[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by maczero

I'm not on some moral high horse but technically this is stealing. The receipt will show a different item so you didn't pay for it in the eyes of the store or the law. Granted, the average employee probably isn't going to know you're holding Ebony Maw instead of Yon-Rogg but you never know.

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Originally Posted by Erland

It's easy, bring another Marvel legend to the self checkout, ring it up instead. If they stop you after you paid but before you leave, they "have" to let you have it, right?

Your not stealing and you paid for it, right?

Sorry, but Mac is right here. Remember that a purchase is considered a "sales agreement" in a court of law, and even if you plop down the amount of money for said goods, the seller in many cases has the right to refuse services on special occasions. It doesn't matter if you paid for it, until you physically leave the store, they have the right to stop you and get their item back (with a refund of course.)

Sometimes, managers are more interested in making a sale, so they'll just let it go. But in the case of street dated items, there can be severe penalties including fines that can be levied against the store should they break them and someone wants to follow up on it.

DO NOT attempt the practice that Erland suggested. That is considered a type of fraudulent practice whether you paid or not, and you can get into some serious trouble for this. I saw someone attempt to do this back in the day when I used to work for Tower Records, and when they were caught, the police got involved and besides being arrested, they were banned from the store.

It's a twenty dollar figure...it's not worth getting into serious trouble over. The 31st is right around the corner. If you get lucky...great...but if not...be patient and flex your super collector muscles and put in the work to beat the scalpers when they are mass released.