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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by geofft on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:07PM (#23944980)
> People ran all sorts of scams, most commonly putting a $500 video card in a $20 box. I’d catch them all of the time, but if you reported it you had a chance of losing commissions when loss prevention people interviewed you.

Wait, what? The loss prevention people wanted you to not prevent loss?

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by Spooky23 on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:49PM (#23945292)
No, they would basically interrogate you.

Sitting in some windowless office at $5.75 an hour for two hours basically cost me $100-300 in commissions from lost sales.

Those jobs were great in the 90s. One year I paid for my College tuition in the week before Christmas.

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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by S_A_P on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:53PM (#23945991)
ahh the good old days when college tuition was actually reasonably affordable. My tuition at Texas A&M was IIRC between 1 and 3 grand a semester...
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by danielfoster on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:44PM (#23945245)
I guess they would take away the commission for this sale and maybe question past sales?
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Re:Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned... by nkrisc on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:44PM (#23945610)
Their job isn't to prevent loss, it's to catch people.
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