PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman pleaded guilty to scamming the QVC home-shopping network out of more than $412,000 by exploiting a glitch in its Web site. Quantina Moore-Perry, 33, of Greensboro, N.C., did not pay for more than 1,800 items she received from QVC between March and November 2005, authorities said.
Moore-Perry ordered handbags, housewares, jewelry and electronics, then immediately canceled the orders and received credit for them. But the glitch caused the items to still be delivered to Moore-Perry, who subsequently sold them on eBay, authorities said. West Chester-based QVC became aware of the problem after being contacted by two people who bought the items, still in QVC packaging, on the online auction site.
Geez, QVC was a little slow to catch on. They’d still be losing money if some smart customer hadn’t alerted them.
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer company.
Doesn’t it seem likely that other people found this same glitch? Including an honest person or two, who probably told QVC about it? I’ll bet some jobs were lost over this one. 1800 items! Yikes!
Darn that Facebook and MySpace!
How is this a scam, when QVC sent out the items?
here is a great collection of scam letters
http://www.scamemail.co.uk/
The question is: Who would buy Joan River’s tacky jewelry?
dumbass retained the QVC packaging, for a little more $ she coulda rewrapped those items and not been in the news now.
And QVC is in the old CBM headquarters. Maybe they are doing order processing on C-64’s!
Why should the women get in trouble for this? She exploited a bug in there website.
#4, you are correct…it was not a scam, it was a VERY unfortunate, but legit bug in their system that she was allowed to exploit. It was QVC’s responsibility ALONE to reconcile order cancellations with canceling shipments…and they didn’t bother to, even in the slightest…she was morally dead wrong, but she did NOTreceive or, sell stolen goods.
And the last I heard from the US Postal code, IF you receive goods that you didn’t order (and she didn’t really by the documented fact of timely and legit cancellations) you get to keep the stuff. So, her defense will be on solid ground and QVC should drop the charges to avoid further embarrassment.
She’s a moral reprobate but that’s not against the law as witnessed by the fact that 90% of all liberals aren’t already in prison.
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One last thought, she’s absolute toast on tax evasion charges on all of her QVC “gifts.”
You receive $412,000 worth in “gifts” (income) and then sell them on eBay (income) and don’t pay taxes? You’re going to prison via the path that Al Capone finally got nailed on since being a gangster was not illegal or, his being a “used furniture salesman.”
#10, Sinn Fein
You are half right.
That applies to unsolicited merchandise. She ordered it so it was solicited. Whether or not she later canceled the order is irrelevant, she knew it was coming. Because she is fully aware it did not belong to her, her responsibility is to return it.
it’s not fair that qvc as well as hsn can legally rip us off!& they don’t go to jail. they send out used (you can tell that some things are second hand) & broken items which might cost them $2.25 to ship (it’s right on the postage on the front of the box), then when you return it, they charge you $6.95 return s&h. I won’t buy from either anymore because so much of the stuff I received was garbage (either came broken or broke soon after I received it). Legal thieves!!! they got what they deserved. Really, why wouldn’t she change the packaging? insane.