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Pranks => Regular Pranks => Topic started by: nomadcowatbk on November 23, 2008, 07:57:44 PM
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A line will form outside places like Best Buy or Wal-mart before they open on Friday morning, some may even camp overnight. Find some dumbass, call several pizza places, and have them deliver several pizzas to the victim. You could also try to get into the store intercom and announce sales that don't actually exist.
Someone did this when the PS3 was released.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km-Iol1221k
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Here's a perfect one for Black Friday.
1.) Get some h3ri0n and then "shoot it n2 ur vainz"
2.) Get a gun and shoot at the kids in your school.
3.) Kill your parents.
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Sorry, but school's out on Black Friday. You could always shoot at the janitor, though. But c'mon man, he has enough problems as it is.
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Ok, first of all, where do people find such shitty techno music?
Second, why do people feel the need to share the shitty music with everyone else? And why do they have to mix it so loud into their clips that you can barely, if at all, hear their cock muffled speaking?
On another note, I did something similar to this, but we ordered pizzas to a room number 1 over what actually existed. Several pizza guys found the room number it should have been next to, but circled the area several times trying to find that next number. At one point two pizza guys walked right passed each other looking for the room. Good times.
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I plan to visit a Wal-Mart on Black Friday, just to enjoy all the shopping chaos. I'll probably pick up some store phones while I'm there and talk to customers. Maybe I'll find a blue vest to wear so I can misdirect some shoppers.
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Actually Target would be a great place for that. All you need is a pair of khaki's and a red polo. That's an incredibly good idea, even for a shopper. You could just ask for people to get out of the way and they'll move for you thinking you work there.
It would also be fun to buy a bunch of the doorbuster deals and return them right after the sales end.
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Ok, first of all, where do people find such shitty techno music?
It's My Console by Eiffel 65. It's on the same album as that infamous "I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di" song.
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Oh, so people find shitty techno music on cd's with other shitty techno music on it. Got it.
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Actually Target would be a great place for that. All you need is a pair of khaki's and a red polo. That's an incredibly good idea, even for a shopper. You could just ask for people to get out of the way and they'll move for you thinking you work there.
It would also be fun to buy a bunch of the doorbuster deals and return them right after the sales end.
You could do the same at Best Buy with a Blue polo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utkkXCF8ZVc
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I'll probably pick up some store phones while I'm there and talk to customers.
Don't forget your cordless phone. That's if they use the same model of yours. ;D
MIB
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Right after I quit @ Office Max, I came back in my khakis, blue polo, and walkie-talkie ready to wreck havok. I forgot that nobody shops at Office Max, though, and there were only like a 4:1 customer:employee ratio. My co-workers caught on right away and kicked me out. I did, however, get to have fun on the radio outside the store. Since they do layout the morning of (or night before) the sale, most people aren't sure where anything is located. Using a standard walkie-talkie, it's very easy to get employees asking their manager where a certain doorbuster item is located to lead customers all over the store in a wild goose chase, forcing them to leave in frustration. I've also done this at Best Buy and at Target, but the results were more memorable at Office Max (the store was small enough that I could see the hilarity unfolding).
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It would also be fun to buy a bunch of the doorbuster deals and return them right after the sales end.
You'd probably be doing them a favor since they'd raise the price again after Black Friday.
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Ok, first of all, where do people find such shitty techno music?
Second, why do people feel the need to share the shitty music with everyone else? And why do they have to mix it so loud into their clips that you can barely, if at all, hear their cock muffled speaking?
On another note, I did something similar to this, but we ordered pizzas to a room number 1 over what actually existed. Several pizza guys found the room number it should have been next to, but circled the area several times trying to find that next number. At one point two pizza guys walked right passed each other looking for the room. Good times.
Try ordering a pizza to a place with multiple occupants like a hotel or apartment complex but with the same pizza place.
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Why do they do with the pizzas from prank orders?
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Right after I quit @ Office Max, I came back in my khakis, blue polo, and walkie-talkie ready to wreck havok. I forgot that nobody shops at Office Max, though, and there were only like a 4:1 customer:employee ratio. My co-workers caught on right away and kicked me out. I did, however, get to have fun on the radio outside the store. Since they do layout the morning of (or night before) the sale, most people aren't sure where anything is located. Using a standard walkie-talkie, it's very easy to get employees asking their manager where a certain doorbuster item is located to lead customers all over the store in a wild goose chase, forcing them to leave in frustration. I've also done this at Best Buy and at Target, but the results were more memorable at Office Max (the store was small enough that I could see the hilarity unfolding).
