Update: Wal-Mart has now changed the policy of its price-match deal, saying that it will only apply to 30 major online retails including Amazon and Best Buy. Marketplace vendors and third-party sellers will no longer be accepted by the store.
Original Story: Wal-Mart has been scammed into selling the PS4 for just $90 after customers set up a fake Amazon page, taking advantage of the store’s online price-matching deal.
The store only required users to show cashiers a screenshot of a webpage that showed the PS4 being sold for less money than its pricing at Wal-Mart. However, any Amazon seller can list items as being for sale on the store, which meant that many customers were using a fake page advertising the PS4 as retailing for $90 in order to get Sony’s console for a massively discounted price.
Though this was a clear abuse of Wal-Mart’s online price match deal, as the PS4 actually retails for $400, many company employees failed to check the legitimacy of the webpage and therefore gave out $90 consoles to their customers. Proof of the PS4s being obtained for such a low amount was posted on Reddit and Twitter, as users shared images of their receipts with one another.
Wal-Mart responded to the scam and revealed that it would be updating its policies in regards to the price-match deal, with a spokesperson for the company saying: “We can’t tolerate fraud or attempts to trick our cashiers. “This kind of activity is unfair to the millions of customers who count on us every day for honest value.”
