Old Nick wrote:

I have actually returned an item of electronic eqipt, and specifically
said that it was stuffed. Do NOT put it back on the shelf. I came back
1/2 hour later and there it was.....

I bought a harddrive at Fry's. It was sealed
up in a nice anti-static bag. I installed it
in my computer and it booted Windows...

Jim Stewart wrote:
Old Nick wrote:

I have actually returned an item of electronic eqipt, and specifically
said that it was stuffed. Do NOT put it back on the shelf. I came back
1/2 hour later and there it was.....


I bought a harddrive at Fry's. It was sealed
up in a nice anti-static bag. I installed it
in my computer and it booted Windows...
Now the question is :

was the box stating 200GB and the drive says 60GB ? :-)

Sometimes stuff at Fry's is returned by someone not knowing what they do or
by someone that couldn't afford to do what they did.

The Windows might be customers, (check for user name within) might be from
Fry's check out desk before restock.

I guess you bought a re-packaged one.

Martin

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@ home at Lion's Lair with our computer
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"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
...
Old Nick wrote:

I have actually returned an item of electronic eqipt, and specifically
said that it was stuffed. Do NOT put it back on the shelf. I came back
1/2 hour later and there it was.....

I bought a harddrive at Fry's. It was sealed
up in a nice anti-static bag. I installed it
in my computer and it booted Windows...

Some might say that was a double slap in the face.

Shawn

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:12:32 -0700, Jim Stewart wrote:
Old Nick wrote:

I have actually returned an item of electronic eqipt, and specifically
said that it was stuffed. Do NOT put it back on the shelf. I came back
1/2 hour later and there it was.....

I bought a harddrive at Fry's. It was sealed
up in a nice anti-static bag. I installed it
in my computer and it booted Windows...

Obviously defective.

Gary

I don't buy anything t Fry's that has their restock tag on it. I once
bought a new cd-rom/sound card combo ( several years ago). It had
everything in the box, but it was old stuff. Someone bought a new one, put
their old stuff back in the new box and returned it.

I have bought one other "tagged" box and it was missing parts.

Wayne


"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
...
Old Nick wrote:

I have actually returned an item of electronic eqipt, and specifically
said that it was stuffed. Do NOT put it back on the shelf. I came back
1/2 hour later and there it was.....

I bought a harddrive at Fry's. It was sealed
up in a nice anti-static bag. I installed it
in my computer and it booted Windows...

I think alot of stores damage throwaway items on purpose to keep the
scumbags from getting it and trying to return for cash....I got a buddy that
works at a local Home Depot and thats what they do.....really ****es me off
some of the stuff I hear about.

No, it's part of the screwed up tax code. If they discard it they can
write it off as damaged goods. If they give it away, or don't insure
that it get's disposed of they have to maintain it as inventory and it
get's written off differently in a less tax advantageous manner.

My wife used to work at one of the retail chains and they frequently
had items they had to dumpster because of a scratch of some other
insignificant cosmetic flaw. She said a lot of it she would have
gladly taken home, but they wouldn't let her. They even went to the
measure of throwing things into the compacter to make sure that
employees(and others) did not go dumpster diving.

I am sure the "returns" issue is also part of the problem.

In article ,
" wrote:

wallster wrote:

I'm here to admit my addiction. If i'm driving along and i see a discarded
lawnmower or mechanical something, i have to stop and will most likely take
it. I just cant seem to pass up something that can be made to work again in
one way or another. Most of my tool carts have old wheels on them that i
found thrown away. I have also sold a couple of dozen lawnmowers over the
years that needed a little tlc to get them running. How many other people in
this newsgroup stop and pick up discarded stuff?

walt
http://www.nykeglawsucks.com
To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems.
-Homer Simpson
we all probably do.. the best laugh i had was when i stopped by the rear
of a Sears Store and you could see the wheels of a new lawnmower
sticking up from the trash.. had to stop and checked it out... well the
wheels were plastic and broken (all four of them)..no problem... then i
looked at the gas tank, split open plastic.. the i looked at the control
cables, all pulled apart and the wires cut in several places... the
plstic top cover of the new mower was also pulled off the broke, the
heat of the engine had the fins on it broken off.... it either fell of
the top shelf in storeage or the manager got mad and went to it with a
maul.... a real no nothing.... but they threw it away... i could find
nothing good on that mower and just passed on that one, but it looked
brand new, still had the stickers from the store on it.....

