Is This Stealing or Just A Lucky Find?

[Incognito D]

They put the games in a box and marked them for sale. You paid the specified price and purchased the items. It's their own fault for being careless. You did nothing wrong.

During my first year of university while living in dorms, there were a couple vending machines in the laundry room (which had a lock on the door. It could be locked from the inside(!)). The guy who filled the machines forgot to lock the one with chips and chocolate bars one day. Of course, we found out pretty quickly. It wasn't too much of a challenge to figure out how to change a few of our favourite brands from $1.00 to .10 cents. It wasn't discovered for about 2 months. Was it wrong? Absolutely. Was I innocent? Absolutely not. Was it fun? Hell yes.

Something similar happened at my uni last year. Whoever worked the snack machine messed up because my friend discovered that Snickers were down to 10p instead of the normal 50p. For a couple of weeks he bought a few bars every day but eventually they realised their mistake and put the price back to normal

[Ziggy]

Lol, I just thought of something very similar to the original posted situation. Any one ever get an item from a vending machine and two drop? I've had this happen lots of times, and I got a good eye for predicting it now. But what are you suppose to do? Put it back in the machine?


And completely unrelated, the topic just reminded me of this... A few weeks ago while I was in a super market, I heard over the loudspeaker, "Attention customers blah blah blah, if any one finds money on the floor could you please bring it up to customer service."

What idiot drops there money on the floor and wants every one knowing about it!? Some one that's living in the 1950's, I guess. You'd be MUCH better off looking for it yourself, but now that the entire store knows there's money on the floor they're all looking for it. Chances are the person that finds it will keep it.

[Rocketman]

I don't see anything wrong here. The store made a mistake and packaged a second game in there by accident, or they didn't care because it's an old game and didn't mind selling two for the price of one.

If it were me I wouldn't return it. I'd look at it as more of a lucky find or buy. I'm not a thief, honest! That's just how I see it. It reminds me of this one time when my friend purchased a second hand copy of Rayman 2 from EB games, and behind the Rayman 2 disk he later found a copy of some other game (I can't believe I forgot what it was!). We never once considered it stealing, just a lucky purchase.

Anyways congrats on your lucky find, have fun playing those games!

[AppleQueso]

If that happened at the place I frequent I wouldn't feel bad at all considering the insane prices he charges for some stuff.

[CRTGAMER]

tell me more about this rare PS1 controller. this is the first time i've heard about it. what made it so rare?

I don't want to drag off topic from Weekend_Warrior's thread, so here is the older Racketboy Post.

[aaron]

tell me more about this rare PS1 controller. this is the first time i've heard about it. what made it so rare?

I don't want to drag off topic from Weekend_Warrior's thread, so here is the older Racketboy Post.

very interesting. i've never heard of this type of controller. i don't recall there ever being a thread mentioning this rare PS1 controller.

[pepharytheworm]

tell me more about this rare PS1 controller. this is the first time i've heard about it. what made it so rare?

I don't want to drag off topic from Weekend_Warrior's thread, so here is the older Racketboy Post.

very interesting. i've never heard of this type of controller. i don't recall there ever being a thread mentioning this rare PS1 controller.

Someone's sarcasm detector is off.

[aaron]

please don't ruin this.

[Kebo]

Put yourself in the shoes of the business. Would you want someone to tell you about it? Probably, I don't see why anyone wouldn't. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

I've been undercharged for goods before and went back in to pay the full price when I noticed. Just because it's the stores fault doesn't somehow absolve you of any moral responsibility. I wouldn't consider it theft, but it's still probably not what you'd want if you were the business owner. I find something deeply disturbing when people say "it's their fault, your gain". If someone loses their wallet it's their fault too. I guess these people wouldn't return it? Or are evil businesses run by human beings somehow not part of the equation? People make mistakes, people work at businesses. Of all the businesses I would want to hurt, games would be the last.

[J T]

The person that probably got ripped off is the one that sold them the game in the first place. He probably kept his sequels in one box, then sold it to the game shop. They probably didn't check what was in the box, and paid him for the price of one. You can't help him now, so you may as well take it from the game shop.