Older professional looking fella brings up a couple of French language books. As I'm ringing them up I notice the 12.50 pencil price of one tome has been truncated to 2.50 with judicious application of an eraser. Our extremely lo tech security system works wonderfully at catching this type of fraud- when you've got two people with distinctive handwriting pricing all your books, any tampering is nakedly obvious.
This sort of thing happens infrequently, the demographic for used books being generally law abiding and the rare exceptions nearly always standing out from the crowd like Lady Gaga at a funeral.
"This one's $12.50, someone erased part of the price. Did you still want it?" I inquired blankly.
"Uh...uh...uh...no, I guess not. I guess someone wanted a deal, haha!"
"Mmmmmm. They certainly did."
"Do you want me to put it back?"
"Nope, we'll take care of it."
Some brass balls on that one.
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