Aren’t people entitled to privacy? How sure can you possibly be that an item was stolen?
If the person has an obvious drug addiction problem, that is a completely separate issue. As a previous poster said, he was a drug addict and appeared normal by all other standards. Trying to infer someone’s intentions by stereotyping is going to get the company into much worse trouble.

I hear that people use ATMs to withdraw cash to buy drugs. I say we test everyone that uses those as well.
Cash-back option at the grocery store? That $20 bill could be rolled up to snort some coke.
Paycheck from your minimum wage job? You don’t look like a responsible person to me, I’ll just hold on to that for you.

Sensationalistic headline, pointless article.

At the same time, I’m a full-time college student and I work full-time. I didn’t look like a drug addict at all. I was addicted to Opiates by the way… pills mostly. There are more people out there doing drugs than ANY of you realize. They don’t all look “strung out” or near dead, they look like normal people.

I’ve been clean since March of 2006 and I feel better than I ever have. I’m almost done with school and I look back at “WHAT I WAS” as a HUGE lesson learned. I’m still an addict and always will be. I’m in an 18 month long rehab program that costs me about $500 a month. Point is, I GUARANTEE all of you, that most of the people that go trade their things somewhere and receive CASH back, are going to be spending it on illegal substances. It doesn’t matter what they look like or what color they are, it’s just how the world is. I don’t think stores should be giving cash for traded in items anymore… it only promotes what is already a HUGE ASS PROBLEM. Thanks for listening and DON’T DO DRUGS KIDS!!!!

Glad you enjoyed the article. The more individuals that are made aware of this issue the better. Thanks for the link.

Mad

http://news.filefront.com/trading-in-your-xbox-360-for-drug-money/

No harm done. I will consider upping my exposure to twenty or so.

Mad-

In the words of the caveman from the geico commercials…”Yea I have a response….Uh…WHAT?
That made absolutely no sense. What did you do with your $136?

Just to imform you Corporate greed, the pawn shop I worked at happened to be the largest chain in the southeast and owned by the second richest man in SC. As far as a business is concerned, it’s very successful.

And to Mad gamer, I wasnt trying to come off assholish. Oh and you need more sunlight than that dude….sheesh.

Wow are you sure you don’t own a pwned shop?

There is a big difference between your crappy ass pawn shop full of baby mamas, white trash, and crack addicts and a nation wide retailer like a Bestbuy, EB, or Gamestop.

It sounds like you need to get out more since you obviously think the the fate of the world depends on your “i used to manage a pawn shop” stories.

First of all, thanks for the comment.

Secondly, there is a difference between living a sheltered life and exposing yourself to the type of people I can only imagine must have frequented your pawn shop on a daily basis.

That said, I am currently on a ration of ten minutes of sunlight a day and the glow from my monitor counts towards it so I gotta run.

Mad-

Bottom line is if they can get a console for hundred bucks and turn around and sell it for more than double they are going to do it.