Wal-Mart Pricing Disputes

Joe of Enterprise AL (11/28/07)
On November 21 2007 I received a mail flyer stating that Walmart had a 42 Polaroid HDTV for 799 available from 5 to 11 am on November 23 2007. I went to visit walmart on November 22 to see if they had one on display. I asked a person that worked there near the TV's if they had one on display. The person said no they are in the back and they will bring them out on Friday morning and they have plenty of them She continued to state that I should take advantage of the 18 months interest free financing, but I had to apply for the walmart credit card and it would take just five minutes. I applied for the Walmart credit card so I could buy the TV.

I show up on Friday morning at 4:30 am November 23 to purchase the TV. When I got there I could not find any. I looked real hard and I finally found 8 of them. I told my friend Greg that they have only a few and that I was going to wait in line near them. When they let people grab the merchandise, 4 people grabbed the 8 tv's and I was left with out one.

I told the employees there about this problem and they said too bad and there is no lay aways. I know Walmart used unethical practices to deceive me in to getting me to sign up for credit. They did this in hopes I would use the credit anyway on something else. Thats is not the case. I only wanted the TV for the advertised 42 HDTV deal.

What I suffered is five hours of hassle, a credit card I will not use, a credit check that reduces my credit and costs me the next time I need credit, and no TV.

Patrick of Carrboro, NC November 24, 2007

Patrick of Carrboro NC (11/24/07)
I went to Walmart in Boynton Beach Florida and I used 2 checks to purchase some groceries. One check totaled 22 dollars and the other totaled about 73 dollars and some change. Both checks bounced on me, although I didn't know this until I was finally contacted by Walmart. There were funds in the account but Walmart had inputed the checks into their cash register incorrectly. Telecheck took over the checks and charged me 25 fee for the small check and 30 for the big check. My bank, NYC MCU in New York stated that they would refund the bounced check fees if I got proof of the fees that were charged by Telecheck, but so far Telecheck has refused to provide evidence of any fees that they charged me, only sending a form letter stating that I do not owe any checks to anyone.

I was charged 55 in bounced check fees even though the checks never bounced and was a bank error or a Walmart error.

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