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There used to be a guy who went round all the Asdas in the north of Scotland doing a scam. At the time breadmakers were more expensive - £99.
He would pick one up from the shelf and take it straight to customer services and say he'd bought it and would like to return it! As it was in the box with the Asda price sticker they wouldn't question it and would refund his cash. He never had to take the item out of the store. Brilliant.
Dunno if he was ever caught.
Ive swiped cups from Costa's coffee and coca cola glasses from Centreparks.
The over inflated prices i paid for the beverages, i sure as sh*t was claiming ownership of the receptacles as recompense.
I couldn't find my specific bread roll on the self service till so in my frustration I put it through as a bagel which was 15p cheaper... 😳
When I was 8 I shoplifted a packet of Panini Top of the Pops stickers, which cost something like 15p. I still feel guilty now.
one or two items failed to scan at the IKEA self service desk at the weekened. Shucks.
is cadging a free lift on the train really theft?
my mate and I turned it into a competitive sport with spreadsheets to plot progress. was well into the £1000's before a run in with the transport police!
Erm, don't hurt me, but it was a ... a .... bike!
It had been abandoned in the bike racks at work by someone who left.. so I cut the lock and chucked it in my boot.
Rather it was used than left to rust! 😳
Some shoes from TkMaxx, did spend £600 on other stuff though, the checkout assistant took the electronic tags off and put them in the bag but forgot to scan them through 🙂
A pair of maracas from punta cana airport, was very drunk and just walked off without paying
a paper, 2 minutes ago.
haha, you'll never catch me
When I was at school I got caught taking a chocolate bar without paying from Woolworths, shoplifting is such an ugly word, the store detective put the fear of god up me with her lecture. The bar was put back and I was allowed to go, but not before being paraded in front of an assistant to tell her to keep an eye on me. The boss eyed assistant gave me the once over and I was escorted out! 😯
More recently a discount sports store had an offer on Michelin 26" slicks for 14,00€ each, bundled in pairs. I took a pair and the I was charged the 14,00€ for both. Bargain!
Pot of parsley from a wedding reception being held in country manor, which i subsequently found out was owned by the Krays. Yes THOSE Krays! 😯
Took a Panaracer Fire steel bead tyre back to Halfords as it had a slash on the side (brand new) and just grabbed another off the shelf, which had a Kevlar bead. Oh dear.
Stole a nice glass from HMS Sultan on a works night out. Friend had been busted by the company MD nicking it originally, me-"oh thats terrible" and promptly put in my bag instead.
Numerous memory strips from old jobs PCs to upgrade my family's PCs.
Rubber bleed nipple cover from Halfords as I'd lost mine.
Its a fair cop guv'nor.
It had been abandoned in the bike racks at work by someone who left.. so I cut the lock and chucked it in my boot.
Rather it was used than left to rust!
I've done EXACTLY that too!
It was at uni. We were the last residents of a hall that was going to be knocked down. One particularly weird guy had a fairly old but reasonable road bike in the shed, probably an entry level decent bike from 10 years previous (this was in 1995). Still had downtube shifters.
The guy apparently went mental and trashed his room in the first term; his dad came to get him and was never seen again. At the very end of the year, knowing the hall was going to be knocked down, we decided to liberate the bike.
Incidentally, in the days before mobile phones I was going up to Bangor to visit my mate one time. He was going to meet me but my train was late and he had to go and do something else. So to get a message to me he locked that bike up at the front of the bike stands with a message tied to it. He knew full well I'd check out the bikes as I stood around, recognise the bike and then see the message 🙂
Does it count if you tried to pay for something but it never came through on your credit card? I bought a dining room table & chairs (4 figures worth) when I moved into my first house - as I'd been hitting the card quite hard at that time the purchase got flagged up when the shop tried to put it through and I had to speak to the card company to verify mothers maiden name and all that, but it never appeared on my statements.
It was a bit stressed when I had a problem with one of the chairs a few months later and had to take it back for an exchange!
[i]I've done EXACTLY that too![/i]
Phew! So its ok... er 'recycling' I call it 🙂
been over paid or paid twice by a couple of companies, i didn't steal it, i just forgot to tell them 😳
a well known pikey catalogue delivery company once delivered an order of shelves twice (28 in total), they were crap so we sent them back, well only half of them.
at uni we went to the B&Q mega warehouse thing in Edinburgh to get some keys cut, they did it at a little booth in the middle of the store then just gave us the keys and said pay on your way out, stupidity like that deserves it's just rewards 🙂
I used to work for a builder who would allways try to screw me for my over time.
However he would actively encourage that i try to rob it back from him by doctoring my time sheet.
If it made it to tuesdays brew time and neither party had noticed then it stood. 😆
my macbook went tits up, still in warranty so took back to well known pc chain. seems i was sold a returned faulty one instead of a display model. refund or new replacement at no extra cost? replacement please. got home opened the box its a macbook pro. thought about taking it back....
Tang, I had something very similar with an iMac, years ago. First one was faulty (it wasn't really, just probbly something I did wrong on it), took it back, they replaced it with a £200 more expensive model...
Legally, the mistake is theirs and you are under no obligation to return it at all. You've paid money, and that's what they've given you.
So not actually theft.
Get off the thread you charlatan! 😀
ok rumbled. im no thief. just a bored wuss at work and wanting to join in.
Ah, sorry Tang. Of course you can join in.
Want a hug?
I used to steal loads of stuff from a bike shop in Covent Garden, run by some posh bloke....
I do as it happens.
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i think i paid for one less sack of aggregate than i left with in b&q the other week. they only had their stupid self checkout open and after scanning each sack of gravel a recorded message told me to leave it on the trolly as it's too heavy to put on the scales. this took about 20 seconds. I had 10 bags, my receipt only showed 9...
I stole a bottle of orange juice from the cafe on Dunwich beach at the end of the Dunwich Dynamo in July. I was somewhat thirsty and kinda delirious. It was 0530 in the morning and some nobhead, who had not ridden the 120 miles, was making a huge deal about buying some cider from the lady at the counter; guffawing away like Jeremy Clarkson.
I took the juice and intended to go back and pay later - I didnt.