Help decide an argument

[Statalyzer]

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[Dude]

So let me get this straight, we have a girl who:

1. Buys $70 shirts
2. dates lawyers
3. feels entitled to $30 extra
4. argues with a lawyer on the damages issue

Could there be a larger red flag?

 

[DRAG69]

What about your time and gas to go back to the store and purchase the replacement ?

That should be at least worth the $30.

I say they owe you $70.

 

[HornsHornsHorns]

In giving you $40, you actually come out ahead (although only marginally). Let's say a new shirt can be worn 100 times. Your new shirt can be worn 100 times, but you have already worn it (or an identical one) once already. So for $40, you get to wear the same shirt 101 times that everyone else wears 100 times.

 

[seldon7]

I say they owe you at the very least $70 for the blouse. Your time costs money also, and the inconvenience factor must also be taken into consideration. If you take your clothing, that you worked hard for to buy, to a dry cleaner, you expect them to render a service with confidence they will return what is yours. If they lose what you worked hard for, and only pay you for the sale amount, what about the time it will take you to go back to the mall (especially in Austin traffic), find parking, go inside the store, look for the garment, make the purchase, then go back outside and go back home? If they only give you $40 for the blouse, it seems to me they want YOU to pay for their screw up. I for one would demand full payment of what I paid for, AT THE VERY LEAST.

 

[overmaars]

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[Ramathorn]

I'll acknowledge the time is money argument, but wasn't she gonna go back there anyway>?

 

[Bob in Houston]

Now wait a minute.

She spent $110 and has a blouse. But for the screwup of the cleaners, she would have spent $70 and had a blouse.

The fact that she got a bargain the second time doesn't change the fact that the cleaners lost the blouse. She should get the $70 -- especially when she wouldn't have gone back to get the blouse on sale, had it not been lost. She gets the benefit of the bargain that she found, not the cleaners.

 

[SubliminalHorn]

Why did you take it to the cleaners after one use? NO SEX AT ALL stain?

 

[HornsHornsHorns]

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