On Mar 8, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Recent similar experience: was given a pair of running shorts as a gift. > They didn't fit. Took them back to $BIGOUTDOORSTORE along with a > printout of the receipt from their online store. Did not ask for > cash refund. Did not ask for refund on the card that was used for > the purchase. Asked for a store credit so that I could just buy > something else, maybe shorts, maybe a shirt. > > They demanded a driver's license. I asked why. They said "because > the online store isn't really us". I said that the online store operates > on their web site with their name and bills credit cards with their name > and ships with their name on the box so this is hardly my problem is it? > Then they said "for your protection". I said that I don't need the kind > of protection that invades my privacy. Then they said "for our protection" > and I pointed (a) that if my goal here was to defraud them of $32 that I > was doing a damn poor job of it *since I was handing them the original > merchandise with their tags still on it* and (b) that if I was going to > trouble myself to defraud them, that I wouldn't bother for anything less > than seven or eight figures.
Okay, so then what they do!? You've got me on the edge of my seat here. -- Joel Esler http://blog.joelesler.net _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
