[4honor @ Nov 22nd 2007 4:06PM]

what a noob... didn't he think that retailers can just track you back down if you an credit card?

[Adrian Williams @ Nov 22nd 2007 4:09PM]

They said if he used a credit card which I highly doubt and if they have him on camera he/she just don't have to go back to that store

[4honor @ Nov 22nd 2007 4:18PM]

I read some more into the incident, which now I think the store clerk and the thief are probably in this together... I mean, no return/CS rep is THAT stupid/lazy right? Sigh...

[Joshua Walters @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:12PM]

Yes, they are that lazy. I return crap to Wall*mart all the time and they never check it.

I had a friend pull something like that, but not as bad. His console was banned from Xbox live, so he bought a 360, swapped the insides and kept the HDD (it was an elite, he had a Pro), returned it.

He got away with it I guess. I mean, they didnt catch him then, and its been about 6 months since.

[erhan @ Nov 23rd 2007 12:45AM]

Its called cash and not giving your info to them. Also It is easy to do this kind of crap. You can even open the box from the bottom by undoing the folds take the xbox and put Dog Crap wraped in aluminum foil and put it back like you never opened it and return it for cash. If they give you store credit. You quickly use that to buy 2 giftcards and sell it to someone or on ebay.( you might loose a little money but what the heck). Its easy and people do this stuff all the time. The CA are not dumb.
this is funny, although a textbook? put something funny man like a clown that pops out when you open it. jeeez.

[kyle @ Nov 23rd 2007 12:08AM]

yeah, csr's can be that lazy/dumb. i used to work at a big box, and we would get all kinds of stuff returned. people used to buy bike helmets and return the visor for a full refund. if you have the balls to ask, you can return virtually anything.

[WS @ Nov 23rd 2007 6:04AM]

There is not legal recourse here. The employee should have checked the box... plain and simple. By accepting the return and issuing the refund, the clerk accepted whatever was in the box. They may have thought it was an XBox 360, but it obviously wasn't. Too bad for Wal-Mart... legally, there is nothing they can do.

[mattclarkie @ Nov 23rd 2007 6:40AM]

I am not sure if you have Argos in the States, but it is basically a shop which has a catalogue, sells lots of stuff.

I bought a router from them as it was cheap. I got it home without checking it, and the box was unsealed, all the cables were missing, and the thing didn't work. Someone had clearly just returned it and it was put back up for sale. At the same time I returned to the shop to complain about it, someone was returning a TV they just didn't want (he said I don't like this tv, but that it worked fine) without even having the original box, and they actually gave a refund.

If is quite shocking what some shop assistants will refund.