Haha, I used to work for OMX as well and have also acquired model radio that they use. Is it a Motorola CLS 1410? I have seen a trend of many other retailers using these now. I am going out on Black Friday with it just hope I can program the channels right for other stores.
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...how did you people do on friday? ;D
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...how did you people do on friday? ;D
I tried to pose as a walmart employee, but I got trampled to death when they opened the store.
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...how did you people do on friday? ;D
I tried to pose as a walmart employee, but I got trampled to death when they opened the store.
Did you live?
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...how did you people do on friday? ;D
I picked up store phones at Wal-Mart and pissed off at least a dozen would-be customers. Here's one:
http://www.phonelosers.com/stuff/blow_up_the_store.mp3 (http://www.phonelosers.com/stuff/blow_up_the_store.mp3)
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...how did you people do on friday? ;D
I picked up store phones at Wal-Mart and pissed off at least a dozen would-be customers. Here's one:
http://www.phonelosers.com/stuff/blow_up_the_store.mp3 (http://www.phonelosers.com/stuff/blow_up_the_store.mp3)
That was awesome "I need my medications" "sounds like you do damn" "you need a vacuum cleaner"
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I went to walmart also. I ended up getting a new vacuum cleaner. I didnt want to wait in the insanely long line so I went to the grocery side of the store and found a phone and made an announcement over the paging system that there were 50 inch TVs in the gardening section for 75% off, I repeat 75% off. I ended up clearing several people out of the checkout line and made it out of there in half the time. I got it on video, the walmart ladies in gardening turning people away when they came looking for the TV's. Ill upload it when im not being too lazy.
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I went to walmart also. I ended up getting a new vacuum cleaner. I didnt want to wait in the insanely long line so I went to the grocery side of the store and found a phone and made an announcement over the paging system that there were 50 inch TVs in the gardening section for 75% off, I repeat 75% off. I ended up clearing several people out of the checkout line and made it out of there in half the time. I got it on video, the walmart ladies in gardening turning people away when they came looking for the TV's. Ill upload it when im not being too lazy.
I would love to see that as I am currently employed by Wal-Mart and I like to see the store getting one pulled over on them (it is THE Wal-Mart after all)
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the only store i braved on black friday was a used bookstore, which wasn't very busy.
i was a bad phone loser, and did not pull any pranks. i managed to find an infinitely lulzy treasure trove of misinformation (http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/860000286/post/90014409.html), though.
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I got a pair of headphones and some video games.
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Take this MP3 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone.mp3">Link[/url] (new window) and fill a CD with it. When the old lady is working in electronics (or anyone above 25) pop it into a CD player, set it to repeat and crank up the volume. Starts killing sales and lets the employees relax until someone finds it.
17Khz sound, only irritating to teens and young adults.
Also would make a good ring tone for our younger losers, adults can't hear it but you can.
A company sells machines that produce this to keep kids away from businesses.
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Take this MP3 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone.mp3">Link[/url] (new window) and fill a CD with it. When the old lady is working in electronics (or anyone above 25) pop it into a CD player, set it to repeat and crank up the volume. Starts killing sales and lets the employees relax until someone finds it.
17Khz sound, only irritating to teens and young adults.
Also would make a good ring tone for our younger losers, adults can't hear it but you can.
A company sells machines that produce this to keep kids away from businesses.
Yeah maybe if it was of better quality. Stick this up your ipod: http://www.spacebison.com/files/17000.wav (http://www.spacebison.com/files/17000.wav)
Personally, I'm a bit more fond of the 15khz tone:http://www.spacebison.com/files/15000.wav (http://www.spacebison.com/files/15000.wav)
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Haha, I used to work for OMX as well and have also acquired model radio that they use. Is it a Motorola CLS 1410? I have seen a trend of many other retailers using these now. I am going out on Black Friday with it just hope I can program the channels right for other stores.
That sounds right. I don't know how much "programming" you'd need to do, as it's just a basic multi-channel walkie-talkie. I mean, all you do is flip through channels until you hear employees talking. This also works at Best Buy, Target, and any other mass-retailer that has employees communicate by radio. OMX is just fun to fuck with and listen in on since they do all their sales reads and team "huddles" by radio.
