My DW Embarrasses Me

[Anonymous]

OP, your DW is dishonest and not too sharp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you were embarrassed by her behavior. But why did you feel you needed to point out to her that Macy's was right? It seems like you're not on her side in any way.

I had to end a pointless and embarrassing argument with the manager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DW's behavior embarrasses me. Yesterday is one example. She wanted to return a gift she received to Macy's. She had the gift receipt. After returning the item she notices the same item for sale at twice the price she was refunded on the gift card. She returns to the cashier and starts to argue she is entitled to the current sale price. I pointed out she is getting what was paid for the gift. On the way home, she rips into me for not supporting her. I am sorry dear, but you were wrong and I was not about to get in a public argument with the Macy's manager when you had no leg to stand on.

OP you suck. You should've backed her up or shut up. Please get a divorce already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Macy's is at fault for lack of straightforward pricing.

You are a pretty naive. Most vendors have a typical retail price. Then they have sale prices. The discount for buying that product BEFORE Christmas is bigger than the discount for buying it after Christmas. The gift was probably purchased when they had some huge pre-Christmas sale and the price was lower then. Regardless of the current price, there is no way to get more money from the vender than what the item was purchased for. And trying to do so is dishonest and immoral. OP's wife clearly has something missing in her mental "right" vs "wrong"

[Anonymous]

Are you the same OP as the "DW is boring" thread? Stage way you use "dear" seems familiar.

[Anonymous]

wait....are you sure she was refunded the right amount? did the gift receipt have the amount on it? it would be very odd for an item to be on sale before xmas and full price after. was it that she thought the had ripped her off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you suck. You should've backed her up or shut up. Please get a divorce already.

It is amazing to me how many immoral cheaters there are out there. Yes, OP needs a divorce, but mostly to protect him from his wife whose cheating and lawbreaking may eventually destroy the family. OP needs to get himself and his children away from this person before she steps over the line into something that is more than just minor lawbreaking into something that is criminal. She clearly believes that she is above the law and morality. That type of hubris grows with time and it's only a matter of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you were embarrassed by her behavior. But why did you feel you needed to point out to her that Macy's was right? It seems like you're not on her side in any way.

I had to end a pointless and embarrassing argument with the manager.

Why? Why not just walk away, go back to the car, stroll through the racks. You take her behavior as a reflection on you personally. She's not an extension of you, or your property. She's a separate person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wait....are you sure she was refunded the right amount? did the gift receipt have the amount on it? it would be very odd for an item to be on sale before xmas and full price after. was it that she thought the had ripped her off?

Macy's was running huge sales, and printing 20% off coupons in the paper. The grifter probably used one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that you were embarrassed by her behavior. But why did you feel you needed to point out to her that Macy's was right? It seems like you're not on her side in any way.

I had to end a pointless and embarrassing argument with the manager.

Why? Why not just walk away, go back to the car, stroll through the racks. You take her behavior as a reflection on you personally. She's not an extension of you, or your property. She's a separate person.

That's probably what his wife would say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you the same OP as the "DW is boring" thread? Stage way you use "dear" seems familiar.

+1

[Anonymous]

Macys gift receipt entitles you to the lowest price in last 60 days.

NOT the price the grifter paid(we asked). So it is definitely possible you were ripped off by Macys and your wife could even be in the right.

We suspect a lot of stores do this. As a gift, you have no idea what the price paid really was and the stores could just refund lowest price and who would know? People wouldn't ask gift giver so it's a prefect con by retailers.

I want everyone to buy gifts with cash and give full receipt in sealed envelope. Then if you return you get true value back in cash.

I know. Pipe dream. We should all just give cash according to economists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Macys gift receipt entitles you to the lowest price in last 60 days.

NOT the price the grifter paid(we asked). So it is definitely possible you were ripped off by Macys and your wife could even be in the right.

We suspect a lot of stores do this. As a gift, you have no idea what the price paid really was and the stores could just refund lowest price and who would know? People wouldn't ask gift giver so it's a prefect con by retailers.

I want everyone to buy gifts with cash and give full receipt in sealed envelope. Then if you return you get true value back in cash.

I know. Pipe dream. We should all just give cash according to economists.

Ps. I don't mean I want people to give me gifts this way, I want to change social conventions so retailers can screw consumers.

I don't get any gifts, I'm a grown DH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Macys gift receipt entitles you to the lowest price in last 60 days.

NOT the price the grifter paid(we asked). So it is definitely possible you were ripped off by Macys and your wife could even be in the right.

We suspect a lot of stores do this. As a gift, you have no idea what the price paid really was and the stores could just refund lowest price and who would know? People wouldn't ask gift giver so it's a prefect con by retailers.

I want everyone to buy gifts with cash and give full receipt in sealed envelope. Then if you return you get true value back in cash.

I know. Pipe dream. We should all just give cash according to economists.

Agreed.

I think OP is kind of a tool. His wife wasn't unreasonable. She returned an item and then saw that they refunded her significantly less than what the item was being sold for, so she thought maybe she was cheated. OP didn't have to be involved. It's not his place to arbitrate disagreements his wife has with people. In fact, he sounds controlling.

I would be irritated if my husband got involved in that scenario. It didn't involve OP.

OP sounds superficial and controlling. Does it really matter to him what a manager at Macy's thinks of him because his wife had a difference of opinion on their return policy?

When I saw the title of the thread, I thought it was going to be about a wife getting drunk in public or flirting with other men or being abusive. Not that OP was embarrassed because she disputed a return policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Macys gift receipt entitles you to the lowest price in last 60 days.

NOT the price the grifter paid(we asked). So it is definitely possible you were ripped off by Macys and your wife could even be in the right.

We suspect a lot of stores do this. As a gift, you have no idea what the price paid really was and the stores could just refund lowest price and who would know? People wouldn't ask gift giver so it's a prefect con by retailers.

I want everyone to buy gifts with cash and give full receipt in sealed envelope. Then if you return you get true value back in cash.

I know. Pipe dream. We should all just give cash according to economists.

Thanks for posting this. I discovered this the hard way years ago when my mom had given me a sweater with gift receipt and I went to return it because it wasn't my style and got the lowest sale (incl hypothetical coupons that could have been used) price in 60 days. That was NOT what my mom had paid -- and she sent me her original receipt to prove it. But I only knew that because my mom had made some comment about something else being the same price and I told her what macys had actually refunded me. We were both pretty annoyed -- and even more do because it's a pretty obnoxious way to rip off customers trying to do something nice when giving a gift. I don't do gift receipts at all anymore. Screw that.