No, I Will Not Sell You 36 Game Consoles...

[Mike Taylor]

Aren't you going to feel like a jerk when you read about her in the paper because she gave Christmas presents to 36 underprivilaged inner city children.

Um, no.

See, we have policies and procedures in place for dealing with charities and other nonprofit organizations. This lady produced NO paperwork, like a tax ID, to indicate such. She DID have a handwritten scrap of notebook paper with model numbers for Wiis that would reputedly work in South America.

In any case, purchases of that size are not taken from store stock-- ever. They are handled through different channels, although the store gets credit for the sale.

[MaseMan]

I used to work in a fairly high end electronics store, and we occasionally would refuse sales to foreign customers who didn't understand that the systems they wanted wouldn't work in their native country (voltage issues). We knew they were usually trying to buy them in order to resell, which was against our company policy.