No, you're not being mercilessly attacked by an unyielding feeling of déjà vu for no good reason -- we really have seen
something eerily similar to this happen before. This go 'round, we've got a totally innocent ten year old boy who was given
Guitar Hero for
DS prior to even owning a console; as the mother finally ended the tease, she handed him a shiny new DS handheld for him to unwrap. Unfortunately for everyone involved, all that was tucked inside was a couple of stones, a Chinese newspaper and boatloads of disappointment. After the Walmart store from which she purchased it referred her to the Big N, she furiously admitted the following: "They don't want to do nothing. They want me to keep the box of rocks. I'm not buying a box of rocks for $138." Thankfully, Wally World finally refunded her and threw in a $20 gift card for the trouble (after being hounded by a local news station, mind you), but the real damage -- losing all hope in humanity -- will never be undone. Ever.
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posted April 29th 2009 12:41PM
this stuff seems to be happening a bit too often.
The worst part is that they weren't even Mick or Keith!
I almost missed the edited picture: (Nintendo DS* -- Rocks and Chinese newspaper included; Nintendo DS console sold seperately.) LOL!
Yup, that picture's a riot!
When I USE to work for Best Buy I had a customer come up to me and tell me he had bought a PS3 from Target. Sure enough when he opened it up rocks were found instead of a Playstation. They did take it back too.
Poor little gaffer--that sucked! I hope his Bday turned out OK after the fact.
My brother received an xbox 360 for his birthday a few years ago. When he opened it up there was 2 pound ream of paper inside of the box. Target took it back no problem. They thought it was funny. The strange thing is that it looked factory sealed. At least I now know how to scam Target out of an xbox.
I was reading some forum posts in which people were recommending that someone go buy a new XBox and replace their broken RRoD guts into the new case and return it. Said he had done it before and it went off without a hitch. I always thought that was a pretty shady thing to do as well.
THIS (and the MacBrick Pro that was floating around the Internets yesterday) is why I always take my merchandise to the customer service desk and ask them to open it and how me the product before I pay for it.
Yes, I'm an asshole customer, but I'm an asshole customer that actually gets the product I paid for.
I'd also like to be an asshole customer that actually gets the product you paid for.
Well that asshole customer got what she paid for and a $20 gift card. I'm taking mine home to open it.
Engadget's addition to the side of the box is hilarious.
I totally didn't notice that until I read your comment.
Wow seems like a lot of system returns to me. Strange thing is that to sell a system you have to scan the serial number right off the system though the box. So I am guessing some how the serial number bar code was still there? I know this from working as a DM for a gaming store for over ten years.
One way to tell if it was taken by the person making the claim is when you go to replace said system with another they now do not want it they just want their money back strange right??
But yes at times this does happen by employee theft or an employee that failed to open a sealed return infront of the returning customer and then placed the item back in stock.
As far as Fedx and UPS goes I had a Fedx driver that use to steal a case or two of any hot new game on the day it came out my store would call and say I did not get any and we woud ck and the box just goes poof. And the funny part is the retailer only gets $100.00 for each box that is missing not the true value. UPS was even more fun the driver would just not deliver stuff to the store and the police raided his house and found all the product he stole.
People are just greedy.
A DS might as well be as fun as a box of rocks.
What it is simple time travel you simply go back in time and photograph what you have already done. It involves the simple use of anti-protons a paperclip and some aluminum foil.
Maus
Brutal. Poor kid.
I would have been hounding my parents to give me the DS that they so deceptively hid before wrapping.
Too bad it looks like the switch was made in China.
I ran across something similar when I was going to install a new CD Burner for a client that had purchased it from Best Buy. I opened the box and it was a ziplock bag of sand.. they were like, is this a joke? I said, well yes for the person that put the bag in the box and returned it to the store for a refund and the workers at Best Buy are too lazy to open it up to see if the equipment is still there.
I told him to go to Best Buy and explain it in hopes of getting a new one with the actual product in the box. I felt so bad for the guy.
anyone ever hear of this problem when shopping online, ie amazon, newegg?
Kind of. I've had two products from Amazon (a garmin running watch-gps tracker) and an Flip HD. Two different orders, but both placed around Christmas. The Flip had someone else's old footage in it, and the Garmin came with someone else's biometric already programmed in.
Nothing like putting on the heart rate monitor and realizing someone else has probably sweat through it.
it would be funny if it was an iphone box
" I got a PSP!"
"I got an iPhone!"
"I got a rock. box."
nintendo ds pet rock game what? ....and typical fucking sprawl-mart for you!!!
This is exactly why I order from Amazon. And I mean Amazon itself, not third parties that it hosts.
it seems like one of those stories where the mom teases the kid with the box and the kid starts the tears after everyone gets there little chuckle then they feel bad and show him they just took it out of the box....except someone pulled the trick on the parents XD.
wait its not normal mfor ur parents to give you rocks
If she got Nintendo involved, she would have probably gotten a shiny new DSi, additional points (in addition to the ones that come with the system), and a few games.
The boy is 16 years old. Not ten. Also another Florida Story.
Heres the link Engadget:
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=104724
I feel sorry for the poor kid who wanted a box of rocks and instead got a Nintendo DS due to this mix up.
hahahhahahahhHAHAHAHAHAH
You know, it is relatively easy to purchase some shrink wrap and a hair dryer...
The worst part is that they weren't even Mick or Keith!
yep
Actually ,the mom can find some cheap box of rocks
liks some factory-refurbished Nintendo-Ds-Lite
via ; http://www.pandawill.com/Wholesale-game-console_c192