So we're shaming people for taking advantage of a perfectly legitimate deal? It's not their fault that Wal-Mart responds in such a way. Wal-Mart are the jerks for taking out of their employee's paychecks. It's not like Wal-Mart can't take the hit.
And how do you create an Amazon Marketplace listing? I thought you could only post items in an already created listing? I'd also hope that the price matching only applies to Amazon's own prices, and Wal-Mart wasn't stupid enough to include secondary market listings as a price match.
Wal-Mart
can take the hit. It doesn't mean they
will. I've worked at big box stores, the things regional and store managers do to fake a profit is disgusting. I never accused anyone here of creating the listing, or thinking someone was eeeeeeeeevil for buying the item at that price; but there are people out there that abused the hell out of it.
And it's easy to create listings for products at Amazon. I can create one for most items (and I've made some for import movies I've sold there) in five minutes, all you need is to create a seller account, which requires you to add a bank account. Most stores, like Best Buy, will tell you that they only price match the actual store's price, not third party listings (which this was); apparently Wal-Mart didn't have that in their price match rules, so someone created one with a fake price and boom. Apparently the seller also had a confusing name which added to the trouble.
*shrugs* I speak from experience after getting screwed over by managers time and time again. So yes, I worry about the employees.
