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ishiki on 18 November 2012
jlrx said:
ishiki said:
jlrx said:
ishiki said:

there are far important things in life than worrying about if you screwed a corporation over a 50 dollar upgrade which they will still profit from. And at worst made someone wait an extra week for next shipment of consoles.


At worst you got someone fired, failure to pay bills, feed self, rent, gas, etc. There will certainly be consequences for that employee, and all the cheering on you get from the internet does not change the fact. In answer to your own question, Yes, you are. It's not somewhat unethical, its completely so.


He won't get fired for that, and if he does it's not like gamestop clerk level jobs are hard to find.

No one knows that for sure. That is not the point, it's an answer as a worse case scenario, but let me give one even worse, you can be charged with a crime if the ATM gives you too much money and you do nothing. It's happened to people before. A mistake doesn't legitimize things like that, you got that system accidentally, you signed and paid for another, they can certainly track you down based on the systems serial number. That is just another about worse case scenario. Nothing changes the fact, to answer the question, it's not only a jerk action, it's unethical and can be viewed as theft. Sugar coating it by saying but this or but that does not change anything.

 people in china are in sweatshops making these consoles we play at an affordable cost, but hey! this aweful.



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jlrx on 18 November 2012
ishiki said:
jlrx said:
ishiki said:
jlrx said:
ishiki said:

there are far important things in life than worrying about if you screwed a corporation over a 50 dollar upgrade which they will still profit from. And at worst made someone wait an extra week for next shipment of consoles.


At worst you got someone fired, failure to pay bills, feed self, rent, gas, etc. There will certainly be consequences for that employee, and all the cheering on you get from the internet does not change the fact. In answer to your own question, Yes, you are. It's not somewhat unethical, its completely so.


He won't get fired for that, and if he does it's not like gamestop clerk level jobs are hard to find.

No one knows that for sure. That is not the point, it's an answer as a worse case scenario, but let me give one even worse, you can be charged with a crime if the ATM gives you too much money and you do nothing. It's happened to people before. A mistake doesn't legitimize things like that, you got that system accidentally, you signed and paid for another, they can certainly track you down based on the systems serial number. That is just another about worse case scenario. Nothing changes the fact, to answer the question, it's not only a jerk action, it's unethical and can be viewed as theft. Sugar coating it by saying but this or but that does not change anything.

yeah, and gay marriage is still not allowed in most states, people in china are in sweatshops making these consoles we play, but hey! this aweful.

Yeah and someone did this or that, your statements hold no water, a thief, a liar, a murderer, they all did something wrong and some other wrong doesn't change that fact. If it makes you feel better to make an excuse for it, fine, but doesn't change reality one iota. 



ishiki on 18 November 2012
jlrx said:
ishiki said:

yeah, and gay marriage is still not allowed in most states, people in china are in sweatshops making these consoles we play, but hey! this aweful.

Yeah and someone did this or that, your statements hold no water, a thief, a liar, a murderer, they all did something wrong and some other wrong doesn't change that fact. If it makes you feel better to make an excuse for it, fine, but doesn't change reality one iota. 

I'm nnot saying it's morally good. I never said I do it either. I'm just defending it. If that's the worse thing you do, you're a saint.

I'm just saying buying products made from people that work 18 hour days, making 150 dollars a month is worse. And the whole USA, and many parts of the world have no problem with that.



Squilliam on 18 November 2012

You're only a jerk if you don't order a keg for the programmers and get them drunk and then get them to tell you ALL the specs for the Wii U (heres a hint we know the memory bandwidth is 12.8GB/S) and then pass them on anonymously to me so I can pass them on to someone else to post. I'll give you $10 for the Keg...



Tease.

hadlee73 on 18 November 2012

I think the biggest offence performed by this incident is that a stupid person was left in the same stupid state he started in, without being reconfigured to a less stupid form. This will allow for stupidity to continue to spread throughout the human populace.

If you'd shown him the error of his ways he may have ended up being the most informed person working there and won employee of the year.



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Adinnieken on 18 November 2012
Rab said:
Soleron said:
You did ask him. That's good enough.


He took someones elses order, it wasnt the fault of the poor guy who is now missing his order

He knew the clerk was making a mistake and should of said what he knew to help the clerk understand, it is stealling

Leave it to a Scot to moralize. 

Note: Sarcasm. 

Note 2: I'm assuming you're name is Rab, therefore I'm assuming you're Scottish.

Having said all that, I agree with this.

Had the OP been handed goods he knew were stolen or even had a hint were stolen, he'd be complicite in a crime.  If you went into an automobile dealership and paid for a BMW M3, but instead you were handed the keys to an M6, you wouldn't expect to just walk off the lot with it.  You have a legal "contract" of sale in your receipt and what it says you are entitled to is the Basic model, not the Deluxe model.  Therefore, you have no legal entitlement to that unit.

I have to agree with Rab, Scottish or not, it's theft.



kain_kusanagi on 18 November 2012

What you did is basically theft. You should not have walked out of the store with a product worth more than the one you paid for. It doesn't not matter that the store handed it to you by mistake. You had an obligation to correct the mistake at the store.

You have to honest choices. Go back and swap it for the right one or go back and pay the difference.



Pesmerga7551 on 19 November 2012
ishiki said:
jlrx said:
ishiki said:
jlrx said:
ishiki said:

there are far important things in life than worrying about if you screwed a corporation over a 50 dollar upgrade which they will still profit from. And at worst made someone wait an extra week for next shipment of consoles.


At worst you got someone fired, failure to pay bills, feed self, rent, gas, etc. There will certainly be consequences for that employee, and all the cheering on you get from the internet does not change the fact. In answer to your own question, Yes, you are. It's not somewhat unethical, its completely so.


He won't get fired for that, and if he does it's not like gamestop clerk level jobs are hard to find.

No one knows that for sure. That is not the point, it's an answer as a worse case scenario, but let me give one even worse, you can be charged with a crime if the ATM gives you too much money and you do nothing. It's happened to people before. A mistake doesn't legitimize things like that, you got that system accidentally, you signed and paid for another, they can certainly track you down based on the systems serial number. That is just another about worse case scenario. Nothing changes the fact, to answer the question, it's not only a jerk action, it's unethical and can be viewed as theft. Sugar coating it by saying but this or but that does not change anything.

 people in china are in sweatshops making these consoles we play at an affordable cost, but hey! this aweful.


They make sweaters in sweatshops.



Rath on 19 November 2012

In my opinion what you did isn't really morally much different from theft. But given how much pirated stuff I watch that's kind of the pot calling the kettle black.



Marucha on 19 November 2012

I don't think you're a jerk, but some customer is going to be angry with either you or Gamestop. LOL. I'm sure they will make up for it somehow... I mean they'll get a drop shipment soon right?



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