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Stephen & Elisabeth in England
Friday, 8 April 2005
Crimewatch!
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Mr. Bungle - California
Topic: Stephen Says
1 day left at the bookstore and I have the following tales of true crime to report:

(1) Earlier this week, a cunning robbery was carried out at the Staines branch (Staines: Linoleum capital of Great Britain), where two [As it turns out, one] whole SHELVES of BBC spoken word comedy CD's were stolen. We've been told not to accept any 'returns' of CD's of their ilk without a receipt as proof of purchase. Police are looking for good humoured people with a near encyclopedic knowledge of every episode of Black Adder, The Goon Show & Fawlty Towers.

(2) Due to excessive dodgyness, we've had to stop accepting exchanges by a group of people who want to continuously return & exchange crime novels without receipts. This one's a bit harder to explain; they exchange 4 crime novels for new and/or the same novels with no method to their madness. Then exchange them for 4 more a few days later. The returned books are in perfect condition except for the fact that someone has folded the cover all the way back. I want to beleive it's some kind of frat-boy prank but who knows - it's Woking, after all.

Posted by oz/rexcats at 8:52 PM BST
Updated: Saturday, 9 April 2005 10:34 PM BST
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Saturday, 9 April 2005 - 12:20 AM BST

Name: Sean

Do you ask why they return the books?
Maybe they buy the books somewhere cheap and then return them at your place?
Crazy british!!!!

Saturday, 9 April 2005 - 7:55 AM BST

Name: Stephen

Sadly, I haven't (and probably won't) have the opportunity to be the one to deal with them. I've thought about that, but it's highly unlikely since, without a receipt, they would be hard pressed to use any 'discounts' to their advantage.

My theory is that they're scanning the covers. But why? Ebay scams?

Really. Fucking. Weird.

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