Price tag swapping FTL? Selling Legos FTW? LOL

[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/oct/25/102510091.html

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[Crown_amps]

what a great idea too bad he got caught

i wonder how much he paid versus full retail and secondly why didnt a clerk spot that shit like....hmmmm everyf@#King time...

300 dollars worth of lego goes past her/ him and they just say ....ok sir that will be $34.56 please

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Here s a story from 2005, same guy.

Man steals $200,000 worth of Lego sets

Authorities use 20-foot truck to cart away evidence from suspect's home

PORTLAND, Ore. - Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect’s house — mountains of Lego bricks.

Updated: 6:42 a.m. CT Nov 25, 2005

William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks.

Swanberg was indicted by a grand jury in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb, which charged him with stealing Lego sets from Target stores.

Target estimates Swanberg stole up to $200,000 worth of the brick sets pilfered from their stores in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. The Legos were resold on the Internet, officials said.

Attempts to reach Swanberg at a county jail, where he was being held on $250,000 bail, were unsuccessful. It was not known if he had retained an attorney.

Bar codes switched

Swanberg is accused of switching the bar codes on Lego boxes, replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk, a member of the Washington County fraud and identity theft enforcement team.

Target officials contacted police after noticing the same pattern at their stores in the five western states. A Target security guard stopped Swanberg at a Portland-area store Nov. 17, after he bought 10 boxes of the Star Wars Millennium Falcon set.

In his parked car, detectives found 56 of the Star Wars sets, valued at $99 each, as well as 27 other Lego sets. In a laptop found inside Swanberg’s car, investigators also found the addresses of numerous Target stores in the Portland area, their locations carefully plotted on a mapping software.

Records of the Lego collector’s Web site, Bricklink.Com, show that Swanberg has sold nearly $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, said Dolyniuk.

Lego’s Danish founder Ole Kirk Christiansen named the famous bricks in 1934 by fusing two Danish words, “leg” and “godt” meaning “play well.”

Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company’s Web site.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10200275/

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

he probably worked with a couple checkout clerks in the scam....because wouldnt they notice what was going on when he was buying the Legos?

 

[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

he probably worked with a couple checkout clerks in the scam....because wouldnt they notice what was going on when he was buying the Legos?

"A federal grand jury indicted a former Nevada man Wednesday on charges accusing him of stealing hundreds of thousand of dollars of "Lego" merchandise from stores in at least five states and reselling it on the Internet."

I doubt he had clerks in 5 different states at many different locations //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

I dont know how someone could pull this with that much lego. But in Edmonton right now this is going on in electronic stores. People are makeing tags for say a 27 inch tube TV and then sticking it on a 27 inch flat panel and take it through the front cash tills. The stickers look very good and are only caught when the cashier is someone who knows the product a little bit and knows that it isnt even close to the right price.

 

[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

I dont know how someone could pull this with that much lego. But in Edmonton right now this is going on in electronic stores. People are makeing tags for say a 27 inch tube TV and then sticking it on a 27 inch flat panel and take it through the front cash tills. The stickers look very good and are only caught when the cashier is someone who knows the product a little bit and knows that it isnt even close to the right price.

That goes on everywhere //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif...shitty thing is that it raises the prices for the honest people //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif.

People on here were talking about how they put 1/2" ply stickers on 3/4"...guess they could part with a few extra dollars //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif