Did I get ripped off? What should I do?

[RickJay]

@lissener

The additional difficulty is that this woman is a customer in my store. Also, most of her customers are probably also *my *customers. A feud would probably cost me.

Going in and saying “Excuse me, but I believe you have made a mistake, at least with regards to the four skeins that were priced at $8.75” is hardly causing a feud. Someone being your customer doesn’t give them license to rip you off.

This sort of “I’ll neglect to adjust the invoice” stuff goes on all the time, unfortunately, and you are perfectly justified in calling them on it… politely.

[lissener]

@RickJay

Going in and saying “Excuse me, but I believe you have made a mistake, at least with regards to the four skeins that were priced at $8.75” is hardly causing a feud. Someone being your customer doesn’t give them license to rip you off.

This sort of “I’ll neglect to adjust the invoice” stuff goes on all the time, unfortunately, and you are perfectly justified in calling them on it… politely.

Good points.

[Jeff]

@ivylass

I’m a little confused. How were YOU ripped off? This was your sister’s birthday present to you, you found the yarn you wanted, how much you wanted, and she paid for it. Or are you saying your sister ripped you off?

Bear with me…I’ve not much had coffee this morning.

I’m still WTF’ing at the idea of being prepared to pay $87.50 for raw materials for a sweater, let alone $149.50.

[Ferret_Herder]

@Jeff

I’m still WTF’ing at the idea of being prepared to pay $87.50 for raw materials for a sweater, let alone $149.50.

That’s the price of good yarn.

[ivylass]

I’m making knitted floor rugs. I’m on my third one, and the yarn (with shipping) costs about $32 for four skeins. I have at least four more I want to make.

Knitting…it’s an addiction, especially with pretty soft yarn.

[Eureka]

@Ferret_Herder

That’s the price of good yarn.

And one could easily argue that that isn’t the price of really good yarn–really good yarn can easily cost more than that.

Trust me, Jeff, expensive yarn is an end in itself, whether it one day turns into a sweater (or socks) or not.

Cheap sock yarn is $4.99 a skein and takes two skeins to knit two socks. One can easily go well over $20 for a skein–which should allow one to actually knit two socks, but still. . .

[ivylass]

Which makes people ask “Why would you knit when you can buy it in a store for much cheaper?” They’ll never understand…

[BoBettie]

@ivylass

Which makes people ask “Why would you knit when you can buy it in a store for much cheaper?” They’ll never understand…

It’s like asking “Why would you make a beautiful cherry dresser by hand and spend all of that money and time when you could buy a dresser for $50 at Wal-Mart?” If you have to ask, just continue to buy mass produced stuff and be happy. Save your money

As to the OP, it could have been an automatically generated invoice or who knows what- your sister should just call the shop and ask about it. I don’t think it was an intentional rip off.

[Eureka]

@ivylass

Which makes people ask “Why would you knit when you can buy it in a store for much cheaper?” They’ll never understand…

Because the best part of knitting socks is the feeling of accomplishment. Not making people say “eek! is there a spider on your sock?”

ETA: I give up. I was going to link to a picture on flickr, but I’m apparently doing something wrong.

[Eureka]

@Eureka

Because the best part of knitting socks is the feeling of accomplishment. Not making people say “eek! is there a spider on your sock?”
sock, view one view two

ETA: I give up. I was going to link to a picture on flickr, but I’m apparently doing something wrong.

trying again

ETA: apparently, I quoted my last post rather than editing it . . . this is not my day.