• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      Agreed.

      If you’re gonna steal groceries, might as well pick up stuff that the dealer needs and deliver them to his door for full price + delivery fee.

      With how crazy prices are getting at the supermarket, might as well start selling smuggled eggs from dark corners…

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    I come from poverty. I’ll tell you the family secrets that have been passed down for many a generations.

    Now , I acknowledge it’s getting harder to do this for some items. But it’s still viable.

    Let’s say you buy an Xbox and it stops working.

    You go buy a new one. Take it apart, switch out the guts, return the broken one with the new casing. This is harder to do than it used to be. But it’s still possible to do this on a multitude of electronics. Microwaves. Appliances. Stereos. Etc.

    Pretty sure my brother got 2 Xboxs “fixed” this way.

    Let’s say you need a power tool for a job. Buy it. Use it . Return it.

    You should only use it lightly so you can return it without issues.

    Have a tv and lose the remote. But a new one. Take the remote. Return the tv. They rarely check for remote and if they do say it wasn’t in the box.

    And like the meme says. You can buy and steal the same item so you can return the stolen one with the receipt.

    Just recently I mentioned how my drill wasn’t working right and first thing fam said was “just go get the same one at the Walmart and switch out the casing.”.

    I’m like yeah I know but it’s so much work …

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      I worked with a dude when I was in college that used to buy broken TVs on eBay and swap out the guts, return them, and then sell the TVs to people on eBay.

      He was banned from a couple Walmarts around town because they caught on to what he was doing, but couldn’t actually prove he was doing fraud because we would also remove and re-solder the internal serial numbers back on the returned tv.

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      I’ve done the tool “borrow” quite a bit with Amazon because fuck em. If I need a specific tool for a job on my car or something that I’ll only use once. The Amazon returns also never check condition so it’s a bit easier

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    Also some libraries carry power tools and kitchen tools that you can borrow if you need something only occasionally

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    Don’t they ask for the card that was paid?

    I guess you could look for a cash transaction.

    If I shopped at Walmart maybe I would leave my receipt more often.

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      Don’t they ask for the card that was paid?

      I think they’ll usually give you a gift card instead if you ask, though.

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      If the receipt was for a purchase paid on a card, they would ask if you want your refund charged back to the original card or if you would just like a Walmart gift card.

      If you happened to find a receipt that had been paid in cash, then great. Walmart would just issue you cash for the return and you can skip the step of swapping the gift card with a friend for half the face value in cash