Our generation has a new bogeyman (at least for the meantime). 20 brides and grooms (please tell me they were in wedding outfits - what a photo opp...) marched on HSBC yesterday demanding the company help out Wrapit, a wedding list company that has gone into administration. Granted losing your wedding presents must be a shocking, pain-in-the-ass loss, not to mention an embarrassing situation - "excuse me, I know you bought us that £100 set of Egyptian cotton towels, but could you just give us the cash now" - but why does anyone think the bank should just help them out?
Wrapit went bust - end of story. The job of providing a list, charging the guests, and buying the goods for the happy couple (probably with a pretty box thrown in) and charging a little extra on top to make a profit should be an easy thing to do. Wrapit must have been badly run to screw that up - and that's not HSBC's fault.
Neither is it the happy couple's fault either, but the best lesson from this has to be - pay with a credit card when buying on-line....
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