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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Arraxis_Denacia on 2025-04-03 00:19:20+00:00.

Thought I’d share a minor one that I was the victim of. At the time I was working in the second hand goods trade. When people bought items from us valued over a certain amount, the system would require us to take down the name and address of people, though it didn’t have to be formal presentation of ID. Some people really didn’t like it when we asked for their details, even if I told them that they could just make it up due to the informal nature of it.

An older gentleman, who I’ll call Bob, came in and wanted to buy a couple of coins. Individually they were under the amount but together they exceeded it, so I asked for his details.

Bob: What do you need my name for? Me: Store policy. Transactions over a certain amount require me to take your name and address as we’re a second hand dealer. Bob: What’s the amount? Me: tells him Bob: So I’ll just buy them individually them.

I wasn’t about to try and start an argument about it, so I just proceeded with the individual transactions. A little annoying, yes, but he was technically correct.