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Originally Posted by chimpmeister I was at one of our local WalMart's today, and they had no 3DS systems in stock at all. I asked them about them, and they said they expected a new shipment next week. I wonder if they pulled them of the shelves and were hiding them in the back room? Sounded very fishy to me.

I doubt it. One person mentioned earlier that some stores carried limited stock simply because that's all the demand they had at the time. I went to Walmart today and found only four systems in stock.

I have PMd Walmart.com at Best Buy a few times in the last few years. Just kind of play dumb and say "Walmart has it for $169 and here's the printout"... just be really nice. They usually just check the site to confirm the price and move on. I've always found it kind of funny that Walmart won't PM their own site but Best Buy will. (if it says "online only" it might be a bit trickier but a lot of time they won't care anyway)

Originally Posted by sixspeednissan If anyone goes in and the price isn't changed it my be a good idea to ask the manager. It may be on their "to do" list, and they wouldn't want to let a $170+ sale walk out the door.

In the morning of, yes, that wouldn't be a bad idea. Assuming you can track the person down. Back in the day when I worked and/or was a vendor at Wal-Mart getting a hold of someone in the morning to do price changes was a pain in the ass. Which is why I said it's best to wait. Otherwise you're going to see a lot of posts like "I went in at (midnight, 5, 8, etc... pick your time) and NOBODY was there. After 30 minutes I finally found a Wally World employee and they had no idea what I was talking about. I told them about it and they still didn't know, but said they would check. I waited like 10 minutes while they disappeared..." You see where I'm going, blah, blah, blah, frustration, blah, blah, blah, Wal-Mart sucks, etc... Just wait a few hours and then go in and you'll save yourself a lot of frustration.

Originally Posted by gettinmoney662 Well, some people are saying their friends at Wal-Mart say they update on their own while others are saying their friends at Wal-Mart say they need a manager to update. This whole thread is full of misinformation and I don't mind spending 15 min of my time to check it out for myself.

I know it's just the amount of complaining tomorrow is going to be insane. Last I knew Wal-Mart didn't drop prices automatically and I would assume they wouldn't. Best Buy does and it causes all sorts of headaches for a retailer so doing it on the Wal-Mart level would be insane.

All I know is that there is going to be a ton of bitching between tomorrow and the actual price drop. I really want to look away, but I love seeing the misery people put themselves through because they either ignore good common sense or expect the world on a platter. The last week plus has been way too enjoyable already.

As I said in an earlier post, the price change will be done by the dept. manager, not automatic price drop. I know at my store, where I was a dept manager for 5 years, they don't get in until 7am. I just talked to the electronics manager, they know about the drop, they have the paperwork explaining it, he has 7 in stock, but it won't be changed until after he gets there in the morning. Now, this could just be how my store operates, but I know anyone that goes in at midnight trying to get this will be greeted by nightshift workers that have never seen the sun that will not have a clue about this price drop. Knowing the staff, the night shift asst. managers and co manager will probably not have a clue about it either. I know I never even did my price changes until after I got back from lunch, and that is when the rest did theirs. Anyway, that is just how my store works.

I'm still tempted to go check. But...hm. Well. I guess I'll just swing by.

Do you guys think the price drop online will occur at midnight or tomorrow morning. And I work at Best Buy and asked my manager about matching. He said if it's possible to walk into a Walmart and buy a 3DS for 169.99 you can do the same at Best Buy. Here's hoping it works. I just can't say no to 20 free games.

Originally Posted by Moonlk I'm still tempted to go check. But...hm. Well. I guess I'll just swing by.

Yeah I figure I'll swing in before work and check it out. It'd be worth paying the sales tax to get the free games. Otherwise I was planning to order from Amazon bc what's the rush?

Hope this turns out to be correct. I'd love to play some of the free games, as I never have for several of them.

I went there today on my annual gator-aid run(work outside) but realized it was the 8th lol was still 250, tho will check it out tomorrow

Anybody in the GMT-5 locations with a 24-hour Walmart going to check to see if they made the adjustment in roughly 30 minutes?

Ehhh, screw it, unless an East Coast CAG says the prices were adjusted, I'll just wait till tomorrow afternoon. I'm pretty confident they won't sell out anyways.

If they do drop tomorrow Im going into BB to go ahead and get my 80 bucks refunded. Thats my plan at least. Otherwise Ill just have to wait till friday.

Originally Posted by gettinmoney662 Ehhh, screw it, unless an East Coast CAG says the prices were adjusted, I'll just wait till tomorrow afternoon. I'm pretty confident they won't sell out anyways.

y where u getting up early to go?

No drop on the website. Should I bother putting clothes on?

Ill know in 15 mins.

My stores all say "Limited Stock" but that doesn't really tell me much. How much stock does "limited" even imply?

Might as well stay up and wait for an East Coast CAG to tell us, eh?

Asked the worker who doesn't speak english, now I'm waiting for a supervisor...

when i went to walmart earlier, i was going to buy one and have them price adjust when it did drop in price. But the employee in electronics was clueless. He said nintendo had sent them no information telling them there was going to be a price drop; and he said his manager had no details of one either. The only thing he could tell me was that the adjustment period was within 7 days. he said however that walmart may not update their system in that seven days and that i wouldn't get an adjustment if it was later. So then i said, well you price match competitors right. even if your system doesn't update, wouldn't you match a competitor and then adjust the price. He said it might work, he didn't know. So i didn't get a 3ds.

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