Florida teen finds rocks in Nintendo DS box

[Blue_Tires]

neither wallyworld nor nintendo thinks they deserve a refund...you stay classy, now....



Lake Wales, Florida - Jodi Wykle of Lake Wales thought it would be funny to play a prank on her son for his 16th birthday.

She bought him Guitar Hero for Nintendo DS, even though he didn't have one. She let him sweat for awhile, but eventually handed over the newly purchased handheld game system, or so they thought.

"When he opened it, he was like, 'A box of rocks?'" she said under her breath, "He said, 'Mom, that ain't a joke.'"

The prank wasn't supposed to go that far. She fully intended to give him a real Nintendo DS game system and thought that's what she was buying from the Lake Wales Wal-Mart. She told 10 Connects there was nothing about the box that made her think twice.

"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.

She contacted 10 Connects after she says the Wal-Mart store refused to giver her a refund. She says the store told her the item had never been returned and she needed to take the issue to Nintendo.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=104724

[KamaAina]

1. Wal-Mart: Dumber than a box of rocks

"Wykle says she called Nintendo when she got home, but it turns out, the box of rocks wasn't Nintendo's problem.

We contacted Wal-Mart's national reps and on a second check, the chain discovered the item Wykle purchased had been returned before. She was given a refund for the "box of rocks" and a $20 gift card for her trouble.

:rofl: :dunce:

[Blue_Tires]

5. i had a friend of a friend of a friend who worked

at the refund desk at the wal-mart...(her mother was also a manager) and they had a pretty lucrative scheme going with keeping the returned items...they had about $30,000 worth of stuff at home before someone finally got wise and called the cops...

beleive it or not they escaped jail time on the condition that they gave back the stuff they stole...so either the previous customer pulled the switch, or someone in the store did...

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Wow - that's messed up. There's some kid in China, though, with a nice new machine

his dad or mom stole from the factory...

[MrCoffee]

3. Right

Deng Xiao Peng is dead???

[DS1]

4. He got tired of playing Pong

his sister, of course

[Solon]

6. Wal Mart probably got a return on the NDS, and someone put rocks in there...

as a successful attempt at fraud. Wal-Mart didn't catch it this time. I remember one time at my Wal-Mart, someone tried to return a shop vac and we found a cinder block inside the box instead, we told him that no, we aren't going to accept the return.

[Orsino]

7. Once again, Wal-Mart passes the cost on to us. n/t