Do You Fight For Your Right, Even If It Is A Petty Amount?

Westland, Michigan
May 31, 2016 11:17am CST
OK, let me explain what I am talking about. 2 Weeks ago I spent over an hour on the phone fighting with my cable company. To make a long story short, the call was over that I gave them originally $15 for a product that was explained that would help me with a problem and it was told to me that if I did not like it, I would get my money back. I called and they stated, "no problem, we will refund your money and we will credit you $13.50 back to your account". I stated ummm, I paid $15 which they agreed, but they refuse to do the $15. To me it is about principal and not being taken advantage of, so I spent the next hour on the phone going to different supervisors and finally I got the $15 back. Was it worth $1.50, no, but I explained to them that was not the point. So do you fight for your right, even if it is a small amount?
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@shaggin (72131)
• United States
31 May 16
Sometimes if it is a very small amount I will let it go rather then waste a lot of time. MOST of the time though I will fight for it out of principle like you did.
@shaggin (72131)
• United States
31 May 16
@aarifa The problem is if you owe a company $1.50 they would never let it go but expect us to accept the loss when they make a mistake with what they owe us.
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@aarifa (1210)
• India
31 May 16
@shaggin chill friend;-)
@aarifa (1210)
• India
31 May 16
No...no. . We never consider small thing is not important. An indian proverb"without mustard sambar is not sambar".
@aarifa (1210)
• India
31 May 16
You did very good. Am also not give up my rights.
• Westland, Michigan
31 May 16
I believe I did good, but my wife kept on telling me while I was on the phone to to let it go.
@aarifa (1210)
• India
31 May 16
@mypointsju you just show the possitive responses to your wife.