At work today, a system trigger went off. Someone is ordering mass quantities of a Sharp branded projector. As a part of the sleuthing, I was checking ...

1. Is the product still full price on the web? (non $0 cost) ... yup, still $1000.
2. Is the product too low of a price? (pricegrabber = online price) ... nope, all good.
3. Who is this customer?

The account was just created today. They've been sending orders from 7am till 9am, all using a credit card, all with next day air shipping. Fraud flags everywhere.

I used Google Maps to pull up the shipping address ...


It's an empty lot. :lmao:

 

oh snap.... not only is Drew a bargain hunter he prevents that shit from happening to his company h:

 

How is a product going to be delivered to an empty lot? h:

 

so are you like the guy gets notified and messes up a slickdeal/fatwallet thread? DO NOT CALL DREW!

 

How updated is Google?

Maybe they just built a multi-movie room house

 

I have no flippin clue. I'm guessing these guys would meet the UPS man at the curb with printed invoices? :dunno:

This case was extreme. I think they attempted to order $330,000 worth of equipment in 2 hours over 20+ orders.

There are instances where you just can't tell though. It's like ... yeah, some business could really use 3 laptops ... but, are they really a business? Profiling is bad, but with Google Maps, it doesn't hurt to take a look.

 

$330k! WTF credit line

What do you do in these cases? Citi Bank usually calls me on the phone and ask if I placed so and so orders. Even it was about 8 transactions that totaled about $500 :uhhok:

 

A Quill.com coupon was cut loose on SD.net. I killed the coupon ($100 off $200) within 2 posts of the original. The thread went up to 33 pages of people trying to say "DON'T CALL". LOL ... no orders got through.

I was praised for saving the company an estimated $500,000. h:



The original intent of the coupon was a bad marketing attempt to draw in a specific segment of customers. (high profile accounts) The coupon got posted and the carnage ensued.

 

The CC passed on the first 2 orders. On 3 of 20, it failed on the CC verification step. The bad part is, we ship SO fast that the 2 orders almost made it out the door and onto a UPS truck.

The person that needed help with the sleuthing was literally jogging to the warehouse to stop the order picking.

 

Friggin drew is a hippo