April 27 2:53 P.M.
Jodi Wykle knew her son would be thrilled when she gave him a new Nintendo DS for his birthday.
Instead, he was rocked.
According to WTSP-TV, the confused teen opened up his gift only to find bunch of stones and a rolled up Chinese newspaper in place of the popular handheld.
Needless to say, mom was equally stunned.
"When he opened it, he was pulling the seal off, my sister-in-law carries a pocket knife and she opened it and that's when he pulled it out and it was Chinese newspaper and a bunch of rocks," she explained.
The troubling discovery prompted the Florida woman to contact the local Wal-Mart where she bought the curious box and complain, but reportedly workers there told her it wasn't their problem and that she should contact Nintendo instead. Of course, Nintendo told her roughly the same thing, leaving mother and son with a $138 box of rocks.
"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," she said.
Amazingly enough, however, Wal-Mart soon caved after learning that the same box of rocks had been previously returned by another disgruntled customer. How exactly it made it back onto store shelves remains a mystery, but for her troubles, Wykle was given a full refund and a $20 gift card.
It's not the first time Wal-Mart has gotten into hot water for selling a questionable handheld. Earlier this month, a PSP system bought at a different Wal-Mart store in Florida was found to contain a memory stick filled with pornographic images.
This doesn't surprise me. I bought a Dora the Explorer toddler bed last year ( site to store) and its was used and resealed. The stickers were already put on it and screws were missing. It was like pulling teeth to get anything done and I ended up getting a refund back on it. They reseal and resell returned items all the time.
I got a Rock!?!?
Was the kids name Charlie Brown?
When I worked at Academy back in the day, one of the other cashiers took back an Air Mattress box filled with newspaper and doorknobs. It didn't actually make it back onto the shelf though.
Wally World for the win.
LMFAO this is hilarious
Wal-Mart is so . It's not even worth waiting in that 1 hour line.
There was this great deal for an acer laptop at bestbuy that i bought a few months ago. the laptop didnt turn on when I tried it so I went back to bestbuy to return it and guess what, the lady sealed the defective laptop and put it back up at the shelf again.
It's against the law for stores to take back returned items and put them on the shelves again and sell them as new.
W-M has been doing it forever though.
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