Time to come clean about my first CD burner story I guess. In 1998 they were pretty common already but I was a poor student in a foreign country so could not af

Time to come clean about my first CD burner story I guess. In 1998 they were pretty common already but I was a poor student in a foreign country so could not afford one. Office Depot (I think that's what it was called) had a good return policy, so the scheme was as follows : I would buy the CD burner and a friend would return it a few days later. Only the box would contain my old plain cd rom drive and not the burner. We relied on the incompetence of the Office Depot staff and hope they would not recognize the difference. Why was my friend to return it then ? Well simply because he could claim ignorance of the matter in case they discovered the swap, and I could later choose to return the real CD burner or keep it, depending on my finances. Well as it turned out the staff were really as useless as we had hoped and we burned many, many cds in the months thereafter. (Most of which came from HMV which also had a pretty good return policy until they caught on) So hmv and Office Depot there you have it : my sincere apology for my youth mistakes !