How Consultants Steal in Electronics Stores
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This video exposes the various schemes used by sales consultants in electronics stores to steal from their employers and customers, ranging from minor accessory theft to full-blown fraud involving credit cards and pirated software. The narrator, Sani Kharchevnikov, interviews former employees and shares real cases to arm viewers with knowledge before their next tech purchase.
The video begins with a warning that the content will reveal how consultants in electronics stores steal, and that the schemes are more common than people think.
The tip of the iceberg is small accessories like cases and cables, which consultants often claim are damaged or use for personal purposes, sometimes on an industrial scale.
Real cases include a consultant in St. Petersburg who hid smartphones under his clothes, earning 2 million rubles, and another in Omsk who systematically took extra money from the cash register for a year and a half.
Consultants use customer loyalty cards to accumulate bonuses, either by using their own cards or entering different phone numbers, and then cash out the bonuses through acquaintances or sell them online at a discount.
Consultants may ignore price tags, selling items at a higher price than marked, especially during promotions, and pocketing the difference or adding unwanted accessories to inflate the total.
Consultants may claim promotional gifts are out of stock or require additional purchases, then keep the gifts for themselves or resell them.
Consultants steal digital codes for subscriptions and services that come with products, selling them at a discount online, often without the buyer noticing.
Some consultants install pirated software on new devices, charging customers for it, and then offer paid repair services when the software fails.
The most severe scheme involves issuing credit cards to customers without their knowledge, often to elderly people, and using them for personal gain or selling the card details.
A former employee describes how they manipulated the store's pricing system to sell products at a loss, then resold them for profit, including buying display models for a fraction of their value.
The video concludes that consultant theft in electronics stores is a widespread problem, ranging from minor scams to serious fraud, and advises viewers to be vigilant and informed when making purchases.
What is the most common form of theft in electronics stores?
Small accessories like cases and cables.
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How do consultants cash out loyalty card bonuses?
Through acquaintances or by selling them online at 50-70% of the value.
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What is the 'price tag manipulation' scheme?
Consultants ignore the marked price and sell items at a higher price, pocketing the difference.
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How do consultants steal promotional gifts?
They claim gifts are out of stock or require additional purchases, then keep or resell them.
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What is the most severe scheme described in the video?
Issuing credit cards to customers without their knowledge, often to elderly people.
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How did a former employee buy display models for cheap?
By using the store's pricing system to mark them as defective and then reselling them.
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Real Theft Cases
Provides concrete examples of theft, showing the scale and frequency of these schemes.
02:44Loyalty Card Fraud
Explains a common but often unnoticed way consultants profit from customer data.
03:09Credit Card Fraud
Highlights the most severe and harmful scheme, targeting vulnerable customers.
08:42Industrial-Scale Fraud
Reveals how employees can manipulate systems for large-scale profit, affecting the store's bottom line.
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[00:13] additional warranty or overpriced Windows for a brand new laptop. trackers, no one will fix it for free. Well, in theory. But for a simply won't approve an installment plan. The scheme is banal. The guys earn their
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[02:11] of course, small accessories. I talked to a lot of people who took banal pretext: the presentation had deteriorated, a little polish, or an exhausting
[02:31] industrial scale, but this topic is already deeper. Other typical cases of news. For example, in Rostov, they caught a future owner of a phone once a week and a visit with family on a holiday, who, under cameras, stole gadgets worth 200,000. In
[02:44] St. Petersburg, a consultant was smarter and hid boxes of smartphones under his clothes. He earned 2 million. He attributed his appetite to gambling addiction. Some employees don't bother reselling; they simply steal the proceeds. In Omsk, an employee
[02:56] systematically took extra money from the cash register for a year and a half, receiving an additional 500,000 to his salary. criminal case secondly, does not cause any harm to buyers, unlike the schemes that we are starting to analyze right now. First, you can give a code name. The disappeared
[03:09] bonuses are the essence. As you might have guessed, in loyalty cards, which large chains smartphone for 40,000 and get a small cashback back for new purchases. However, some consultants monetize this system by earning not only bonuses
