Target sends me $300 gift card by mistake--whats my play?
 

I bought a camara from Target online a few weeks ago. They ended up screwing up and shipping out the wrong camara. Because the camara I wanted was in low inventory Target went ahead and shipped me the correct camara while temporary charging my credit card to ensure I returned the wrong camara. After refusing delivery of the first camara they un-charged my card. I recieved the correct camara and was only charged once. Today (3 weeks later) I recieved a $300 gift card "for an item you returned to us." Obvious screwup by target. Easiest decision ever? Any reason to return the giftcard?

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lol at returning it

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$300 target shopping spree ldo

edit: and in before the absurd parade of morality police who will tell you to send it back. F*CKING SPEND IT.

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Camara? Really?

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Congratulations on your new camera and your free monies. Thanks for posting about it. If you have to ask I suggest you use the card to buy $300 worth of skirts.

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Not exactly moral, but I'd keep it anyway.

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Camara? Really?

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6 times is not a typo. He really just can't spell camera.

edit:
British perhaps?
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/r/digital_camara

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Dude, spend the money immediately!

Or eBay the card and get like $250 cash for it.

<font color="white">LOL YOU'RE GOING TO HELL, THIEF! </font>

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Camara? Really?

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6 times is not a typo. He really just can't spell camera.


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It's makeup, but in a more camouflaged design. Emo, imo.

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yeah I'm keeping it due to moral relativism

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Or eBay the card and get like $250 cash for it.

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Somehow I'd feel much better spending it in the store than selling it on ebay. I'd probably keep it.

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I keep messups like this 100%. it might make me a bad person, but it means I get a lot of cool stuff for free.

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bad Karma

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If someone says they'd return it, they need to be castrated and/or de-pu**ied.

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step 1: shopping spree

step 2: eternity in hell

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This is from the guy who said in the NVG theoretical superuser thread that I wouldn't take advantage of other players if there was a screw up and I could see all their hole cards.


Keep the gift card. For some reason when it's some big profitable company I have a double standard on my morals.

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step 1: shopping spree

step 2: eternity in a wood box burried under 6 feet of dirt

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fyp

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Need Pics


Get it? lol

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step 1: shopping spree

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fyp

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wrong, ducy?

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Not sure why you're asking us. This seems like a PERSONAL morality question that only you can answer. Do whatever you think is right.

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lol felonyments.

e.g. - return b/c keep = felony theft.

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lol felonyments.

e.g. - return b/c keep = felony theft.

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lol

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lol felonyments.

e.g. - return b/c keep = felony theft.

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Your name suits you.

OP: Obviously you should keep it. Those big companies just write everything off anyway.

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lol felonyments.

e.g. - return b/c keep = felony theft.

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Your name suits you.

OP: Obviously you should keep it. Those big companies just write everything off anyway.

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What does that even mean?

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lol felonyments.

e.g. - return b/c keep = felony theft.

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OP: Obviously you should keep it. Those big companies just write everything off anyway.

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What does that even mean?

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I don't know but they do, and they are the ones writing it off.

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you come on here knowing the answer, which is spend it, you just want to assuage your conscience.

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lol felonyments.

e.g. - return b/c keep = felony theft.

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Your name suits you.

OP: Obviously you should keep it. Those big companies just write everything off anyway.

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What does that even mean?

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I don't know but they do, and they are the ones writing it off.

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lol, thank you for that exchange. of course if this situation ends like jerry's you may be in trouble.

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use it ldo.

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I'm normally pretty honest, but I don't think I'd hesitate to use the card in your situation. The guy that said keeping it is felony theft is full of it. The worst I could see happening is getting a bill for the $300, and I think that is pretty unlikely.

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Seriously...if you contact them and tell them of the mistake they are going to tell you to keep it. Do the right thing and tell them and you get to spend it anyway.

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it's okay to steal from faceless corporations. It's a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark.

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Seriously...if you contact them and tell them of the mistake they are going to tell you to keep it. Do the right thing and tell them and you get to spend it anyway.

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there is maybe a 2% chance of this happening.


"Hey, you guys sent me this card for $300 I didn't deserve"

"Can you read me the serial number"

"934809Lkj-3240dj"

"thanks, the card has been deactivated. we appreciate your honesty in this matter and will be sending you a 10% off coupon as a thank you."

&lt;click&gt;




This isn't some company shipping an extra battery with a camera, for $300, they'll do something.

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i'd keep it but it doesn't really make any sense on the grand scale of my morals.

if it was actual products amounting to $300 somehow i'd feel way worse.

i once ordered $60 of books from amazon, they didn't show up for a couple of weeks. i asked them to resend, then i end up with two lots. i didn't return them out of laziness and felt awful for ages

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When I respond these moral-type threads, I'm typically in the "honesty" camp.

But, in cases like these where major companies [censored] up my order, I usually just keep the money and consider it a retard tax.

Also, LOL at the clown who thinks keeping it is a felony.

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Honestly, nothing is going to happen if they send it. THEY MEANT TO SEND IT, just for an incorrect reason. It wasn't like the gift card just flew itself to you. If you spend it, they get pissed, you say "I thought it was a gift because of the hassle before." End. 0% chance anything happens to you.

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sorry, it's a gross misdemeanor. if it was $500.01, it would be a felony.

keeping something that doesn't belong to you = theft. Since Target is a Minnesota co., here is their statute:

"Acts constituting theft. Whoever does any of the following commits theft...:
(1) intentionally and without claim of right takes, uses, transfers, conceals or retains
possession of movable property of another without the other's consent and with intent to deprive
the owner permanently of possession of the property;

Also, as far as nameless, faceless, evil corporations, that hardly describes Target. They give a lot of money back to the community. They do not screw their employees a la Wal*Mart.

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sorry, it's a gross misdemeanor. if it was $500.01, it would be a felony.

keeping something that doesn't belong to you = theft. Since Target is a Minnesota co., here is their statute:

"Acts constituting theft. Whoever does any of the following commits theft...:
(1) intentionally and without claim of right takes, uses, transfers, conceals or retains
possession of movable property of another without the other's consent and with intent to deprive
the owner permanently of possession of the property;

Also, as far as nameless, faceless, evil corporations, that hardly describes Target. They give a lot of money back to the community. They do not screw their employees a la Wal*Mart.

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I'm pretty sure it belongs to the OP. I bet it was addressed to him. Thus, his.

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Hold on to it for long enough for them to realize they made a mistake. If/once they don't, shopping spree.

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I remember a PSA from my childhood where an Eskimo recieves a swimming suit in the mail (or something equally absurd) that he never ordered. The point of the PSA was that as a consumer, you do not have an obiligation to pay for something that you did not request.

All I could remember about the ad was that it was one in a series and that the messages always ended by asking the viewer to write to some federal agency in Pueblo, CO for more information.

Unbelievably, I googled "pueblo colorado consumer" and found it on the first hit. Gotta love the internet.

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/m...ome/rights.htm

"Remember, at-home shoppers have the right to...Consider unordered merchandise a gift and be free of pressure to return it or to pay for it."

I'm not saying its morally right, but I don't think they can force you to return.