I worked at Electronics Boutique and the exact same thing happened to us all the time. People figured out what they could get away with and exploited the system as much as they could. I felt real bad for the people who used it correctly but lost the privilege because of some bad actors.

To clarify for the young people on this site, Babbage’s was a “store” located in a “shopping mall” where you could buy video games that were placed on “shelves.”