Home Depot won't let woman pay for appliances.

[Zalatix]

If I were her, since Home Depot did give a discount for her honesty, I'd donate the remaining money to charity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/trish-jarvis-home-depot_n_1477896.html?ref=canada-business&ir=Canada%20Business

rish Jarvis Begs Home Depot To Let Her Pay For $2,500 Worth Of Appliances (VIDEO)
Posted: 05/04/2012 1:38 pm Updated: 05/05/2012 4:05 am

We've all experienced the moral dilemma that accompanies a finished Coke not making its way onto your bill. Do you consider it a drink on the house? Or say something to the waiter?

Well one California woman would likely do the latter, and then some.

Trish Jarvis received more than $2,500-worth of appliances she ordered from Home Depot, without ever paying the bill, CBS Sacramento reports (h/t Consumerist). Jarvis called the home improvement giant repeatedly asking to pay, but the company wouldn't let her because, thanks to a computer glitch, officials thought she already paid.

Not that Home Depot exactly needed the extra cash. The home-goods seller saw profits jump last quarter, thanks in part to warmer winter weather. Overall, the company earned $774 million over that most recently reported three month period.

Jarvis ultimately did get a bill, but only after CBS Sacramento contacted the company while reporting their story on the mixup. Home Depot gave Jarvis a discount for her honesty.

[Ohio Dem]

1. The title of your post is misleading.

I thought you meant that they would only except payment from her husband, or another man.

That being said, good for her for being honest. This country could use more people like her, and at higher levels of income.

[Raine]

2. That's what I thought too, the story was way different than I expected. nt

[MrSlayer]

3. Call me a bad person but that is insanity.

I might inquire about it if it didn't show up on my bill but if I get the bill and it says paid, that's a win. You spend your whole life getting fucked by the system, when you get a chance to let them fuck themselves in your favor, do it. I would.
At least in the situation I'm in now. If I had throwaway money I might try to pay for it at least once. But I would take "no" for an answer if they insisted.

[Zalatix]

5. The problem is if they realize their mistake later and come after you

then things can get a little hairy.

[TedBronson]

8. It's still stealing...

... no matter how you rationalize it. Doesn't matter if you have "throwaway" money or not.

Does it matter what the price of the item is to you? $1 can of coke? $30 Blur-ray? $2500 appliance?

[MrSlayer]

9. You call it stealing, I call it a rare good fortune.

I wonder how many times they double charged a customer and how easily they gave the money back. Probably many and not very.

I have no moral qualms with taking free stuff from a giant corporation begging me to do so. A mom and pop store would be different.

[Meiko]

4. Good story

But the title is misleading...I thought the rethugs were up to their nonsense again.

[baldguy]

6. Meanwhile, some poor schmuck wants a refund of the $2,500 he was charged for a box of screws.

[liberal N proud]

7. Chances are they refunded that too

If he had a receipt.