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Take this MP3 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone.mp3">Link[/url] (new window) and fill a CD with it. When the old lady is working in electronics (or anyone above 25) pop it into a CD player, set it to repeat and crank up the volume. Starts killing sales and lets the employees relax until someone finds it.
Wouldn't work at places with minimum wage high school age workers like Circuit Shitty
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Honestly Circuit City is the only place near me with decent customer service.
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http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FPO/P33Q/F3KLNVHA/FPOP33QF3KLNVHA.mp3
download this mp3 to your ipod
take an antenna and some shit headphones
cut the headphones off about 2 inces from the jack
strip one wire and connect it to the antenna (only one to the antenna)
Wrap it in electrical tape
plug it into your mp3 player and play
sit back and watch the fun as the entire store plays a mandatory red light green light game with the shopping carts
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http://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FPO/P33Q/F3KLNVHA/FPOP33QF3KLNVHA.mp3
download this mp3 to your ipod
take an antenna and some shit headphones
cut the headphones off about 2 inces from the jack
strip one wire and connect it to the antenna (only one to the antenna)
Wrap it in electrical tape
plug it into your mp3 player and play
sit back and watch the fun as the entire store plays a mandatory red light green light game with the shopping carts
Wow, you get right on that and let me know how it goes.
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i've done it before
some shopping carts have a special brake in their right wheel
a strip emiting this frequency is placed around the store to prevent shopping carts from being stolen
was hilarious until my firend got caught with camera inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLOAf8dYaI
proof that it locks
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i've done it before
some shopping carts have a special brake in their right wheel
a strip emiting this frequency is placed around the store to prevent shopping carts from being stolen
was hilarious until my firend got caught with camera inside
What in the Sam-Mo-lasses hell would you do with a granny cart? You can blow house fuses from charing them.....go down the road and get caught...etc. Riding around on something that does not look natural is not a great idea. Then again, check ebay.
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i've done it before
some shopping carts have a special brake in their right wheel
a strip emiting this frequency is placed around the store to prevent shopping carts from being stolen
was hilarious until my firend got caught with camera inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLOAf8dYaI
proof that it locks
VIDZ OR BS
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i've done it before
some shopping carts have a special brake in their right wheel
a strip emiting this frequency is placed around the store to prevent shopping carts from being stolen
was hilarious until my firend got caught with camera inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLOAf8dYaI
proof that it locks
Not saying it wouldn't but you could have at least posted instructions that are somewhat believable instead of the utter crap you posted.
http://www.instructables.com/id/EMP-shopping-cart-locker/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/EMP-shopping-cart-locker/)
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My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. i guess icould have
it does work
and its hilarious
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I CLEARLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, EVER., my job is to deliver chineese food to people, and i dont find this too funny...
haha we get prank calls all the time, all it means is some free food for us ;D
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I CLEARLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, EVER., my job is to deliver chineese food to people, and i dont find this too funny...
Yes, everyone knows that Chinese food deliverers are popularly known for their pristine sense of humor.
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Many states have sale tax holiday weekends in August. These things might be good to try then.
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Anyone planning anything next Friday?
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I'd like to just walk around a Wal-Mart in a blue vest with buttons all over it and answer questions for customers. Not sure if I'll be that ambitious though. Especially so early in the morning.
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I'd like to just walk around a Wal-Mart in a blue vest with buttons all over it and answer questions for customers.
What would you do, give them honest answers?
Because I don't think it'd be very smart to say 'fuck you' to a 300lb truck driver's face IRL. :D
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I'd like to just walk around a Wal-Mart in a blue vest with buttons all over it and answer questions for customers.
There are a few reasons:
1 (http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html)
2 (http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/wal-mart-worker-dies-in-black-friday-stampede-1.884298)
3 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html)
4 (http://gizmodo.com/5099819/walmart-worker-trampled-to-death-by-deal+crazed-black-friday-shoppers)
5 (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008448574_shop290.html)
6 (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/28/Man-trampled-to-death-in-Black-Friday-rush/UPI-55071227889455/)
7 (http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/usa/news/article_1445604.php)
8 (http://www.phonelosers.com/Retail_worker_trampled_to_death_Black_Friday_morning_VIDEO)
9 (http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2929)
10 (http://www.phonelosers.com/index.php?topic=3724.msg41278#msg41277)
And many many more. Don't ever get in the way of a poor fat persons wife and her new dishwasher.
