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Anonymous  +  897913 Sat, 12 Sep 09 05:21 AM
We collected a cake from the pier shop on last week. However, the cake's bottom layer was broke. Your colleague refused exchange the other one for us and advised that this is no problem. Would you please invertage / double-check for such case and how can we protect our rights and interests in such case? Please advise.

 

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LanguageLover  suggested by LanguageLover  +  898125 Sat, 12 Sep 09 09:14 AM

Hi, English is not my first language, here is my suggestion:

We collected a cake from the pier shop  last week. However, the cake's bottom layer was broke. Your colleague refused to exchange  it/the layer  and claimed there was no problem with it. Would you please double-check  the case and how we can get our rights ? Please advise.
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khoff  +  899448 Sun, 13 Sep 09 07:06 AM
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“We collected a cake from the pier shop on last week. However, the cake's bottom layer was broke. Your colleague refused exchange the other one for us and advised that this is no problem. Would you please invertage / double-check for such case and how can we protect our rights and interests in such case? Please advise.

 

 

 

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There are several problems with this paragraph.

Why "collected"?  What is a "pier shop"?  "Invertage" is not an English word.  Here are some possible corrections:

 

"We bought a cake from the shop last week.  However, the cake's bottom layer was broken.  Your colleague refused to exchange it and said it was not a problem."

 

I don't know what to do with the rest because I'm not sure what you are asking for.   "How can we protect our rights and interests in such case" seems very dramatic when the subject is a broken cake.  Are you asking for a refund? An apology?  A new cake? An assurance that such a thing will not happen again?  Please try re-wording the last part to make your meaning more clear.
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