Re: OT- Shopping in hard economic times just got harder
- From: Nate Nagel <njnagel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:07:40 -0500
Oren 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), in2dadarkI bought an auto-air-AC power supply for a laptop at bestbuy.
<in2dadark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I waited till later in the evening tonight to go purchase a dvd playerI had about the same thing happen at a Best Buy (years ago). I bought
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,
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.
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 won't buy anything from my local Sears that isn't in a sealed box and/or I can inspect all the parts on the spot. Had a heck of a time there when I'd bought a fairly expensive set of shop-vac attachments and found that half of them were missing. Unfortunately there's enough shameless criminals that shop there to make it a normal occurrance. I thought this was supposed to be an "upscale" area? Guess the "upscale" clientele doesn't shop at the Sears tool department.
nate
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