get a sandwich and redeem my coupon. :slight_smile:

The lady at the counter said their least expensive ham in the store is $50.00. I said fine, and handed her my credit card for the difference. :smiley:

After she stamped my gift certificate, and charged my card for the difference, she casually says "…and if you’d like to come back on Monday (Today is Thursday), all of our hams are $29.00. :o

After looking at her with a blank stare, pen in hand to sign the credit card receipt, I said “I’m not buying this for any occasion, and I can’t see any reason not to save $20.00 by waiting a 3 or 4 days.” :eek:

She actually got mad at me! Was I wrong? :confused:

Why didn’t she tell me ahead of time? :smack:

E3

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No, you weren’t wrong. She shouldn’t have told you that in the first place if she didn’t expect you to cancel the sale.

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Nope - her fault, not yours.

Although at the thought of ham, I am compelled to add:

Ewwwww.

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was the gift certificate from work, by any chance?

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I see your point, but I also see hers; it is not her job to try to prevent sales today for a sale that isn’t active yet. You came in for a ham; she sold you one.

I’m sure she thought she was being polite and courteous by letting you know that, at a later date, the hams would be on sale. In case you’d like another one.

Of course you’re entitled to wait until the hams go on sale, but if I were her, having worked retail, I frankly would not have told you about the ham sale next week, to prevent just this sort of situation.

Reason being, if she told everyone who came in for a ham, “Oh, if you can just wait a few days, they’ll be on sale next week!” she’d probably get in trouble…and when I worked retail, we were not allowed to tell anyone when a future sale was happening, for just this reason.

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You have to cook it first, alice.

:smiley:

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$50 for a ham?!? Is it glazed with gold?

Or was that the “special” price for people redeeming gift certificates?

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Nope, not wrong. A good and caring employee would have told you in advance. Whenever an employee saves me money, he or she wins my repeat business.

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yum i’m hungry now that i’ve read this.

i go out of my way to save pennies much less $20.00. i would have done that same thing.

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Nah, she was asking for it. After all, who the heck would buy two hams in the same week? If she wanted to make the sale, she shouldn’t have told you.

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LadyLion loves honey baked ham but learned that the glaze doesn’t have honey at all. It’s just sugar melted on with a Burnz-O-matic torch. Hell I can do that.

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Whoa, I agree with [Audrey** 100%

I would have clammed up about the alessay.

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Ok so she stamped the gift certificate… does that mean you can’t use it now?

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Actually, it’s kind of funny. Since she already stamped the GC, I had to use it. Well, I had purchased a sandwich too. So she took the cost of the sandwich out of the GC, and gave me back cash. :slight_smile:

So, now, guess what my chances are of returning on Monday for that ham… it’s possible, but If I’m busy, it won’t be quite as important to me.

It was just a really big baked ham. Have you ever had one? (from the Honeybaked Ham Store, I mean) They’re really good.

Sort of. A Jewish friend of mine gets one every year from one of his customers, and he promptly gives it to me. Why do you ask?

E3

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After opening her big mouth she should have given you the ham for the sale price. That is the only reason I can see she would have mentioned it.