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Originally Posted by pyrion  one of my favorite techniques for lifting something that you know has an electronic tag on it and you are not sure where it is or dont want to use a powerful magnet that might damage the product is this: take the electronic tags off of other products (e.g. CD's) and in sort of a reverse pickpocketing manner just put them in as many people's pockets/purses as possible who are about to check out or on their way out (it is best if they are the type of people who the store security won't think are stealing) . buy something small just to aviod suspicion and as the people who unknowingly have the tags on them walk out the door the alarm will go off. after the fourth or fifth time they will either turn off the alarm to see what is going on or they just wont care if it goes off again. either way it enables you to get your stolen item/s out of the store without having to worry about the alarm. keep in mind that due to the time consuming manner of this method it is best to use it when you are about to make a major haul (worth at least a couple hundred) I also highly discourage doing this to the same store repeatedly. |
I worked at an electronics store and they would HOLD YOU UP until they were sure even if was going off when nobody was going through, purse-search and all. I didn't care because theft doesn't bother me, but it does put a bit of a dent in your plan.
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Originally Posted by realgone Man, haven't boosted since I was a JD. Is it still the same, where if you're "made", they wont tap you UNTIL you exit the store? |
That's still the way it works for apprehensions. They can/will still harass you while inside the store if they catch you, but no detaining or arresting until you've left.