If I didn't get charged for something at Walmart, I probably wouldn't go back in and pay for it. Walmart does a lot of things wrong themselves.
My wife, at her old job, was in charge of the lost and found. There had been a nice 30gb ipod in there for a year. The principle told her to clean out the lost and found and package it up for donation to Goodwill. She brought the ipod home because she knew I wanted one. There was no identification on it, and I went thru the menus and there was nothing in it to id whose it might be. So I went out and bought the cable for it, hooked it up to my PC and the 1st thing that pops up is the girl's name who lost it. I couldn't keep it once I knew who it actually belonged to. My wife took it back and gave it to the girl who was estatic that someone found it. She had been in a lot of trouble over losing it.
Recently, I worked on someone's computer. It wouldn't boot up, and they asked if I could help get their data off. They bought one of those external drives, and gave me the pc. I figured, as long as the hard drive was not the problem, I could pop it into my computer and move all the data off to the external drive. The guy said that for my troubles, I could keep the old computer, as it had a newer DVD burner in it, and a new firewire card. I did some troubleshooting, found out the problem was a memory chip, took the bad chip out, and was able to get his computer up and running. I did what he asked, copying all his pictures and stuff to the other drive. The price to fix the computer would be less than $100. I couldn't, in good faith, keep his computer even though he said I could have it. (he'd already bought a brand new one). When I called him and told him what the deal was, I was up front with him and said it's a cheap fix, you want me to fix it for you and give you the box back? He said, no, you have bailed me out a couple times now and didn't charge me anything, so keep the old computer and if you want to fix it go ahead. It's not a bad machine, and definitely worth the cost to replace the memory chips. I could have just as easily told him "yes, you have a hardware problem, the machine is toast, here's your data", but morally, I couldn't do that. I know that some people would have no issue taking advantage of someone like that, but I can't. I guess I'd fail as a businessman.
My wife, at her old job, was in charge of the lost and found. There had been a nice 30gb ipod in there for a year. The principle told her to clean out the lost and found and package it up for donation to Goodwill. She brought the ipod home because she knew I wanted one. There was no identification on it, and I went thru the menus and there was nothing in it to id whose it might be. So I went out and bought the cable for it, hooked it up to my PC and the 1st thing that pops up is the girl's name who lost it. I couldn't keep it once I knew who it actually belonged to. My wife took it back and gave it to the girl who was estatic that someone found it. She had been in a lot of trouble over losing it.
Recently, I worked on someone's computer. It wouldn't boot up, and they asked if I could help get their data off. They bought one of those external drives, and gave me the pc. I figured, as long as the hard drive was not the problem, I could pop it into my computer and move all the data off to the external drive. The guy said that for my troubles, I could keep the old computer, as it had a newer DVD burner in it, and a new firewire card. I did some troubleshooting, found out the problem was a memory chip, took the bad chip out, and was able to get his computer up and running. I did what he asked, copying all his pictures and stuff to the other drive. The price to fix the computer would be less than $100. I couldn't, in good faith, keep his computer even though he said I could have it. (he'd already bought a brand new one). When I called him and told him what the deal was, I was up front with him and said it's a cheap fix, you want me to fix it for you and give you the box back? He said, no, you have bailed me out a couple times now and didn't charge me anything, so keep the old computer and if you want to fix it go ahead. It's not a bad machine, and definitely worth the cost to replace the memory chips. I could have just as easily told him "yes, you have a hardware problem, the machine is toast, here's your data", but morally, I couldn't do that. I know that some people would have no issue taking advantage of someone like that, but I can't. I guess I'd fail as a businessman.
I choose the good person over $$ any day of the week!