-PJ
Posted on 12/26/2014 9:11:59 AM PST by lowbridge
Igor Baksht made a big Christmas purchase from a Colorado Walmart last Friday — a PlayStation 4 bundle for his 13-year-old niece.
But as he was about to wrap the box, Baksht opened it to be certain “everything was inside, that all the contents were inside, all the games were inside,” he told KMGH-TV.
Then he got a shock: “When I opened it, I said, ‘Oh my God.’”
Instead of a PlayStation 4, the box contained two plastic bags full of rocks, Baksht said.
The Stapleton Walmart where he’d made the purchase had closed, so Baksht tried a 24-hour one — but staff there said he had to go to the store where he bought the item.
So first thing Saturday morning, he went back — and got nowhere.
“He said they cannot do anything about it because they don’t have proof, how it came in, nothing,” Baksht told KMGH, adding that he called the store more than a few times, as well as the corporate office.
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-PJ
I bought 4 1 Gigabyte memory sticks from Best Buy a few years back. When I got home, 2 out of the 4 where 128M sticks. Inspecting the packaging afterwords, I noticed the two with the 128M inside had a precise slit at the top made by razor blade I guess, with enough room to remove and insert another memory stick.
They never complained and accepted them back and replaced them with verified 1 Gbyte sticks.
Isn’t this similar to the USA on Tuesday, January 20, 2009?
We can’t even get a refund, thanks to all those LIVs.
Ha!
If he paid with a credit card he should be good. Don’t know about a MasterCard or Visa debit card.
Last year my husband bought me a heart-shaped box of chocolates. When I opened it, there was exactly 1 piece of chocolate and 11 empty spots. The box was sealed.
I returned it and was never asked a question. LOL
Electronics, I can see, but how desperate is someone for chocolates?
ROFL That was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article and the heading. You beat me to it LOL
I got my son an electric drill one year and when we opened it the damn thing was empty. Luckily I had shopped at the hardware store in question for years so they didn’t challenge my truthfulness.
I guess its better than finding a live cobra . . .
powned
I have quit shopping at Wal Mart, where I usually purchased my prescriptions and other items to the tune of approximately $10,000 a year.
Wal Mart can go to hell as far as I am concerned. I expect by the time I die (using mortality tables) that $30 Wal Mart stole from me will cost them about a quarter million dollars. I know that means nothing to them, but I happily tell everyone I know to not shop at Wal Mart.
Well, it could have been worse. It could have been a live bobcat.
Years ago I knew less than honorable people who would go from garage sale to garage sale buying up items that were in Walmart tagged boxes. They would then take the product back to Walmart and demand a “refund”.
I understand Walmart changed their refund policy after a lot of that went on.
Same thing some eBayers told me. Buyer returns goods via USPS with tracking, saying "not as described". Seller opens box and finds rocks or other filler and yells "wait a minute!" eBay/PayPal says "Tough Noogies, tracking shows you received item", end of story.
Some years ago I worked a beer-money job at Wal-Mart, and one of the first things they told us was to pick up any receipts we found - anywhere.
At first I thought they were neat-freaks but they explained that people would find a receipt, and no matter what it was, pick that item off the shelf and then go to Customer Service for a refund with their "proof of purchase".
I would have thought that that would have worked only for cash as the debit/credit card would have the refund applied there, but maybe they just walked out with the free item for themselves - or put it up on eBay.
My approach was to storm back to the store. I made it quite clear to them that I wanted the Halls of Justice, and I wanted it now. I did not want their $250 state-of-the-art highly sought after electronic game system (probably the last one existing in the region). I had purchased the box that was supposed to contain the Halls of Justice (probably for about $17.50) and I made it clear that they would come now up with the Halls of Justice for me. And that they would take back their stupid electronic game system.
Well, to wrap this up, they did locate it at another store and got it for me. And my son got his Halls of Justice. I have always thought that some store employee had the wonderful notion of tucking a very expensive item into a large but inexpensive box. I don't know and I don't really care. I just do wonder sometimes how this story is told by the store.
My wife works for Wal-Mart as a customer service rep handling the money center and returns...
People attempt to return items all the time with other stuff in the box and it is store policy she must open up every boxed returned item to verify what's in it and the serial number on the electronic item is valid to make sure it was bought from Wal-Mart...
All electronic items have serial numbers and "customers" all the time try and return items bought from other retailers...to get a refund
It is also policy the all defective electronic devices do not get refunded after 15 days..it then becomes a manufacturer issue...
That being said, is it possible the manufacture sent Wal-Mart a box of rocks instead of a Playstation, I guess it could happen but highly unlikely...
He said he checked and all the games were in the box, so he must not have checked the boxes inside the box.
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