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K-Mart... $200 PS4, $100 New 3DS XL, $30 Splatoon... CONFIRMED LEGIT BY SECRET TUNNEL!!!
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08/16/15, 04:35 Edited: 08/16/15, 04:34
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I tried two Walmarts, Target, Best Buy, and K-Mart and none of them would honor the price for the PS4. The guy at K-mart said that they didn't stock electronics any more, which is why searching for PS4 Consoles on their website yields no results. Searching "PS4" brings up links to Consoles, Accessories, and Games, but clicking on Consoles will bring you to a page with 0 results. I was able to confirm that Kmart did indeed sell PS4's for that price back when they were clearing out their electronics inventory. Both Walmart workers I talked to said they were contacted by their managers and told that the price was fraudulent ("screenshotted" as one of them put it). The one that said they were "screenshotted" refused to look at the webpage I had on my phone that definitely wasn't a screenshot. The person at Best Buy asked his manager, who said that they wouldn't accept the price because Kmart is going out of business and that price is part of their closing sale and Best Buy doesn't price match closing sales. The person at Target was really nice, and when he couldn't find the page on his phone he was willing to type in the exact URL that was on a printout I had of the page. But his manager said that they don't price match Kmart. So close! I spent a few hours of my sunday running around and have nothing to show for it . I also had two different people at Walmart and Kmart treat me as if I were an idiot for believing a price I found on Kmart's website. What a fool I am for thinking that Kmart would sell a product for the price they advertise on their own website. My mother must be so ashamed. The information I got from the Kmart worker brings me to this conclusion: that page saying they're selling PS4's for $200 came into existence while Kmart was liquidating their electronics. After they sold all of their PS4's they removed the page from the website's search engine, but didn't delete the page itself. Some time later, a person stumbled across this page through google or an old bookmark or something and shared it with everyone else, which is how we've found it now. So the price and webpage are very much authentic, but when workers at other stores go to verify the price independently, Kmart's search engine doesn't bring up the page, leading them to think that the page we have is fake. Now try explaining that off the cuff to a technologically inexperienced worker who is too tired, too overworked, and too underpaid to deal with this shit. Even if they understand what you're saying they're probably not going to be interested in trying to reexplain all that to their boss. I'm sure the managers aren't particularly open to hearing why store policy says they should sell me their product at half price either. |
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@Hero_Of_HyruleI, too, experienced this same exact situation at the Walmart I went to. The barely-18-year old worker in the electronics department said people had been coming in yesterday asking about the price match, but her manager was turning them away because it was a "fraud" despite having the evidence of the mobile site. I kept pressing the issue until she got whoever the manager was today to come over. He looked at the site on my phone, refreshed the page, and said 'ok, sell it' without even a second thought or care. When the employee was telling him what she went through yesterday, he shrugged his shoulders like he didn't even care. I'm sure she could care less either, but she was surprised. So I got my New 3DS XL for 46 bucks (I had a 60 dollar rebate card from some new tires we bought!!). What a score. I warned the girl about what else was being asked for, including Splatoon and the PS4. So I guess it depends on the location and the manager that day. And how many fucks they give. HoH, your conclusion makes a lot of sense. I could see how that would be the case. And in that case, that's on K-Mart. But maybe they just want to bring Walmart down with them.... |
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