LOL I started reading that thread and thought what are they talking about this guy is not so bad and he was right.... then it all went down hill fast lol.
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LOL I started reading that thread and thought what are they talking about this guy is not so bad and he was right.... then it all went down hill fast lol.
Is anybody buying this? In the US all arrests and related court information is considered public record and available for examination (including the mug shot).
I want to see some proof.
I want to see some proof.
I don't think so. Even if it did happen to turn out to be true, they're not going to arrest anyone for allegedly stealing a receipt. Cops, just like everyone else, need to cover their butts. They're not just going to arrest somebody because she may have stolen a receipt which she may have intended to use in a scam. They investigate that kind of thing first. Extensively.
People should call the stores before posting on here. Don't rely on Mrumors to solve your day to day problems when a simple phone call can fix it. Talk to the manager/store gm/whatever, explain what happened and done.
Yes, that would have been sufficient. Not saying you should have actually done that, but saying it would have been awesome.
I'm 42 and I work for a corporation. I have a wife and a dog, contained within a 6 bedroom house which requires constant maintenance. I still have time to make up all sort of crazy BS. It's one of those things that makes life enjoyable.
Never underestimate the power of embellishment. It's a story telling tradition that goes back to the time of Fred Flintstone.
6 bedrooms for a wife and a dog? I hope you have kids.
They're from the UK, not the US.
bozz2006 said:
Not necessarily insurance fraud, but with the receipt they would be able to put a product return into the system and take the money for themselves.
I think we need to have one of our Engaloid members call Argos and complain about a missing receipt. See what they say.
Ask to speak to Joba the hut.
Surely a high value item like a Macbook would be checked as a return? i.e. Manager/supervisor looks at the list of returns, most of which will be well under £100 and gets to a £1000+ Macbook Pro - he'll wonder why it's not with the rest of the returned items. Seems like a risky strategy to me to try and get a grand or two out of the company fraudulently.
It would be pretty easy to be honest very low risk. Buy a macpro box on eBay put a brick in it seal it so it looks like it hasn't been opened and I can be 99% sure the manager would not open a sealed box to check the content. I have returned high value items to Argos before found it cheaper else where whilst shopping and I have never had anyone open a sealed box to check it. Even if they did open the box how could they prove you had opened it first. For all they know a staff member could have taken the content or a delivery driver (this happens a lot) or even a factory worker where they had been produced. The box would have passed through many sets of hands before you ever had it. I have opened many electrical items only to find parts missing and had to get replacements and have never been questioned by any company as they know it happens. Even then all risk would be on the person doing the return not the member of staff who stole the receipt.
6 bedrooms for a wife and a dog? I hope you have kids.
Nope. I applied to the Department of Reproduction for a permit but got denied because I failed the background check. Apparently they have people reading internet forums and they read my post about how I use black market receipts to submit false expense reports. They wouldn't buy that was only kidding.
A sad story, to be sure. Lesson learned? Don't post stupid stuff on the internet if you want to have kids.
Especially as your credit card company provides insurance for any purchase over £100 if the company you buy from goes bust.
That's what I thought too, I just put it forward in my post because that was the theory some people came up with towards the start of the thread. I had a whole spiel typed up at one point, but never posted, about how idiotic she would be doing it with an Apple computer of all things, where the profit margin would be negligible due to Apple's strict control of pricing, where surely somebody would end up noticing that a computer has vanished.