Walmart's Black Friday Rip-off

November 27, 2009 5:53 PM

Walmart's Black Friday Rip-off

Customers arrived at 5 a.m. to find $198 laptops had all been assigned the day before to people who called the store, never mentioned in ads.
David Coursey

TRACY, CA -- Black Friday customers who arrived at the Walmart store here, expecting to purchase an e-Machines laptop for the $198 Black Friday price were surprised to find the entire shipment of 37 units had been assigned to other customers the day before.



A store manager admitted that the only way for a customer to know that tickets allowing later purchase of the machines were being distributed early would have been to call the store and

Such tickets are used by other stores--such as Best Buy--but were not mentioned in Walmart's Black Friday advertising, which only said the laptops would be on sale from 5 a.m. until 10 a.m.

"That really sucks," said one unhappy customer when he learned he could not purchase a laptop, despite at the store at 5 a.m. when the sale was supposed to start "How was I supposed to know to call?"

The Walmart manager, named Mark, said other tech products had been pre-sold in the same way as well, but did not elaborate.

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Oh this is going to end well.

~Lordbob

An oops moment? ...

A falling out for WallyWorld to say the least! You can be sure there'll be plenty of My Space, Twitter, FaceBook, and other places where some people are going to be letting off some steam!

Nice going Wal-Mart...

Just goes to show how quick they want to make a buck...

...but really...Black Friday is SUPPOSED TO BE JUST THAT FRIDAY

Walmart enough said. As far as I'm coverned. another nice find N.H.

whs said:

In our local Walmart they actually sold them to the early birds. Unfortunately I was a few minutes too late and could just see the tail end of them. Wanted one for my mother-in-law for Christmas. Now she has to settle for a set of pots - LOL.
In Tampa they reported 2 guys that had set up camp in front of Walmart 8 days before black Friday - with tent, air mattresses and the whole 9 yards. And all of that for some large TVs. Pretty crazy.

I camped out for 36 hours at my local Wal-Mart for the Wii lanuch...all of my friends did

It was an amazing experience...I loved it!

Zidane24 said:

whs said:

In our local Walmart they actually sold them to the early birds. Unfortunately I was a few minutes too late and could just see the tail end of them. Wanted one for my mother-in-law for Christmas. Now she has to settle for a set of pots - LOL.
In Tampa they reported 2 guys that had set up camp in front of Walmart 8 days before black Friday - with tent, air mattresses and the whole 9 yards. And all of that for some large TVs. Pretty crazy.

I camped out for 36 hours at my local Wal-Mart for the Wii lanuch...all of my friends did

It was an amazing experience...I loved it!

Wii's make me sick, sorry.

I love Walmart for groceries or not-so-techy things. But when it comes to electronics I generally would go to bestbuy. At least I got reward-zone there. Don't get my wrong, walmart is a great place, just not for me when it comes to things like electronics.