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Retail Fraud on the Rise
prostoalex writes "They buy the merchandise, print their own receipts, and return it. They buy two watches - an expensive one and inexpensive one, and then swap them and return the one with the highest price. Business Week talks about retail scams, and how merchants are trying to avoid them without losing the customer service battle. They are fighting against surprisingly sophisticated techniques, too." From the article: "Q: What role do auction Web sites play in all this? A: Retailers have stopped giving cash back in many different cases. Instead, they do refunds in the form of gift cards or store credits or store value cards. If a crook can get enough of those, he might sell $2,500 worth of gift cards for $2,000 online. It's a benefit for the buyer, who gets a discount and will use those gift cards. And the person who has manipulated the return-scam system has a way to [make money]. But the retailers lose out. "
Where are these peoples' moral compass?
They returned them in place of $50 Swiss models.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
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-1: Sherlock
"Would you turn in a friend if he stole a 50 cent candy bar? A 500,000 check in an insurance scam? No then yes? At what point would you turn him in? At what monetary amount?"
Reminds me of the old saw:
A man asks a woman, "Would you sleep with me for one million dollars?" The woman thinks about it for a moment, smiles, and says, "Yes." The man then asks, "Then, would you sleep with me for one dollar?!" The woman immediately replies, "Absolutely not! What kind of a girl do you think I am?!?" The man says, "I've already established what kind of girl you are. Now we're haggling over the price."
An oldie but a goodie...
Fuck yes, wrong is wrong. If it were up to me, everyone would get the death penalty for stealing even a loaf of fucking bread to feed their fucktarded family, and it wouldn't be just the fucking thief either, it would be the whole fucktarded family.