There are idgets in this world..
7I bought a 3tb external hard drive from Walmart on Clearance for $54. It looked like it’d been opened - but the product itself looked new in plastic inside. The Employee said I could return it if anything was wrong… I didn’t think any more of it.
This was a month ago. I haven’t felt like trying to get it to work until today.
However, when I plug it in, it doesn’t work.
I then look at it closer - and I noticed that it had been returned - and whoever returned it switched the hard drive inside with a cheap 80gb caviar hard drive.
Hopefully they’ll accept the return - should I mention the previous returnee’s behavior or just let it slip through the cracks?
I have the receipt.
/giphy supernatural idget
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That asshole! Nope - let them know someone pulled a switcharoo.
@mfladd That’s my plan. Talk to the manager about it.
My husband came home with a box of books one day. Says look and see if you want any of them, the rest I’ll donate. I wanted to know who gave him the books. He’s a manager at Home Depot. Apparently someone returned a saw, still in the box. The employee didn’t check it out so when Dean opened it the next day…wala a box of books instead of the 100.00 saw that should have been in there. It’s happened at least once since. I never knew all the ways people think up in order to steal from businesses until I met my husband. It’s interesting…to me…to him, not so much.
/giphy hard drive thief
@mehbee most interesting gif.
I work for one of his competitors. I understand his pain.
@RiotDemon For a minute I thought you meant the guy in the gif and was like, “what the fuck kind of business is that…?”
@Al_Coholic I’m still trying to figure that out.
I once returned an item to Best Buy and they pretty much gave me and the product the 3rd degree. Not only did they take everything out of the box, they got someone from that department to look at it and confirm all the components were there. It took about 30 minutes to get that returned.
What if it was missing something when I bought it? Would I then be accountable for the missing items? When I buy something, I never see them open the box at the register and confirm everything is there before I leave the store so it’s unfair of them to scrutinize it that much when I return it. Maybe if the entire product was missing, that’s grounds for refusing a refund but if a cable was missing, is that my fault?
I bought a dehydrator from a B&M store and when I got home, it was missing the storage bag that was a product listed on the box as something being included. So what would happen if I tried to return it? Lucky for me, I called the manufacturer and they sent me the storage bag but what if they didn’t?
@cengland0 We bought a food processor from Best Buy a while back. Opened the package up the next day to find that two essential pieces were missing and the food container/bowl had encrusted food in it.
We figure someone had the same model, broke a couple parts of it, bought a new one, then put their own damaged and unwashed processor into the new box. I seldom buy much at Best Buy, but when we do we stand in the store and open it to check for completeness.
They prefer the term ittle eople.
@Starblind wait, widgets like to be called ittle eople? very strange
next time i’m at the bar with widgets, i’ll try this out
skeleton walks into the bar and says…