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Yeah I honestly tried with a lot of the shit there lol. oh well.
You know, I think this is one of those "some people just want to get scammed" moments.
That's a whole other can of worms. I would get so many old fucks coming in for gift cards, mostly iTunes of course, and when the amount seemed fishy I would ask what it was for and, predictably, quite often it was some obvious bullshit. some would believe me right away, some would take some convincing, some would get mad. I remember one in particular called me a 'fucking moron who doesn't know shit' and insisted i sell him the 1k iTunes so he could pay is taxes. Had fun selling that one.
Others really stick out though. I had more then a few of the 'love scams' over the years. The military online BF who was discharged but has to pay his own trip home. This one in particualar is gonna stick with me till the day I die. She was there with a friend, and when i brought up how obvious the bullshit was, her friend was like 'SEE!?' We talked to her about this for a half hour or so before she believed us and holy fuck did she break down.