Trojan PS2 made of wood earns store credit for craftsman, shame for retailer
By Tim Stevens 
posted February 6th 2009 10:24AM
posted February 6th 2009 10:24AM
posted February 6th 2009 10:24AM
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Thanks for confessing. Now corporate sales employees can print this article out for their managers as examples of fraudlent returns.
When I read "trojan PS2" I assumed it was sent to Sony by Nintendo as a piece offering and after it had been received lots of Marios climbed out and started wrecking the place.
AWESOME. I'm so glad I wasn't the only one thinking that :)
I had a Palm Tungsten C that sh*t the bed on me when I was in college, I couldn't afford to buy a new one because rent was due so I took the rent cash and bought it. Took it home, opened both of them up and swapped the guts. I opened the cardboard box from the bottom and then glued it back shut as to not tear the factory tape on the top side. I got my cash back the same day saying my GF didn't want it after all. The school bookstore had it on the shelf for a long long time before someone finally took it home to find a broken Palm.
Looking back I may have pushed palm into the crappy situation they've been in for years. I'd like to think that I spurred them into developing the Pre to dig themselves out of the hole that I helped create.
It's not like Bestbuy/gamestop employees get payed enough to care anyway.
If they get paid at all they should do their freaking job, or find another job if they don't like the one they have, have some selfrespect eh.
Holy shit! That's funny
I did some stupid stuff as a kid, things I regret, but at least I just flat out swiped the stuff from the stores and didn't return junk that would sit around on shelves to screw the next guy who came and bought them, sheesh. That's even worse than stealing it.
God's fav Shoplifter /\.
See, my problem is the stores that don't check this stuff, but just go put it back on the shelf. I recently read that a guy bought a Blu-ray player at Best Buy and wound up getting a DVD player in the box. He went to return it and they wouldn't because it wasn't the correct model in the box, though it was what he received from them. He wound up contacting someone at the corporate office and it was dealt with. But still, that's the kind of stuff that ruins it. I understand that some people will pull scams and some will get away with it, but the stores need to at least check this stuff before they put it back on the shelf. I know Best Buy has open box stuff all the time, and I'm sure that if someone sealed the box back up to return it so it looked like it was never opened, they'd take it no problem, however that's the case where they shouldn't just throw it back on the shelf.
Yeah it's simply the job of the shopmanager to fire/reprimand salespeople that can't do their basic job (and thus prevent lots of useless hassle both for the company and customers).
You can't possibly run a store and not find out half the people are thieving deceiving lowlifes in a very short time, and take appropriate steps to balance the need to have customers with the need to prevent abuse.
I work loss prevention for a major retail corporation. I've seen every type of fraudulent return imaginable. I've seen everything from a guy stuff logs in $600 Bose Surround System to a women returning clothing we didn't sell by sowing the tags from clothing we did sell into them. I'm shocked someone would take the time to make a wooden PS2 just scam a retailer. Its pretty clever though.