If that is what Lagenbach wanted to do, he could have just given Walmart a gratis copy of SAP/Inventory 
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That’s what the self-checkout lane is for.
There is a guy who pranked a grocery store loyalty card by printing up stickers with his barcode and distributing them to people. Suddenly, as far as the store could tell, he was racing around California buying products.
Anyone know who I’m talking about?
Hope not. Isn’t being a “Brony” punishment enough?
A side-issue not worth its own thread, but I’ve heard the term “Brony” before.
I assume the -ony comes from My Little Pony. Does the br- come from the word brother or is it something else?
Sort of…it comes from ‘Bro’, which certainly comes from brother. It’s a term used to describe teen to adult aged male fans of the new My Little Pony cartoon show (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.)
Bronies is weird, man.
I agree with you in principle.
But, as mentioned upthread, it’s possible this guy qualified for a $2mil interest-only loan, which combined with bad luck now means he is currently in debt up to his eyeballs. It’s possible for a person to be overwhelmed to the point where selling stolen legos on ebay seemed like a good plan. We don’t know.
Or it was once worth three million.
He could have bought the house 10 years ago or more, when it was probably worth less than one million. The house basically gives very little indication of his liquid assets and purchasing power.
And now there’s another guy.
It’s worse than we thought! There’s a conspiratorial LEGO crime syndicate out there. The authorities are just going to have to disassemble it piece by piece.
Probably headed by Bricker.
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This was funny
I’m pretty sure both these mother-----s are responsible for the crappy Lego inventory at my local Target (I shop at the one closest to the San Carlos guy’s house, and as it’s the busiest in the area, probably the target of the other dude too.)
OTOH, my kid seriously does not need any more Lego, so maybe it’s not such a bad thing 
I didn’t look at his address but $2M is not a crazy house in San Carlos. Really nice, yes. Mansion? Not so much. I was trying to buy into San Carlos and got priced out for 4BR houses, but I ain’t no VP at SAP. He has to be making $300K minimum, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 2-5X that (no idea how many VPs there are, etc.)
Correct.
Most stores use the UPC, which is printed on the box by the manufacturer. It contains no price information; all it does is provide a unique and global number for the product (in this case “Lego set #1234”). The store’s POS system associates the UPC with its price on that day.
No amount of encryption or obfuscation will stop someone copying the barcode from a cheap product and putting it on one that’s more expensive. You need an alert cashier to detect that. RFID will help, until someone figures out a way to swap RFID tags.
I know you’re kidding, but most self-checkouts detect the item’s weight and/or dimensions/shape. So actually, a self-checkout is probably much less vulnerable to this type of crime than a human cashier.
My nine year old does this every night.
That was genuinely funny! 
Why didn’t he just switch to Mega Bloks instead?? 
If he did it to multiple boxes but only bought one, I could think maybe he just thinks he’s doing some sort of Robin Hood thing, marking down the prices to what he thinks they should cost for everyone. And then, since he’s done such a good deed, he also gets to do it for his own purchase, as a reward.