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Forums - Gaming Discussion - PS4 Fraud Leads Walmart To Change its Price-Matching Policies

The Fury on 20 November 2014
piggychan said:
The Fury said:
They could easily change the policy by making it so that the website/online vendor has to have that offer currently on the website. Surely all these stores have computers hooked up to the interwebs they can check so a quick amazon search and job done, they verify it is legit and honour it.

John Lewis has a price matching thing that also does online for high priced electronics however it checks it for you over a day or so then once it confirms it, asks you to come in whenever you want to redeem their matched price.

John Lewis only price matches anything as long as: they have it in stock, it's not an online retailer like Amazon ie they need to have an actual store, and has to be within a certain radius of any john lewis store.

You are right, but they do price match a competing retailers online price, if they have one. They didn't use to. The main point though is they check, did these people at Wal-Mart check?



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MoHasanie on 20 November 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Probably should have done it this way from the start...

Yeah I'm surprised this wasn't the policy from the beginning. 



    

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Dunban67 on 20 November 2014

If I want to buy Skylanders Trap Force from my local Walmart for the price Amazom is offering, what do I need to do to prove the Amazon price - just take my phone and pull it up online? Or do you have to print the screen? Other?



BMaker11 on 20 November 2014

Honestly, Walmart is fucking retarded for price matching the prices from 3rd party vendors in the first place. None of those $50 or $90 PS4 prices were from Amazon itself, so they had nothing to do with anything. Walmart effectively said "we'll price match the listing from some random dude".

This should have been their policy beforehand.



Imaginedvl on 20 November 2014

Yah... This is like what pirating did to PC gaming and the pirates who were claiming it was good for the industry.
And those people are persuaded they deserve it that way and it is good for the consumers. Pitiful.

Anyway, I believe Walmart should had added this policy from the beginning to protect them from those thieves.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 21 November 2014
Imaginedvl said:
Yah... This is like what pirating did to PC gaming and the pirates who were claiming it was good for the industry.
And those people are persuaded they deserve it that way and it is good for the consumers. Pitiful.

Anyway, I believe Walmart should had added this policy from the beginning to protect them from those thieves.


Actually this situation is a lot more similar to cheaters ruining a multiplayer game exploiting some glitches and devs' oversights about some game mechanics.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 21 November 2014

Well the people who got into the system and screwed with it messed it up for everyone.