Cheating Goodwill :-)

[Lord Helmet]

My local thrift store has signs everywhere saying "No price tag, no sale."

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Which I would interpret as "If there is no price tag, it's not for sale"

 

Correct?

 

I got the impression from Mike OC that he believes that if there is no price...it is free to steal

Edited December 12, 2005 by Lord Helmet

[n8littlefield]

If I had a nickel for everytime I heard that argument when I worked retail...

 

"Oh it doesn't scan, then it must be free...ha ha ha ha"

 

"Ha ha sir, I've never heard that before - now if you don't mind I'm going to try to end my life with this bag of onions."

[A2600]

Was the cart itself marked with a price?

If not, you didn't steal it.

If it was already in the toaster it goes for the price of the toaster. Stuff at thrift stores is sold as-is.

Your only mistake was posting the info in the first place.

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Well the carts are never priced, they all cost 2.99

[A2600]

"Oh it doesn't scan, then it must be free...ha ha ha ha"

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problem is that I dont let the customers say it, I say it myself and then proceed to key in the UPC, all fails I say "Code 6 in the Photo Lab, Code 6"

[spikey911]

You know... I dont really have a problem with what he did. Listen to what I did...

 

Just yesterday, I went to Mervyn's and got my mom some clothes and stuff for Christmas. I wanted the stuff gift wrapped, so I took it to the gift wrap department. The lady was really nice and wrapped all the stuff very nicely. One little problem though... I was never rung up for the items... only the gift wrap. I didn't even think about it until last night when I was taking the stuff out of the car.

 

The differnce here is that I didn't do it on purpose... I felt kinda bad, but at the same time I am not about to spend time and money driving back to Albuquerque just to take care of what amounts to an employee's mistake.

 

Does that make me just as bad as the first guy?

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Yeah... You certainly knew you did not get charged for the clothes when you payed....

 

Wrapping paper and clothes certainly are not of equal value and anyone that has any common sense would have figured that one out at the register..

 

It was not your fault, but you could have corrected it at the store the very moment they gave you an amount far less than what you were expecting...

 

Instead, you probably went to your car and looked at the receipt, then decided not to go back in, or figured you would deal with it later.. (knowing you never would)

 

I would say you pretty much did the same thing as stealing, but the mistake was not completely your fault.

 

I certainly don't buy your " I did not notice unitl I got home" excuse...

[Mindfield]

Mindfield if you dont mind im going to use that pic as my avatar!

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You're welcome to it. Just remember to say "...but DAAyyyveeee!" once in a while.

[supercat]

I certainly don't buy your " I did not notice unitl I got home" excuse...

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Busy people often sign credit card slips without checking the amount. Foolish, perhaps, but hardly uncommon.

[A2600]

Mindfield if you dont mind im going to use that pic as my avatar!

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You're welcome to it. Just remember to say "...but DAAyyyveeee!" once in a while.

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Im going to make it my holiday avatar, when holiday palooza is over are swtch to my TALK ATARI

[MattG/Snyper2099]

You know... I dont really have a problem with what he did. Listen to what I did...

 

Just yesterday, I went to Mervyn's and got my mom some clothes and stuff for Christmas. I wanted the stuff gift wrapped, so I took it to the gift wrap department. The lady was really nice and wrapped all the stuff very nicely. One little problem though... I was never rung up for the items... only the gift wrap. I didn't even think about it until last night when I was taking the stuff out of the car.

 

The differnce here is that I didn't do it on purpose... I felt kinda bad, but at the same time I am not about to spend time and money driving back to Albuquerque just to take care of what amounts to an employee's mistake.

 

Does that make me just as bad as the first guy?

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Yeah... You certainly knew you did not get charged for the clothes when you payed....

 

Wrapping paper and clothes certainly are not of equal value and anyone that has any common sense would have figured that one out at the register..

 

It was not your fault, but you could have corrected it at the store the very moment they gave you an amount far less than what you were expecting...

 

Instead, you probably went to your car and looked at the receipt, then decided not to go back in, or figured you would deal with it later.. (knowing you never would)

 

I would say you pretty much did the same thing as stealing, but the mistake was not completely your fault.

 

I certainly don't buy your " I did not notice unitl I got home" excuse...

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That's the employee's fault. I wouldn't feel guilty about it. Although, if I noticed it in the store, I would mention it.

[rockman_x_2002]

Im under 21 so I'll have the natural eggnog

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Quite all right. I'm 21, but I don't drink alcohol so I'm pouring the stuff that's good for anyone.

[A2600]

Im under 21 so I'll have the natural eggnog

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Quite all right. I'm 21, but I don't drink alcohol so I'm pouring the stuff that's good for anyone.

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Yeah I forgot that there are also some 13 year olds flying around in here!!

(you have to be atleast 13 to register in AA right?)

[shadow460]

You know... I dont really have a problem with what he did. Listen to what I did...

