Score!!! At Walmart

[possom813]

I just got a pretty darn good deal on 9mm at Wally world. The WWB 115gr FMJ's that are 15.47 a box down here got miss marked.

I got 600 rds for 9 bucks a box of 100. Woo hoo.

I'm done, just had to share because all of the cases I've been looking at online were about 160 a case.

 

[jcwit]

I notice some really like to scam WW. But I bet if the shoe's on the other foot the screeming will never stop. Just because you take advantage of someone's mistake doesn't make it right. Remember what goes around comes around.

 

[George Hill]

Karma can be a witch....
But I'd have stocked up on that too.

 

[Albatross]

I bet mistakes like that wouldn't happen if they had employees who gave a crap , but then you'd have to pay them more. Bummer.

No one cares about scamming Wally World because Wally World doesn't care about scamming you. Giant faceless business concerned only with increasing the bottom line. Surprise, surprise no one has great love for them.

Krama is a witch.

 

[biscuitninja]

I just paid for 500 rounds in 100 round boxes, the price was 15.50 per box. This is socal, so i'm not complaining too much. New ammo that cost as much reloads. Oh well, take it easy and don't work too hard.
-bix

 

[possom813]

I bet mistakes like that wouldn't happen if they had employees who gave a crap , but then you'd have to pay them more. Bummer.

I actually don't feel bad, and I'm not expecting karma on this. I asked the kid behind the counter for a couple of boxes of WWB because I needed some more. I did notice that the price was 9.96. He rang them up at 15 a box and I said the price shows 9.96. He looked at it and the ammo was in the wrong spot.

I said no problem, I'll pay the 15. He told me that I could have them for 9 bucks a box because, and I quote, "It's no cash out of my pocket and I don't get in trouble for it".

Sooo, I bought all of the 9mm that was mismarked, which was 6 boxes.

Don't think I went looking to scam Walmart, because the last time that I found something like this it was .45acp marked at 10 bucks a box, I paid 28.88 a box, and they moved the .45 to the right spot.

-John

 

[280shooter]

they sell cheap to make room

most walmarts sell cheap to make room,MY brother knows people that work at one in the northest,and they told him that,So he goes in a few times a week to see what they have on clearence,some of the smaller gandrmountains do that too.our walmart,here only carry a few guns,maybe a 22 or a shotgun,thigs do change dont they,,

 

[GRB]

However you look at it, the buyer was not scamming Walmart, even if he had not told them about the apparent wrong price. The fact is that when a price is marked, it must under law in most states sell for that price if the consumer asks for it at said price. I am not talking about ads in papers, where the advertising company got it wrong, Ia m talking about price tags on items in the store. Yous ee there is such a thing calle dbait and switch. It applies to getting you to come to the store for one item then them saying whoops all out, so we switched to this and they give you junk at the price. However it can also apply to switching prices, they scam you in with lowball prices then tell you, sorry we switched the price back to normal. I don't think they did this, but that is why the law usually states, if marked for one price, at that price it sells. So there wa sno scamming of Walmart, only mislabeling of the ammo by a Walmart employee.

Nice to see thoguh that Possum813 was honorable about it and told them of the price being off.

All the best,
Glenn b

 

[Elm Creek Smith]

I wait for clearance after hunting season to buy 777. I've never paid more than $13.00 a bottle for it, and most of what I have I bought for $9.00 a bottle.

I use it in .45 Colts and 12 gauge all-brass shells. The guys at the trap range just shake their heads when the white flowers bloom!

ECS

 

[takhtakaal]

Sorry. Ammo boxes mismarked with a stickered price are one thing. Ammo boxes marked with the correct price but sitting close to a shelf tag with a better price are quite another.

The other posters who mentioned karma issues got this one right. I don't know if I'd be posting and crowing about it, because it doesn't seem very "HR."

 

[Treo]

At first I thought the OP was in the wrong, but when he posted that he went out of his way to tell the employee who sold it to him & the guy essentially said so what & that he basically didn't care if Wal-Mart lost money. What would you have the OP do ? demand that the employee sell at the higher price. I don't see that the OP did anything wrong.

 

[takhtakaal]

At first I thought the OP was in the wrong, but when he posted that he went out of his way to tell the employee who sold it to him & the guy essentially said so what & that he basically didn't care if Wal-Mart lost money. What would you have the OP do ? demand that the employee sell at the higher price. I don't see that the OP did anything wrong.

