Theft Prevention, Why Did I Get Beeped AT?

[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by KyleGilbert45

my cell phone always seems to trip the alarm at my local Barnes and Noble bookstore...but what i do now is just hold my phone up as i go through the detector things, and usually that works.

Don't talk on your cellphone as you walk through the machine. The same thing happens at the library I work at too and it works when the person stops talking to whoever is talking. Anyway I once walked into a Barnes and Noble with no problem. I walk out and set the machine off. I was so confused as to why it didn't set it off the one time.

our local library has a system I dont understand. They put green cards in the books when you leave. If they DONT put the green card in the book, the alarm (supposively) goes off. I have no idea how that is possible?!

Are you sure they just aren't placing it on some device and it looks like they aren't doing anything.

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

our local library has a system I dont understand. They put green cards in the books when you leave. If they DONT put the green card in the book, the alarm (supposively) goes off. I have no idea how that is possible?!


Are you sure they just aren't placing it on some device and it looks like they aren't doing anything.

each library book has a little pocket, like the old days when they punched a card and stuck it in the book with the due date

they put a green card, about 3x5" in the pocket. They have the cards - if they dont put one in each book the alarm is suppose to go off

if you really wanted to steal a book all you have to do is check a book out, take it to your car, take the card out, go back in and stick the card in another book and walk out with it - so its a pretty dumb system

I cant figure out how it works. It looks like a green piece of card stock. How does putting a piece of cardstock in a book stop the alarm from sounding?!

[Rombus]

When i used to work at Best Buy, we had sheets and sheets of unused sticky security tags we used during reciving of shipments. A fun pasttime was to put them sticky side up on the ground in high traffic areas after the store closed, always a good laugh when they went to walk out!

[1075master]

1 person on here is from canada lol. the only place iv'e ever seen the sticky sensor thingys is on boxes and what not. iv'e never seen them on clothes. we always have those big plastic things with dye in them so that if u break it people will see and that the cashier has to stick in a machine to get it off. they are also usually around the scan tag so they won't be missed. anyway i do have many stories but all the same. iv'e walked in and out of many stores and had the alarm gone off, been checked blah blah blah the whole thing. checked everything i had blah blah some more.. but i have never had a tag or cell or anything that would set it off on me when it happened. and after it would go off i could walk right through again and it wouldn't go off.. very strange.. i'm an alien thats how i do it!! lol