I'd like to just walk around a Wal-Mart in a blue vest with buttons all over it and answer questions for customers.
What would you do, give them honest answers?
Because I don't think it'd be very smart to say 'fuck you' to a 300lb truck driver's face IRL. :D
It's the best possible place for a murder. All they have to do is throw you on the ground. Jesus, it'll be 911 all over again.
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I'd like to just walk around a Wal-Mart in a blue vest with buttons all over it and answer questions for customers.
What would you do, give them honest answers?
Because I don't think it'd be very smart to say 'fuck you' to a 300lb truck driver's face IRL. :D
Seems like it'd mostly be old house-wifey type people there and they'd be pretty unlikely to kick my ass.
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I'll be getting wireless adaptars at microcenter on black friday, probably a better use of your time. Who can beat $10 for a wireless N dongle?
Don't get in the way of a crazed 6'1" hacker and his cheap wireless N dongles!
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I was thinking of going out for Black Friday, but I just haven't been in the mood to wake up in the early AM for shopping since I stopped working retail. If I find my 2-way I'll probably throw on some khakis and a blue polo and head over to OMX, since they have a new store manager and sales lead in my district and neither of them know me, or head over to the new Best Buy. If I do anything fun I'll vid, but I doubt I'll do anything because I'm kind of a douchenozzle.
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Any stories to share from yesterday?
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I went to Target to pick up a microSD card (just a normal purchase, not a Black Friday shopping frenzy like everyone else there) and I had to wait in line at electronics. The TVs were blaring behind me so I held my tv-b-gone over my shoulder until they shut up. That's the extent of my crazy Black Friday experiences.
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I'm 4"11 [meaning it's very hard to notice me], Walmart was PACKED, employees were exceptionally busy throwing microwaves at hungry customers, "the phone lines were all just opened up and sitting there", and I FORGOT MY RECORDING EQUIPMENT.
(http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt119/Spankety/FFFFF/RageFace2.png)
I still made pranks- had to keep switching phones because actual employees wanted to use them- well, mostly just this one fat guy named Doug. I just tried to convince him that I'm retarded and he left me alone. It wasn't that difficult. Because I am retarded.
The hammer's my penis.
ANYWAY.
I tried selling cactus soap to this elderly man over the phone who was asking for a Hannah Montannah CD to give to his grand daughter for Christmas. I told him he was stinky and that I could smell him through the phone.
I made a LOT more interesting calls than that but I'll share that later when I can remember how they went.
Otherwise, it was a decent Black Friday for me.
How about you PLA-ers?
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For months I've been checking Goodwill, trying to find a vest or a shirt that could pass as one of those blue vest that Wal-Mart employees wear. But I've had no luck at that. I found a uniform company online that sells them for about $20, though. I will find one by next year, though, so I can fulfill my dreams of being a Wal-Mart employee for a day.
Maybe I should just get a real job at Wal-Mart long enough to get a blue vest and quit.
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For months I've been checking Goodwill, trying to find a vest or a shirt that could pass as one of those blue vest that Wal-Mart employees wear. But I've had no luck at that. I found a uniform company online that sells them for about $20, though. I will find one by next year, though, so I can fulfill my dreams of being a Wal-Mart employee for a day.
Maybe I should just get a real job at Wal-Mart long enough to get a blue vest and quit.
That'd probably be more convincing an outfit than just buying a fake one - plus an ample amount of 'getting fired' possibilities if your intention is to quit immediatly after receiving the uniform.
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For months I've been checking Goodwill, trying to find a vest or a shirt that could pass as one of those blue vest that Wal-Mart employees wear. But I've had no luck at that. I found a uniform company online that sells them for about $20, though. I will find one by next year, though, so I can fulfill my dreams of being a Wal-Mart employee for a day.
Maybe I should just get a real job at Wal-Mart long enough to get a blue vest and quit.
My friend told me that the employees don't wear blue vests anymore. Just blue t-shirts. Both his parents work at Walmart. He's poor. Haha!
I still made pranks- had to keep switching phones because actual employees wanted to use them- well, mostly just this one fat guy named Doug. I just tried to convince him that I'm retarded and he left me alone. It wasn't that difficult. Because I am retarded.
Please post them. I really want to listen.:D
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(http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt119/Spankety/FFFFF/RageFace2.png)
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I have a medium-sized Best Buy uniform kicking around.
