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When a deadline had passed sent blank tapes to clients and then claimed the postal services had wiped them when scanning with xrays, asking the clients to send
by ruskie 8y ago
When a deadline had passed sent blank tapes to clients and then claimed the postal services had wiped them when scanning with xrays, asking the clients to send back the tapes so we bought a few more days
- chrisfinne 8y ago"I guess we'll have to send them another blank tape" was a common trick in the 90's.
- Paul_S 8y agoThis also happened more recently in the CD era with intentionally badly burned CDs.
- dvtv75 8y agoI worked for a business that sold videos burned to very cheap blank DVDs, for a pretty high price. We tested them onsite, and had about a 20% failure rate (they cheaped out on the equipment, too) and the passing discs wouldn't work for about a third of customers anyway. I think those discs delaminate after a few years.
- Grangar 8y agoEven in the internet era. In high school I often just renamed some random file to a .doc extension and sent that in. No teacher ever had any idea. I'd just play dumb that I had a bad computer.