[03:22] bonus accounts. The easiest way is to take your card out of your pocket and punch enter a different phone number if the loyalty program does not have physical attributes. Cashing out bonuses occurs through acquaintances who then come to the
[03:36] consultant, but with a big discount. Those who put the scheme on stream sometimes Avito or in Telegram chats for 50 dash 70% of the amount they managed to accumulate. sleep. Such businessmen quickly lose their jobs, unless of course, in Share with the
[03:52] the iceberg, ignoring price tags works, I will electronics stores. This is explained by the fact that the implementation of the scheme requires a minimum of employees capable of demonstrating a feeling called conscience. Let's say a smartphone of a
[04:05] famous brand cost 35,000 rubles in the network. But Black Friday came, which they decided not to make fake and the price tag dropped to 27,000. You can please consumers with benefits. Or you can fulfill the plan, the cost of the silage remains the same. A
[04:17] and chooses the very smartphone. Everything is fine, including the price, so the consultant with a satisfied face carries the box to the checkout, rings everything up and pleases the client with the fact that instead of 35,000, you only need to pay 33, they say, promotions,
[04:29] the buyer. In fact, as we already 27,000. There is also an extended warranty for connecting some mobile tariff for a year, antivirus cases, glass and headphones. As a result, the client
[04:42] paying 2,000 less. But in fact, In fact, he paid six more. the consultant will give him the glass case he paid for. Or the Chinese headphones that he entered in the receipt. Otherwise, he can keep them and resell them for half price
[04:56] on the bulletin boards. The director might give him a slap on the wrist, but some are aware and are happy additional bonuses from it. We are lower and lower in line. Something similar, but on a different scale. We are talking about official and announced promotions, like "buy a
[05:09] smartphone and get headphones as a gift." There is asked, "Why did I come specifically because of this advertisement?" they answer that you supposedly need to listening to great music are given out only with additional purchases or an
[05:24] extended warranty. No matter how absurd it may sound, sometimes a a couple of thousand and no longer wants to receive gifts. Other consultants are simply promotional item is out of stock, saying that now only a phone for this price is available. "Sorry, I'm sorry, I
[05:38] can't do anything about it." The truth is I really want to help. Sometimes it works, just like replacing cool headphones on sale with Chinese copies, but these are more digital bonuses, which have been gaining popularity in the last couple of years. For those who don't know, we are
[05:51] online services, codes for which are located inside or on boxes with get a year's subscription to a service with music for it. Cool and seemingly the consultant. There is no way they will steal it from you. They will steal it, and
[06:08] favorable prices for digital goods: subscriptions for half the price, various accounts suppliers of such goods is the consultant. I do not recommend using such bots and sites;
[06:21] very often they simply scam buyers. But if they really give out a code for an annual probability that it is flaunted on the box with a gadget in a well-known store. You paid. 1,000 instead of two, the consultant received five rubles for a photo, and the buyer of the
[06:34] clear-cut. Some generally forget about bonus subscriptions and do not notice that they were essentially robbed. And if the client still tries to go through the activation, comes to the given a replacement, and watch the recordings from the cameras for a couple of months, figuring out who passed
[06:48] be no security service. Moreover, often such digital thefts are carried out by ordinary visitors and not consultants, it seems like a small thing, but still compared to a consultant who earns extra money by becoming a
[07:01] full-fledged PC burglar, that is, guys who come to your home and fix jambs with equipment for about Price stop stop stop What do consultants have to do with it? Are they throwing business cards around the store? Well, not really, but the theory is not
[07:13] bad. I worked in the TV department when a buyer came in, more experienced sellers showed me how to work with the buyer at that moment. That is, you start talking there. Well, for quite a long time there until an hour 2 hours,
[07:27] basically, you communicate with the buyer, show him different examples. As a result, when the buyer buys a TV and takes an additional installation of an online cinema from you, the following happened: we went to the service area and turned on
[07:42] the TV in front of them, checked the clogged pixels, took everything else, a flash drive with the service marking. It could be either your own flash drive or a shared one, they took the flash drive and simply installed pirated WinK software on the first receipt, they punched in
[07:57] about N plus 3,000 from the additional sale of pirated software on the TV, it is necessary to transfer the contact to the buyer, saying call happy to help. Yeah, of course. Especially when the problem has already been created, the pirated one crashed
[08:12] in about 2-3 days and a dissatisfied buyer calls you and says: “ My WinK crashed, everything else.” And you say that I can come to you for a certain amount and restore it. And so, on a regular basis, we went
[08:27] there. Each had their own customers, we went to them and in addition to the cash register, we received our income such 60 dash burglars cool online cinemas with all the movies without registration SMS I hope you do not
