Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized

GlucoPilot writes "This guy bought a Rio Carbon Mp3 player because he figured he could rip the 5GB CF Card out of it. He did, and put it in his prosumer 6MP digital camera. Now he can take 1,500 six-megapixel pics in one sitting. Oy." The card is apparently a 5GB Microdrive, note, not 5GB of Flash memory.

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Re:Rio Return Scam?

[nolife]

Nothing can prevent that but, that has been happening for years as you could attempt this with anything and obviously people do.
I am going into rant mode here but everytime I think about this, I get frustrated.
I bought a 8X DVD drive from CompUSA a few years ago. Got home opened it up and wham! It was a used and broken 32x cdrom drive. I took it back within hours and explained exactly what happened. The assistant manager came to the desk and proceded to make strange faces looking at the device and commenting to herself out loud "wow, we don't even carry this model cdrom, I wonder how this happened" etc.. but never actually said anything directly to me or even asked me a single question. In fact, she never even looked directly at me. Then it came... In front of my kids and a bunch of other customers in line at the service desk. She flat out accused me for attempting to defraud them and she stated she was going to call the police and have my thrown in jail if I did not leave the store. A very heated agrument started but I eventually left with my credit card being charged back the full amount and I have not gone to a CompUSA since.

Re:Rio Return Scam?

[Juggle]

I had a friend who worked at a Best Buy....he noticed one customer was buying a returning 2-3 hard drives a week complaining about them not working.

Being a tech guy (he worked in their "upgrade department") he popped one of the returned drives into a system and checked it out...worked fine...but was WAY lower capacity than what it was labled.

Turned out the guy was buying the largest drives on the market....then pulling the labels off and putting them back on small drives which he'd return.

Next time he came in the "yellow shirts" where waiting for him and gave a ring to the local police pretty quick.

Now if you paid cash and didn't leave any personal info, only did it once and never returned to the store again....you could probably get away with it...but whether or not you should try that is between you and your deity.

The problem is the kind of greed that makes someone try that kind of scam in the first place almost always assures they won't do it just once - and that's when they get caught.