an end run around in 12 easy steps

1.) i buy a sweater at club monaco during friends and family. $129 for cashmere is good but it was originally $180. i buy it in black but secretly wanted the less practical purple one.

2.) i keep thinking about the purple sweater. regret not buying both during friends and family weekend.

3.) i go into a club monaco and they are all out of the purple sweaters!

4.) day after thanksgiving i go to another club monaco, the sweater is there! i buy it! for $180! ouch!

5.) i leave the tags on for two weeks in case i start to have buyer's remorse at the price and want to return it.

6.) last weekend i see they're on sale for $129. i ask clerk about price adjust, he says i have 30 days to do it.

7.) i bring in receipt for adjust. am told, "no! you only have 14 days. you have 30 days to return things."

8.) i say, "okay." and look for my sweater at the store and see they are out.

9.) i call upper west side club monaco and they put a purple size small on hold.

10.) the next day i go buy purple sweater for $129. (at this point i try to explain my problem and try to get her to let me return the sweater i just bought with my old receipt, she does not take the bait. fuming, i leave.)

11.) take the sale sticker off.

12.) go to another club monaco and return said sweater with my receipt for $180, thus getting back the difference, making me $50 richer. huzzah!