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A couple of funny pictures related to Christmas which might be useful for e-mail attachments:

I’ve bought myself a nice suit at Marks & Spencer around mid November 2008. It was quite a nice buy, however I soon after found a tiny hole in the fabric of one of the sleeves. The hole looked like a fabrication error. Luckily I hadn’t worn the suit yet, that’s why I decided to return it to Marks & Spencer.

I was quite surprised today, when I found out, that by returning the suit, Marks & Spencer would give me cash return as well. The reason for this seemingly strange cash return was however a temporary reduction of the UK VAT tax announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling on November 24th 2008.

The suit was exchanged with no questions asked. On top of it, I got another £2.80 in VAT tax back. That’s quite illogical, because technically I bought the suit in November, when the tax was 17.5%. I reckon however the Marks & Spencer book-keeping infrastructure would technically handle the exchange as a full return and a re-sell. Since the new suit is sold in December, I got it 2.5% cheaper. Therefore the money back.

There is a 90 days return policy on all the goods so if you’ve bought something within the last 90 days and before the 1st of December, it might be worth getting it exchanged. For a 2.5% return in cash could give you one of those nice M&S Cookies.