13-year-old Brandon Burns thought he’d received a Playstation 3 for Christmas. Sadly for Brandon, the box contained a local phone book and not a PS3. He wasn’t upset, just amused. His reaction:
“Dang, those elves jacked my Playstation.”
His parents, however, are pissed. They paid $500 for a phone book. Brandon’s mom says that she’ll try to return the phone book to EB Games, but is fairly certain that they “won’t believe her.”
Brandon’s mom, if you’re out there, don’t bother trying to return the console to the employees who stole it in the first place. You’re the victim of fraud and you should do a chargeback. Your credit card company has fraud protection. Use it!
Teen Opens PlayStation 3 Box, Finds Phone Book Inside! [MyFoxDC] (Thanks, Fred!)
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Similiar situation only with a game. We had a toys R US that was goinf under and liqquidating everything. I bought a habd full of games from them and one did not have a game in th box. What really sucked is they were makking the backs of the games wiht a marker, at leat they were suppose to. The gut was not doinf his job and did not mark my games. When i got home i realized one of the games was out of its plastic. It still had that tag over the top, so i did not think much of it. I opened the box and NO GAME. I returned to the store abd they did not bealive me. I pointed out i had bought several games and i i was trying to cheet the store, why would i choose the cheepest game. It only cost 20$ and the others were at least 30 +$. Well I folded, i wanted the game so i went back was was going to purchuse another copy, but I tld the cashier that he was a lier. He claimed to mark the box, but he knew damed wwll he did not. i tid him i wanted him to open the box in frot of me, i would even pay for it firts, he refused and i demended a manager. The manage came and said that they had found several video game boxes in the bathroom and they were empty. I got the game replaced after all.
I have to agree it was probobly the staff who were stealing. I had so much trouble from the guy who cheked me out, I caught him in several lies. I was not like He had a job to worrry about loosing the store was closing for good in a week. I really think He knew that it was a copy with no game thats why he did not marl it.
Itr is reallt sad that you have to be so carful there days. you should be able to trust that when you buy something it is what you think it is.
or maybe it was just a dumb employee who accidentally sold an empty display box to the parents (Could have had a phone-book in it to keep it from falling over whenever someone opened the door). They could have rushed up with a console box they grabbed to try to avoid those crazy Wii-grubber holiday shoppers and said “Can I pay for this?”. Sure! It won’t scan. Don’t worry, I’ll type in the code….. **chirp** and we all know the rest…
I really do hope they get this taken care of… It’s got to suck. a lot.
@Buran:
Which is five minutes that they probably didn’t have – this is the holiday season, after all.
If they’d taken the five minutes to check, someone else would be writing about how it took them an extra five minutes in line because some asshole at EB didn’t trust the customer who returned a PS3.
@Buran:
Now *THAT* was illegally scamming the customer.
@vliam:
Good point, I must’ve skipped the ‘local’ there.
Still, it isn’t hard for a number of people along the delivery chain to do this. It can actually be very difficult to tell if a box has been opened – all it takes is a small heat gun, and you too can enter the fun and exciting world of return/exchange fraud!