Sam's Club Bait and Switch Scam, Greedy Big Box Walmart Corporation Exposed

[Music] [Music] [Applause] well first off let me say this that over the years and I've been a customer with Sam's Club for many many years over the years I've had pretty good luck with Sam's Club and of course you know I put up with the noise all the time if you notice the introduction to this video that noise I did not modify or change that noise level at all that is way over safe sound decibels for not only workers but especially for customers but sometimes I overlook those loud noises and I just close my ears in because it's you know it's you can lose your hearing but I'm not going to talk about the loud unsafe sound decibels here no we're talking about us a bait-and-switch scam I saw a camera that I had my eyes on it was the nikon nikon p 900 it's a beautiful camera and they had it listed for 422 dollars the only problem is the Sam's Club I normally goes to they did not have any in stock so I asked the young lady if she could check another store and she did and she said oh yeah just down the road the other store on 215 and Rainbow this is Las Vegas they have two in stock so I go over to the store here and as you can see there's none on display so in the computer they have two cameras in stock but none on display now it's my gut feeling I'm gonna speculate here before I go into this bait-and-switch scam it's my gut feeling that this may not be Sam's Clubs corporation problem it could be the employees the implicit of very very good camera it's a popular camera and maybe they don't get very many in so they put two cameras in the back and they do not display them and that would be that maybe the the employees are saving up some money to buy it that's what I'm thinking so anyhow but I knew they were in stock because I asked a lady from another store and she checked the computer they have two in stock so I go over there and I say here's Mike here's my paper I want to buy this camera for four hundred and twenty-two dollars could you go get it for me and she went in the back and she got the camera and this is where the scam begins so I gave the manager the piece of paper she goes in the back and she brings it out there it is a beautiful new model and she said okay ring it up there sales girl she rings it up and lo and behold it's over six hundred dollars with the tax with the $50 tax it's like six sixty and I say whoa whoa whoa from four hundred and twenty two to six sixty now that's a bit much don't you think we're talking bait and switch here but I kind of saw this comin I got to be honest with you when there was no camera on display and the manager said yeah I gotta go in the back and get it I kind of knew what was going to happen I saw this coming you pretty much add two plus two together and you know the employees have them hidden in the back two special popular camera they're waiting for payday and they're going to buy it and every customer who comes in thousands and thousands of Sam's Clubs customers come in and they walk by the camera booth and that's not there they don't even know it's for sale but there's two in the back of course I fell into this scam by accident and here we are exposing the big box sam's club big box exposed again the price was quoted at four hundred and twenty two dollars and then it goes up to six sixty now okay so now I'll let you listen to the conversation I had with one of the managers and I was getting nowhere I knew that I knew I was getting nowhere but we have to document and we have to expose the scam the people that's what I was trying to tell you is the display model is supposed to be out here because I was at the store and they told me you have which store on rainbow okay so I said to advise our price is not the same it's the same camera it's but we don't sometimes we don't have the same pricing so that's why we don't have the display out now it's because the one we had in the back and when she said the items were off and she checked the computer and she said you had two here which doesn't hit that price she said that's really bad because you know it's if you remember who you spoke with there I can't we don't price match and whatever our prices aren't here lemmings am club is all one big corporation I think but it's not we don't eat from sounds to Sam's or some stuff that they Clarence that we don't and there's stuff that we clearance that they don't it's well there's not this is not a clearance sale this is then this our prices are still they don't if they have a price except for theirs or doesn't necessarily mean that the same price is here so you're not gonna sell me the camera for that right we didn't have that out here because that's not the price boy we can't tell you that when that Deborah think you never came from here that's kind of strange you have you have a camera but it's not out here I mean what which is kind of strain if you're gonna sell something it should be out here right well the display is not out here because it's missing a couple pieces we had a box back there but they were waiting for the vendor to come back to fix it that's why it's not out here and that's what the pool tickets matter yeah so so basically you have a camera that nobody knows you have and and it's not it's not the same price as the other smaller same prices the other story that's a so there's nothing we can do right there's nothing we can do because we don't honor their prices you don't honor others we don't have any stores or online prices so you don't honor online prices you know not honor other store price know any prices that are online that they might be a little bit cheaper sometimes they have to be pay the shipping that kind of compensates for that but we don't but even like if another store is out of the item you don't they would say they could send you here the our price is not the same as you've seen that it was registered on the register will take it was not out here that didn't come from ourself alright this is from the other rainbow store and therefore not assets they're bright yes sir I'm still with so let's summarize because I saw some holes in her cover story number one again let me clarify they had two cameras in the back one was brand new one was the display model she said that display model was missing perk was missing pieces no because she actually brought both cameras out to me at the counter and I looked at it she said you can have this brand new one or you can have the display model for ten percent off that's what she originally said I looked at both of them and the display model was not missing any parts and number one the display model just is the camera you put the camera there people just want to see the camera it was not missing any parts so there was there in her story there were two in the back and the Clarence when she said clearance price that was a no-go I mean that was because this is not the clearance price this is the normal retail price at the other rainbow store so bottom line is this for all I know she had her eye on the camera and on pay day she was going to pick it up with the 10% discount employee discount she was probably going to pick it up for 360 dollars and her buddy the assistant manager was going to get the display model so they're never going to be on display.this camera every time they come in from wherever the factory they just keep them in the back and the employees pick them up for chump change while the customers are the customers well the customers don't need anything well imagine this imagine that you go to one sam's club store and you pay ten dollars for a loaf of bread and then you go to the other store and the same exact bread you have to pay $18 for pretty much the same thing the same exact item well if corporate were to find out the managers would be investigated for spiking the prices for whatever reason now we're only speculating here that the employees have their eye on these cameras I don't know what other reason why there could be other reasons that I'm missing but here's the story so I'll leave you with this possibly that Sam's Club should start selling cameras to customers and it would also be a good idea if they handed out earplugs to the customers also yeah I'd like to have earplugs handed to me when I come through the door oh and I did forget one important detail in the beginning she said I could buy the new camera or the displayed camera for 10% off that was in the beginning but when she went in the back and she checked with somebody she came back out and she's oh no we can no longer sell the display model to you because it's missing a part which was all I looked in there and was not missing any part so in the end I either paid 660 for the new one but the display camera was not even available to me that's an important part of the story

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Keywords: sam's club walmart greedy big box corporatio exposed exposing bait switch scam

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Length: 11min 11sec (671 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 30 2017