Nice Story

Marc Clifton

Except I probably would have been ethical and told the guy. Maybe not. One never knows until faced with those kinds of situations. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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Paul Watson

Nick Parker wrote: Read this image[^], you will wish it was you (I sure do). Jeeesh. Feel sorry for the new salesman though. He probably lost his job because of it.

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Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

Tim Smith

It is very hard to say. But I am nearly positive I would have told the guy. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

David Wulff

You probably know I would have said something at the time (just what would you want with 67 of them?), but still... :laugh:

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Luther Weeks

Yes, he probably did lose his job - right AFTER he had to pay for the rest of the memory chips. Nice story? I don't think so - it made me depressed that the twit didn't think of the consequences.

Paul Watson

Luther Weeks wrote: right AFTER he had to pay for the rest of the memory chips. Indeed, he probably had to. Reminds me of jerks who walk out of restaurants without paying. They think they are so clever and The Man for giving us the slip. They also think the restaurant covers the cost. Except they don't, the waiter who lives off tips does. I had a walker just once, cost me a whole weeks worth of tips. From that day on I kept a close eye on the exit door and had to stop a couple people in mid-flight. Disgusting. I wonder if there are any laws where if you know you are getting away with something like that RAM deal that you can be charged for it? Hard to prove, but here the guy has a nice big article posted all over the web with him boasting about it.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

Luther Weeks

Paul Watson wrote: Reminds me of jerks who walk out of restaurants without paying. They think they are so clever and The Man for giving us the slip. They also think the restaurant covers the cost. Except they don't, the waiter who lives off tips does. I had a walker just once, cost me a whole weeks worth of tips. From that day on I kept a close eye on the exit door and had to stop a couple people in mid-flight. Disgusting. Exactly. And the next person who runs into that salesman will probably wonder why the salesman has such a sour attitude. The consequences don't just stop with that one encounter - it probably affected many people, all in fairly unpleasant ways.

Michael P Butler

What happened to good old fashioned honesty? Why didn't the guy return what he hadn't paid for? What was he going to do with the other memory chips? Sell them? - that surely would have broken a law somewhere. Don't people have any morals today? Michael The avalanche has started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote.

tidge

Michael P Butler wrote: Don't people have any morals today? No they don't. That's part of the big problem I see with our society today. I wonder though, if people were any more moral 50 or 60 years ago, or that it just seems that way (not that I would personally know). the older I get, the better I was....

Ranjan Banerji

The last time something like this happened to me, I did not realize the error till I got home. Then I went back to the store and told them of their error, and returned the unpaid for stuff. What I found strange about the process was that nearly everyone I told this to thought I was weird. Worst part was that the staff at the store were also looking at me funny. Oh well!!!!!

Lost User

I can honestly say I would tell the sales guy. But only at the last minute of course :laugh: Elaine The tigress is here :-D

l a u r e n

my moral judgement doesnt depend on how it is received by those affected but simply by my own beliefs i would have pointed out the error immediately

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Joao Vaz

The guy was lucky ,but the new salesman ... Every salesman that make a mistake with me, I'always had the honesty to correct him , and boy that happened to me a ton of times !!! BTW , I worked on a computer store during 2 months, so perphaps this is a good reason to explain why I never toke advantage of this kind of normal and human errors :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I would have kept 4... no wait 8 of those modules and returned the rest. ;P -- Ignorant people upsets me.

Ranjan Banerji

I didnt particularly care about the reactions of others. But definitely thought it was interesting.

Brad Jennings

Holy crap! Though it is pretty cool, I know that I would have told him about his mistake. I always try to be honest in every situation, honesty is much more important to me than 66 extra chips of RAM (OMG that's a lot of RAM). Brad Jennings "if the golden arches shut shop, where else are the VB people going to get work." - Colin Davies

Paul M Watt

He said he was able to sell them on eBay and get hardware that he actually wanted.

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Jon Sagara

:wtf: How appalling! I hope they catch his ass and throw him in jail. And if they can't do that, I hope that same day he gets what's coming to him. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck

Paul M Watt

That is a 6500 dollar mistake. The article also said that he used eBay to ditch the memory and get some hardware that he really wanted. Maybe karma will catch up to him and all of his new hardware will be defective :suss:

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Anna Jayne Metcalfe

Sometimes incompetance can be so entertaining. :laugh: I'd still have given it all back though...I'm sure of it, honest (guv). ;) Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk

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