ConnedswiftyisNOTevil writes, "I have recently become obsessed with the BBC Three show 'The Real Hustle' - personally, I think of it as a 'How To' show for aspiring con artists."
Have you carried out a successful con? Perhaps you hustled a few quid off a stranger, or defrauded a multi-national company. Or have you been taken for the wide-eyed, naive rube that you are?
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chthonic, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 13:02)
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Tescos PoliciesI used to work at Tesco's and became aware of the following method of working their policy system, mainly because they told us about it...
At the time, and it probably still is, Tesco's had a policy whereby if you had an item double-scanned they would refund the extra charge AND the charge of the item as goodwill. We were told that to avoid people taking the piss, if we got two items on the checkout we should scan one, then scan some other miscellaneous item and then scan the other so they weren't next to each other on the receipt as that is the only way customer services could tell.
So basically, if you buy two identical items in your shopping and find the checkout troll has scanned them without splitting them up, you can go and get your money back and two free items to do what you will with. "For example" you could purchase two £15 electric toothbrushes and then take back the receipt claiming to have been charged twice and get them both refunded. They are essentially giving things away free...
This may not work on anything of substantial value though.
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 10:00, Reply)
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