Re: OT- Shopping in hard economic times just got harder
- From: mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:19:47 -0500
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:47:34 -0800, Oren <Oren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:22:19 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:12:37 -0800, Oren <Oren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:54:53 -0800 (PST), in2dadark
<in2dadark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I waited till later in the evening tonight to go purchase a dvd player
as mine went to lunch today. So, I picked out a 29 dollar magnavox and
when I got home it looked like it was repackaged. The cord was not
wound up and the foam in the box was broken up. And the case of it
even looked like it had been used.
It didn't work. So, I took it right back. As I was going back I just
figured walmart took it back from someone else and 'they' sealed it up
and put it back on the shelf. When I got to walmart customer service
they said the serial number didn't match the box; And they asked me to
step aside and wait and let the next person go.
So, finally she comes back and says will give you an exchange for the
same one. I said, no I want a refund, I'm getting a different one. I
said 'if I had done something wrong I would take your offer'.. They
relented but not without treating me like I just scammed walmart.
I'm going to have the store (every store) open the box or I'm going to
open ANY sealed box of ANYTHING I purchase from now on before I leave
the store and make sure it is what should be inside. Someone probably
sealed it up real nice and took it back as unopened and they didn't
open it to see what was inside.
The one that was in my box was from 2008. They could have called the
police and accused me of something. That would have been good because
I could have then sued them when I proved I had no other unit in my
home..
Beware,
I had about the same thing happen at a Best Buy (years ago). I bought
a new WD hard drive. ($$) Got the perfect looking shrink wrapped box
home, open it up and found some old aged HD drive in the box.
Went directly back, paper in hand and explained what it was. They did
exchange the item with no hassle.
Musta been an inside job that someone had the tools to shrink-wrap the
box.
At first I couldn't believe what I was seeing, after I opened the
box. The drive was older than the one I was replacing.
I bought an auto-air-AC power supply for a laptop at bestbuy.
It was barely rewrapped, and plainly had been opened. I think the
price was marked down. When I got it home, one of the tips was
missing. I returned it but not because of that. That tip I didn't
need.
They took it back with no problem. Didn't reopen it.
Probably the guy before me bought it and stole a tip, then returned
it. Or the guy before him stole the tip and the guy just before me
returned it because a tip was missing.
I pay attention to boxes that are re-wrapped (discounted/tagged -
those in shopping carts that block the aisles) by some means, like
tape or such. The one experience I had with my disk drive looked like
a pro wrapped it up in factory :-/
I figure they must have shrink-wrap machines at these stores, for
cases like, A customer at the store opens something to read the
instructions. Doesn't buy it. Should they really have to send it back
to the factory or the refurbish place and then sell it for less.
It's fair to reshrink it if that's all that happened, but it sound to
me like much more happened, a guy who works in the store put in his
old harddrive and kept the new one and then reshrank it. So now
they'll have to keep the reshrinker locked and a log of everyone who
used it and for what. Or maybe only one person will be allowed to
reshrink.
.
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