Walmart - Company Run By Morons for My Benefit
 

You're a shitty libertarian.

http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ons/icon13.gif That's cheating.

Nice one http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

My gf ran into 'Chris' at tescos the other xmas, when he told her they had pink DS in stock if we came back later, when they actually didnt have a hope in hell of having stock. Thats a couple of hours driving in xmas shopping traffic I will never get back

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Property rights are their god. a) So? He didn't break in and steal the thing. They gave it to him.

b) Not for all of them...

Originally posted by David Floyd
They initially did. I explained that I was just trying to speed things up for everyone - if the answer was no, I didn't want to wait 30 minutes to hear it. I wouldn't have cared. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Underhanded is the term I'd use. Ultimately, however, only successful b/c of Walmart's own decisions.

-Arrian

You did, however, omit one vital piece of information...

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
a) So? He didn't break in and steal the thing. They gave it to him. He stole it.

b) Not for all of them... IIRC for DF they are.

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


He stole it. Stole, schmole.

Underhanded by implying that you bought the iPod from Walmart, and by not disclosing that it was broken because of user error. 1)I didn't imply any such thing. I simply said I had an Ipod but not a receipt.

2)Any responsible retailer will make at least a cursory effort to inspect and test the product. Walmart, apparently, is not a responsible retailer. They asked me what the defect was, I honestly told them, and they left it at that.

You lied to them in order to get them to give you merchandise. Sorry, you just commited fraud, not theft http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/rolleyes.gif

Originally posted by SlowwHand
That's a failure in Walmart's business approach. No receipt required. They do it to themself. Certainly. But taking advantage of it is still unethical.

I didn't say it was ethical. As a retail business though, they should have the awreness to recognize that a vast majority of consumers are out to get what they can get, for nothing. No, it's not proper, but it's correct.

I'm curious what prevented you from going to Best Buy (where you work) and trying this scheme there.

Wow, that's unethical. I'm envious of your ability to harrass retail employees into giving you what you want even when they know you're screwing them. Though I'd say, judging by your own story, that Walmart isn't "run by morons" so much as "employing one moron and a bunch of people who don't get paid enough to bother correcting said moron."

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I didn't see him say that he lied.

He might have, but he didn't mention it here... I consider it lying when you say something that you know will be interpreted one way but actually means something very different.

I did no such thing. Stating that I have no receipt implies that I could have bought the product anywhere.

No, it doesn't imply that. It just doesn't automatically prevent it from being true. But when you walk into a store and ask for an exchange, even if you say you don't have a receipt, you are implying that you bought it at that store.

It's unethical to take advantage of a company's public business practices?

So if it was their practice not to lock the store at night you would be perfectly comfortable just walking in and taking things?

Something talls me "Chris" won't be working there for long if he regularly allows exchanges on items like this against policy.

On the subject of stealing: The employees of the store recieve thier yearly bonus based on how profitable the store is so in a very real sense you did steal money from them.

Originally posted by Arrian
Underhanded is the term I'd use. Ultimately, however, only successful b/c of Walmart's own decisions.

-Arrian It was basicly a con.

Which he stated right at the outset (Look at ME! I screwed Walmart 'cause I'm smarter than the 17-yr old manager!). Then he spends the rest of the thread asserting he did nothing wrong.

Bored, Floyd?

-Arrian