Easy Money? Feb 05, 2004 08:49:48 PM
I have found a pretty substantial flaw in the retail system! Don't ask me why, but I was in the shower when i had this epiphony. Just the other day a friend of mine was able to loan me a book i had already bought at the huge university book store. He said i could use it for the whole semester, and luckily i didnt open the one i bought yet.
Since I now had the used book, i decided to return the rediculously over-priced book, so i dug up my recipt and headed on over to the crowded university inflation outlet. I Waited in line, waited my turn, handed them the unopened book, my recipt, and the transaction was completed with almost no dialog. An easy exchange.
OK, heres the beef. What was to stop me from leaving my brand new unopened book in my dorm, walk into the bookstore with the recipt in my pocket, go straight to the textbook dept, pick up the book i intended to return, then head for the long crowded returns line, and then return the book i had just picked up off the shelf!? I would have just made my $120 back, and i'd still have the expensive text book waiting for me back home, just beckoning to be put up for autcion to turn a profit.
Now i didnt do this, it was a reality that sort of just presented itself after the fact. But someone devoid of morals could easily pull this off. i just thought i'd point this huge breach of retail protocall out. Hopefully retail will do something about this before someone else tries it.
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