Sound Familiar? Walmart Blames Website Pricing Errors on Technical Glitch

[zbdent]

Source: AOL Daily Finance

NEW YORK -- Treadmills for $33? Computer monitors for $9? The deals are too good to be true -- even at Walmart.

It turns out they're not.

Walmart Stores Inc. (WMT) says a "technical error" caused certain products to be priced absurdly low or high on its website earlier Wednesday morning.

Read more: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/11/06/walmart-blames-website-errors-technical-glitch/

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No doubt, Repugs will want Obama impeached for this, too ...

[iamthebandfanman]

1. Sheesh..

why am I never on/at walmart when this stuff is happening ?!

I could sure use a $9 monitor

but then I remember.. theres a reason I avoid doing any shopping at that place


I honestly don't go to walmart for anything anymore..

unless im super impatient for something small I could get of the internet.. sometimes then ill run out and get it (say a bundle of blank DVDs) out of a need for urgency ...

don't buy clothes there. don't buy food there. don't even buy Christmas toys for family members there.
haven't in .. id say.. 8+ years?
kind of hard to do too..
K-mart being the only alternative in my area.

I do my grocery shopping at krogers because they are union strong... even tho I do have issues with some things concerning them as well

[Myrina]

2. I'm sure they'd keep your credit card info & do an 'adjustment' ...

Can't imagine that company EVER doing the right thing.

[iamthebandfanman]

7. wouldnt think theyd be allowed

to legally .. 0I know this has happened before at various different places.. but I cant for the life of me remember the outcomes of those situations.. don't have time at the moment to try and do a google search either (about to leave my location)..

I thought places had to honor prices you purchased things for, even if in error.. or it was false advertising.
usually someone just gets fired over the error , I thought... lol...

if you don't feel like searching, ill try to do some when I get home later tonight

[hatrack]

3. I'm sure this will be the top story every 30 minutes on NPR, and the evening news lead . .

Large organization has unforseen problems with complex customer service website.

[zbdent]

4. and it's like they just put that site out there

yesterday, right?

[durablend]

12. Look at the bright side!

Might get the Obamacare website out of the news!

[former9thward]

15. Did it take weeks to fix?

[KamaAina]

5. United Airlines sold flights for five bucks

its CEO should be drawn and quartered at once!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. Hackerist Attack?

These are happening all over the Internets.

[Dopers_Greed]

8. Are there any wingnuts working at these companies...

Perhaps they should hold hearings and question the wage-slave developers and data-entry people working at these companies

[Ezlivin]

9. If WalMart's site crashes, it could take down the entire Chinese economy

And it would throw many Patriotic Americans® into a frenzy if they couldn't get their cheap shit.

[durablend]

10. This is what's interesting

The online peanut gallery is still roiling about all those food stamp people 'gittin sumthin fer nuthin' yet for some reason getting $1200 off of a TV set is OK.

[dembotoz]

11. walmart is obviously not ready for the american people we need to shut the whole thing down and

defund it.

[florida08]

13. hahaha

Couldn't happen to a better sweatshop. It was the welfare zombies

[bobGandolf]

14. Surprised someone hasn;t blamed Obama yet. n/t

[jmowreader]

16. Walmart's in Arkansas

It's obviously Clinton's penis's fault.

[nyquil_man]

17. The obvious answer is that Kathleen Sebelius should resign.

[OhioChick]

18. Walmart opens global IT base in India

From 2010

"Walmart has outsourced close to $800 Million worth of projects to Indian companies.."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/walmart-opens-global-it-base-in-india/266

Indian IT, what do you expect?

[7757]

19. who to contact

You can email Dispute Resolution [e-mail] - phone number 650-553-1423 (she handles BBB complaints) to discuss issues with your orders!. Or CEO [e-mail], board of directors [e-mail] - who won't answer your email but you can copy them so they are aware of your concerns.

[gopiscrap]

20. welcome to DU

[Pterodactyl]

21. Yes, that does sound familiar! That's as bad as healthcare.gov! Shameful!

[Xyzse]

22. So they posted how much per unit actually is, rather than the mark up?