[08:42] meantime we have almost reached the bottom of our improvisational iceberg if consumer this is the worst thing I managed to learn from my interlocutors talking about issuing credit cards to the buyer and theft of funds from there in the most
[08:56] person comes with us with the intention of buying a product and so as not to injure themselves with a one-time payment Oh yeah, sorry, installment card is replaced by this very wording, but in fact this does not change the installment plan or
[09:11] the smartphone and then finds out that that day it turns out he bought two items, one the consultant comes to the store to sort things out the employee no longer issue the girl or guy on the line notes that everything is very complicated you are
[09:25] making payments in the meantime And we will begin to sort it out There are many cases, sometimes fraudsters are held cases when people have to pay money for goods they did scenario. During the
[09:38] several consultants. One worked in an electronics store with a sign for a well-known often encountered requests for SIM cards and additional services from the brand. A scheme such as connecting to a more expensive tariff or adding paid services
[09:50] additional income. Let's imagine a situation where a grandmother came to the store. So, the editor, maybe that's enough already. Let's say an ordinary grandmother. Thank you. She gives her passport and asks to replace the SIM card. Most often, the service is free and carried out quite
[10:03] offers to go through the activation procedure, and this is a very important point. As my SIM card, any messages from banks are blocked on it. This is normal by operators is associated with the need to protect users from fraudulent
[10:17] thought-out system does not take into account that a inserts the old one. A SIM card in your own or work phone, since you have someone to 1C, select the credit card issuing point and submit an application. The wait can be written off
[10:33] the system is slow. Sorry. You understand, fertilizer arrives. The consultant logs into your personal account, takes a photo of it as and replaces the SIM card, which is what the client actually came for. Taking into account
[10:46] grandmother will not receive a message about credit card activation. She may never even know about its existence. The consultant is left with a bonus of 2 product and a brand new credit card. Then, again, everything depends on the level of conscience in the
[10:59] forget about the card, but some consultants, according to my interlocutor, about two or three months, so long as there are no suspicions, and the pensioner will be left consultants who simply foist off an additional guarantee no longer look so
[11:14] foundation, ours. Weisberg I left the theft of consultants on an industrial But for the owner of small medium and large chains, I think it will be useful to listen. When people came there and bought a printer, say, for 30,000 it
[11:28] cost, I said now I will do everything, like now there will be a nice bonus, I went to the store director to ask permission, they told me yes, of course, no problem, and then the fraud is already underway, that is, we look for any link where this product is sold there for
[11:44] 15,000. We insert this link into the program and the store program reads that this product is cheaper than it. It is necessary to sell at this price specifically from our store, that is, already through the application, the amount will not be 25. Not 30,000 but 15. After
[12:00] that, we simply add our own discount from the seller, there is a conditional 10% of something, and after that we write some kind of defect in the product. Although it is absolutely new, we write some kind of defect and that's it. And so, in front of me, my trainer
[12:15] my trainer bought an display case that everyone can touch and test regarding how it was possible to turn it around.
[12:32] The equipment with free receipt is specifically the validity period of the equipment declared for the exhibition version, that is, from the display case, I picked up iPhones for 300 rubles. That is, I picked up an XR iPhone for 300 rubles
[12:49] said, "Who needs everything, come to me, we will talk and negotiate." I picked up Samsung Xiaomi iPhones for myself, that's all, these are display samples, they basically display samples, they basically all looked decent on the outside and it was not
[13:03] obvious that they were display samples. And after that, you get a receipt, a box, everything, put it on Avito and get a plus from this. And would you like an iPhone for a couple of hundred or thousand rubles? Write in the comments what it seemed like for this it was enough to get a
[13:16] job at the right tech store, which is what we have. In the end, foisting cases, warranty turned out to be the very tip of the iceberg of full-fledged fraud I hope the video was useful for you. Send the link to your loved ones so that they
[13:30] are also armed before going for new gadgets. It seems that everything is obvious and simple, but in the field it is not always so. Well, with You were Sani Kharchevnikov, please YouTube channel, write interesting comments. What do you think about what I forgot?
[13:42] I tried to make such a voluminous, interesting and useful video for all of you, and now you finally know what's on my laptop. I just have the plain text of the video. I'm kidding. Actually, I'm kidding. This is all
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