Security tags will these explode or can I cut them off?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Just bought some new trainers and the nice people at size have left the security tags on them

Can these just be cut off?

[Alucidnation]

Yeah right.

How come the shop alarm didn’t go off when you left?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

No idea! I'd assume they were turned off

[paintman]

Go back with your receipt & ask them to remove them.

[Contract Killer]

Just cut it off with a pair of snips, do you really think they are going to be rigged with C4?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

It would mean going to leeds again

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Contract Killer said:

Just cut it off with a pair of snips, do you really think they are going to be rigged with C4?

No but alot contain dye but these seem solid

[paintman]

Cut the straps on the shoes. Tags are undisturbed. Job done.

[Tankrizzo]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

No but alot contain dye but these seem solid

Bag over it then and cut it with snips.

[InitialDave]

Alucidnation said:

Yeah right.

How come the shop alarm didn’t go off when you left?

It'd be a good advert for them, in a way.

"Someone stole some of these the other day, tried them on and legged it. None of us could keep up with him, so it just goes to show, they're good kit"

Edited by InitialDave on Friday 8th December 19:46

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Well they cut off easy enough!

[Saleen836]

A lot of the shops don't bother turning the security on for tags, was shopping with a friend in a village where they make shoes a few months ago where she purchased a coat, the member of staff forgot to remove the security tag and for the next couple of hours not one single alarm went off in any of the shops we entered/exited, rather then drive all the way back we went in to a local store where another friend works and the alarm went off as soon as we walked in, explained the situation showed the receipt and they took the tag off

Edited by Saleen836 on Friday 8th December 22:27

[captain_cynic]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

It would mean going to leeds again

No-one should have to go to Leeds, let alone twice (soz, southern tt here).

Just cut them off with scissors or a sharp knife, but do it outside so you can toss them as far as possible in case they do contain Semtex.

[captain_cynic]

Saleen836 said:

A lot of the shops don't bother turning the security on for tags, was shopping with a friend in a village where they make shoes a few months ago where she urchased a coat, the member of staff forgot to remove the security tag and for the next couple of hours not one single alarm went off in any of the shops we entered/exited, rather then drive all the way back we went in to a local store where another friend works and the alarm went off as soon as we walked in, explained the situation showed the receipt and they took the tag off

Some of them are disabled wirelessly (or magnetically, in the case of the older style tags) which is why they sometimes rub items against the counter, its to disable the security tags.

But yeah, some stores just dont bother.

[Brigand]

Saleen836 said:

A lot of the shops don't bother turning the security on for tags, was shopping with a friend in a village where they make shoes a few months ago where she urchased a coat, the member of staff forgot to remove the security tag and for the next couple of hours not one single alarm went off in any of the shops we entered/exited, rather then drive all the way back we went in to a local store where another friend works and the alarm went off as soon as we walked in, explained the situation showed the receipt and they took the tag off

I think tags work on different frequencies, so what sets one alarm system off might not another.

[alorotom]

I bought a jacket a couple of years ago that had a security tag in a sealed woven in pocket, wore it for weeks without issue in the U.K. and took it to the US and it set off alarms everywhere - in the end I got a security chap in Saks to cut it out as it was a nightmare ... I’d have just sliced through this with a Stanley knife!