Sony PlayStation 5 is the most-demanded video game console. However, the Japanese multinational company cannot meet those demands due to the shortage of supply and logistic issues. And these problems eventually led to an increment in the console’s price. However, a Piarco man paid only $147 to take home the PS5.
Sony launched this next-generation console in November 2020 as the successor to the successful PlayStation 4. Soon after the release of PS5, it became a fan-favorite. Despite the supply shortage, the Japanese giants have managed to sell over 21.4 million units of the next-generation console.
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A user grabbed a PlayStation
There have been reports about a man fooling an electronic store employee into selling a new PlayStation 5 for just $147. This incident happened in Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago. Apparently, a man bought various phone gadgets, including the latest-generation Sony console, from a local store in Piarco. He had a bill of $6,695 for all the items he bought.
Police are searching for man who paid $147 for a Sony PS5
The guy handed over a $100 bill and 47 $1 bills 💵
Link: https://t.co/FW3kw6pA5R pic.twitter.com/uZODMp10dl
— Hunter 🎮 (@NextGenPlayer) November 9, 2022
So, the Piarco man left the place with the console and other accessories after paying that over six thousand dollar bill with a brown envelope full of cash. However, the store’s employee simply took the envelope without checking it while the man was there. But later, upon checking, the employee was shocked to find that the envelope only had a $100 and 47 $1 notes.
So, the Piarco man just paid $147 for items worth $6,695. After discovering this act, the employee immediately reported this incident at the Piarco Police Station. Currently, the police are looking into the matter and trying to find the man.
How did Twitter react to this PS5 theft?
The PlayStation fans and the general video game enthusiasts were shocked to know someone had pulled off such a theft. Moreover, the fans heavily criticize the employee for selling the PlayStation 5 and other gadgets without checking the envelope. The majority believes this wouldn’t have happened if the employee had paid more attention to his work. Let’s look at some of the criticizing comments from the fans.
He paid $147 took the console the employee gave him the receipt and NOW they're realising he only paid $147 ?
— Shivam Adhvaryu (@SCA727) November 9, 2022
Essentially the employee that took the envelope without checking it or counting it should be fired.
Also this guy is a risk taker for even attempting to pull that off lol
Also it was phone gadgets too , totalling to $6995 dollars, that he only paid $147 for
— audiojunkie (@Mota2028Mota) November 9, 2022
$147 for close to $7,000 worth of electronics 🤯
Hope they find out who did it…
— GINX Canada (@GINXCanada) November 9, 2022
did they fire the person who took the money and couldnt count too?🤣🤣
— ItaChu (@Chuito787z) November 9, 2022
You don’t let the customer walk away without counting the money, that’s rule #1 of cash based business
— Lord Brandon Fern (@Brandorulz) November 9, 2022
😂 that jokes but is not the man’s fault if they employ checked the brown envelope he give him at that very moment not later this would have never happened, dude got a receipt right what can police do🤔
— Six1Eye (@Six1Eye) November 9, 2022
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Yea that's a lost cause. I mean at that point take the L and than ask the Employee what his thought process was, probably stealing internally to. This is great
— Brandnation (@Unb0undVoid) November 9, 2022
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