CNBC:
Customers have misused Wal-Mart’s price match promotion to obtain $400 PlayStation 4 consoles for less than a quarter of the retail price using third-party sellers on Amazon.
The company announced on Nov. 13 that it would price-match select online retailers, including Amazon.com.
However, any Amazon member with a registered selling account can create authentic looking pages and list items “for sale” online. Consumers need only take a screen capture of the page and show it to a cashier at checkout in order to request the price match.
That’s a helluva scam.
I love how people commit fraud and then document it and post it on Twitter.
Yep. Great, so you conned a minimum wage worker into applying a flawed policy so you can get a gaming console for less than cost. Good for you. Let’s hope John Lennon was wrong about Instant Karma.
This basically amounts to fraud on Amazon’s part. I am sure they can hide behind legal speak written somewhere, but in the end, this is Amazon’s site and they should be held accountable for bogus merchants