Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards

Re:Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards by SoftTalker on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:08PM (#32652030)

Just what I was about to say. Guess I'll cross Walmart.com off my online retailer list.

Sorry Walmart, if you let your brand get polluted with 3rd parties selling garbage you will quickly start to lose whatever brand loyalty you have.

I never expected top end merchandise from Walmart. They are a discount retailer and that's fine. But I do expect to get genuine merchandise that is as advertised, not counterfeit or fradulent crap.

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Re:Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards by Taylor_OD on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:35PM (#32652310)

They have hosted third party sellers for... at least 3-5 years. If you didnt know this already you wernt a customer. They lost 0 in revenue from when they opened their site up to third party sellers and gained lots of revenue from those third party sellers.

I dont like third party sellers either but obviously it makes financial sense for these companies to do this.

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Re:Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards by SoftTalker on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:40PM (#32652995)

I did know they had 3rd parties but thought they were somewhat better vetted than Amazon.

And regardless, I'm on walmart.com so it reflects on them when some third party seller sends me shit.

It is true that I am not a frequent shopper there.

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