Birthday boy gets box of rocks instead of Nintendo DS
Posted Apr 29th 2009 12:41PM by Darren Murph
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LOL!!!
At least Rock Band hasn't come out for the DS yet.
the irony would be if he had more fun with the rocks
The uh weird doll avatar guy. You're must be an incredibly disturbed individual to let such a mess of idiotic memes influence your everyday life, and to display them by your comments.
so would 80% of the joystiq population if it were as serious as youre making it out to be, stfu thanks.
Quote Charlie Brown, "I got a rock".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFfOJPMnsw
They don't still sell the original DS, do they?
Zing!
This happened to me via Comp USA back when the Sony Location Free Base Station first hit the streets. I got a block of wood that had a piece of paper wrapped around it with a picture of the Location Free device on it. I went back to the store right away and got the real deal...Q
I worked at CompUSA back in college, and can verify that happened with a couple things there. Apparently when our sales manager asked corporate about it, they had narrowed down one of the Fedex sorting centers a lot of our stuff went through for eastern US distribution had a little ring of employees who had a nice side business going on. They picked out stuff that got palletized for our stores and did the old switcheroo.
Wow Wal-Mart, I know the times are tough, but surely this is a bit too far.
Also Guitar Hero for the DS now rocks the console in more of a literal way.
"They don't want to do nothing"
Doesn't that mean they do want to do something?
"I'm not buying a box of rocks for $138."
How much WOULD you pay for a box of rocks then? (Cause I have some magical ones I can give you a deal on.)
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"They don't want to do nothing" I believe it logically means that they want to do something but not nothing :)
Fraudulent returns happen constantly, and main items such as game systems and laptops get returned in a still sealed packed replaced with a brick or phone book nearly weekly.
@bolmedias "Wow Wal-Mart, I know the times are tough, but surely this is a bit too far."
Wal Mart didn't replace the DS with rocks you dolt.
How is this news?
Only when it happens to a kid or there is some sob story like this does it get talked about.
In other news, a liquor store was robbed, a cat had to be rescued from a tree, and a car wrecked.
Seriously, learn from all those Engadget unboxing (gadget porn) videos - protect yourself by either videotaping it or taking pictures when opening your new expensive items. Also, if the box even looks remotely tampered with (dodgy shrink-wrap, broken product seals, more than one layer of tape holding box openings closed, busted up cardboard), either pick or demand a different one.
Really? So you would videotape the process of unboxing every $100+ products you purchased, so you can "protecting yourself" from receiving a box of rocks??? Surely there are much more important things to do in your life. And people don't expect to receive a box of rocks every time they purchase electronics!
@Jay: Kiff, we have a conundrum.
use your iphone video recorder...you dont need to video tape the iphone cuz the screen will break eventually anyway.
@ Chris - Of course not every $100 and up item, but this would at least give you some documentation to back up your claim when you try to return the box'o'rocks to the store and they tell you to f yourself. That's what I meant by protect yourself.
I used to work for the returns center for Best Buy (not for one store, mind you - the central returns center for the entire west coast). You can't imagine how many times/items come through that people have simply stripped/replaced/intentionally-damaged. People are greedy and this is a perfect example of a store simply accepting a return, not checking inside, and then putting it back on the shelves for sale...
Stupid store, yes - but some greedy punk just cost us all a little more scrutiny next time...
This was on Yahoo News yesterday, it was actually a disgruntled Walmart customer who returned the box with the shrink wrap on it and somehow it found it's way back on the shelf.
Obviously an inside job. We need retail exray machines to make sure people are getting what they are supposed to. OR ar least a rock detector!
$20 gift card? She should claim it was racism and sue Wal-Mart for 20 million for not letting her return it instead.
Oh yeah! The American way of "life". Just sue yourself to death.
Yeah, I work at the BB and this shiz happens all the time.
Unfortunately, we just have to trust the customer and refund the money, minus the product.
So, what's saying they didn't just buy the thing, and fill the box with rocks and claim it was like that??
Aw well, losing all faith in decent human beings is totally worth a $20 gift card amiright??
That is the reason what.... once I pay.... I open it immediately at the register - when they are boxed items. This is specially true if the think costs more then $50. If I buy online, I reject any box that has any kind of damage. Then, I call immediately the Merchant and the Shipping service to inform it. Write down names and stuff.
Stores must hate you.
El Duderino (Apr 29th 2009 12:44PM) - Neutral
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Oh the irony. "A DS?!?!?! THIS ROCKS!!!!" And it really was.