Tis the season to get greedy! Some uncharitable souls have taken of advantage of Walmart’s generous online price matching policy, using loopholes to grab some Sony PlayStation 4’s for only $99. Now the big box retailer has updated its policy to exclude most online sites. On the list are third party sellers like the ones found on Ebay or Amazon, however, items sold straight from Amazon will be included.
Walmart was forced to change its online price mart policy after loopholes were used to con the company out of money. One example is someone who posted a false listing for a PS4 on Amazon for only $90 dollars. This was then screen caped and taken into a Walmart store and used to get the match priced.
In response to the fraud, Walmart changed its price changing policy, releasing a statement to the press:
“We can’t tolerate fraud or attempts to trick our cashiers. With this in mind, we’ve updated our policy to clarify that we will match prices from Walmart.com and 30 major online retailers, but we won’t honor prices from marketplace vendors, third-party sellers, auction sites or sites requiring memberships.”
Walmart's official price match policy list the online stores that they will continue to match, reading:
“Online retailers are limited to: Academy.com, Amazon.com, Autozone.com, Babiesrus.com, Basspro.com, Bedbathandbeyond.com, Bestbuy.com, Cabelas.com, Dickssportinggoods.com, Dollargeneral.com, Familydollar.com, Homedepot.com, Jcpenny.com, Kmart.com, Kohls.com, Lowes.com, Michaels.com, Newegg.com, Officedepot.com, Oreillyauto.com, Pepboys.com, Petco.com, Petsmart.com, Sears.com, SportsAuthority.com, Staples.com, Target.com, Tigerdirect.com, Toysrus.com, Walgreens.com, Walmart.com”
What do you think of the new policy change? Does this affect your holiday shopping plans? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
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