We’ve heard tales of people buying electronics, getting them home, and opening them just to find, well, not what they’d purchased. It’s been suggested that store employees had been swinging the ol’ switcharoo, and now a trio of thieving associates at a Best Buy in New Jersey (natch) have been caught red-handed doing just such unlawful misdeedery.
Michael Lombardozzi, Jose Caraballo, and Randy Bille have all three been implicated in a fairly straight-forward scheme I like to call “put a MacBook in a Toaster Oven box and buy it as a Toaster Oven.” But they got caught and are facing a variety of charges.
And now we have legal evidence this does happen, so maybe it’s time we all start video taping out unboxings, to give us ammo when we make the inevitable exchange back at the store?
Best Buy Employees Busted For Switching Items Inside Boxes [The Cosumerist]
P-P-P-Powerbook!
Yah man, one of my favorite stories evar.
To bad that picture is in no way related to the story. Great job!
Just to make this clear they were not emptying the Macbook boxes…they stole these macbooks whole. Michael is one of my fairly close associates and my brother is the “another employee” named in the article. Yes retards but they were stealing these items whole not gutting the box to pass off to some poor sucker.
hmmm? Dur is it or maybe DUH! the picture has everything to do with it people are accused of taking products out of their original packaging and replacing them with something less than what should have been in there so if they stole a laptop n replaced it with a bunch of broken keyboard keys and a cardboard cut out then yeah it makes sense to bad people are idiots.