How does the anti-theft device work at Circuit City?

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Hmm, so all you have to do is take off the magnetic strip? Hmm, the ideas...

Often times the strip is embedded inside the product. Tough to remove. Actually, there is a way to get through the sensor without the alarm going off, strip or no strip....its almost impossible to figure out how if someone doesn't tell you, though.

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: Shelly21
... It felt like I was zapped by a bolt of electricity

You're full of crap.

And you are full of man juice, why don't you call 911 and get your stomach pumped?

How I felt and what it actually was can be two difference things....

 

[Woody06]

I don't remember exactly how it works but our solid state chemisty teacher actually went over how they work and disabling them, it was funny. They don't use just normal metal in them, it's actally metal in a glassy phase by cooling it super quick when they're prossesing it. It's still flexible like metal but has different properties. Something about the way the atoms are disordered allows it to send off a different frequency when it is magnetically charged when they ping some sort of signal off it (thus the big upright things). He also warned that the ones in libraries are the opposite of the ones in stores. One is magnetically charged and one is discharged.

 

[Woody06]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Tabb
Hmm, so all you have to do is take off the magnetic strip? Hmm, the ideas...

Often times the strip is embedded inside the product. Tough to remove. Actually, there is a way to get through the sensor without the alarm going off, strip or no strip....its almost impossible to figure out how if someone doesn't tell you, though.

They often put one on the outside as a decoy too. I remember when I bought my TI-89 there was one on the ouside and one in the booklet.

Moral of the story, dont steal stuff.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Deeko
You did not get shocked by the Circuit City security device. Most products have a device on it that set off the alarm when you walk through the sensor. If you actually got shocked by the sensors, then there would be alot of fried employees, because we carry product through the same sensors in the back all the time, not to mention all of the keys have alarms on them too. And there isn't a whole lot that the store can do if inventory is wrong. It could be theft, or maybe an employee messed up the last cycle count. If the website says the store has it in stock, that doesn't mean anything else, it is linked to the same inventory. So if you ordered it for web pickup, you would not be able to get it in the store. If the website says it is available for direct ship, you could order it, and you could have it shipped directly to your house free of charge from the web warehouse. They also can order things out of that warehouse for you, like someone mentioned above, just by putting inventory location as 9848. The CSA should have checked that warehouse, but I can't say if he did or not. Now you say he went to the back and "played with himself"....there is another section of the warehouse, known as the "cage", where floor items are stored. So if it says its in stock and is not on the floor, if the CSA went to the back to look, he likely was checking the cage, not "playing with himself". And it is quite possible that all 4 were stolen....we had a crime ring at our store, a guy that stole PS2 games, he would take 5-10 copies in a single run. We knew who he was, and his techniques(cuz he would send in other people after we found him out), and have neutralized that, but we aren't allowed to physically stop a customer from walking out of the store. So stealing 4 little sticks of RAM is not that impossible.

well put. we had the same type of thing in our area. this pregnant lady would come in and buy cheap shreaders and computer wheels, then walk around the store for awhile ending up in the game section. then would stuff ps2, xbox, and nbc games into the boxes. she only came into my particular store once, havnt seen her in awhile.....probably in jail

 

[imported_Mike]

They often put one on the outside as a decoy too. I remember when I bought my TI-89 there was one on the ouside and one in the booklet.

Moral of the story, dont steal stuff.

good moral, and there are more than one on each product, so peeling off the first one you see wont do much good.

 

[Gunbuster]

Often times the strip is embedded inside the product. Tough to remove. Actually, there is a way to get through the sensor without the alarm going off, strip or no strip....its almost impossible to figure out how if someone doesn't tell you, though

you hold the item over your head, works great at toysrus when they dont have anyone working the video games section and you need to go pay

 

[UNCjigga]

OH NO! My PACEMAKER!!! *gasp* *croak*

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster

Often times the strip is embedded inside the product. Tough to remove. Actually, there is a way to get through the sensor without the alarm going off, strip or no strip....its almost impossible to figure out how if someone doesn't tell you, though

you hold the item over your head, works great at toysrus when they dont have anyone working the video games section and you need to go pay

Well that's the obvious method...and the way our PS2 guy would do it, he would keep stuff under his coat, and on his way out "put on his coat" which involved lifting the coat up over the sensor. There is another method where the product actually goes through the sensor but the alarm doesn't go off.

 

[dbzwukan]

Originally posted by: Shelly21

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: Shelly21
... It felt like I was zapped by a bolt of electricity

You're full of crap.

And you are full of man juice, why don't you call 911 and get your stomach pumped?

How I felt and what it actually was can be two difference things....

Did shelly just call Rudee a fa... er I mean Homo? Isn't that grounds for vacation?