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Replacing Computer Parts With Potatoes
from the hmmm... dept
Well, I like potatoes as much as the next guy, but I'm really not quite sure what to make of this report. It seems that a guy in Germany who bought a computer later returned it, saying it wasn't working. When opened, the computer was stuffed full of potatoes. The shop exchanged the computer for a new one - but were surprised a short while later when he returned that new computer and it was again filled with potatoes. It's a little unclear what the scam was, but the article suggests that the working parts of the computer were taken out, before the potato-filled cases were returned. Of course, that doesn't seem like a particularly brilliant scam - but the really amazing part is that this guy actually thought he could get away with it the second time.
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Potatoe madness
Can we offical rename french fires to pentium chips now.
LOL
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Scam?
Is it positive that the guy was perpetrating a scam? Perhaps he was mentally challenged in some way...or had some mistaken idea about computers needing potatoes to operate.
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Re: Scam?
this was quite a common scam when I was working in Corpus Christi at a chain computer store, they would buy the computer, take the guts out, put in rocks or other handy items and return it for a refund.
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Potatos
Got one almost as bad. Customer pulled all the parts out of his laptop and filled it with 5 bucks in pennies glued to the base of the laptop..and sent it in for repair.... I had to call him and explain that this wasn't going to be covered by the warranty!
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could be worse
That's not as bad as when I worked fixing VCRs and a customer brought one in that upon removing the case turned out to be almost completely filled with dead cockroaches.
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Aw, they're just playing the German version of America's fastest-growing quiz show sensation, "Potatoes or Gavin McLeod!"
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Umm...
...but the really amazing part is that this guy actually thought he could get away with it the second time.
The amazing part is that he got away with it the first time.
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