 

Just yesterday, I went to Mervyn's and got my mom some clothes and stuff for Christmas. I wanted the stuff gift wrapped, so I took it to the gift wrap department. The lady was really nice and wrapped all the stuff very nicely. One little problem though... I was never rung up for the items... only the gift wrap. I didn't even think about it until last night when I was taking the stuff out of the car.

 

The differnce here is that I didn't do it on purpose... I felt kinda bad, but at the same time I am not about to spend time and money driving back to Albuquerque just to take care of what amounts to an employee's mistake.

 

Does that make me just as bad as the first guy?

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Call 'em and tell 'em.

I ordered a motherboard one time, and the computer store shipped me two of them. I guess it was a mistake. I called them and left a message for them to call back regarding a shipping error.

They never called back, so I sold the extra board.

 

I wouldn't drive all the way back to the store, either, unless you're headed that way for something else. That's why we've got telephones.

[n8littlefield]

I'm 28 - hardly drink at all, but let me tell you I make a mean Coffee-Nog (French Vanilla Coffee with Egg Nog instead of creamer, top with whipped cream and cinamon - no alcohol unless it's been a long day at work!)

[Nintendo Penguin]

I certainly don't buy your " I did not notice unitl I got home" excuse...

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Busy people often sign credit card slips without checking the amount. Foolish, perhaps, but hardly uncommon.

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Thank you... thats pretty much what happened. I was busy talking and thinking about other shopping I needed to do... I just screwed up.

[donkeykong1]

I certainly don't buy your " I did not notice unitl I got home" excuse...

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Busy people often sign credit card slips without checking the amount. Foolish, perhaps, but hardly uncommon.

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Thank you... thats pretty much what happened. I was busy talking and thinking about other shopping I needed to do... I just screwed up.

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I say just keep it, it is the employee's fault for not checking. Similar things have happened to me in the past and I just keep the item. It's funny because this type of thing happened to me at the same Target store two weeks in a row. My girl and I were shopping and as we unloaded the cart, somehow we missed a small item on the bottom, the clerk did not check it so we left and realized it when we were packing our car. Oh well, it was not intentional on either part. I wasn't gonna go back in there on a busy afternoon. It was bad enough we were in line for ever.

Edited December 14, 2005 by donkeykong1

[Atari_Owl]

old men's magazines

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Why would you want magazines filled with old men?

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I don't think they're full of old men, but FOR old men,

you know about wearing cardigans and slippers, smoking a pipe, eating Werthers etc

[JimmydelaKopin]

To quote Daffy Duck:

"Ho ho, very funny; ha ha, it is to laugh."

 

The magazines I was talking about were what passed for men's magazines in the 50's. Thus, old men's magazines.

As such, even a Tijuana bible was racier than any of them. Their prose fiction contained no foul language or adult situations; their photo arrays only showed women in short shorts and perhaps with a low-cut blouse or a button shirt unbuttoned enough to show cleavage. No sex, no nudity, no swearing--except in the little cartoons here and there.

Like I said, the guy who sold them to me thought he had tricked me into buying non-nudie books I thought were nudie books. But I had actually tricked him into selling rare magazines containing examples of postCode writing and artwork of preCode writers and artists--a transition period for certain artists and writers, if you will. Given that dealers who actually dealth professionally with such magazines usually sold them for about $10 a book, getting them for about $1 a book from the guy was a huge bargain.

There. That should explain everything.

[sega saturn x]

Not something I could really judge, since a about a year back I almost shopped lifted myself. I didn't of course, but I came close. It was just a 5$ game from a shitty used game store. But the guilt was palpable from the second I thought about it. So before I got to the register I made sure I paid for it. But the manager or whatever he was saw what I had done, I paid and left. I do find it mildly irionic he saw me undoing what I had done (I had stuck a loose game in a boxed game).

 

I felt terrible. As I should have, it really made me look at myself. Now I would never do such a thing, and I don't honestly think I ever could have. Well at least I learned from my near mistake.

[shadow460]

I use the line "no price...it must be free" all the time.

It's just a joke for me, though. I know better.

 

Some of the local thrifts actually do have free products on the shelves. If you find one that's marked free, you get it free provided you purchase something else.

[okto]

Asshole.

[NovaXpress]

Asshole.

It took you three months to come up with that response?

[Atari-Jess]

cheating Value Village is okay though, they only are chairitable to their executives.

 

(Or 'Savers' if thats what they're called in your area)

[Atari-Jess]

you know about wearing cardigans and slippers, smoking a pipe, eating Werthers etc

 

*slowly slides out of the room in a cloud of smoke making a scraping sound with his slippers as a few empty candy wrappers hit the floor*

[+Allan]

Asshole.

It took you three months to come up with that response?

 

He actually went into a cave for three months and meditated to get this answer. Honest!

 

Allan

[jbanes]

Asshole.

 

He already went back to Goodwill, apologized, and fixed it. What more do you want out of him? A pound of flesh?

 

(Be warned. I hear he has a very good Italian lawyer. )