Speaking of which, I had recently purchased a 25-pack of DVD-Rs from Amazon when I noticed a flyer advertising a "buy one get one FREE" deal on the front page. The scam was simple: buy two 25-pack DVD-Rs at the low price of $57. In the middle of the flyer was the same DVD-Rs at $25 per spindle. I can't help but wonder how many people "saved" money on that deal.
I had the same thing happen to me at Best Buy. I went in to purchase a 120GB hard drive that was on sale. When I got home, I discovered that someone had swapped the sticker on the drive. The drive was labeled 120GB but it was actually a 40GB drive. Best Buy told me to return it to the manufacturer. The manufacturer was very sympathetic and sent the drive back to me along with a detailed fraud report.
I took the fraud report and the drive back to Best Buy, but they refused to do anything about it. The manager even had the gall to accuse me of trying to "con" him out of a refund (even though I just wanted to exchange it for what I had purchased). It should have been easy for them to pull up the records to determine who the real con was, but they wouldn't even do that.
I finally left in disgust and refuse to set foot in the store again.
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Speaking of which, I had recently purchased a 25-pack of DVD-Rs from Amazon when I noticed a flyer advertising a "buy one get one FREE" deal on the front page. The scam was simple: buy two 25-pack DVD-Rs at the low price of $57. In the middle of the flyer was the same DVD-Rs at $25 per spindle. I can't help but wonder how many people "saved" money on that deal.
I took the fraud report and the drive back to Best Buy, but they refused to do anything about it. The manager even had the gall to accuse me of trying to "con" him out of a refund (even though I just wanted to exchange it for what I had purchased). It should have been easy for them to pull up the records to determine who the real con was, but they wouldn't even do that.
I finally left in disgust and refuse to set foot in the store again.