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rajendra82 on 05 November 2008
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Killergran said:
rajendra82 said:
markers said:
sweet bout time to stick it to walmart by making them pay for your goods that you never bought from them!!!

 

 

It's not really sticking it to them at all.  They get to turn around and sell those movies and get their money back.  They also make thier profits, because I will end up spending the store credit in there.  I consider muyself just an alternate distribution system fior the Blu-Ray movies I brought in.

 They get their money back, but they loose profit. It's somewhat like piracy. The store doesn't suffer directly, but they loose the profit they would have had if they had actually sold a Blu-ray movie they had a profit margin on.

Yes, they get some profit on the other stuff you buy, but I'm not sure whether that has such a big profit margin as movies do. Also, there's no way knowing wether you would buy that stuff at that Walmart anyways, so that they get profit on that to make up for the profit they lost is also kinda uncertain.

It also creates opportunity for arbitrage. If you have an item for $10 in one store, and $15 at Walmart, you can earn $5 by trading. Hence the max. 3 times rule for returning items without reciet.

Also, it's lying. Not morally acceptable. I have no idea if it constitutes as fraud.

In the US, many (not all) stores will match the price of another store.  If the item you seek is $10 in one store and $15 in another, if you ask the second store manager, they are likely to sell it to you for $10 as well.  If they don't, they know my next move will be walking out and driving to the other store.   You call this arbitrage, amd make it sound like it might be illegal in Sweden, but it is quite legal here, and I am glad that it is.

I don't get this moral outrage at this.  I didn't force Wal-Mart take the movies back, I let them make a choice.  I didn't make any money on the return, and I accepted store credit, an inferior form of cash that I have to spend at the store accepting the items back.  In doing this, all I did was expanded what came bundled with the PS3, and where I bought it.  There was no stealing, lying, cheating, pirating, looting or any such swashbuckling activity involved.