security tag left on top...lost the feckin receipt!

i_love_toast · 20-03-2009 2:41pm #1

right now to start this off i am NOT a thief!!

right so anyways ages ago i bought this top in a well known Dublin mens clothes shop only to discover that the bloody shop assistant left the feckin security tag on!!! This was ages ago and i couldn't find the receipt anywhere so i just forgot about it and now i wanna wear the top!

does anyone have any suggestions of how to get the security tag off (ie with a brick or sumthing haha!)without it destroying the top by unleasing a chemical die all over the place or ripping the top?AH anyone do this before succesfully?:pac:

Stercus Accidit · 20-03-2009 2:43pm

Go in and say;

ye left the bloody tag on.

Wheres your receipt?

Not everyone keeps receipts like they are winning lotto tickets, please remove the tag.

chin_grin · 20-03-2009 2:43pm

By bringing it back to the shop?

az2wp0sye65487 · 20-03-2009 2:45pm

Why not buy the exact same top again, hold onto the receipt, then go back the next day with the old one (the one with the security tag still on) and get a refund?

MagicMarker · 20-03-2009 2:48pm

Pair of pliers (sp?) and some patience.

Happened to me before, came off eventually.

Kiera · 20-03-2009 2:48pm

Wow tealeafs are using the net now eh? You think we're gonna tell you how to get rid of a security tag? How about we tell you how to break into a house and scramble the alarm?

If you're silly enough not to bring it back to the shop the next day when the assistant would have remembered you then you dont deserve any help getting it off!

Hazys · 20-03-2009 2:48pm

This happened to me last week. They never took the security tag of a pair of pants i bought (I hate pants and i especially despise pants shopping).

I was going from shop to shop not knowing the tag was setting off the beepers cos i had my headphones in.

Luckily i had the reciept and went in the next day and got it taken off.

I had a look on youtube to see how to take it off (i didnt research it too well tho) but it seems you need a specially crafted tool to do it and all the guys in the videos sounded like total scumbags.

az2wp0sye65487 · 20-03-2009 2:48pm

That is if this doesn't work, of course...

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Go in and say;

ye left the bloody tag on.

Wheres your receipt?

Not everyone keeps receipts like they are winning lotto tickets, please remove the tag.

andrewh5 · 20-03-2009 2:52pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

Pair of pliers (sp?) and some patience.

Happened to me before, came off eventually.

I agree. Slowly is the key.

connundrum · 20-03-2009 2:53pm

If it looks like a thief, and smells like a thief.. :P

Bring it back into them. If they wanna go into it then tell them to check the cameras and till receipts from the time you were in there.

Pighead · 20-03-2009 3:01pm

connundrum wrote: »

If it looks like a thief, and smells like a thief.. :P

That "wise old saying" is flawed. If something looks like something and smells like something it doesn't actually mean that they are in fact that something. Take Christina Aguliera. She looks like a whore, smells like a whore yet she's not a whore. In fact she's an internationally succesful popular music artist.

Anyway Pighead subscribes to the exact opposite of that saying: Never judge a book by it's cover.

Turd Ferguson · 20-03-2009 3:02pm

Have you tried turning the top off and back on? If that doesnt work I suggest shouting at it.

i_love_toast · 20-03-2009 3:02pm

connundrum wrote: »

If it looks like a thief, and smells like a thief.. :P

Bring it back into them. If they wanna go into it then tell them to check the cameras and till receipts from the time you were in there.

thats my problem i bought it in the sales AGEs ago cant even remember the day it was before xmas so there hardly gonna have camera evidence. i swear to god im no thief haha!i just need a way to get it off ah i might try the pliers and a clamp..see how i get on

admiralofthefleet · 20-03-2009 3:04pm

just go back and pay for it, or make a donation to charity to account for your guilt:pac:

Kiera · 20-03-2009 3:04pm

i_love_toast wrote: »

thats my problem i bought it in the sales AGEs ago cant even remember the day it was before xmas so there hardly gonna have camera evidence. i swear to god im no thief haha!i just need a way to get it off ah i might try the pliers and a clamp..see how i get on

Its prob out of fashion now anyway. Just bin it.

Tallon · 20-03-2009 3:09pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

Pair of pliers (sp?) and some patience.

Happened to me before, came off eventually.

My brother bought runners yesterday, same thing...
Rip that mother off

RATM · 20-03-2009 3:11pm

Ring 999 and tell them there is a bomb in yer pants. The Army Bomb Disposal Unit should arrive shortly afterwards and do a controlled explosion in your pants. Problem solved.

Seriously OP, they are only some sort of plastic with a magnet inside, yeah ? I'd imagine a hammer and a set of pliers should do the trick.

Relevant · 20-03-2009 3:16pm

Used happen in my old job. I had no problem taking it off for people as long as they didn't appear to be total cream crackers.

Ring the store first, ask for the manager and explain your situation.

That is unless you did rob it and are in fact a cream cracker

connundrum · 20-03-2009 3:21pm

Kiera wrote: »

Its prob out of fashion now anyway. Just bin it.

Oh the fickle nature of the modern woman.

Relevant wrote: »

Used happen in my old job. I had no problem taking it off for people as long as they didn't appear to be total cream crackers.

Ring the store first, ask for the manager and explain your situation.

That is unless you did rob it and are in fact a cream cracker

The manager will know that cream crackers can't use phones. Sounds like a plan!

Kiera · 20-03-2009 3:22pm

connundrum wrote: »

Oh the fickle nature of the modern woman.

Gone Drinking · 20-03-2009 3:23pm

Get a strong magnet, isn't that how they do it in the shops?

Could be totally wrong here

Relevant · 20-03-2009 3:26pm

Can the security tag be used as some form of accessory?

AnonoBoy · 20-03-2009 3:27pm

Gone Drinking wrote: »

Get a strong magnet, isn't that how they do it in the shops?

Could be totally wrong here

That's for the security yokes on CDs, DVDs etc. The clothes ones are different.

i_love_toast · 20-03-2009 3:29pm

Relevant wrote: »

Can the security tag be used as some form of accessory?

haha it was actually topman so they probably do wear the security tags as some sort of pseudo trendy earring or necklace...wouldnt surprise me!

BaconZombie · 20-03-2009 3:44pm

Get your hand a big ass Magnet and failing that try FIRE.....

Abi · 20-03-2009 3:45pm

Get a pen, draw an out-line of the security tag, then cut around it.

Cut random security tag shaped holes around the garment, and cooly tell enquirers that you are a trend setter.

:cool:

Tech3 · 20-03-2009 3:53pm

It happened to me before. I managed to cut it appart with excess force. Just watch out for ink die inside the fecking thing.

_blank_ · 20-03-2009 4:31pm

Go back to the shop.

be sure not to wear your pyjamas while doing so though

Dragan · 20-03-2009 4:39pm

Kiera wrote: »

Its prob out of fashion now anyway. Just bin it.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde

Kiera · 20-03-2009 4:47pm

Dragan wrote: »

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde

After Hours is a place for laughter and jokes. - Kiera.

Nehaxak · 20-03-2009 4:52pm

If it's an ink tag then read here...
http://blog.andrewwatters.com/tag/

Google is your friend though really...

security tag left on top...lost the feckin receipt!

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