We went christmas shopping at Big Lots as we do every year. The total of the ticket was over $200. While there we bought our son an air compressor.
When we plugged the air compressor in, it shot flames from the plug in, smoked, burnt my hand and blew the circuit breaker.
We live over 70 miles away from the Big Lots store. The day after Christmas my son took the air compressor back to the store and explained what happened. They would not issue him a refund. He had the reciept in hand but they said they had to have the debit card that it was charged to. I spoke to the assisstant manager on the phone. I explained exactly what happened and that we lived 70 miles away and that my son had made a special trip just to return the compressor. I told him that I would be more than happy to give him the card number, expiration date and any other pertenent information over the phone as he had already spent $25 in gas to bring it in today. The told me that they had to have the card in hand. The receipt has the last 4 digits of the card number for them to verify that the card was correct. I explained again that we lived 70 miles away and did not come to St. Joseph very often. He called the area supervisor who still insisted that we make another trip (another $25 in gas) to return this very defective $50 air compressor.
In my opinion it is just a way to keep from returning peoples money. He had the reciept. It was purchased there and due to "Company Policy" They refused to refund the money. I am currently looking into suing them for the burn to my hand caused by there defective product. We usually spen anywhere from $200 - $500 in there store every christmas. From now on we will take our business elsewhere!
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