Old news. It was already quickly pulled from Amazon who alerted Walmart who then changed the policy to not allow third party sellers.
Well I wasn't speaking to the legality of it, I was just describing why I thought it was messed up, and as I said they could red line each unit for DOA once they are hooked up, but since you brought up the legal aspects, lets go there.
I am not legal expert, but I understand the burdens that would need to be met for a case. The fact is however due to greasing of palms and other kinds of circumstances and considerations, I am not saying IF Walmart was ruled for that even then it would be completely legal, but do I think this is fraud as you stated? YEP
Illegal, we don't know because the burdens of proving that are pretty damn specific, especially if its circumstantial, but the burden would be, DID those who engaged in price matching for the PS4s DO so in bad faith knowing that they were defrauding Walmart, if THAT can be established, then all the other arguments are moot.
Even the ones about how it was a clever use of wording and policy, because yes EVEN a corporation or business if it is proved they dealt in bad faith on a business deal, all the fine print and legal maneuvering in the world can't protect them, that by the very definition is FRAUD!
Doesn't matter if technically other corporations have done it a little this way or a little that way and got by, but if the people doing this price matching scam did business with the intention of concealing their business for the purposes of fraud, in addition to the points I already made, they will probably wind up eating restitution back to the insurance company that WILL go after them.
See, if you treat your entry level employees like something more than garbage, they might actually give a damn about helping the company. The chances that the people making the sale knew that a 60 dollar Wii-U was off are extremely high; they just chose to follow the letter rather than the spirit of the law because 8 dollars an hour doesn't exactly establish any sort of loyalty.
PS 4 for 90$.. oh i missed it..lol..
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doubt they do anything about it even if they have videos of the scam
It's dishonest and shady but the company is rather happy to engage in similar practices to ensure that they pay as little as possible at the expense of quality.
Wish i could get one for that price , only want a ps4 to play infamous second son
See, to me, that's no different than, "Well if they didn't want me to steal their TV, they should have locked their house better." Just because the other person didn't secure their shit better doesn't make you any less a douchebag for making the world a place where people have to worry excessively about security.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I'm not saying that I think it's right or that they should get away with it. I just don't find that wrongness precludes hilarity.
Kind of like that thief in mexico who stole a car that was carrying a vessel of radioactive cobalt isotopes to a hospital and the car was recovered and the vessel was found to be open (and that as a result the thief only had about 24 hours left to live). Punishment doesn't fit the crime...but irony is funny.
Plus historically walmart et al. have scammed billions of dollars in tax payers money via free infrastructure upgrades, tax breaks, etc, using bogus supply side economics arguments. "Werrr merking jerbs". And I'm sorry, but it feels good to watch a douchebag get kicked in the balls.
Yeah, it can definitely still be amusing. I just don't like the "well it's justified because Wal-Mart."
I remember in college I had 2 roommates my freshman year assigned to me in the dorm. One day someone threw a penny in the room and it slightly chipped the nice flatscreen CRT one of my roommates had. So they went down to the local Fry's Electronics, bought the same monitor, took it home, unwrapped it, put the old monitor back in the box, and took it back to Fry's to return it. They got a free new monitor for 0 dollars. They felt totally justified because Fry's is run by assholes. I still thought it was shitty behavior.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The list of "organizations" that treat people like shit is long. It starts with the Federal Government and goes down, through every level of Government, and most business owners...big and small, to the lowly internet troll.
By the logic you (and many others have presented) it would be justified to steal con and steal from all of them.
The general response to individuals getting scammed also tends to be "Sucks for them but they should have been smarter," but when a business gets scammed? Oh shit son it's theft!
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2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"