On Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:59:15 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/31/2014 9:36 AM, bob haller wrote:

This occured in pittsburgh area



I wondered why people ALWAYS had HD and lowes cards on craigslists for big bucks, like 500 bucks and up.



This scheme reportedly cost HD and lowes over a million bucks



Walk in store, get a big flat cart, pick up high value items all over the store, push cart to returns desk, conveniently located inside store, no need to go outdoors



Return the items you never paid for, since you have no receipt they give you gift cards which you sell later, on craiglist at bargain prices.



Use one of your many fake driver licenses.. since they record who you are.



Get wealthy, stores sees MAJOR shrink, and finally catches the thieves.



Theft ring now get 3 hots and a cot in prison.....





A thief is still a thief, but stores make it too easy for them to be

one. The easy return policy makes the store user friendly and exposes

them to fraud. They really have to tighten up on this type of thing.

It did not cost HD and Lowes a million bucks, it cost the rest of us

that much.



Lowes now will ask your phone number to make for easy returns. They can

easily associate the phone number with the item bought to see it was

legit.

I was told that locally the photo every persons face returning things. I rarely return anything!