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This is JUST like the guy busted a few yrs back (link is on the old forum) who printed up bogus barcodes for small lego sets on stickers. He'd load up a cart load of one type, head for a noob cashier, hand them the one on top (with the bogus barcard) to scan & show them the qty.
The difference was that he was hitting Target, Walmart, Toys-r-Us, etc but he was busted (actually tackled by several big burly TMs as he tried to ram them with a cart) at Target. They found stacks of high-dollar Lego sets in his van. On-line Lego collectors were 'shocked' because he was well-known for being able to get the hard-to-find & limited qty.
This is JUST like the guy busted a few yrs back (link is on the old forum) who printed up bogus barcodes for small lego sets on stickers. He'd load up a cart load of one type, head for a noob cashier, hand them the one on top (with the bogus barcard) to scan & show them the qty.
The difference was that he was hitting Target, Walmart, Toys-r-Us, etc but he was busted (actually tackled by several big burly TMs as he tried to ram them with a cart) at Target. They found stacks of high-dollar Lego sets in his van. On-line Lego collectors were 'shocked' because he was well-known for being able to get the hard-to-find & limited qty.
At my store, we have plenty of guests who switch clearance stickers, but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.
I have guests take the barcodes off the apothecary bottles from the travel aisle and put them over the barcodes on other much more expensive items every now and then.