So yesterday at my job I'm pretty sure I uncovered some kind of scam. I haven't figured out what his method or reasoning was behind what he was doing, and I've been thinking about it since I left work yesterday. Anyway, I'll give you the deets, and you can try and figure out what's going with me. Okay? Alright baby. First of all, here is some basic explanations of the rewards/redemptions we have going on at my job.


Jobdeets:
-We have a rewards card, when you purchase items using it you receive points based on the amount you spend. $10.00 = 100 points = .10$
-Usually we have promotions at my job, where if you spend a certain amount on games, you receive a coupon that allows you to take a certain amount off of your next gaming purchase. (in this case, you get a $15.00 off coupon towards games if you spend $40.00 or more) You can combine these coupons together for one purchase. So for instance, you can take three 15$ off coupons and use them together to take $45.00 off of one game so long as they are all still active (meaning that it's within the dates that the coupon is valid for)
-For the next two days, if a customer spends $50.00 or more on merchandise, they receive a $5.00 gift card which can be used at a later date.

The Story

Okay, so this guy comes in and he wants to buy up all of the stock for a few titles. Including Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time 3D, Skyward Sword, and Rage for both PS3 and X360. In total there were maybe 50 games, he would've bought more if we had more. His reasoning for doing so was that it was for his nephew who lives out of state and has an online store and Delaware has no sales tax so it's cheap.

He wanted me to ring up each item in separate transactions. He had various odd items for like .99$ so that he could make each transaction over $50.00 (Skyward sword is $49.99, Rage is $29.99, and Ocarina of Time is 39.99). Anyway, this was all pretty fishy already, but I couldn't think of a good enough reason as to why I should deny the sale, after all, there wasn't really any posted limit as to how many of a non-sale item you could buy.

When I went to begin scanning things, i still felt really weird. This only got worse when I scanned his rewards card and it said his account had been suspended. I've never witnessed that before, I've seen rewards cards that have no longer been active, or that just didn't work, but I've never gotten a prompt that said a rewards account was suspended. He gave me some faulty reason as to why it came up, like because he had neglected to redeem points or something stupid, I was too anxious at this point to really even register what he was trying to say. Something was up.

At this point, I decided to call up to the service desk just to make sure it was cool to sell him all these freaking games. They told me as long as it isn't posted that there was a limit to purchasing the items that I could probably sell it to him, but just to make sure, I should call the manager. So I called the manager, and he agreed to selling the dude all the games and shit. But he said I couldn't do it through separate transactions because he's just one customer. Which was exactly the explanation I needed because I couldn't figure out how to deny the dude. So I told the guy that I could sell him all the games, but only in a single transaction, at which point, he left the store very angrily. He didn't buy anything, and left me with a cart full of like travel sized hand sanitizers and bottles of soda, and like 50 games that I had to lock up again.

Now, remember how earlier I mentioned the $15.00 coupon that you receive for spending $40.00 or more, and the 5$ gift cards? I'm trying to figure out how all that ties into everything.

TO THE FORENSICS LAB.