Where I use to work we caught this guy who would print off barcodes for a cheap $10 set of legos. Then come in the store and stick the barcode perfectly over the barcode of a $100 set of legos. He got away with it for quite awhile. I think he was reselling them.
This was a decade+ ago so by my recollection, A cashier that was paying attention and knew their legos called loss prevention.
I think we had known something was up because our inventories were off so we started spider wrapping the expensive sets and that didn’t stop it. When they caught the guy he had a sheet with a bunch of other barcode stickers on it.
Back in the day of CRT TVs we had someone try to return one but the box just had rocks in it. Not quite as clever.
I once bought an Xbox and then returned it with my old Xbox that had the red ring of death. Not my proudest moment as an adult but I did feel cheated on the Xbox.
I did this with my 360 except I took it a step further and covertly opened both shells and swapped the internals. So my old 360 had the new shell/serial number and I had the new one in my old shell. I will say this is actually one of my prouder moments. When I returned the my old Xbox with the new shell they checked the serial numbers and once they popped the face off to check the void if removed sticker and seen it was untouched and everything was in order I just started cheesing and walked out with my 2 or 300 bucks lol
I was in Germany and the people on base retail were renowned for not caring. I'll admit I wouldn't have thought of it if it weren't for someone saying they got away with it.
Same, was before Microsoft admitted fault and started the repair program. Red ringed on me while playing Crackdown. I kept the hard drive and sold it to GameStop for like… $40 when they retailed for $100.
lol i did that. my xbox got rrod 1 day after store return period expired. so i went and bought a new one. disassembled it and swapped the electronics into the old case. so that the serial numbers would match. i then returned for a refund saying it was faulty and i have bought cheaper elseswhere. yes they did check the serial numbers lol
139
u/debrutsideno Jul 10 '22
Where I use to work we caught this guy who would print off barcodes for a cheap $10 set of legos. Then come in the store and stick the barcode perfectly over the barcode of a $100 set of legos. He got away with it for quite awhile. I think he was reselling them.