Let's examine this. Pay attention to the portion in bold.

I actually don't feel bad, and I'm not expecting karma on this. I asked the kid behind the counter for a couple of boxes of WWB because I needed some more. I did notice that the price was 9.96. He rang them up at 15 a box and I said the price shows 9.96. He looked at it and the ammo was in the wrong spot.

The quote ends with "the ammo was in the wrong spot." It rang up at the $15-something that it now goes for, despite the fact that it was in the "wrong spot," one that I deduce had a shelf tag indicating that something valued at $9.96 should sit there. if it rang up at $15-something, obviously the tag on the box was correct.

I'm not sure that this is sufficient defense of his actions.

 

[possom813]

The quote ends with "the ammo was in the wrong spot."

I'm not going to try to defend my actions. And the quote didn't end with the ammo was in the wrong spot, it ended with "I told him no problem, I'd pay the 15".

But then again, you probably think I scammed Winchester because two of the boxes had 101 rds instead of 100.

 

[ColinthePilot]

He noticed a discrepancy in price, mentioned it, offered to pay full price, and was offered the lower price. I don't see the problem. Who in their right mind would demand to pay 15 when it was offered at 9?

 

[Erinyes]

I don't know about your Wally-World, but at mine, ammo boxes don't have price stickers. There's only the shelf price.

 

[possom813]

I don't know about your Wally-World, but at mine, ammo boxes don't have price stickers. There's only the shelf price.

Yessir, the boxes were stacked like that, the price on the shelf and the 9mm stacked behind the price.

 

[takhtakaal]

Possom didn't explain everything very well, left things open to certain interpretation, and allowed the clerk to under-ring the merchandise. I'm sure that Sam Walton would have spun in his grave. Whether or not you see Walmart as ruining America, what's theirs is theirs. I thought it deceptive and said so.

By the way, ammo here gets bar-code scanned at the sporting goods dep't. register.

 

[plexreticle]

Good job.

Wallmart has no qualms about ripping people off so karma does work.

 

[chris in va]

Possom didn't scam WalMart, the employee did.

I'm curious what they sell currently would be $9.96. That was the price of WWB 2 years ago...

 

[Diggers]

He didn't allow the clerk to under-ring anything.

That clerk chose to.

Possom813 is not in charge of some other persons actions.

Honestly, this whole “You weren’t honorable enough” thing that happens here really gets out of hand.

 

[Baba Louie]

Honestly, this whole “You weren’t honorable enough” thing that happens here really gets out of hand.

Yeah, but it shows aby outsiders lurking in (and there are plenty of guests viewing daily) that we few, we proud, we firearm loving WW shopping citizens are capable of honesty, veracity, yada yada, taking the high road... and who doesn't love a nice mismarked deal once or twice in one's life?

Hey possum! I just wondered... is the WWB sold at WW still made in the US or is it outsourced from Asia? Never mind.

 

[possum]

i have worked for wal-mart and i have family that are in the higher echelons of wal-mart and i know some things that would make people cringe, i would take the ammo and i would have taken it at the lower price. this is nothing in comparison to the amounts of money that they throw away on a daily basis in other areas and for generally stupid reasons at wal-mart.

btw congrats on the ammo and a job well done.

 

[jcwit]

Re: W/W scaming you so its alright. I was brought up two wrongs do not make a right, maybe I'm wrong but I don't think so. People complain about the morals going down in the USA, well guess what it starts at home. Its what each and every one of us practice. Perhaps you should feel the same way about your small mom & pop gun store that sells ammo & supplies higher because they don't get the benifite of purchasing power, are they ripping you off? Scam them every time the goof up and we can maybe put them out of business, that'le teach them for their high prices. This attitude of getting something for nothing or benifiting from someones error is just wrong.

 

[JustPassin'Thru]

Sorry guys, just had to chime in. I would bet dollars to donuts that if you got home and found that you were overcharged, you'd beat a path back to the store demanding a refund. In a moral society, right and wrong work both ways. No matter if it's "big corporate conglomerate" or the corner mom and pop store. Knowingly paying the wrong (lower) price is dishonest. By the way, what does "THR" mean? Just curious.

 

[XD Fan]

Hey if he told the clerk, he did what he was supposed to do.