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Originally Posted by Billfred
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So I did this. At $12.17 I figured, even if we don't use them for scouting, I get a charger, a remote camera in my house on WiFi, or a camera I can strap onto a robot instead of a GoPro.
It was quite the ordeal to get three of them:
Web link said $12.16 (I'll save $0.03 more!) -- order 3, must pick up in store (10 mi away)
Get confirmation with a 'wait until store says they are ready' message.
Get order cancelled message, due to payment issue.
Repeat above three steps with different credit card.
Ok, I'll just go to the store, since they have them in stock.
Call credit card companies before I leave to be sure my card will work in store.
CC1: Charge made, then reversed, did not deny.
CC2: Pending charge, still pending, did not deny.
Go to store, can't find phone on display.
Clerk tries to find it, finally does, only three left in storage cabinet under shelf.
Rings it up, $39.99 each. $12.16 is a walmart.com price, not store price.
Manager gets involved. "Can't price match walmart.com, only other vendors"
But I did order online, for store pickup here!
Manager calls walmart.com, gives them my original order #.
Yes, they say, it was cancelled. Can't tell us why.
Finally store manager agrees to price match walmart.com anyway.
System would only let me buy two, so got three under two transactions.
Spent better part of an hour in the store for only this purchase.
(There were more screwups by original cashier that I didn't mention)
I suspect I could have purchased two on line, but not three, maybe. But they never revealed that info to me when ordering or cancelling the order. Or maybe the guy assigned to fetch the stock couldn't find it or didn't try and returned 'out of stock' to the order... who knows.
Beware.