Which one of you ATOTers did this? Scammed Wal Mart to get Play Station 4 for less...

[ImpulsE69]

I agree with this. If you made the listing, you know good and well that it's fake, and while it may be on Amazon's site, it's not really "Amazon". In my mind this is partially Amazon's fault as well, though, since they don't exactly go out of their way to make it clear when items are being sold through a 3rd party.

Where it gets hazy is if someone else puts up a listing at a questionably-low price, and you use that listing to PM at Walmart. For example, let's say that Walmart starts PMing craigslist for some insane reason. Can you pull up a listing at a suspiciously-low price (which is 99% likely to be a scam) and use that to PM, guilt-free?

Now what if you're an idiot who honestly doesn't know how to recognize a scam when they see one, and who would be perfectly happy to pull the trigger on the craigslist purchase, but live next to a Walmart anyway? I feel that at some point it becomes Walmart's problem again, but I'm not exactly sure where that line is.

There are only 2 possible solutions to this problem.

1. Ban the sale of PS4's

2. Close all Wal-Marts

Anything less is half assing it and asking for repeat offenses.

On a serious note, I don't condone it, this particular person did go out of his way to scam, but I don't exactly feel sorry for them. No one gets rich w/o some shady business practices that are only legal because they have money and lawyers. The only real mistake this person made was bragging about it.

Now, if it was a legit price mistake..more power to them. I'd jump too, and not feel a bit guilty about it. This is what I find funny about this thread, there are a few people talking like they are saints, and I've seen enough posts to know they probably smoke the weed in states where it isn't legal and think it's ok because "weed isn't a drug"

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I agree with this. If you made the listing, you know good and well that it's fake, and while it may be on Amazon's site, it's not really "Amazon". In my mind this is partially Amazon's fault as well, though, since they don't exactly go out of their way to make it clear when items are being sold through a 3rd party.

Where it gets hazy is if someone else puts up a listing at a questionably-low price, and you use that listing to PM at Walmart. For example, let's say that Walmart starts PMing craigslist for some insane reason. Can you pull up a listing at a suspiciously-low price (which is 99% likely to be a scam) and use that to PM, guilt-free?

Now what if you're an idiot who honestly doesn't know how to recognize a scam when they see one, and who would be perfectly happy to pull the trigger on the craigslist purchase, but live next to a Walmart anyway? I feel that at some point it becomes Walmart's problem again, but I'm not exactly sure where that line is.

Your second paragraph is why I don't think walmart should or will try to do anything. They should use this as a lessons learned. I know bestbuy requires manager approval if the pm amount reaches a certain threshold. I'm not sure if Amazon will do anything because as a seller, you can list anything you just need an Barcode #. They're pretty swift with the bans too. I think you only get like one or two warnings.

 

[cronos]

Come on guys, I have been taking advantage of several price mistakes and ordered without thinking as soon as I found out about it, but creating your own fake ad and take a screenshot of it to do a price match is clearly fraud.

 

[AMCRambler]

No, you committed fraud which is illegal. Creating a fake Amazon sell site, posting a non-existent item for sale at an absurdly low price and then bringing that in for a price match is clearly fraud, is wrong and the perpetrators should be prosecuted.

Unless you actually sell a PS4 at that price. So you go to Wal-Mart, buy two and sell one from your amazon page.

 

[Jeeebus]

Unless you actually sell a PS4 at that price. So you go to Wal-Mart, buy two and sell one from your amazon page.

So basically the same concept as check kiting (which, last I checked, was illegal).

 

[highland145]

So basically the same concept as check kiting (which, last I checked, was illegal).

And nearly impossible today but AMC's idea works.