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Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod
abscondment writes "Nearly a year ago, two couples were charged with scamming WalMart for nearly $1.5 Million by creating custom barcodes with reduced prices. You'd think that in the intervening months, other companies would guard against such shenanigans - but today we see that Target just caught a scammer buying iPods for $4.99! The 19 year old used BarCode Magic to create fake barcodes, buying expensive electronics suspiciously low prices. Personally, I would have gone for a less blatant discount, or refrained from visiting the same store so soon afterwards."
and they risk alienating their real customers.
Is that why Wal-Mart greeters always insisted that my civil rights end at the door when they attempted to check my bags all the time? Is that why I always had to make a scene and refuse? Hell, this is one of the reasons I stopped going to Wally World -- along with the fact that they are evil.
Hehe, one time I told one of them "Who died and made you a peace officer?" as I refused his third order to stop while walking out the store. Guess what? Nothing ever came of it!
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
And when it runs Linux, you get to play oggs and .au's and mp3s!
They only do this in parts of town that have a high percentage of racial minorities. Seriously, go to different stores in a major city and see for yourself. In the suburban white areas, no stores do the door check thing. It's basically just a legal way to racially profile.
High percentage of racial minorities? You've never been to Vestal, NY have you? ;) The only reason they have any racial minorities is because of Binghamton University.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
wonderful. You follow them.
I am an atheist, until you prove to me that god exists, it doesn't. So there are no absolute moral ideals for me. So there are no ethics, except those that are required to be able to earn money within this society.
You can't handle the truth.
Amazingly, people carrying guns don't become mindless killers that will shoot people at the slightest provocation.
But that's exactly what you would be doing according to your description. If someone pulled me out of my car through the window WITHOUT USING A WEAPON I would hit him back with punches and whatnot but I would definitely avoid killing him. Whereas you would pull out your gun and kill him. I guess when I make a mistake and step on your toe you're going to bash me in the head with a club? How about gouging out my eye if I ring your doorbell by mistake because I have the wrong address...
Global warming is a cube.