Those electronic-magnetic tags...
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swee'pea99
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I levered one off using a big screwdriver - just plain broke it, using brute force. I believe they vary in design tho', so don't take that on trust - I'd hate it if it wrecked the coat somehow.
Mr Phoebus
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Maz said:
Spice it up a bit.
Pretend you're a shoplifter, now use your toilet as a faux changing room
and see how quickly you can remove it from the garment without causing damage to it.
the same happened to me a few months back. It is so tedious particularly in my case as I didn't buy it locally. I phoned store as I knew I wouldn't be able to take it back within 30 days. They were fine but couldn't resolve the issue there and then ie. I had a pair of jeans I wanted to wear that night! I think you risk tearing the coat if you try to get it off, so depends on cost/hassle factors wherether it is worth that risk.
Girl I worked with bought a coat and they took the tag off but for some reason when she got back to the office it was in the bottom of the bag.
We waited for the office knob (the one with the stupid hairdo, sunbed tan and huge knotted tie who thought he was a premiership footballer) to go to the toilet and I put the tag in the top pocket of his suit. (the one you never use unless you have a hankie in it)
For weeks he complained everytime he left certain shops he was setting the alarms off and getting pulled up by the security guards. Eventually thought it must be to do with his new mobile.
We waited for the office knob (the one with the stupid hairdo, sunbed tan and huge knotted tie who thought he was a premiership footballer) to go to the toilet and I put the tag in the top pocket of his suit. (the one you never use unless you have a hankie in it)
For weeks he complained everytime he left certain shops he was setting the alarms off and getting pulled up by the security guards. Eventually thought it must be to do with his new mobile.
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Maz
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I like it!Greedo said:For weeks he complained everytime he left certain shops he was setting the alarms off and getting pulled up by the security guards. Eventually thought it must be to do with his new mobile.
Must admit I do get paranoid when the alarm goes off when I leave the shop. Best thing is to just leg it!!
Maizie
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I got out of a shop in Cambridge once with the tags still on the clothes; the alarm didn't go off then. But it did go off when I went to my local branch of the same store to ask them to take the tags off for me. I had a receipt which helped a bit!User3143 said:
There was an HMV where I used to live, they turned off the alarms at the doors because they went off too often!! They didn't have the security to follow miscreants out of the shop, so they just switched off the alarms...which was OK until your legitimate purchase made the alarms go off in a completely different shop. Mind you, after a while they'd just say 'Have you been to HMV then?' as you walked in and set everything blaring...
Bodhbh
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Yeah I had one left on a cotton T-shirt I got from Millets. It was only 5 quid or so, so I cba faffing about taking it back. Instead I took it into the yard, pulled out a big stone from the rock garden and bashed it off...turquoise dye all over the shop, and large number of holes sheared in the T-shirt. Guessing they must be designed to punch holes in whatever they're tagging as well as the dye.longers said:
Over The Hill
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I managed to get one off the kids coat as it was only just hanging on to the fur on the collar. But it was full of dye.
I would not let your kids take it back to the shop as often shop staff are gits to kids and will assume they nicked it (or got a receipt and took another one the same). I still remember being hauled out the back of wollies when I was suspected of nicking something (I had not) 40 years ago.
I would not let your kids take it back to the shop as often shop staff are gits to kids and will assume they nicked it (or got a receipt and took another one the same). I still remember being hauled out the back of wollies when I was suspected of nicking something (I had not) 40 years ago.
swee'pea99
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Reminds me of a story in y'day's Guardian about the return of Marie Antoinette's clock and various other 'priceless' timepieces that had been stolen in Israel 25 years ago by a legendary thief, who learned that the museum's alarm system had broken down, and the security guard only ever hung around at the front of the building. So he went round the back, jemmied a window, nipped in and walked off with 'over $30m' worth of gear.Maizie said:
