Boy Receives Rocks Instead of a Nintendo DS for His Birthday
From Yahoo! news:
Mom Jodi Wykle bought a Nintendo DS from her local Wal-Mart as a birthday gift for her son, knowing that he be pleasantly surprised with the gift.
He was surprised alright, but not in a pleasant way. What he saw when he unwrapped the gift wasn’t a handheld console, but a bunch of rocks and a Chinese newspaper.
It gets better: The mom tried contacting Wal-Mart to return it, but they refused, saying that it’s a Nintendo problem. When she contacted Nintendo, they claimed innocence. Wal-Mart only conceded in refunding it (+ a $20 gift card) when it found out that someone had angrily returned the same box of rocks earlier.
What’s your bet someone’s going to return a box of rocks with a Chinese newspaper to Wal-Mart in the next few weeks?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Wal-Mart really is going to lose buissness from this. It’s not Nintendo’s fault, Nintendo obviously wouldn’t send a product with a box of rocks in it instead of a DS. They care more about their customers than Wal-Mart clearly does.
Someone stole it, and instead of being reasonable, and apologizing. Instead they acted like a bratty kid accused of something wrong, and pointed at Nintendo yelling “They did it! They did it!” You don’t run a store like that. Although, I wouldn’t be surprised if the person this mother talked to from Wal-Mart had a low IQ. Most of them do, and most of them can barely speak English as well.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
LOL! I also read about this a few hours ago. I’ve been hearing a lot of cases like this, but usually from small-time sellers wherein they just ship an empty box or something.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
from florida XD
April 29th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Funny and sad, amd yeah I think people are going to imitate this.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Next time check whats inside the box.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Yeah, the buyer should always check, and since it’s electronics they’ll be able to check if it’s working or not.
In cases of mail-order which is the most convenient way for most buyers, it’ll be very difficult to check what’s inside the box.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I wonder how that happened? Maybe it’s not Nintendo’s fault, but rather other person that played a dirty trick on the boy? He maybe had rocks, puts them in the DS case, took the DS, and ran off without paying it first.