Comment It's Not Just In-Store Open Box Misleads (Score 1) 579
I worked for a year and a half in loss prevention at Best Buy. When I was there, part of my job involved superivising the twice-weekly unloading of the trucks that pulled in late at night to unload "new" products.
I lost all respect for the store the night I happend to unload a few electronics with half-torn Open Box stickers still attached. That's right--some other store's Open Box Items, which were previously used and should have been marked down in price, were being shipped to our store to sell as New. I have no idea of the number of things shipped to us in those two years that had stickers completely removed or were seen and ignored by the folks helping me; my truck work usually came at the end of a 12-hour shift and I was using all my available energy to stay awake enough to not get crushed by falling televisions.
I lost all respect for the store the night I happend to unload a few electronics with half-torn Open Box stickers still attached. That's right--some other store's Open Box Items, which were previously used and should have been marked down in price, were being shipped to our store to sell as New. I have no idea of the number of things shipped to us in those two years that had stickers completely removed or were seen and ignored by the folks helping me; my truck work usually came at the end of a 12-hour shift and I was using all my available energy to stay awake enough to not get crushed by falling televisions.
