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Costco price tag prank


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 08:07 am Reply with quote Back to top

http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/costco/costco1.php

Guy managed to mimic the way CostCo's price tags look and printed out odd titles like Goat Balls and 1944 Chateau La Fete boxed wine. THEN, he mailed a lot of them to other people to put up.


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sidewaydriver
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PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 08:26 am Reply with quote Back to top

I liked the tag that said "Human Infant Skull Replica". That would be a sweet band name.


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Ross Rifle
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PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 10:08 am Reply with quote Back to top

Genius!


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Guile
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PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 12:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

This is hilarious.


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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 12:55 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I guess it is funny if you see it once in one location and make mention of it. This scale of prank feels more like a DoS attack. Honestly I hope the organizer has to pay the fine for how much time it takes the people who need to fix these errors.



 
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Knyte
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PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 01:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

He attached them with magnetic tape. How long does would it take someone to remove them? 0.5 seconds? He also didn't remove any real tags, they just added the new ones in.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 01:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Knyte wrote:
He attached them with magnetic tape. How long does would it take someone to remove them? 0.5 seconds? He also didn't remove any real tags, they just added the new ones in.

For the next few weeks the Costco employees have to walk around double checking for these things. Some customers will undoubtedly be offended or confused. Also, when they do catch someone fucking around they have to deal with them. That takes time and effort. All in all, it isn't that funny and it causes a loss of productivity for Costco.



 
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
PostPosted: Apr 26 2010 04:53 pm Reply with quote Back to top

There seemed to be an "asterisk" on his price tags compared to the Costco ones in the pictures. That would make finding these, a whole heck of a lot easier.
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