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dr100•

"purchased 69 external hard drives from 16 different Target stores"

Yea, the trouble (or the joy and the added value for everybody if it's not a scam) with lucrative things like that is that it's not something that happens once by chance somewhere and that's it. It is that soon there are many more people doing it many times each. Just as somebody will come to your town to sell bread or ice cream or shoes somebody will come to your Best Buy or Target or whatever to do this crap.

Beside law enforcement the shops should also (much) better protect themselves. I am pretty sure they don't like returns already and would like to curb them; how about starting with such items?

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Uncle-RodOP125.7TB Usable | 156 HDD | 1 SSD | 6 Tapes•

The problem in my mind at least, isn't so much the scumrags that do this, but the fact the stores don't look out for stuff like this. I have returned several electronics myself that have had legitimate issues, and not once did any of them check to make sure the item still worked. I'm not saying this is the case everywhere, just one that I have personally experienced

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bolapara•

I don't expect Target to hire technical staff which are qualified to not only check to see that the hardware is still functional but also not tampered with (like replacing a 4TB drive with a 400GB drive).

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xlltt410TB linux isos•

Yeah cause building a system with 3 scripts is very complicated

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qefbuo•

Being a corporation they need a monetary incentive past a negligible margin, and employees won't care without instruction to do so. This easystore fiasco potentially being one of them which causes policy change if it costs enough.

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onewhoisnthere•

Electronics like this get sent straight back to the vendor if they are reported not working, which then they get financially compensated for, so Target doesn't much care as long as you didn't say you only changed your mind on the item.

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mohavewolfpup•

Really didn't use their brains on that. The smaller 2.5 drives have been junk for schucking for years now. I had bought a 250 gig one and it started acting weird. Took it out thinking I could swap it into a system and copy data off, nope. Permanently soldered usb connection on the board, no adapter to remove

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Scorpius-Harvey•

As homer simpson would say, DOH...

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