If you reckon that you had a rough Christmas trying to connect to the PlayStation Network, then spare a thought for Igor Baksht's poor 13-year-old niece, who almost received a box of rocks for the big day. According to the Daily Mail, the aforementioned unfortunate shopper picked up a PlayStation 4 from Wal-Mart, but was sold a box of stones instead.
The tightly taped bags of pebbles were put in place of the next-gen platform itself, and while the retail clerk mentioned that the box felt heavy, Baksht didn't twig until he opened it up. "[I opened it] just to make sure that everything was inside; that all of the contents were inside, [and] all of the games were inside," he said. "When I opened it, I said, 'Oh my God.'"
Baksht was originally unable to obtain a refund, as he couldn't prove that the console was sold with stones inside. However, on Christmas Eve, he did eventually catch a break from the store's manager, and was offered a refund for the $399.99 that he paid. It's a good job that everything was resolved, as he could have really found himself caught between a rock and a hard place.
[source thedenverchannel.com, via dailymail.co.uk]
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how can they troll like that
please stop calling current gen consoles next-gen.
Dang, that stunk. How this happened, I have no idea. Maybe somebody bought a PS4 and then returned it with stones inside?
the guy who just sent a returned consoles to another buyer without checking first must be batsht crazy, or christmas busy.
"as he could have really found himself caught between a rock and a hard place." Clever girl!
I don't even know how a 'PS4' with Rocks was sold, a bit early for April Fools and not to mention odd.
He couldn't be happy with the fact that the stones were neatly wrapped and packaged? Set those pristine pebbles in your garden and I'm sure you'll get tons of attention. I'd pay 399.99 for those babies....... (Waits for laughter)
@Jaz007 That would be my guess. I know a lot of people will return broken merch, but this is taking it to another level. Wal-mart is known for this type of stuff.
Wait what now was it a pre-owned console or something and Walmart tried to pass it as new?
Asda, uk equivalent of Walmart are the same. You can return anything for any reason and they hardly ever check it. Customer service gone mad
Just hilarious. Someone that knows how those bags of rocks got there probably saw it on the news and peed themselves to sleep.
@Jaz007 Maybe someone from the store stole it and put the stones to make it feel like its not empty
Jesus, you even called the box next-gen. Pushsquare writers, PLEASE stop saying next-gen in all of your articles, it's annoying. That generation is already here.
@THEONE19 I think we should say new-gen instead of next-gen or current-gen. It still feels weird to mean PS4 when you say current-gen...
@Chouzetsu im good with current gen as it is current.
next gen is just.... its here already,
and its 1+yearold not counting as new either.
I could see this happening from some guy selling PS4's out of the trunk of his car but Wal-Mart?
I think my younger sister's ps3 was used. We bought it at Walmart "new", and it seemed new, but when we tried to sign into Netflix, someone was already signed in, so Walmart sold us a used ps3 at full retail price as "new". The one good thing was we used the person's Netflix account for over a year until he or she canceled it.
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