That's another classic "dog in the manger" outfit.

"Boss, there's a chip on the floor model. How can we sell that?"

"Easy, we don't. Write it off, then take a hammer to it and toss it in
the dumpster."

The mower you found was deliberately mangled, specifically to stop
dumpster divers from pulling it out and fixing whatever minor problem it
might have had. The logic is *SOMETHING* like "If they can pull it out
of the dumpster, why would they spend any money in here?", which, to be
honest, does make a certain amount of sense, but only if you're such a
greedy prick that you'd try to put a price sticker on the dust-bunnies
at a going out of business sale.

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Don Bruder wrote:
...
The mower you found was deliberately mangled, specifically to stop
dumpster divers from pulling it out and fixing whatever minor problem it
might have had. The logic is *SOMETHING* like "If they can pull it out
of the dumpster, why would they spend any money in here?", which, to be
honest, does make a certain amount of sense, ...

What also makes sense of mangling it is to prevent someone from pulling
it out and bringing it into the store for a refund! "Gee, I lost my
receipt for it."

A "Returns" clerk at HD once told me that they've caught people bringing
stuff from the store floor up to the Returns desk for a refund!
("Security!")

Bob

In article ,
Bob Engelhardt wrote:

Don Bruder wrote:
...
The mower you found was deliberately mangled, specifically to stop
dumpster divers from pulling it out and fixing whatever minor problem it
might have had. The logic is *SOMETHING* like "If they can pull it out
of the dumpster, why would they spend any money in here?", which, to be
honest, does make a certain amount of sense, ...

What also makes sense of mangling it is to prevent someone from pulling
it out and bringing it into the store for a refund! "Gee, I lost my
receipt for it."

There's a reason behind "No refunds/exchanges without original receipt"
signs and policies. Yes, I know - the few spoil it for the many.

A "Returns" clerk at HD once told me that they've caught people bringing
stuff from the store floor up to the Returns desk for a refund!
("Security!")

Gotta give somebody like that credit for having solid brass balls strung
up there with stainless steel cables, if nothing else...

(Not that I support them doing so, but I think you understand my point)

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In article , Don Bruder says...

A "Returns" clerk at HD once told me that they've caught people bringing
stuff from the store floor up to the Returns desk for a refund!
("Security!")

Gotta give somebody like that credit for having solid brass balls strung
up there with stainless steel cables, if nothing else...

Nah, the best cast iron balls story I heard was when the HD around
here opened up, somebody bought a generator and then returned it.
When the returned carton was eventually opened up, there were
cinder blocks inside. The perps were long gone by then.

Jim

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Don Bruder wrote:

In article ,
Bob Engelhardt wrote:


Don Bruder wrote:

...
The mower you found was deliberately mangled, specifically to stop
dumpster divers from pulling it out and fixing whatever minor problem it
might have had. The logic is *SOMETHING* like "If they can pull it out
of the dumpster, why would they spend any money in here?", which, to be
honest, does make a certain amount of sense, ...

What also makes sense of mangling it is to prevent someone from pulling
it out and bringing it into the store for a refund! "Gee, I lost my
receipt for it."


There's a reason behind "No refunds/exchanges without original receipt"
signs and policies. Yes, I know - the few spoil it for the many.

Which explains this little game.....

The swine buys something he wants,and thus gets a receipt. He takes the
item home.

The next day he returns to the store, takes an identical item off the
shelf and slithers into the "return line" without being noticed.

You can figure out the remainder.

QED

(Anybody here willing to admit they ever slipped into a movie theater as
by walking slowly backwards through the crowd streaming out the doors
when a show was over?)

Jeff

--

Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone
to blame it on."

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:09:43 -0400, Bob Engelhardt
wrote:



A "Returns" clerk at HD once told me that they've caught people bringing
stuff from the store floor up to the Returns desk for a refund!
("Security!")

When Junior worked at a computer store, he endured a tirade from a
customer for close to an hour before he could point out that the cash
register tape clearly showed the name of the competition across the
street.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

Some things really need to be left in the trash.

My parents owned a motorcycle shop and we had someone come in
with a blown out front tire on their motorcycle. They were
screaming about suing the shop until I looked at the bike and
saw this loser had taken the rock hard crap tire I had thrown
into the dumpster last week from my RD350LC and mounted it
wrong direction on his front rim.

