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LAN Party Forums => Jokes and Fun => Started by: Mr.Tibbs on April 28, 2009, 02:03:44 PM

Title: Box of Rocks
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on April 28, 2009, 02:03:44 PM

I laughed at this one:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/florida-teen-finds-rocks-in-nintendo-ds-box/1308945 (http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/florida-teen-finds-rocks-in-nintendo-ds-box/1308945)

Title: Re: Box of Rocks
Post by: h4gg4rd on April 29, 2009, 01:22:44 PM

Brilliant on the packagers part, sad for the little kid.

Title: Re: Box of Rocks
Post by: Czar on April 30, 2009, 08:06:27 AM

When I used to slave at walmart in the electronics department, i saw stuff like this..somewhat. Whenever someone would return a device, a member of the electronics department would have to go check it out and make sure it was all there before the return was approved. I recall someone returning a computer because it had a few bricks taped to the inside and was missing all the internals. Just an empty eMachine case.

Also, I had a customer come back with a copy of HL2 and told me the discs were all AOL start up CDs. I threw them in a computer..and they were. A closer inspection revealed the CD stickers were all just printed fakes off a home printer and placed poorly over the AOL branded CDs. I had to open 6 copies of HL2 before I found 1 that wasn't like this.

Title: Re: Box of Rocks
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on April 30, 2009, 08:54:44 AM

Yeah I remember hearing stories of HL2 copies not being the real ones. I heard of one instance where a set turned out to be earthlink cds.

Title: Re: Box of Rocks
Post by: h4gg4rd on April 30, 2009, 12:54:02 PM

lol man, talk about a rip off

Title: Re: Box of Rocks
Post by: sully! on April 30, 2009, 08:20:20 PM

I have to to sort of admit doing this kind of thing when I worked at Staples. I'd use the shrink wrap heat gun to loosen up the sticker/seal and carefully peel it away enough to get into the box. I took the cd to the tech bench where I did customer PC repairs, made a copy of the disc with CloneCD (goodbye copy protection), put the disc back into the box, apply a little more heat to the sticker/seal and re-seal it; always careful along the way to not leave any fingerprints on the disc or sticker. From what anyone could tell, they were the first ones to open the box.

But I always put the discs back, I never left an empty box or replaced it with something bogus.