Could quite possibly have to now. Sorry I just don’t trust people
When working for the Air Force....I was the guy who’d go to transportation to pick up the pallets of hardware ordered and review everything before signing a single document. We had a pallet from the Frankfurt airport arrive (from Chicago)...and I made them break the pallets up and as we moved them around....there’s this one with a Sun monitor ($1,200 item) which didn’t shift right as we moved it around on the floor. I forced them to open the top and here was a piece of wood there. I think it happens more often than the transport folks would admit.
Back in like 99 I bought a computer motherboard at best buy. Package was shrinkwrapped and it was on the dhelf. Hot it home, opened it up and found chunks of wood.
I figured I just lost a couple hundred bucks as there was nooooo way the store would believe me.
I went back anyway and of course they didn’t believe me. But the manager’s eyes about popped out of his head when he opened two more packages off the shelf and found chunks of wood.
Needless to say he apologized. And I went home with a real motherboard after they found one in their inventory.
Why would they talk to the manger inside the store, wouldn't make more sense to talk to the manager?
A translation by an illiterate?
Since stores will often allow limited time returns of supposedly unopened shrink wrapped merchandise with no questions asked, the scam could have been happening at the perpetration of other customers who had access to a shrink wrap machine.
If engineering this packaging I’d want to add special security properties to the shrink wrap, or do something else to make re-shrink-wrapping difficult.
Sweet scam.
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And an old one too.
What else are Elves supposed to make a PS/4 outta?
Must have been an old model...
I bought some printer cartridges at Walmart a few years ago. Got it home and knew something was wrong when I opened the box. The inner package was already opened, and the black ink had an empty colored ink cartridge in it.
Returned them and they gave me an exchange.
I figure someone bought them, carefully opened the box removed and replaced the cartridges, glued it closed, then returned them for a “refund”.
Since that day, I examine the boxes real close for tampering.
Not a new procedure, in fact sometimes a factory option. In 1989 MiniScribe from Longmont, Colorado, shipped pieces of masonry to customers in lieu of hard drives. Not a good business practice - the company filed for bankruptcy on January 2, 1990.
A couple of years ago, I purchased a Nintendo 3DS for one of my kids for Christmas online for in store pick up. Someone had replaced the new one in the box for a really old beat up one that was missing the stylus. I was so mad that I had to go return this back at the store. I got my money back and went and purchased it at a different store. Bad employees in the back, won’t purchase from them again.
I heard that laz’s gf got wood in her box for Christmas...but that is just a rumor. ;-)