Walmart MarketPlace Scams

As the title states Be extremely careful with Walmart MarketPlace as they allow scam sellers to sell under Their name and then they will NOT honor The return Policy and try to make the customer suffer the loss. Walmart does NOT care about the customer , Just THEIR bottom line.... My Mother an elderly woman bought my senior citizen Father some rechargeable batteries for tools and the batteries do NOT work.. Well my mother contacted Walmart who told her to contact the seller about returning them but the seller would NOT respond so after repeated emails to the seller AND Walmart the seller finally replied ( after the return time had lapsed ) and said that she needed to take them to her local walmart and they would take them back.. Remember she had started trying to return them BEFORE the return date lapse and has all communications to prove it ) They took it to walmart who refused to take the return saying the seller was "blacklisted" because the seller would not take them back... Walmart is allowing sellers who are blacklisted to continue to scam customers because Walmart is still getting their "CUT" from the seller which is all that Walmart cares about... Please I beg all of you that if at all possible to AVOID Buying ANYTHING FROM WALMART MARKETPLACE !!!! IT IS NOT WORTH THE RISK AND HEADACHES I SEE MY ELDERLY PARENTS HAVING TO GO THROUGH !!





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We learned the hard way that one is NOT purchasing from WalMart, and therefore not protected at all by WalMart's return policy. Returns are very expensive.

If anyone runs into the same problem as my parents did , BE Sure to contact your credit card company And or your bank. My mother is the kind of person who can be very stubborn when it comes to stuff like that and she contacted their credit card company and they stopped the payment to the people so.... She was able to get their money back !!!!    

So,... buy your old man some proper batteries.

As the title states Be extremely careful with Walmart MarketPlace as they allow scam sellers to sell under Their name and then they will NOT honor The return Policy and try to make the customer suffer the loss. Walmart does NOT care about the customer , Just THEIR bottom line.... My Mother an elderly woman bought my senior citizen Father some rechargeable batteries for tools and the batteries do NOT work.. Well my mother contacted Walmart who told her to contact the seller about returning them but the seller would NOT respond so after repeated emails to the seller AND Walmart the seller finally replied ( after the return time had lapsed ) and said that she needed to take them to her local walmart and they would take them back.. Remember she had started trying to return them BEFORE the return date lapse and has all communications to prove it ) They took it to walmart who refused to take the return saying the seller was "blacklisted" because the seller would not take them back... Walmart is allowing sellers who are blacklisted to continue to scam customers because Walmart is still getting their "CUT" from the seller which is all that Walmart cares about... Please I beg all of you that if at all possible to AVOID Buying ANYTHING FROM WALMART MARKETPLACE !!!! IT IS NOT WORTH THE RISK AND HEADACHES I SEE MY ELDERLY PARENTS HAVING TO GO THROUGH !!





These are the views and opinions of the Author alone and do not necessarily express the views of this site..

Contact your credit card company.  Open a dispute.  Use AMEX when possible - more customer friendly and more serious about getting your money back.

Same goes for here.  Use PayPal but not friends and family.  Never had an issue here but you know new people come and go all the time.

We wound up getting it taken care of by the credit card company. They stopped the payment...

Great to hear.

Credit Cards have features that we don’t necessarily think of but they work well and can save you lots of money. 

A few years back my wife was training at a particular gym and had been for several years. She was paying month to month. Well, her trainer told her they had a promotion. If you prepay for a year you get 20% off. Sounds like a great idea. With the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?  well, two months later( maybe 6 weeks) the place locks its doors and the owner skips town. A lot of people lost money. Even their staff was owed pay. They went bankrupt. Thankfully my wife paid with credit card and not a cheque or debit. She used the dispute mechanism on the credit card and got all her money back. Alls well that ends well, at least for credit card customers.