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I went to Target to pick up a microSD card (just a normal purchase, not a Black Friday shopping frenzy like everyone else there) and I had to wait in line at electronics. The TVs were blaring behind me so I held my tv-b-gone over my shoulder until they shut up. That's the extent of my crazy Black Friday experiences.
I've been meaning to get one of those. But wouldn't turn the TVs back on if you held it up too long?
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I've been meaning to get one of those. But wouldn't turn the TVs back on if you held it up too long?
You press the button once and it takes about 60 seconds to cycle through all the on/off codes one time. It's possible they could turn back on if they responded to more than one code. But I put it away as soon as the noise stopped.
About Wal-Mart and Best Buy uniforms - I wouldn't want an actual Wal-Mart or Best Buy vest/shirt. Because then they could say I'm being an impostor and throw me out of the store. But if I just happen to be wearing the same color of shirt or vest as them and I just happen to have a lot of buttons all over the front of my blue vest, they can't really say anything about that.
I've gone into Wal-Mart in the past, wearing various work uniforms and customers would stop me and ask me questions, even though my uniform was the wrong color and my name tag was for a completely different company. So I'm sure it'll work, especially during the chaos of Black Friday. I've still got lots of my old name tags, so I'm just going to put one of those on even though I have a real Wal-Mart badge with my name on it.
Also, I read that Black Friday isn't the biggest shopping day of the year. According to some blog, it's actually the Saturday before Christmas day. So maybe I'll have time to try it out then.
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Stores are busy a few days before or after Christmas
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About Wal-Mart and Best Buy uniforms - I wouldn't want an actual Wal-Mart or Best Buy vest/shirt. Because then they could say I'm being an impostor and throw me out of the store. But if I just happen to be wearing the same color of shirt or vest as them and I just happen to have a lot of buttons all over the front of my blue vest, they can't really say anything about that.
Kind of like this (http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/)?
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Any plans for this year?
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Any plans for this year?
I'm free that day, so I'll probably drive to a Wal-Mart just to enjoy the craziness there. I'm sure I'll end up picking up phones while I'm there. I doubt I'll be ambitious enough to make it there before 9am, but there's still plenty happening at that hour. I still never got around to buying a blue vest. Maybe I'll try opening some fire doors.
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Sealing the entrance doors the night before has always yeilded hilarious results; both from the shoppers and employees.
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Any stories from today?
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I stopped by a couple Wal-Marts today, only to find out that all of the phones on posts have disappeared at both stores. At the first store, they'd removed the blue tape from the top of all the posts and there were no phone jacks on the posts from where phones used to be. At that store, the paint department had a Cisco 7960 phone.
At the second store, the blue tape was still on all the posts and there were phone jacks on all of them still. But there were no phones. The phones in the paint department and the fabric department were the old style Wal-Mart phones.
So I guess it's a nationwide thing. The days of answering calls for Wal-Mart customers is finally over.
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fail
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This old trick will work at anyplace that has CD players
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXyTi8xB1I
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Here's my rough Black Friday plan for this year that I'll probably never follow through on even though it's the best idea ever.
Step 1: I will call up electronics departments at various Wal-Marts in my area and get them to tell me which brand of cordless phones their employees use in that department.
Step 2: I will look up the instruction manuals for those cordless phones and see how easy it is to register an extra handset to their base unit. If seems easy enough, I will buy a handset from eBay.
Step 3: Before Black Friday, I will drive to that Wal-Mart and either reach over the counter to register the handset myself, or I'll call the electronics department from my cell phone and walk the employee through the steps to register it.
Step 4: Answer calls all day on Black Friday, without the hassle of employees busting me nonstop for playing on their store phones. I'll just look like an ordinary guy, walking around the store and talking on a cordless phone.
Any thoughts? Have I thought my cunning plan all the way through? If I get this all working, I can probably rig an earpiece for the phone that will make me look like an ordinary guy using a late-90's-era cell phone earpiece. I could even wire a digital recorder into it for better recordings.
I've been wanting to do something like this ever since I noticed that all Targets and Wal-Marts use digital cordless phones in their electronics departments. It seems like if I can get them to register my cordless phone handset, then it will work forever. I could go in there and answer their phones for YEARS without them figuring it out. I don't see how it could stop working, aside from them deciding to upgrade their cordless phones.
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I think the cordless phone trick is a good idea. Make sure you also get the extension for their PA system. Fred Meyer's all over again.
