Wednesday, August 27, 2008

MY LOVE/HATE relationship with WALMART

OK so I love Walmart for good deals usually but let me tell you if I was not a lunatic and had to get the best deals ever then I would not go there. So that being said let me tell you about the whole fiasco. I have to start about a month ago!
We left to go on a weekend trip over the 24th of July my son had ridden his bike to get the mail and parked it in our front yard. We were gone for 4 days. When we returned home, my son said "hmmm where is my bike" well we looked around and couldn't find it so I called my nephew that fed our dogs while we were gone thinking maybe he rode it home instead of walking.... he says No. So of course my son was upset and I was like well I guess you should not have left it on the front lawn. However met me just say I live in a great town very small and I know 99% of the time I could leave a bucket of gold on the driveway and no one would mess with it.
OK fast forward 2 weeks
My nephew call at 9:30 one night and says " Aunt Jami I know who stole Cassidy's bike, he just tried to sell me the wheels and when I went to his house I reognized his bike" So now I am mad because it is a boy my sons age. So off we go to the house and sure enough there is my sons bike. It is now just a frame NO WHEELS, NO BRAKES, NO NOTHING but a frame, this is a bike that had barely been ridden. This kid has made himself a tramp bike. He covered all the pointy parts with duct tape so he can play on the trampoline with it. I WAS NOT HAPPY at all. The mother says " Well we told him when he brought it home that it looked like a nice bike and he had better take it back to where he found it" and then she proceeds to tell me " how am I supposed to know what my son does I work all day" can I just say WOW I was floored what mom in there right minds says that. So she ways well how much do you want. We said well we paid 125.00 for it so we will be ok with 75.00. She says well maybe he can have my sons bike. So we go to the neighbors to look at it and guess what this bike is a piece of JUNK , no wheels no brakes just TRASH. So we go up to the house again mind you this is now like 10pm and say no that bike is junk we need the money, she says "Sorry I just paid bills, we can't pay you" well I said "Your sons friends say he just got paid today where is that money?" She was like oh yeah and went and brought us $55.00. So I was like well when do we get the rest. She couldn't give us a date that they could pay us. At this point I am ready to call the cops lucky for them a family friend kicked up the last $20.00. Can I just say that this mother disgusted me. She did not even make her son come to apologize NOTHING ...... OK so we have money better than nothing I guess.
So now we need to purchase a bike. We look on line at walmart to see what there is . My DH and I have to run to Cedar so we go to Walmart to pick up the bike. It was online for 79.98 well in the store it was 89.98 and I go to customer service and they say " Were sorry we don't honor walmart.com prices ever you have to buy it online and then pick it up from us. we won't honor the on line price" I was like are you kidding me. Well I broke down and bought the bike since I was there. Stupid Stupid policy Oh and if you need to return something you bought online from them you have to ship it to them you can't take it in to the store That was part of the reason I just went ahead and bought it. STUPID
So my son goes to ride his bike and the wheel is all messed up so I go to take it back to the store this time in St.George. Well the lady who was sooo nice not like some of the mean tellers you get tells me " Oh you bought this in Cedar, Walmart things can only be returned to the store they were bought at." I was like OH I don't think so I was in Cedar randomly I live 25 miles from both Walmarts and I am not going to put this in the back of my truck again to drive to Cedar in who knows when. So luckily since this lady was nice and the bike guy was gone the manager let me exchange it. I almost freaked in the store they may have put me in jail if I had not been able to exchange the bike today. This was not a good day. LOL Oh well I just wanted to make you all aware. Do you love or hate Walmart what experiences have you had there? I am telling you if it was not for cheap stuff I would never return to that store!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For the record -I hate Wally World- and I feel soooooooooo bad for you!
That kids mother should be shot! No wonder her kid is the way he is! Enough said!