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Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp
Walmart loses nothing in this exchange as they give store credit. Who gets hurt?
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You clearly have no clue how retail works.
Lets say the cost on the DVD set is $20 to both Amazon and Walmart.
OP buys them from Amazon for $40, and choses he doesn't want them. Amazon has made $20.
Walmart price on them is $50, and the OP
lies that he bought them at Walmart
(That is the only way they will take it back, and is a criminal act.) Walmart now gives him a $50 store credit. The OP has now stolen, $30 from Walmart. Walmart just paid $50 for something they can buy for $20 from the distributor.
Until the OP uses his store credit for an item that has a $30 profit margin in the Walmart, they will not break even. If the item bought with the credit has a $20 margin, they are still $10 in the hole. Regardless of if they do break even or not, you have still stolen $30 from them by lying, and neglected them of the $30 they would have made on the original purchase.
Love or hate Walmart, this is 100% fraud, and 100% criminal. There is no debating that. It is no different than you sticking your hand in the till when the cashier turns her back, and taking $30. If you are OK committing crimes to make a piddly $20 or $30 bucks, fill you boots. I pity someone if they have to resort to tactics like that to make ends meet... it is truly pathetic. But no matter how you might internally justify it, in your mind, you are no different than a petty shoplifter, or someone stealing car stereos at 3 am.
Again, I find a ton of irony in your statements, no different than the guy who called out puckluck2 for being an insurance fraudster... this community rallied behind and offered assistance to you when you were being robbed, yet you think it is perfectly OK to do the robbing, as long as the victim is a big corporate bad guy with bottomless pockets.
Theft is theft, and thieves are thieves.