Around 2006 I was working in the Geek Squad. There were many measures LP took to ensure things were accounted for such as; When you brought any electronic item into the building it was tagged with a date/time sticker. So if I brought my laptop in to run updates (I was living in a rural area with limited internet) it would be tagged and checked on the way out.
I quickly realized that they didn’t check anything on the way out except the sticker which could easily be peeled off and reapplied to another devise.?So theoretically a $100 Acer laptop In would be a $1000 gaming laptop out. The afore mentioned laptop would be discarded without question.
Without getting into specifics, one could buy broken laptops on a certain website and bring it into the store where the sticker would be moved to a different laptop.
The same applied to software which was all CDs at the time. If we had a work order for a software install we would go to the sales floor and grab a copy of office or windows and include the discs with the package. I could randomly, supposedly, go grab a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate, and just put the discs in my pocket with the activation code and toss the box …
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Yikes, that sounds like a huge loophole. Definitely not something to try, could get you in serious legal trouble. Shows how important proper inventory checks are.