Returning fake stuff at stores?

[MacDawg]

Making it an issue of "mom and pop" v. corporations is clearly a deflection. It isn't about who is being robbed/cheated/defrauded/bilked or "inconvenienced", it is about personal character... and people who do such things are lacking in that regard.


Woof, Woof – Dawg

 

[spork183]

short answer is it is against the law and they can and will press charges when they find out.

agreed against the law, unethical, etc. But, most stores will eat it rather than go to the hassle of trying to track it down/press charges on something like this. If they didn't catch it at the return, the dishonest schmuck would just say he returned it intact and someone at the store switched it. The reason so many people pull crap like this is because it is cheaper for the stores to live with it than to actively pursue it.

 

[spork183]

My mate took the sticker off a small mellon and put it on a big one so he got a big mellon for the price of a small one. I dont think he does that much and its only fruit, it aint thousands of pounds worth of cars, so I dont really care, as far as I am concerned, he can do what he likes.

Course now your mate will be cursed with small melons for the rest of his life. Is it really worth messing with melon karma?

 

[Much Ado]

Everyone is capable of stealing, and most are capable of realising that it is wrong.

 

[rdowns]

I love how people defend, large, soulless and faceless international corporations.

With no real point other than sounding highly moral and pleasing themselves.

Equating the typical, run-of-the-mill return "scam", to those who have no will to keep themselves from a life in prison, is a bit of a stretch.

No one is defending corporations, they are condeming stealing. Using your logic, I guess you condone it.

 

[JML42691]

I love how people defend, large, soulless and faceless international corporations.

With no real point other than sounding highly moral and pleasing themselves....

I'm sorry, but would you mind pointing me out to a post in this thread where somebody made their claim with the sole reasoning being that the company is getting hurt? Not only is nobody making that claim (unless if I glanced over it), but even if they were, it is still true. His friend who is a thief is causing prices to go up, and only the everyday consumer is going to feel the costs of that. And unless if he were caught in the act, the company isn't likely going to go out of their way to find him, it would cost them too much in the searches where they are not even guaranteed to find him.

 

[Schtumple]

We get people returning the different phones and games/dvd's to us, games and dvds are easy, we mark our discs with a UV pen, but phones you have to really look hard to spot a difference, generally, its when ones returned to us when the receipt says its a £39.99 phone, but they're returning a Nokia 1600 (worth about £9.99)

The guy will get caught, and it'll suck to be him when he does...

 

[mpw]

Stealing...theft...

or

Misdirection...retribution...

?...

Plain, dirty, dishonest, lying stealing.

 

[Queen of Spades]

People who do that are annoying. One time I bought a sony pro duo stick for my PSP at circuit city and when I got it home, I found it to be a fake one. Then I had to go through the hassle of explaining it.

The best time was when I was about 13-14, and me and my friends took the train to Sears at the mall. My friend was buying 2 new N64 games with his birthday money. We were jazzed, despite the salespeople treating us like crap because we were kids. We get on the train, open the games...and someone had stolen the games and put a cassette tape case filled with bits of clay or something and re-shrinkwrapped the package. Do you know what a b*tch it was to convince the sales person we'd been screwed out of the games?

Jerks.