Even Karma has her day!

[tollbaby]

This guy got caught pulling a tag switch.... a BIG tag switch

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/...j4VOIs3gkE1vAI

[ditchdj]

Shit man 900 dollars is a damn good deal on those huge plasmas! I remember a few years ago when they were 10 THOUNSAND dollars! But, yeah, it's good they stopped that or else I would have marched my happy ass right down to Walmart and demanded they gimme one of those 5 dollar plasmas!

[Jack T. Chance]

Man Pays $4.88 for Plasma TV at Wal*Mart, Goes Directly to Jail!

I just found this news item on the tech news blog The Boy Genius Report! Too funny!

CLICK HERE TO READ

Take that, stupid price scammer!


*MOD EDIT - Moved to proper forum and merged with duplicate thread.

[dalejrfan71]

What a moron he is, did he actually think that he would get away with it. He must of have been at the end of the line when god was handing out brains.

[Hon'ya-chan]

On a related note:

Has anyone ever get questioned by SC's about prices that are too good to be true?

Like thus:

SC: Is this really $1.00? (Showing me a book we marked down to get rid of it for $1).
Me: Yes, unless you wanna pay the original price that we blacked out.

[CancelMyService]

Or the cousin of that SC, those that think it's funny to make the joke that if an item doesn't have a tag it must be free.


I used to go bananas over that at Circuit City because we had to print price tags as part of our closing/opening duties only to see Little Johnny Sonofabitch walking along and wiping out all the price tags (they were in little plastic holder so we could remove them to check stock) while mom and dad were buying a PC. Over the course of a usual day there'd ALWAYS be something missing a tag, and no matter how small the item there was always someone who drove 100 miles both ways uphill just for that item which meant much cocktardery would ensue.

[greensinestro]

A long time ago, I actually saw people do this. Before most items we buy had bar codes attached for scanning at a register, most had a price tag stamped on them. I remember seeing a stockman in Publix with his label gun, stamping prices on things like boxes of cereal. Some people would actually peel a sticker off a cheap item and reattach it to a more expensive one in the hope of fooling the cashier. Most of the time it did, unless someone saw this beforehand.

And people wonder why there is so much security in the stores we shop in now.

[Jester]

I have often gotten this in my bars and restaurants, people surprised by some good deal we are running. "Seriously, it's only that much?" To which I inevitably replied, "Well, if you'd LIKE to pay full price for it, we won't mind!"

On a side note, something cool happened to me last weekend when I was buying groceries for my ceviche. Ceviche, of course, is seafood "cooked" through marination in citrus juice. Which means I was buying much citrus. I picked up 16 limes, which were listed at 50 cents each on the shelf.. When the (new) girl ringing me up rang them up, they came up at 69 cents each. I pointed this out to her, not bitching or moaning, just trying to get them for the correct price. (I was buying a lot of them, after all.) Being new, she wasn't sure what to do, so asked the more experienced cashier in the next line. His reply was awesome, and not what I expected: "If they're not ringing up at the same price listed on the shelf, they're free." Free limes for ceviche? SWEET! I was happy, the cashier was happy that I was happy (and not being bitchy) AND that she had a solution, everyone was happy.

Again, I was not SEEKING free stuff, and I'm not the type to watch the screen for any discrepancies, but that one kind of jumped out at me. I would have gladly paid for the limes at the correct price, and was really only looking to save the $3 discrepancy. So that was a nice little bonus for me.

[greensinestro]

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Again, I was not SEEKING free stuff, and I'm not the type to watch the screen for any discrepancies, but that one kind of jumped out at me. I would have gladly paid for the limes at the correct price, and was really only looking to save the $3 discrepancy. So that was a nice little bonus for me.

That's awesome. I'm like that, too. Mistakes are made, but I not once expect to get something for free because of it. That's way beyond the call of duty. Great customer service, too.

[UncleImpy]

The Albertson's next to my apartment has a policy like that...if an item rings up wrong, you get one free. Of course, like I memorize the prices of my cartload of groceries, so Im sure I've missed several opportunities to capitalize on that...

[Gabrielle Proctor]

My boyfriend and I were in publix. He decided he wanted a salad. While he was looking through the pre-made salads for a good one, he stumbled across a salad the was $0.02! It was mislabeled by one of the staff. Needless to say, he snatched it up and got another one since the first one was practically free.


At the hobby shop, we have a few clearence items. A customer will pick one out, take it to the front, and say, "Is this 75% off?" To which I reply, "That's what the big, neon orange sticker placed strategically on the front of the item says."

[Estil]

Folks, that was not a SC, that was just a downright THIEF.

[chainedbarista]

yes, a thief, a really stupid thief.

finally, dishonesty gets its just reward!

[ditchdj]

The biggest thing that gets me is the fact that, five years ago, I used to see these suckers at Sam's Club with a price tag of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!! And this tool is too stupid to realize that he's practically getting it for free already with it being only 900 dollars! People these days....

[Kara]

Haha!

/Nelson