“The customer is always right” is a very quick way for a business to run itself into the ground fairly quickly. Sometimes they might have outrageous demands but there is also a class of customer who is simply planning to rob you blind.
Someone asked “Workers of Reddit, what is a scam that a customer tried to do?” and netizens detailed the attempts at fraud and deceit they’ve encountered. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote the most peculiar examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
#1
I worked a Christmas season at Target. On my very last day of work, we had one lone straggler shopper. We had made numerous closing announcements, turned off every light except by the registers and shut down every register except mine. Finally almost 20 minutes after we closed, she finally came up to the register, oblivious to keeping us late.
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Long time ago when EB Games was a thing in my area, I had a scamy a*s "friend" (more of a distant associate), so dude would buy a new game the day it released and request a gift receipt. One time I happened to be in the store with him when he requested a gift receipt, so I ask him what the deal was, was it someone's birthday or something... Nope, he told me it was a back up plan incase the game sucked. He said if he liked the game and planned to keep it the gift receipt was tossed in the trash, if he hated the game he would take it back and tell the store it didn't work, he would then request a new copy, and the store would give him a new, unopened copy, which he would take to the store in the other town with the gift receipt, that store would give him the option of getting store credit or cash back... So about a month after this conversation our local EB Games and surrounding locations started removing the plastic from replacement games when they got returns of "broken" copies... S**thead was pissed and to this day I can not imagine how they found out, I mean *someone* must have told the store.
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"My kids gave me a $100 gift card and I lost both the card and the receipt. How should I go about redeeming it?"
Woman was BAFFLED when none of us would just take her word for it.
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