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Mom buys a 3DS for her son, box is full of rocks
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Bumblebeetuna
Member
Man what kind of Walmart doesn't require checks on returns of consoles or fucking iPads??
The local ones around here have always been extremely strict about electronic returns.
The local ones around here have always been extremely strict about electronic returns.
The Elite
BOSS
I imagine the items are coming back shrink wrapped so they assume its never been open.
Guess we know what to call videogames now, lol.
Escape Goat
Member
3DS's aren't Shrink wrapped, but they are sealed with those little tabs. I'm betting whomever returned it, made it look like it was never opened. It really isn't that hard to do.
However, the employee should have checked the box better to make sure that the seals were not moved in any way.
Are you sure they were really rocks?
Oh no.
I hope they didn't throw the rocks away... Pikmin Massacre.meltingparappa
Member
Poor Iwata, I guess this was going to happen eventually.
Good luck to her dealing with investors. Can't wait to see how she mixes things up on the next Nintendo Direct.
Clay Davis
Member
how does something like this happen? why didn't they open the box and check its contents? seems lazy and stupid not to open the box to check its contents.
Escape Goat
Member
cuz of wal mart employees.
Takes me back to when I got GameCube its first Christmas... Rogue Leader's disk had been replaced with a mini-CD that contained WMVs of game trailers. The culprit had then re-shrink-wrapped the package so no one was the wiser. We were able to take it back and get it exchangd for a real game, however.
meltingparappa
Member
An uninterested minimum wage worker probably accepted the box at the return department without checking, regardless of policy. Then it was shrinkwrapped by another apathetic employee and put back on the shelf.
Hopefully whoever scammed Walmart in the first place had the courtesy to use just one rock, instead of a bunch that would clearly make noise whenever the box moved.
Clay Davis
Member
it doesn't take more than a minute to check the contents. I can understand feeling unmotivated, etc, but really, not bothering to just crack the box open a little to check a return is just ridiculous.
Do you guys even know what a 3DS box looks like? It's not shrinkwrapped, it just has those tape circles on the sides. A smart scammer will make it look like the box hasn't been opened and restick the circles on well, making the employees think it is not opened. Especially around the holidays there are lots of unopened returns on stuff like this and it's not like you want to go around opening unopened returns, since if it's actually unopened you can just stick it back on the shelf.
Once you've worked retail for a while you start to get a feel for this, but newer employees fall for stuff like this all the time, which is what the scammers count on.
Once you've worked retail for a while you start to get a feel for this, but newer employees fall for stuff like this all the time, which is what the scammers count on.
Bomber Bob
Banned
rocks > porn
CambriaRising
Member
Not always. But yeah, when I worked retail it was policy to always check returns for any abnormalities.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Why the fuck are they taking the returns without even looking in the box? Pathetic
Not until the new update.
I think as a young lad I would have preferred to find some crumpled up porn instead of rocks
ipitydatfu
Member
pet fucking rocks.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I think as a young lad I would have preferred to find some crumpled up porn instead of rocks
What about rock porn?
meltingparappa
Member
A local video store had a neon sign of "Ultra 64" made right before Nintendo changed it to the N64.
I felt... bad for them.
test_account
XP-39C²
Damn, that got to suck hehe :\ Luckily they got a new one at least.
Because it is rock solid? =)
SolarPowered
Member
You could see this coming from a mile away, but still perfect.
Cameron122
Member
I purchased Dragon's Dogma from Wal-Mart a few months back.
No disc in the fully wrapped case. It was their last copy so I when I returned it, I went home and bought it on Amazon. Too bad 3DS' aren't sold on amazon.
No disc in the fully wrapped case. It was their last copy so I when I returned it, I went home and bought it on Amazon. Too bad 3DS' aren't sold on amazon.
DerZuhälter
Member
fixed.
Herbspiceguy
Member
Would've loved to see the kid's reaction.
They do. It's a bs excuse from Walmart. I've returned things over the years there and every time they pulled everything out. A recent example I returned a basic wiiu in November and they checked it. Mine was even still factory sealed, still checked it.
sakipon
Member
So... maybe the rock thing was an inside job.
lazybones18
Banned
lol