A Long Con at the Bookstore
“I used to work at Walden Books back in the day. There was a dude who used to routinely come in and buy bargain books. He would then go home and come back another time with the bargain books with the stickers ripped off to return them and claim he didn’t have a receipt.
We would then have to give him store credit for the price that the books rang up as (always more than the discounted bargain sticker). He would then come back at a later time and use the store credit to buy full priced books.
He would then come back one final time and return the books with a receipt for cash. It used to irritate me when he would do this because I knew what he was doing and there wasn’t anything I could do about it.
Interestingly enough, this very same man would become a supervisor of mine at another place I worked at later and was a pretty cool guy. I never mentioned to him that I knew about his scheme, but even if I told him, he would have [not cared]. Story credit: Reddit / sk4ht