MIB
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sounds like a pretty great idea to me... especially with the addition of the headset.
only problem i might see is that they may think that you stole the handset from the store unless you somehow bring it to security before going into the store with some lame story like you brought it with you because you need to replace the batteries or something, and want to make sure you get the right ones, or you want to see if they have the same model because one of your handsets is broken...
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only problem i might see is that they may think that you stole the handset from the store unless you somehow bring it to security before going into the store with some lame story like you brought it with you because you need to replace the batteries or something, and want to make sure you get the right ones, or you want to see if they have the same model because one of your handsets is broken...
Oh yeah, good point. I'll have to carve my name into it with a soldering gun or something. Maybe fill up the phone book memory with my own numbers, just for extra proof that I'm not a shoplifter.
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Here's my rough Black Friday plan for this year that I'll probably never follow through on even though it's the best idea ever.
Step 1: I will call up electronics departments at various Wal-Marts in my area and get them to tell me which brand of cordless phones their employees use in that department.
Step 2: I will look up the instruction manuals for those cordless phones and see how easy it is to register an extra handset to their base unit. If seems easy enough, I will buy a handset from eBay.
Step 3: Before Black Friday, I will drive to that Wal-Mart and either reach over the counter to register the handset myself, or I'll call the electronics department from my cell phone and walk the employee through the steps to register it.
Step 4: Answer calls all day on Black Friday, without the hassle of employees busting me nonstop for playing on their store phones. I'll just look like an ordinary guy, walking around the store and talking on a cordless phone.
Any thoughts? Have I thought my cunning plan all the way through? If I get this all working, I can probably rig an earpiece for the phone that will make me look like an ordinary guy using a late-90's-era cell phone earpiece. I could even wire a digital recorder into it for better recordings.
I've been wanting to do something like this ever since I noticed that all Targets and Wal-Marts use digital cordless phones in their electronics departments. It seems like if I can get them to register my cordless phone handset, then it will work forever. I could go in there and answer their phones for YEARS without them figuring it out. I don't see how it could stop working, aside from them deciding to upgrade their cordless phones.
That might work if they use off the self cordless systems but I wouldn't be surprised if they have custom made systems like hotels custom made TVs with no inputs.
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May not even have to go inside the store if you can pick up a signal outside
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Call a few days before Black Friday saying you're from corporate taking an inventory of the store phones. They might be dumb enough to give the model info there.
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May not even have to go inside the store if you can pick up a signal outside
possibly not to use the phone - but it is probably likely that he will have to get to the base to register the handset...
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I hope I'll get some range on the cordless so I don't have to hang out too close to electronics the whole time, but I doubt the phone will reach all the way outside. That would sure be nice, though, just to sit in my car and take calls. I have to be inside anyway, though, just to hear the overhead pages to the different departments.
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problem... do you know what kind of phone system that they have and how to pick up parked calls on that system with a POTS phone?
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problem... do you know what kind of phone system that they have and how to pick up parked calls on that system with a POTS phone?
They upgraded their systems recently and the model number is up in this thread somewhere. Most Wal-Marts I've been in have used normal, featureless phones on their posts. They still use cordless phones in electronics, which look like normal phones like anyone owns, so I'm betting a person could bring in a cordless phone and hook it up to an empty jack on a post.
Picking up parked calls is easy - #9801 for line 1 and #9802 for line 2.
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Please wear a sexy blue smock. <3
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I think Black Friday might be another big fail for me this year. All of the Wal-Marts have quit using cordless phones in their electronics department, probably because of their recent phone system overhaul. So I called up every Target within a 1-hour radius and got all of their cordless phone model numbers from electronics and from the fitting rooms. For the most part, they all use the same few models of V-Tech and Uniden cordless phones, which are the same ones they sell in their stores.
Both of the main 2 models used require me to physically place my cordless phone handset into their base unit so that they can register with each other. So it's not like other phones I've had in the past where you push a button on each device to register them together.
Anyone have any awesome ideas about how I would do this? In electronics, the base units are next to the register, sort of on the counter. So if nobody was looking, I could just drop my handset into one. Seems like it'd be easy for me to be spotted though.
I could also just walk up to the employee in electronics or at the fitting room and ask them to sync my handset. I could wear an employee uniform and they'd just assume I'm an employee. I don't know if I'm willing to be that brazen for this prank though.
