Work & Money · Posted 4 minutes ago Retail Workers Are Sharing Some Of The Widest Scams Customers Have Tried To Pull, And Some People Are Truly Unhinged "She moseyed over to the casual seating, ate 85% of it with her bare hands, then brought the carcass to customer service and tried to return it." by Fabiana Buontempo BuzzFeed Staff Link Facebook Pinterest Twitter Mail Working a customer-facing job means you learn a lot about people and their unusual antics. I never clicked on something as quickly as I clicked on this Reddit thread that asked , "Retail workers of Reddit, what is the most desperate scam a customer has tried to pull on you?" You must read some of these responses that almost made me spit out my water.
Here is what some of them said: Note: Some of these responses have been edited for length and/or clarity. 1. "I used to work at a game store a little more than 10 years ago.
I once had a woman come in dressed fairly trendy and asked for two PlayStation Portables (PSP), two Xbox 360s, and a handful of games and accessories. My store was pretty slow, so this would be a pretty big sale for the day, and I was excited about it. She went to pay and handed me a credit card, which was not laminated and appeared to have been printed out on a home color printer.
I told her it wouldn’t work, and she said to scan it anyway. So I scanned her fake credit card, which clearly did not have a magnetic strip, and it didn’t work (of course). She told me to just 'put the numbers i.
