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Article #9287Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: Geoff Gass
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:04
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:04
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John A. Weeks III <john@johnweeks.com> wrote: > In article <slrndrtm0d.kf8.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com>, > Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote: >> Sneaked past? Have you been to a Best Buy lately? Sometimes the door >> guy is friendly and helpful, other times napping, other times not even >> there. "inventory control point"? If they had a *sign* saying "get >> your returns marked here", sure, but they don't. > > If the inventory control person (yellow shirt) isn't there, then > activity is recorded on video. In this case, the original poster > admitted that he sneaked into the outdoor and bypassed both the > inventory control point and was not captured on the entry cameras. > While it appears that BBY has a hole in their system, the guy was > clearly doing something unusual by not using the public "IN" door. WTF is this mystical "inventory control point" you keep referencing. I've never seen such a label in a store. As for going in the out door, people do that all the damned time.
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X-Google-Thread: 107518,819a8a372102d669 X-Google-Thread: 10e835,a8473bea7e4a41f8 X-Google-Thread: f765b,a8473bea7e4a41f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,gid10e835,gidf765b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!gail.ripco.com!not-for-mail From: Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> Newsgroups: misc.consumers,chi.general,mn.general Subject: Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Tanzen mit Blumen Lines: 18 Message-ID: <slrndrtmq1.kf8.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> References: <RZguf.281$WY5.265@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <43b9b895$0$828$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> <fi3lr1po2eqfesohsgsem3m9ckj8bom3vp@4ax.com> <43bb1aa0$0$813$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> <dpjlr3$su@u1.netgate.net> <43bd9d83$0$815$8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net> <slrndrr7n0.t5r.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> <john-8DA08A.18490305012006@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net> <slrndrtm0d.kf8.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com> <john-DC069A.14573506012006@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net> Reply-To: glg@tanzenmb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.146.78.166 X-Trace: e250.ripco.com 1136581809 9996 216.146.78.166 (6 Jan 2006 21:10:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ripco.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:10:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)