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  • #1

    Movie Scammer

    The "renting lockers" thread just reminded me of this. It happened a little while back, but I still remember it pretty clearly.
    Two movies just came out, Who's Your Caddy and Wild Hogs. It was a relatively busy night and I was there with my new manager helping him to get to know the system. Suddenly this girl comes flying in the store and confidently walks up to the register.

    ME: Hello!
    SC: Who's Your Caddy and Wild Hogs.
    ME: What about them?
    SC: I'm here to get them.
    ME: Okay, they're on the new release wall. (at this point, I'm thinking she's just entitled...)
    SC: no! I left them here a few days ago and the manager said he'd put them aside for me so I could pick them up today.
    Me: oh...um...

    Cue me and my coworker ripping the damn store apart looking for her "rentals".
    Me: Do you know who you talked to?
    SC: no, it was my mom who spoke with him.
    me: okay, what's your account under?
    SC: no! I bought them brand new!
    Me: you bought them brand new and left them here?
    SC: yes! I paid for these and I want them now!
    me: Do you have your receipt?
    SC: NO! IT WAS WITH THE MOVIES!
    Me: and you're positive it was this store?
    SC: YES! IT'S THE ONLY ONE WE EVER GO TO!!!
    Me: (thinking: oh shit oh shit oh shit)

    Then it occurs to me...I quickly look up both Who's Your Caddy and Wild Hogs to see exactly what we have in inventory and what we've ever had shipped in. Something odd appears. We have never received a sellable copy of either of the movies, just rental copies. I quickly show this to the new manager and turn back to SC who is still losing her mind.
    SC: HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE THEM I NEED THESE MOVIES YOU'VE STOLEN MY MONEY BLAH BLAH BLAH
    Me: Ma'am, we've NEVER had any copies of either of these movies for sale.
    SC: -largest eyes I've ever seen- ...yes?
    Me: -just shakes my head- no...
    We stand there for a few minutes and then she takes off like a bat out of hell, yelling out the door.
    SC: HAHAHA. OOPS! MUST BE THE WRONG STORE. HAHAHA.

    The customers in line had a good laugh and I quickly called the other stores in the area to warn them about what happened. She didn't try it at any of the other stores.
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  • #2
    Quoth videodrone View Post

    The customers in line had a good laugh and I quickly called the other stores in the area to warn them about what happened. She didn't try it at any of the other stores.
    pity that... no one else got to have a chance to put her in her place. (i'd have enjoyed her trying that stunt with me and telling her something like "that trick didn't work with (coworker at other store), why do you think it will work with me"
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    • #3
      "Who's your caddy?"
      Really?
      *toddles off to IMDB*
      Oh... kay...
      "Wow, really, you tried to scam a copy of that movie from us? I'm about this close to just handing you a copy and saying 'Congrats'..."
      "I call murder on that!"

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      • #4
        LoL... I used to work for Blockbuster... combined 3 years. People were always so entitled when they came in there.
        I work at Walgreens.

        (I'm just tired of mentioning it every time I want to relate to a story. )

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        • #5
          Quoth Juwl View Post
          "Who's your caddy?"
          Really?
          *toddles off to IMDB*
          Oh... kay...
          "Wow, really, you tried to scam a copy of that movie from us? I'm about this close to just handing you a copy and saying 'Congrats'..."

          yeah, I was thinking about the same thing:

          Oh, heck take the whole supply..
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          • #6
            I'm actually kinda impressed with her approach. She had you going there for a while. But yeah, for those movies? Sad.
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            • #7
              Quoth Juwl View Post
              "Who's your caddy?"
              Never heard of it ... (and I deal with quite a few movies ...)


              ::Follows Juwl's toddlings over to IMDB::


              Really? Is she serious? She "would have" paid newly released DVD price for that? It only got a 1.6 ... out of 10 ....


              Oh dear ....
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              • #8
                Question:

                If this really was a scam, wouldn't this person be busted before they got the movies either way? Even if there were by chance two sealed copies of those movies located, there would be no receipt with them, even though the scammer claimed there was.

                Most stores I know will not let you just leave with merchandise unless you have a receipt to claim it.
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                • #9
                  Excuse me.



                  Oh geeze... Who's your Caddy? Why?!?!?
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                  • #10
                    Basically she was saying her receipt from her purchase was with the movies she purchased the previous day. That way when we say "no movies without receipt" she can pull a "but you're the ones who lost it".
                    At least, that's how I interpreted it. I'm not ruling out that she could've just been a very confused person. I certainly wouldn't have been comfortable enough calling her out on it directly.

                    as for Who's Your Caddy...if I owned the store, she would've been welcome to them. We did end up destroying most of them in the end because no one wanted them.

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                    • #11
                      I can understand the scam attempt...but why those movies? Why not go after movies that don't suck? I mean, if you're going to steal something, at least steal something remotely valuable.

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