$4.99 iPod? College Student Accused In Barcode Switch

by **James Foote** on Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:57 pm

BOULDER, Colo. -- A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado faces criminal charges after police said he made a fake bar code label to buy an iPod for $4.99. The actual price of the MP3 player was $149.99.

Jonathan Baldino was arrested Wednesday at a Target store and police said the electrical-engineering student admitted making phony bar codes using a program he downloaded off the Internet.

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by **OAKS** on Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:12 pm

pretty ingenious, except for the whole $4.99 part. Should have tried for like $100 or something that was plausible. I don't advocating stealing though.

by **Beta** on Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:28 pm

Next thing ya know he'll start putting barcodes on golf carts huh Oaks? :lol:

by **Tim Whitehead** on Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:42 pm

More importantly, where can we get this program on the internet?

Benson, this is your new job....

by **James Foote** on Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:17 pm

I'd be careful messing with it... but there are a bunch of sites out there. I'll tell you this much... try google.

by **Jay Wisnieski** on Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:06 pm

Unless the person had a friend working the register, how could he possibly expect to get away with this? Any honest, sane person would immediately recognize that there's no way an iPod could only cost $4.99. Some people just get way too greedy when trying to commit fraud.

by **CyLaxKeeper00** on Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:05 am

Jay Wisnieski wrote:Unless the person had a friend working the register, how could he possibly expect to get away with this? Any honest, sane person would immediately recognize that there's no way an iPod could only cost $4.99. Some people just get way too greedy when trying to commit fraud.

he should have tried walmart.

by **FLAK** on Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:26 pm

Aaron Lozano wrote:
Jay Wisnieski wrote:Unless the person had a friend working the register, how could he possibly expect to get away with this? Any honest, sane person would immediately recognize that there's no way an iPod could only cost $4.99. Some people just get way too greedy when trying to commit fraud.

he should have tried walmart.

He should have gone to a store that had a self checkout aisle.

by **cjwilhelmi** on Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:54 pm

FLAK wrote:
Aaron Lozano wrote:
Jay Wisnieski wrote:Unless the person had a friend working the register, how could he possibly expect to get away with this? Any honest, sane person would immediately recognize that there's no way an iPod could only cost $4.99. Some people just get way too greedy when trying to commit fraud.

he should have tried walmart.

He should have gone to a store that had a self checkout aisle.

AKA Walmart

by **James Foote** on Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:41 pm

Good luck buying an ipod in a self checkout line anywhere

by **LAXDawg14** on Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:11 am

i know people who do that with lax equip.... go into dicks or somewhere and put a nice head on a shitty shaft... and take the tag off the head.... or vice versa

by **tamu33** on Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:16 pm

In the old days, here in dallas, the sporting goods stores were not too familiar with lacrosse equipment and they would always mistakenly mark items for a considerable amount less than retail value. I once found a box of balls for 1.99 instead of each ball being 1.99. I also got alot of sticks cheaper because they didn't know the difference between a hi-wall and an edge.