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BargainBabe.com really is a group effort. This latest tip comes from my little brother!
I had to charge my phone for a couple of hours, so I went to the T -mobile store and saw the price of the charger (24 dollars). I only needed the charger for a day so I started talking about how much my situation sucked and the lady at the store said I could charge my phone at the store for free.
Not bad, John! I like going to Costco and Len’s Crafters for their free eye glass cleanings!
January 15th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Next time you leave your charger home while on a trip! the hotels usually have a HUGE box full of chargers left behind by guests
just ask the front desk for the charger box and they’ll let you look through it
January 15th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
this is great! thanks for the advice!
Miss ya bargain babe!
January 15th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Our local Dollar Tree store has almost ALL the phone chargers for every brand, they just don’t have a brand name on them. Great for a buck!
January 15th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
sometimes you’ll slip and actually find customer service
January 15th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Costco fraudulently and in violation Of CA Business and Professions Code Section 2541. 1 Refuses to use prescription that are over 1 year old.
CA law requires then to be good for 2 years. The manager claims they do not have to follow the law.
I wonder what other laws they ignore
January 15th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Thanks for the tip, John and Julia. It’s so easy to forget that charger when traveling! You just saved me $24 times * X= wasted money
January 15th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Prescriptions are only good for one year and then you must get a new one. This has been practiced in every pharmacy that I have encountered. Maybe it was an rx you should have not tried to refill.
January 15th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
I have the car charger, and I use that when I’m driving to juice up the phone … and the other charger stays at home.
January 16th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Business & Professions Code 2541 only refers to ophthalmic devices, not meds. So unless you were trying to refill a prescription for glasses or contacts, Costco was not in violation of the code.
January 16th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Yes I was trying to replace glasses that were so scratched They we not usable. the code says
(b) The expiration date of a spectacle lens prescription shall not
be less than two.
and
(1) The patient’s spectacles are lost, broken, or damaged to a
degree that renders them unusable.
This requires them to make them without any limit. They were just trying to get me to use their own doctor for a fee. I haw to see my doctor 4 time a year do to diabetic problems.
and here is the URL
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=7009113899+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve