Making Bribery Pay… Wiiiiiiiii

Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Christopher.
Categories: True Story.

Occasionally I partake in behavior that Christine might frown upon if I gave her the opportunity to comment on it before hand. Last month while at a local video game exploiting a flaw in their game trade in program that allowed me to basically get free games ( a flaw has since been fixed ). I got to know the staff pretty good (first name basis) particularity a young 18-19 year old girl we will call Sarah and a 20 something dude name Jacob. Anyway to make a long story short , I wouldn’t call either friends but I would call them acquaintances to be used to my advantage. As the flaw I had been exploiting for personal profit was winding down, I felt like I knew these guys well enough to take a stab in the dark and the conversation went something like this.

Me: “Got any Wii’s today?”

S&J: “Nah, dude give up and buy one on Ebay”

Me: “Heh, It’s all good I can wait”

S&J: “We get like three a month Chris, there is no way your getting one”

Me: “How about I give you guys $25 each to give me a call when one comes in and I’ll come down and get it”

S&J: “… we might be able to do that”

At this point I figured either I would be out $50 on a good gamble… calculated risk or score a Wii at a discount off of an Ebay purchase. This by the way would be considered “unethical” by Christine so I would have to break it to her at that fancy dinner we were planning for the weekend… ( she then proceeded to get sick, have surgery ( she got her boobs enhanced ) and gave me food poisoning over the next few weeks so I never did remember to get around to telling her. To be honest, it really was only important to me to tell her for about the following 10 minutes after I greased the situation.

Let me fast forward about 2 months… I get a call last night form an unknown number, and I think to myself.. hmm that’s weird I rarely get phone calls from unknowns (as Christine will attest to I am a control freak and I prefer knowledge over unknowns) so I answer and gear up to likely RIP up the idiot who is calling me on my private line.

Me: “Hello”

GV: (a soft gentle girls voice, definitely not Christine after an hour of class): “Chris…”

Me: “Yes… who is this?” (this is not good, there should be no girl calling me out of the blue..”)

GV: “Hey, it’s Sarah from Gamestore..”

Me: “Oh, umm what’s up..? Why are you calling….Oh did a Wii come in?”

GV: “Not exactly, we actually have not got any shipments in yet but I do have some good news”

Me: “ok…” (ugh… faced with my second unknown in 10 minutes)

GV: “Well, you happened to fill out a entry form for a Free Wii promotion we were having in March, do you remember?”

Me: “Sarah, Don’t even tell me I happen to win…” (This would be practically impossible, I entered once and frankly only because it allowed me to give away one of my shinny new business cards that Christine had been encouraging me to give away for free dinners and things).

GV: “Well, actually.. yes you did, and I was calling to let you know.. Jacob just “happened” to pull your name.”

Me: “NICE, Thank You”

GV: “You can come down and snag your Wii anytime you want”

Me: “Thanks again, and tell Jacob thanks for the hookup”

Not only did I end up scoring my Wii, I ended up scoring it for a grand total of $50, which was actually the stores money because of the trade in flaw I had been manipulating. It seems crime does pay.

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