Man accused in $200,000 Lego Internet scam

i dont see how it is an "internet scam" it seems more like a retail
scam

the people buying stuff from him were not scammed they got their stuff

so am i to assume he would buy expensive sets and cheap sets change the
barcodes and take the cheap ones back

quite ingenious took a lot of guts to walk into a store and scam the
return counter person

it might have worked better to buy a couple sets then sneak back in
with the bag and recipt and steal a couple more durin busy times



for him to hit 5 states he musta used a lot of gas

2000man@wongfaye.com says...


He switched the barcodes in the store, then bought the expensive sets with the
cheap barcode. The article did not say anything about returning sets with the
wrong barcode.

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Yeah, he got money for the sets by selling on bricklink, not returning
them.

Elijah
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came here to see if anyone had posted that story yet