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Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
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Date: 
Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:46:43 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Tim Coats writes:
A couple of months ago I bought some Lego from Toys R Us.  Later that
afternoon some sleazebag broke the window of my car and stole it.  (They
broke a $165.00 window to get $15.00 worth of Lego)

A friend of my father's had his window broken so someone could steal two
quarters once.

Anyway, what is even worse is, since it was in its original bag with
reciept they took it back to Toys R Us and returned it for cash.  We
found this out and got as much info. from Toys R Us about the offending
person.  Of course the info. they gave Toys R Us for the refund was
fraudulent.  They didn't even check ID.

How are they supposed to check?  How would they know who purchsed the set?  For
all they know, you could've given the set to that person.  They aren't psychic,
you know.

Jeff



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  Re: My Toys R Us Nightmare
 
(...) This is a very good point. Many stores don't even require a reciept any more. One somewhat funny story I have is of a warehouse worker at a company that I used to work for got caught stealing some relatively expensive consumer product. The (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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  My Toys R Us Nightmare
 
A couple of months ago I bought some Lego from Toys R Us. Later that afternoon some sleazebag broke the window of my car and stole it. (They broke a $165.00 window to get $15.00 worth of Lego, the asshole) Anyway, what is even worse is, since it was (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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