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Old July 5th 17, 02:05 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
Scott Dorsey
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Default Wal-Mart battery Scam

In article >,
> wrote:
>There was a man about79 to 82 year's old in a wheelchair that brought a bat=
>tery at Wal-Mart in hugo Oklahoma and none of the codes match and the mange=
>r told this man to call this woman name misti and he did, and these to peop=
>le would disappear from the store at the time he was told to call so he wen=
>t to the other store in Texas and he got the corporate phone number and he =
>called them and to this day he has not heard anything back from them and so=
> him and his wife went back Wal-Mart in hugo Oklahoma and, the manager trie=
>d to tell them two old people they changed the bar code stickers on the bat=
>tery and accused these old people of fraud.


Okay, I don't understand any of this. What does "none of the codes match?"
mean? Is this some guy who bought a battery from Wal-Mart that doesn't fit
his car and now can't get a refund?

>But this time he got his money back and he told them people at Wal-Mart th=
>at he not know what kind of scam they are running, and he told them he woul=
>dn't ever be back to shop in there store again..


This is Wal-Mart, it's not a high end battery wholesaler. They don't care
about customer service. They sell special batteries that are designed to be
as cheap as possible and look like standard commercial batteries but aren't.

>Theirs another person that brought that same battery and they are doing the=
> same thing to him and he went to the other Wal-Mart to get the corporate p=
>hone number and he called them and they told this man that they don't belie=
>ve one of their store is doing this to people same as the other man , and n=
>ow this man is out$114.84 for a 5 year battery that he can't use but he ha=
>s stop them from doing this to other people for awhile or at least until Wa=
>l-Mart get another battery to continue their secret scamming on on people .=
>..
>
>But the worst thing is that, they are getting away with it ..


I'm sorry, I don't understand what the scam here is.
--scott
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