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Re: WalMart vs WalMart
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:18:27 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Ray Sanders writes:
> A while back there was a thread (possibly several) about how a
> particular set would be clearanced at one WalMart but not another. I may
> have stumbled into a solution... Go purchase the set where it is being
> sold at the attractive price. Then take your receipt to the other
> WalMart. Say something like "Oh, I wanted to buy three of these and they
> only had one. Will you match the other stores price ?" They may grumble,
> they may be unhappy, and then they may go ahead and match it. One store
> told me that the first sale had to be no more than 30 days old, another
> tried to tell me 10 days, but then accepted a receipt that was 15 days old.
You've had much better luck than I have, then. I tried this with the Mystic
Time Lab set (great for parts!) this Spring - on clearance for $25 at 1
Wal-Mart (bought 3) but still full price ($80?) at another. The grouchy lady
there wouldn't honor a thing. :-( I tried this the same day I bought the first
ones.
> I've seen the same thing at K-Mart. One store just matched the other
> K-Marts price. At another store, the manager refused. So I talked to him
> for a while, explained that these sets were all discontinued
> (non-replenishable, or whatever), explained to him that for a lower
> price I would buy all he had in that SKU. He decided it was cool, and
> did it on his own prerogative.
K-Mart has been the nicest to me. I brought in a TRU receipt that listed just
half of the set name (no numbers, anything) and they matched it.
> One last note: find something that WalMart is deep discounting to clear
> it out. Buy one. Take the receipt over to TRU (same day if possible).
> Show them the receipt. Walk out with you 75% off Lego set(s).
This doesn't work all the time either. I usually can't get them to honor
anything other than an -advertised- sale which is not a "percent off". The
times that I thought they might honor it, they told me that they would have to
call the other store and verify that there were still some in stock over there
- which didn't work, either.
While there might be company policies about price matching, it seems to me like
it depends more on the demeanor of the sales associate/manager you deal with.
Good luck!
Naji
> Ray
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| (...) I actually work at a K-Mart Customer Service Desk. Official policy is to match any non-clearance price if we can verify it. ('Verify' generally means a call to the other store or a sale ad from the other store in hand. Management doesn't (...) (27 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| A while back there was a thread (possibly several) about how a particular set would be clearanced at one WalMart but not another. I may have stumbled into a solution... Go purchase the set where it is being sold at the attractive price. Then take (...) (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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