Ha-haa, you FAIL!

[Amethyst Hunter]

Female parental unit comes home with a scammer tale. Some idgit tried to swipe a clearance tag that was for $30-something and stick it on a piece of merchandise that was well over $100. When he got to the checkout the barcode kept ringing up the correct price (the $100+ number), and the cashier rang up someone from the appropriate department to check to see if this was right.

Guess who the cashier called up? Yup. Mom had been approached earlier by Scammer who had wanted to know if said merchandise was on sale, and after she'd checked to see and told him no, it wasn't, he decided he was going to try for a freebie anyway. Mom said he looked quite surprised at having been caught in the act. (No word on whether or not he coughed up the extra dough or just left the scene of his failure, though)

Oh, the sweet, sweet smell of ownage...

[Marxfan]

I hate it when people do that, so dishonest and sleazy.

Your mom rocks, by the way.

[Bluenomi]

We had a day once where lots of pricey electrical equipment kept ringing up as pencil cases. Scammer was taking the barcodes of the pencil cases and sticking them over the real one. Left quickly when I pulled it off and exclaimed 'oh, wonder how that go there, darn kids'

[HYHYBT]

We had a day once where lots of pricey electrical equipment kept ringing up as pencil cases. Scammer was taking the barcodes of the pencil cases and sticking them over the real one. Left quickly when I pulled it off and exclaimed 'oh, wonder how that go there, darn kids'

Funny how that never happens the other way. Wouldn't you like, just once, to see a pack of paper clips ring up as a 40" HDTV?

[JustADude]

Funny how that never happens the other way. Wouldn't you like, just once, to see a pack of paper clips ring up as a 40" HDTV?

Give me 5 minutes and a hand-held tag-printer and it'll happen.

[wagegoth]

I saw a guy try to pull an epic one like that at a toy store near my job one day. It's a great indie store, with a few high end items. He was trying to buy a $100+ kite for $10, having switched stickers with another item.

Happily, the clerks stood firm, despite the wheedling and whining. They told him that someone must have switched the tags, because that kite would certainly never sell for that price, sorry, maybe he could find something else in his price range.

[Record Store Tough Guy]

I had a mom switch a sale tag while she was in with her teenage daughters once. I didn't catch her in the act, but heard the sticker rip, and the CD it was on had not been on sale for quite some time.

It was odd; at first I didn't even suspect she had done anything, I only put two and two together when she came to the register. I knew she had to have done it because she turned bright red when I said "This CD hasn't been on sale in at least a year; that sticker doesn't belong there." She also paid full price for it and got out of the store very quickly.

I hate tag switchers more than shoplifters sometimes.

[Lady Heather]

Uhm...NO!

Two stoner idiots tried to get a T-shirt for 1/2 off. Newbie was unsure what to do, we have to charge the lower price by law. Except when I saw the jerks by the T-shirts, and KNEW they did it! They took a folded shirt and put it on a cleance hanger with a 50% off tag.
"I'm sorry sir, the MallRats think it's funny to mess with our price tags. The T-shirt is $fullprice, do you still want it?"
Stoner boy pulls out five $20.00 bills, pays and leaves. It's not like he didn't have the money. Why do they try? Do they think we're that stupid?

[Andara Bledin]

What, do they think you couldn't see the fold lines from the shirt having been folded until they switched it to a hanger?

^-.-^

[daleduke17]

Give me 5 minutes and a hand-held tag-printer and it'll happen.

Give me access to the pricing computer again and I can have it done in 30 seconds.

[bainsidhe]

I once had someone's candy bar ring up for something over $50.00. I thought it was a mistake and checked, nope, it still rang up like that. Got a good chuckle as I changed the price.

I used to work for Media Play before they closed down. Never ever will I work during a liquidation again. Scum of the earth crawl out of the cesspool from which they live and browbeat you over prices, mess and I mean MESS up the bathrooms and store (eeewwwwww), and otherwise show themselves to be uber-sucky. But you also have the scammers. We caught on pretty quick that all CDs, DVDs and electronics needed to be scanned by the actual UPC and not the sticker. You wouldn't believe the sheer number of people who switched stickers and would still argue (I mean, are you serious?!?) that the $50.00 DVD box set was only $2.00. I mean, let's at least try to be plausible here. And please don't try to pass off season 3 of "24" for a song, when the sticker is for a $3.00 bumper sticker. "But that's the way it was maaaarrrked." Um, no.

[iradney]

Funny how that never happens the other way. Wouldn't you like, just once, to see a pack of paper clips ring up as a 40" HDTV?

I once had a R10 pack of tealight candles ring up as a R500 baby buggy....
Yeah, I didn't buy em

[Imogene]

I used to work for Media Play before they closed down.

Not to mention all the people who came out of nowhere, walked in, saw the store in disarray, and would ask, "You guys closing?" Never mind the foot long banner hanging in the entryway that read "Store Closing Sale!", or the ones who said, "Why you gotta close? This my favorite store." Which is why this is the first time I've seen you in five years. I have regulars, and trust me, you're not one of them.

[Lace Neil Singer]

There was once this woman who tried to buy a £20 lump of beef for 10p; she'd obviously peeled a 10p reduced sticker off a bakery item and transferred it to the meat. She ran off when I buzzed for a supervisor and wouldn't let her have it.