Someone else suggested that I bring the handset in and pretend it's having problems and ask the electronics person to set it in the base to see if it works. I'm not exactly sure how that would fix my imaginary problem, but I bet even tech-savvy employees wouldn't think much of it. Maybe that'd be the safest way to go about it.
If anyone has any other ideas or words of encouragement, I'd like to hear it.
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Anyone else have any good stories from today?
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Me and Evie successfully tricked a Target into syncing our phone with their base. We now have an extension phone that connects to their system from our car in the parking lot. We hung out there a lot yesterday, but only got a couple good calls from it. The problem is that the Target operator screens all the calls and tries to help the customers herself by radioing to the other employees to ask them questions. There is apparently no way to steal the customers from her while she's waiting for an answer.
The only way to pick up a customer line is when the operator transfers the call to an extension for another employee to pick up. Once she transfers the call, she'll say over the radio, "Toys, you have a call on 2280." Once I hear that, I can try to beat toys at picking up the extension. Sometimes I fail and they get it before me. We're going to drive back there today and see if we have any better luck with it today.
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Right after I quit @ Office Max, I came back in my khakis, blue polo, and walkie-talkie ready to wreck havok. I forgot that nobody shops at Office Max, though, and there were only like a 4:1 customer:employee ratio. My co-workers caught on right away and kicked me out. I did, however, get to have fun on the radio outside the store. Since they do layout the morning of (or night before) the sale, most people aren't sure where anything is located. Using a standard walkie-talkie, it's very easy to get employees asking their manager where a certain doorbuster item is located to lead customers all over the store in a wild goose chase, forcing them to leave in frustration. I've also done this at Best Buy and at Target, but the results were more memorable at Office Max (the store was small enough that I could see the hilarity unfolding).
Here's an idea:
1: Go into the store and pick an individual that looks like they'd be fun to mess with (or better yet, trick somebody you don't like into going to the store at a specific time)
2: Act like that individual is stealing; announce what ever code they have for theft and describe the selected victim. Make sure you do it in a way that they'll actually go after the person.
3: Have some popcorn as the victim is approached by the loss prevention agents.
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some states will be having tax free weekends on school stuff in a few weeks and will be full people trying to save $.5 off a box of crayons, might be good to try something then
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there's always the old CD prank at stores that have CD players on display
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXyTi8xB1I
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I finally got my Wal-Mart vests that I've been wanting to get for years now. Tomorrow should be interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh3zKqi5wFU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh3zKqi5wFU)
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you could also pose as walmart employees on strike
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We did the vest thing this Friday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgoK3_C0Y8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgoK3_C0Y8)
I know, it could have been better. We were disorganized and got a late start and had problems with our spy pens not turning on. We're going to try it again at least once more during the holiday season and see if we can get some better stuff.
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We did the vest thing this Friday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgoK3_C0Y8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgoK3_C0Y8)
I know, it could have been better. We were disorganized and got a late start and had problems with our spy pens not turning on. We're going to try it again at least once more during the holiday season and see if we can get some better stuff.
the days right before and after christmas will probably be the busiest
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Someone I know "took over" the walmart radios. They don't wear headsets so everyone can hear what is said :D. They use regular MURS frequencies if anyone was wondering, technically it's not even illegal to broadcast.
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find some blue golf shirts for Best Buy
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Any plans or ideas for this year? There's also the releases of the PS4 and XBOX1 where people will be camping outside the stores.
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Don't even have wait until Black Friday at a lot of places, just do it on Thanksgiving
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I don't have any plans really. Last I checked in the city near me, all the phones I could get to had been removed. Maybe I'll try to check a couple other Wal-Marts for phones soon. I still have the vests, but those really made us stick out to employees last year since they'd just gotten rid of the vests and all the employees were wearing blue polo shirts. I'd really like to just go back to answering their phones if I can though. That was fun to do.
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any fun stories from Friday?
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Oftentimes they remove the phones, but leave empty phone jacks where they used to be. If you have a small corded phone of your own, you could bring it in and plug it in there. Haven't tried it myself but it seems plausible.
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any fun stories from Friday?
At about an hour and 7 minutes into our Friday show, Staci was in a Wal-Mart and described a guy at the counter. I called and got them to hand the customer the phone and really upset him while Staci recorded video of it. She still hasn't uploaded the video, but promises to this week.
http://youtu.be/23J1LMQZK50?t=1h7m37s (http://youtu.be/23J1LMQZK50?t=1h7m37s)