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Post by RancidPunkMJL on Jul 13, 2003 18:46:52 GMT -5
you know when you want crap but its too big to steal and you dont have the money, well this is what you do:
1. Steal something with a good price and small enough to sneak out.(make sure it doesnt require a reciept for money back.. if it does look around outside or the in the back lot of the store they alwasy have reciepts there)
2. Go back to the store late or the next day and say it doesnt work for blah blah blah and get your money back.
3. now you have the money for the thing you want that is too big too steal....YAY ;D
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Post by Stone on Jul 13, 2003 21:06:45 GMT -5
An easier way would be to just find the reciept, then go into the store and pick up the product off the shelf, then go to the desk and claim money back. No stealing involved = less risk involved.
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Post by Covert Op on Jul 13, 2003 21:54:14 GMT -5
An easier way would be to just find the reciept, then go into the store and pick up the product off the shelf, then go to the desk and claim money back. No stealing involved = less risk involved. When the product is sold it inactivates the barcode
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Post by Stone on Jul 13, 2003 22:01:04 GMT -5
Inactivates the barcode? Unless the barcodes in America are different to the ones here (Ireland), then thats fucking impossible.
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Post by RancidPunkMJL on Jul 13, 2003 22:04:16 GMT -5
thats why the metal detector doesnt go off because the bar-code deactivates...but then again some stores if u buy something from sumwhere else will actually set of the detector
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Post by Stone on Jul 13, 2003 22:06:06 GMT -5
So are the barcodes in America made out of metal? Here they are printed on the package. The barcode reader reads the lines and therefore the info contained, that's all.
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Post by RancidPunkMJL on Jul 13, 2003 22:08:35 GMT -5
well yeah and some are printed too....but im guessin that its some other kind of detector
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Post by janke on Jul 13, 2003 22:10:03 GMT -5
Actually barcodes ALWAYS stay the same, what is inactivated is the metal underneath the barcode that sets the metal detectors off.
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Post by RancidPunkMJL on Jul 13, 2003 22:12:57 GMT -5
yeah but there are some detectors that sound off even if its paper printed on the item
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Post by Stone on Jul 13, 2003 22:30:54 GMT -5
Here, there is no metal near the barcode. So I guess the system is different in America. It just contains the product name and price here. And the barcode doesn't change after being scanned.
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Post by janke on Jul 13, 2003 22:39:35 GMT -5
An easier way would be to just find the reciept, then go into the store and pick up the product off the shelf, then go to the desk and claim money back. No stealing involved = less risk involved. wait why wouldnt ^that^ work?
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Post by Way2Drunk2Walk on Jul 20, 2003 22:33:22 GMT -5
The barcodes in Ireland have the same principal as the ones in the US. It is paper and ink, nothing more. The "barcode" you guys were thinking of is the little tag they stick onto/into the product. That sets off the alarm. It uses either radio waves of magnetic fields.
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Post by D°©tª·D [DD] on Jul 20, 2003 22:53:29 GMT -5
Every batch of one product which is sent into a retailer has exactly the same number on the barcode.
The easiest example I can think of is a pint of milk. Say 1000 pints of milk come into a business on a day, all exactly the same type, same Use By date etc. These will all have exactly the same number. When another batch comes in, they will all have a different number assigned to the whole batch.
When this is scanned through a check-out, the computer takes a number (a) from the total number which were in stock (b) which gives the new number in stock (c) c=b-a
When c=0 and the barcode in question is tried, there will be a problem and it will not be scanned.
However, with large, more expensive products, there could be a seperate barcode number for every product... I don't honestly know.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Jul 28, 2003 4:09:14 GMT -5
Heh heh...once again, the barcodes don't set anything off. You're thinking of the security tags and/or circuits. Anyway, they don't check those, so it doesn't matter. Picking an item off the shelf to return it will work perfectly.
...I really wish more people would throw out their receipts right at the door.
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Post by madscientist on Oct 4, 2003 23:38:59 GMT -5
Maybe it's not such a viable method of immediately acquiring the proverbial free lunch in cash form (unless, of course, you have a magnetic ink printer), but it could still serve as a source of free items. Buy your TV (pay cash) and take it home. Then come back the next day with the receipt, pick one up inside, and "return" it. The TV sitting before the easy chair is now a gift, courtesy of Wal-Mart. You could then sell it on eBay if you're looking for cash.
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