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Re: 6769 Fort Legoredo on sale at Shop At Home!!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:05:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Aaron West writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In what way is opening multiple packages and rearranging the assortments not
> > > theft? If you don't like the assortment don't buy it, but what is the shop
> > > to do with the opened packages you've left behind after you fished your
> > > favorite colors of underwear out so you could have what you wanted?
> >
> > Well, actually -- I repackage the underwear I don't want so it's identical
> > to it's original packaging except for the color varieties, perfectly fit for
> > selling and I doubt anyone even notices. I do actually pay for the
> > assortments I have arranged for myself, BTW.
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> You know, looking at this as "the consumer who reaches the underwear
> department after Richard", it would make me kind of sick. The impression
> would be that someone went to the dressing room with said three-pack of
> underwear and tried them on! Bleeah!! So as a consumer, I WOULD NOT BUY
> the packages pilfered by Richard. In the store's policy, these items are
> what we call "shrink", i.e. loss of profit due to the tampering or theft of
> an item. This causes the store to lose, prices to rise and consumers to
> vomit upon picking up "suspected" dirty underwear! BIG SURPRISE FOR
> RICHARD: You can buy black underwear by the single brief! Of course, that
> would assume you are honest, not cheap and buy the product designed for you.
> If you really want to save yourself some bucks, just go find a post
> back-to-school backpack sale, pile your underwear in it and find a 16 year
> old clerk on the phone to her boyfriend and get what you really want :op
Sans quite that invective, I agree. Yeah, it sucks that
they don't make the assortment you want, but it's selfish,
crude, and technically illegal to go about opening packages.
It's called product tampering at the very least, theft and
fraud at its very worst. Most stores--even in California--have
a policy that if you open a package, you've got to buy it.
And congratulate yourself all you want, but I'd bet dollars
to donuts that your repackaging efforts aren't nearly so
seamless as you like to think. This is especially true when
considering what you're repackaging--it's one thing to rewrap
a toaster power cord slightly irregularly, it's another thing
to repack undies for a body of consumers that is very wary
about what touches their naughties (e.g., most everyone save
Richard and Wilt Chamberlain). F-O-U-L foul.
> Aaron (buy's colored underwear packages, AND wears the red rocketship
> designs fondly recalling Calvin comics)
Wow, that really IS too much information. I cry foul! FOUL!
best
LFB
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| (...) You know, looking at this as "the consumer who reaches the underwear department after Richard", it would make me kind of sick. The impression would be that someone went to the dressing room with said three-pack of underwear and tried them on! (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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