If it's in the smallprint, you lose!

If you live in South Africa, there's a good chance you saw Musica's new TV campaign that stated that there was "Nothing over 100" allowed in the store (one hundred rand that is - about $16 or £9)

The ad is cute, it features old people getting bounced from the store, ostensibly because they're over 100 - and there is nothing over 100 allowed in the store.

So on that premise, we went to Musica, we browsed around and eventually chose 6 CDs that we wanted. However when we went to pay we were charged nearly R900, this confused me so I asked why we weren't charged R600 as advertised.

The check-out lady smiled that smile that said that she'd been asked that same question 100 times that day, then she answered, with a little sympathy, that I should have looked at the small print on the TV screen as it said that that was only valid on items marked with a purple sticker.

Of course, not one of the 6 CDs my wife an I chose had that purple sticker, what are the odds?

We paid and left, both feeling conned.

Musica thus may think they won.

Musica are fucking idiots...!