Posted on 12/28/2007 4:45:25 AM PST by Tai_Chung
The family of a 10-year-old girl who received an MP3 video player for Christmas was shocked when it found the player was loaded with explicit songs and pornographic movie clips.
Cookeville resident Daryl Hill said his daughter was thrilled to find that Santa had left an MP3 player under the tree -- until she turned it on.
"Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying," Hill told Nashville, Tenn., TV station WSMV.
There were video clips of XXX-rated sex scenes and the pornography on the player.
"I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head," said Hill.
The Hills had bought three MP3 players for their children that came from a Wal-Mart store in Sparta, Tenn. It turns out one of the MP3 players had been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips, graphic war scenes and lyrics about using drugs.
The Hills want to know why Wal-Mart would sell used merchandise as new in the first place, which is in violation of its own policies.
"If they want to be a major retailer, they need to act like it," said Hill.
The manager at the Sparta Wal-Mart declined comment on the matter and referred WSMV to Wal-Mart's corporate office.
A Wal-Mart representative e-mailed WSMV confirming that stores are not supposed to return opened packages to the sales floor. They said they are working to get to the bottom of the problem.
The Hills said they have declined Wal-Mart's offer to replace the MP3 player. They've already bought their daughter a new one and are hanging onto the controversial one until they talk to a lawyer.
If you're even slightly above incoherent, you can easily tell it's been returned and therefore should check it out before you leave the store...
Wal Mart did take it back
***In my experience the BBB is nothing but an agency that promotes you as good if you pay them***
They helped me as a purchaser of an expensive item which was faulty.
If we keep this up, I bet we could Hijack this thing
lol!
I dunno - you can into a lot of trouble with kitty porn.
troof
This is sad; and imgages in the mind have their own 'virtual reality'.
Ya think? I don’t know. . .not a good scam. . .and even if the ‘timeline’ is off by five minutes; surely time for ‘harm done’. . .even a minute or two, harm done. . .
Certainly, there’d be harm done to the child. No one is saying otherwise. My attention is on the scenario of this Mp3 getting resealed, then getting charged, and put under the tree, the child navigating to the video menu, finding the video , and watching it for ten minutes, before anything unusual is discovered.
I’ve held my laughter, but I’ve thrown a lot of folks out of my office who brought in frivolous matters. This would have been one of those. “Just demand your money back and don’t shop there any more. That will be $50.00. Please see the receptionist on your way out.”
Good for you!!!
Re-selling returned items is common at Wal-Mart and Sam’s stores.
A boy wouldn't have told his parents about the special version.
Leave out the porn, keep the videos of our guys killing Jihadis.
Why would anyone buy an mp3 already loaded? With today’s ‘music’, there is just no way I would do that.
With an iPod, downloads from the computer to the the Mp3 are automatically transferred as soon as you hook up the cable. Hence, if someone wanted to preload the girl’s Mp3 with a favorite song, all of the other digital selections on the computer would come along for the ride.
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