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Title: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: sorsha6 on November 19, 2006, 02:44:30 AM

Hey everyone, just need to vent for a minute...
As of yesterday afternoon (when I called!) the Walmart in Ellsworth, Maine, was opening at 7am this morning... my friend and I arrived at 6:30 only to see signs that, in fact, they opened at midnight!  I asked an employee waiting to get let in what was up.
"Oh, we sold out of those this morning!  haha!" (as if I were a moron to ask)
ha ha?  AGH!!! Walmart totally screwed us!  So all the people who prepared and called ahead of time are SOL while people who just showed up got their Wiis.  Sigh.
Being that I'm up in Maine I have few choices of where I find a Wii until I go home to NY in a month.  Sigh.  So either I stake out evil Walmart every few days or I wait.  It sucks.
Just another reason not to shop at Walmart.

Title: RE: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: UncleBob on November 19, 2006, 02:47:38 AM

Ummm... not to defend the fact that they misinformed you on the phone, but if you showed up a mere 30 mins early, I highly doubt you would have gotten one anyway.

Title: RE: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: KnowsNothing on November 19, 2006, 03:21:21 AM

They did the same thing to me.  Said they were opening at seven, ended up selling the last of them at 5:30.  Tons of other people in the BB line also said the same thing.

I blame Uncle Bob.

Title: RE:Walmart screwed me over
Post by: Adrock on November 19, 2006, 03:22:24 AM

The Walmart near me had a raffle for who got one of their 36 units. It was also the most poorly planned raffle of all time. They gave out tickets to 500 of the something like 2000 people there. It was supposed to be 1 per family but they made no attempt at checking ID or anything so the 1st 500 people got tickets regardless. Then, they just put the tickets in a bucket a then picked numbers. The numbers were from 500-1000 and most picked were in the 900 range. If you were at the end of the line, you had a higher chance of getting one.

I'm not bitter as I didn't really want one, I was trying to increase the chances of a friend getting one, a plan which failed. A lot of people were pissed. There should have been priority to the people who have been waiting there all day. 500 tickets was just excessive.  

Title: RE: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: Renny on November 19, 2006, 08:06:41 PM

Fact: Wal-Mart hires retards.

Title: RE: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: UncleBob on November 20, 2006, 12:46:08 AM

Title: RE: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: blackfootsteps on November 20, 2006, 12:51:28 AM

Don't worry about it UB, I'm sure the nipple will cheer you up.

Title: RE: Walmart screwed me over
Post by: couchmonkey on November 20, 2006, 03:32:05 AM

My Wal Mart made us wait EVERY LAST MINUTE.  Right up to like 5 minutes PAST 7.   The TORTURE!  Maybe it's a Canadian thing but it seems like any time there's a big lineup to go into a store, they'll make you wait until AFTER opening time.  Would it have killed them to let us in just 5-15 minutes early?