He was asked to leave or be arrested. Then we had to resort to
cutting 1 or 2" of bead from each tire thrown out. (You guessed
it, tire recyclers would not pick up motorcycle tires for any
price, so they could only be thrown out.)

So, I can see someone damaging a product beyond use so the
business does not get sued for a product it never sold in the
first place.

Bart D. Hull

Tempe, Arizona

Check http://www.inficad.com/~bdhull/engine.html
for my Subaru Engine Conversion
Check http://www.inficad.com/~bdhull/fuselage.html
for Tango II I'm building.

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Don Bruder wrote:

In article ,
" wrote:



wallster wrote:


I'm here to admit my addiction. If i'm driving along and i see a discarded
lawnmower or mechanical something, i have to stop and will most likely take
it. I just cant seem to pass up something that can be made to work again in
one way or another. Most of my tool carts have old wheels on them that i
found thrown away. I have also sold a couple of dozen lawnmowers over the
years that needed a little tlc to get them running. How many other people in
this newsgroup stop and pick up discarded stuff?

walt
http://www.nykeglawsucks.com
To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems.
-Homer Simpson


we all probably do.. the best laugh i had was when i stopped by the rear
of a Sears Store and you could see the wheels of a new lawnmower
sticking up from the trash.. had to stop and checked it out... well the
wheels were plastic and broken (all four of them)..no problem... then i
looked at the gas tank, split open plastic.. the i looked at the control
cables, all pulled apart and the wires cut in several places... the
plstic top cover of the new mower was also pulled off the broke, the
heat of the engine had the fins on it broken off.... it either fell of
the top shelf in storeage or the manager got mad and went to it with a
maul.... a real no nothing.... but they threw it away... i could find
nothing good on that mower and just passed on that one, but it looked
brand new, still had the stickers from the store on it.....



That's another classic "dog in the manger" outfit.

"Boss, there's a chip on the floor model. How can we sell that?"

"Easy, we don't. Write it off, then take a hammer to it and toss it in
the dumpster."

The mower you found was deliberately mangled, specifically to stop
dumpster divers from pulling it out and fixing whatever minor problem it
might have had. The logic is *SOMETHING* like "If they can pull it out
of the dumpster, why would they spend any money in here?", which, to be
honest, does make a certain amount of sense, but only if you're such a
greedy prick that you'd try to put a price sticker on the dust-bunnies
at a going out of business sale.

"Bart D. Hull" wrote in message
...
So, I can see someone damaging a product beyond use so the
business does not get sued for a product it never sold in the
first place.

Bart D. Hull

Tempe, Arizona

Had my son's horn at the music store down in Mesa. The repair guy said the
owner came down the street one day and saw a whole bunch of drum cases for
sale outside the pawn shop. It was the same cases they had thrown out, up
to and including still having store stickers on them. Now they do serious
demo to anything going into the dumpster.

Joel. phx

If it ain't useful, it is trash.

I stop for useful stuff, even if sometimes I have to go out of my way
to double back. (Have you ever tried to snag a leather welding coat from
the middle lane of a freeway? "Sprint grasshopper, Speed is essential."
Not to mention fear is a good motivator.
Not to mention the time I snagged 9 cases of fresh corn on the cob,
still in the box. "Picked it myself, fresh off the truck!"

I've been tempted a couple times to try and get the busted up ladder by
the Jersey barrier in the middle - hey, it's "scrap aluminum", but the
timing doesn't seem right. (Traffic, my schedule.)
--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:58:20 -0400, "wallster"
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

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Actually my trap is auctions...the piles of stuff at the tail end,
where you get a 2 tonne (weight!) press frame (bent cross beam!) for
$10 etc etc.

Then I suddenly realise that I have about 5 tonnes of variously shaped
bits of steel to deal with. I have to get my 8mpg truck and drive all
the way down there, and the petrol costs a bloody fortune....however..

I'm here to admit my addiction. If i'm driving along and i see a discarded
lawnmower or mechanical something, i have to stop and will most likely take
it. I just cant seem to pass up something that can be made to work again in
one way or another. Most of my tool carts have old wheels on them that i
found thrown away. I have also sold a couple of dozen lawnmowers over the
years that needed a little tlc to get them running. How many other people in
this newsgroup stop and pick up discarded stuff?

walt
http://www.nykeglawsucks.com
To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems.
-Homer Simpson