Spawn, of course you can call me Bev.
You get a £50 reward from the banks for stopping any transaction going through on a stolen or cloned credit card. You get that in any retail company. I've made about £350 in the last 2 years alone.
No crash tackling. I served the guy, he was quite shifty (alarm bell 1) and my first thought was that he was going to snatch a camcorder. He asked to see a £700 model, I told him I couldn't power it up (not entirely true, but I wanted to see his reaction) and he was fine about it (alarm bell 2). He then asked to see one with a touch screen facility, to which I explained only the Sonys have that and heres a lovely one for £400. He said he wanted to spend £800, but no more than that (alarm bell 3 - by this time I was thinking it would be so much easier if you just handed me the fucking card now and left peacefully). So I get the camera, and it's a display model. He doesn't give a shit (alarm bell 4, as if I needed another one). So to clarify, some 20yr old with a baseball cap walks in off the street to buy an £700 camcorder, which he doesn't want to see powered up, he doesn't want to price match with a cheaper store, and he doesn't even want to get discounted for being a display model. Now usually the cards get stopped when you swipe them - if it's been reported stolen they go through the security clearance thing on the phone and they tell you to withold the card. But this one went through. His signature was a bit dodgy, so I asked him to sign again. When I told him that I would have to call for authorisation he started to turn a bit nasty, and demanded his card back. I took great pleasure of informing the gentleman that I couldn't do that (although I didn't tell him I had 50 quid riding on it
). Called it through and he pegged it from the shop. Beaut.
So, that was the highlight of my otherwise boring week. Oh, and coming home and watching loads of Starsky and Hutch.
