My lovely experience @ Wal-Mart today

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

I have 3 new 360 games in original packaging that I wanted to trade for same-value other games (or of course cash). I got them with bundles that I ordered online and not at Wal-Mart, but I thought that wouldn't be a problem since Wal-Mart accepts no-receipt returns all the time. Obviously I don't have Wal-Mart receipts for them.

So... I take them to Wal-Mart and as I'm walking in the door, it occurs to me that when you order a game online, they don't swipe the security device to disable it. Wanna know how I found out? The f'ing Wal-Mart security alarms started going insane just as I passed through the sensors. The PACKED Customer Service area, of people waiting to return things, all turn around and look at me like I'm trying to heist something from electronics. Great. Luckily there is one of those "greeter" old dudes right there. I think he saw me come in (I hoped). He gave me a return line sticker.

I wait in the line and finally get to the desk ***** and she fires off at me for not having a receipt then calls the Manager over who does the same thing, but takes the time to scan in the bar codes of my games and goes on to say, "for this much money... NO WAY are we authorizing this return without a receipt" and calls over her supervisor to back up her statement. Niiiiiiice. I love that. So, the whole time I'm trying to sweet talk these beeatches (mainly to kill time and distract them from...) I'm trying to get the games back out of their hands so I can de-security-swipe them on their little pad on the counter, but they keep pulling the games away from the pad because they know there's the f'ing security device in there. I finally act like I'm about to leave and they hand me the games back, at which time I turn back around and plunked the games down onto the pad and pretended to have another question. Whew! Just to be safe, I stalled a bit, until someone DID set off the security alarms, during which time I escaped through the sensors as to not make anyone think that they were in fact Wal-Mart's games that I was leaving with (since I obviously had no receipt with me to prove that they were actually mine, legally).

So, I just walked next door to Game Stop and bought a memory module and Madden 06. Lovely lunch break.

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[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

thats awsome

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

i love when customers like you try to rip off the store //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

i love when customers like you try to rip off the store //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

No doubt. They wouldn't have been out anything. They could just re-stock those games (a couple of which were sold out there anyway) and made some kids day to find it there. Oh well.

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

good try good try

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Pwnd!!

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

i love when customers like you try to rip off the store //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

normally id agree, but f uck wal*mart...

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

Walmarts a joke you should of seen the thread i posted awhile ago. I bought a slim ps2 when they came out because I wanted the gt4 and SRS well when srs came out I went to walmart that night 10 min drive bought it, paid cash. Went home game disk error. No biggy go back return it for same game they had no problem with it. Get home same problem. Go back and get another one. Get home same problem. At this point I am pissed and 2 hrs later.Finaly I tell them I want my cash back. This is late at night like 2 am etc. I get them to tell me they cant do that all they can do is return it for the SAME game not another one. So I fight for 10 minutes about it etc. I Get another copy. Get home same problem. I go back try it all over and the guy is laughing at me, so I in return went through 13 copys all they had a new shipment of them and not one worked till they gave me my money back. Next day i go to eb games, buy the game get home still disk error. Go back they couldnt exchange it or give me cash until there manager was around I had to wait 2 weeks he went on his honeymoon.

Talk about some fukd up policys.

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

Walmarts a joke you should of seen the thread i posted awhile ago. I bought a slim ps2 when they came out because I wanted the gt4 and SRS well when srs came out I went to walmart that night 10 min drive bought it, paid cash. Went home game disk error. No biggy go back return it for same game they had no problem with it. Get home same problem. Go back and get another one. Get home same problem. At this point I am pissed and 2 hrs later.Finaly I tell them I want my cash back. This is late at night like 2 am etc. I get them to tell me they cant do that all they can do is return it for the SAME game not another one. So I fight for 10 minutes about it etc. I Get another copy. Get home same problem. I go back try it all over and the guy is laughing at me, so I in return went through 13 copys all they had a new shipment of them and not one worked till they gave me my money back. Next day i go to eb games, buy the game get home still disk error. Go back they couldnt exchange it or give me cash until there manager was around I had to wait 2 weeks he went on his honeymoon. Talk about some fukd up policys.

Holy krap! "Time is money" so to speak. That's nutty!

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

Holy krap! "Time is money" so to speak. That's nutty!

yea and my gas, I got so pissed at him thats when i said I will go through every game they got. The guy tried to tell me that there has never ever been a shippment of games that have came out that were bad. It took me a total of about 6hrs going back and fourth etc. But it did piss them off a whole lot more then it did me i think once I started laughing about it to there face.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

sould u start to think............hm maybe my ps2 is ****ed...

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

yea and my gas, I got so pissed at him thats when i said I will go through every game they got. The guy tried to tell me that there has never ever been a shippment of games that have came out that were bad. It took me a total of about 6hrs going back and fourth etc. But it did piss them off a whole lot more then it did me i think once I started laughing about it to there face.

I know this sounds extreme, but it would've even been funnier to somehow bring a portable TV and your console to the store, set it up, and go through all their games there. hehe

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

sould u start to think............hm maybe my ps2 is ****ed...

it was brand new and I had bought about 10 games and none had the problem only that game. I also read online the next day and alot of people had the same problem as well. I even contacted sony about it.

I waited the 2 weeks for the manager to get back, they told me that had all the games they sold with the same problem. With my luck the day he got back fable just came out as well so he swapped it for me. I went to kb and bought the srs and they had new batches and i didnt have a problem with it.

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

I know this sounds extreme, but it would've even been funnier to somehow bring a portable TV and your console to the store, set it up, and go through all their games there. hehe

I asked them about that, and asked them to try it in there demo and they wouldnt let me do either.

 

[MastaFlex 10+ year member]

I odnt like wal mart so i am glad someone is trying to scam them!