one check made out to chino right… lol
OT but LOL at all the canceled checks in the Mitchell Report. Don’t people know that if your making any kind of financial transaction that is potentially illegal or at least dubious in nature you use CASH!!!
VERY old trick, used to do this 4-5 years ago at walmart for stupid shit, they figured it out a long time ago and its near impossible to do anymore.
i haven’t stolen anything from a store, no good reason to I suppose.
I’ve noticed when you walk into walmart with a return, they tag the item with a sticker as you walk in the door to make sure you don’t try to pull anything I suppose…
The worst thing i’ve done was when I was in grade school. Target had just opened up in the area, I only had like 20 bucks to buy a pair of inline rollerblades. The 20 dollar ones they had were really shitty, especially after I had tried on the real rollerblade model ones.
Put the good ones in the shitty box, and paid the cheaper price.
It’s totally not worth stealing anything. Many jobs I have gotten hired for have retail theft checks, as part of your background check.
When I used to work for the place in buffalo that sold best buy store returns on ebay, I was in charge of testing the hard drives and ipods and stuff like that. People who returned the items to the store would put old ass hard drives in a new box, and return them, and best buy would take them one after another. I’ve even seen external hard drives with pieces of wood stuffed in them, and the internal drives ripped out then the whole item was returned.
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I like how stealing anything is really worth the risk of ending up in the clink. Think you have a fool proof system for stealing is like thinking you have a fool proof system for gambling.
Why not just get a black mask and a gun and do car jackings and muggings?
I prefer to legitly pay for items…then run out of the store yelling “go!.. GO!” as if i just stole them. Much more rewarding with no risk.
What’d you do at that point? Just curious, considering a few board members spent some of their early years pulling the same stunt at CompUSA
Nah, the company I worked for bought truckloads of the returns absolutely AS-IS salvage. There was no guarantee to anything that they purchased from best buy and circuit city.
We just threw the blocks of wood, and old hard drives into a huge heap, and sold that huge heap as a pallet of parts.
This company from mexico would come and buy pallets and pallets of broken electronics. I have no idea what they paid for them, but they would make runs from mexico to buffalo twice a month with trucks similar to a fedex truck. Mexican license plates and all.
lol when I was a kid, I did this regularly with software.
save up my allowance and go buy a computer game at media play… copy it, return it and get another game/app, repeat.
not the most honest thing in the world but I was a punk kid… and the store was ok with it sooooo…they don’t let you do this with software anymore though
lol they probably sell them at the flea market/electronics sales at the fair grounds.
When i worked at circuit city they were all up in arms with the customer service people returning “brick in box” merchandise. They even fired some kid over it. One evening i was taking some of the returns to cut open and place on display, and i open a Sony Vaio laptop box to find an old compaq 90mhz laptop striped of battery and HD, and no Sony. I looked up who did it, and it was the ops manager that fired the kid for the same reason. Her reasoning for keeping her job… “Everyone makes mistakes”!! I then proceeded to add that laptop to our checkout computer system and made up a descriptor and price tag for it. It sat on display for a few days at a screaming deal of $7. I just wanted to rub it in her face a little since she didn’t have the display key to remove it.
Best way I’ve ever stole something was when I was like 18. I wanted this sweet ass cd player, but I couldn’t afford it, so I bought the cheap model, scanned the bar code and printed it out. Returned the cheap cd player and used the bar code I copied and printed. I double sided taped it to the bar code on the expensive cd player. Got it rung out and was out the door, security strip deactivated and in a shopping bag. I couldn’t bring myself to do something like that anymore lol.
one swipe with a magnet deactivates the security strips =]
LOL, good stories. WalMart also doesn’t really give a fuck what you return. I got an MP3 player for Christmas and promptly dropped in in 2" of standing water in my sister’s shitty car. Let it dry out a bit, but it was fucked. So I said it didn’t work when I took it out of the box and they gave me a brand new one no questions asked.
oh relax…and dont be so naive.
career criminals are as common as any other profession… the people who abuse retail return policies for a living likely make more on an annual basis, tax free, than the people who think it’s stupid.
i made mention of how easy it was to return a $335 item at walmart…you do that shit twice a week and you are way better off than 80% of the peeps on here yo!..
been thought of long long ago and not worth it
lmao, whats the difference in them catching you on camera pulling out a bag and putting the 2nd item into it and walking out? You might as well just put the fucking item in your pants and bail like a man.
Shit, when i was real young i’d go into k-mart and find one of them $40-60 lego joints and grab a $9.99 price tag from somewhere else and replace it and act all dumb at the cash register, one signature later i was OTD with the item.
Easiest way to get shit now is get a fucking job and pay for it homo.
The risk/reward ratio is not worth it if you want to get into a good job and they find that bullshit on your record, means you are untrustworthy and in the biz world your pwnt.