Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)
by nneonneo on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:09PM
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It’s all about raising the bar for mishandling. Sure, if an unethical handling company messes up your shipment they could go at it and try and reset the indicator(s), but they could also just get the job done right and not risk getting sued if the client does detect the tampering. On the other hand, without indicators there’s nothing stopping them from pretending they didn’t just throw your box around...
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Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)
by namibj on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:25PM
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It also tends to make it rather obvious fraud.
While replacing a sticker is legal, doing so to trick someone into paying you is usually criminal fraud.
Criminal liability is a _far_ bigger leap than normal deceptive business practices.
Re:Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (2018)
by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:54PM
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Especially since these stickers (and those like them) have serial numbers, and the sender typically notes the serial numbers in an email or similar when the item is shipped. The effort required to reset one without it being noticed is pretty high.