Walmart sale 315/70r17- No longer on sale...

[22EcoDs]

Believe me when I say I understand capitalism, supply and demand, etc.

For example, I don't really understand why so many people complain about rising prices on the things they enjoy. People, companies, whomever can only charge as much as someone is willing to pay. That is a free market.

If there is a monopoly or unfair practices that gouge prices on necessities, that is something altogether different.

I guess my problem on these fire sale types deals is that it just feels a little scalper-ish if someone bought these for the sole reason of selling them. That took an opportunity away from someone that otherwise could not afford what appears to be a great upgraded tire.

Is it illegal? No. Is it still wrong? .... enh, maybe? Should we grab pitchforks and match to his house? Absolutely not.

As a toddler would say, "It just feels icky."

This. It's scalper behavior. If your job/money situation was not stable then you bought the wrong vehicle and shouldn't have bought the tires in the first place.

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[Pedal Metal]

Believe me when I say I understand capitalism, supply and demand, etc.

For example, I don't really understand why so many people complain about rising prices on the things they enjoy. People, companies, whomever can only charge as much as someone is willing to pay. That is a free market.

If there is a monopoly or unfair practices that gouge prices on necessities, that is something altogether different.

I guess my problem on these fire sale types deals is that it just feels a little scalper-ish if someone bought these for the sole reason of selling them. That took an opportunity away from someone that otherwise could not afford what appears to be a great upgraded tire.

Is it illegal? No. Is it still wrong? .... enh, maybe? Should we grab pitchforks and match to his house? Absolutely not.

As a toddler would say, "It just feels icky."

Yeah, I get your sentiment and you‘re likely not wrong that it was a scalper situation, but to be fair, I don’t think that this person would have bought a set out from someone more deserving, because it doesn’t fit the facts that I recall.

I first learned about the deal Sunday and thought about it for a bit before I ordered. I actually talked a buddy into ordering a set later that night and by Monday morning I recall that the deal was still live. I recall thinking about ordering a second set, but just thought it was too much to just have to store to use and, honestly, at that time, maybe about 15% of the people thought it was a scam. Now, 22.6% of the people think it’s a scam. Then, the price increased later Monday morning and the product never sold out that I can recall. So, who here really knows what happened, but from some supply planning experience I’d guess that a planner or merchandiser noticed the inventory fluctuations and corrected a pricing mistake. All guesses aside, the price did not throttle up, but shot up to a new selling price that greatly exceeded the prior offer. So, I think it safe to say that in this case it was a timing issue of ultra low price mistake that was then changed to a more reasonable price and you were either in or out of the deal depending on if you acted in time.

As far as the notion of speculator buying with the intent to make money, well, didn’t they also accept the risk of being scammed? I think it’s far too easy to sit back and criticize someone after the fact when the deal since proved to be fruitful, but at the time seemed sketchy. In FACT, I just bought something else online that actually turned out to be SUPER SKETCHY only AFTER I completed the sales process and received a very suspicious receipt from PayPal for my Discover card transaction. So, I spent at least 2-3 hours on the phone and emailing with PayPal and Discover the next 2 day creating a claim and ultimately disputing the charges. Also, now I have to wait for a new Discover card as the prior was closed out of the abundance of caution.

So, I’m merely suggesting that anyone who ordered prior to early Monday morning get the deal, and at that time and since that up to 20% of the onlookers voted that this was a scam, and those who participated carried the consequences of risk or received the reward.

Perhaps, there is someone out there more deserving of the deal, but ”early bird gets the worm”or at least that was the case here.

Of coarse, I’d agree that it would have been a great deal more tactful for the seller to have held off reselling them within the first week after receiving them, but I also think things are getting twisted from how I saw this deal go down once we presuppose that someone more deserving missed out.

Plus, what about the prior post in this thread offering to buy someone’s tires for $120 a piece. How do we know that guy is more deserving of another, and should the seller not just sell them for what he paid, even though he carried the risk and headache if the deal went bad?

My $02’s.

 

[HopSlammer]

Nah, it has a stench to it

 

[Panthers65]

Absolutely couldn't care less about someone buying a good deal and making a profit on it. I know for a fact at least one member on this form (not me) bought them and immediately listed them for sale. Good for them, that's the bases of making money. It's not scalperish, it's supply and demand. No different than people going to garage sales or thrift stores and knowing what the buy to flip/turn profit. It took work to watch the forums/website and strike while it was hot.

 

[Alans17]

Plus, what about the prior post in this thread offering to buy someone’s tires for $120 a piece. How do we know that guy is more deserving of another, and should the seller not just sell them for what he paid, even though he carried the risk and headache if the deal went bad?

My offer still stands! ?

 

[Pedal Metal]

My offer still stands! ?

Unshakable. I love it!

 

[dcmdon]

I mentioned earlier that I had worries about telling my wife. Do realize that she is the "anchor" in the relationship. I'm much more impulsive but also more fun and social. So we compliment each other. She keeps me grounded and I keep her from becoming a shut in who never has any fun. Usually when I push her, she ends up thanking me for pushing. It works well for us. But occasionally there is friction.

These tires caused friction. And I sold the tires. But it went well. Honestly. Ha.

When they arrived she asked me my plan. I told her that my plan was to put a set of 315/70-17 Nokian snow tires on the stock wheels this fall. Then next spring I'd order aftermarket wheels and have these tires mounted on them.

So you are going to have to store these for a year? Was her question.

Now folks, if you haven't ever seen this sized tire in person, realize that they are BIG. They take up a lot of room.

Can you sell them she asked? Yes.
Are these the tires you really want? NO. I was really looking at General grabbers or K02s.

Then she came up with the perfect solution.

Sell 4 of them and keep the 5th for a spare for when I do get my upgrade.

So I was able to get $800 for 4 of the tires. I kept the 5th to use as a spare.
I made $400 and got a free spare.

And I've got complete agreement that next spring I will be buying new tires and rims.

A total win.

 

[aceisback]

Hate to pop this feel good balloon but I’ve about decided that Walmart customer service sucks.
All five of my tires tracked identically from Iowa to my front door (CA). Problem is I only received four last Friday.
Called FedEx Friday and was told the fifth would be delivered Sunday. It wasn’t and I was extremely busy Monday so didn’t get to follow up.
Called Walmart yesterday to try and get a replacement shipped out and was told Monday was the last (7th) day to do that since they were from a third party vendor. Said they would refund my $80.44 but I couldn’t file a claim with FedEx.
I obviously declined that offer as $80.44 doesn’t buy a new tire.? They gave me a $25 promo code for my troubles.?
Call FedEx again to start a claim and went around in circles it seemed. Finally got it escalated to an investigation as their original offering fell in line with Walmart.
So now I wait. But I feel like in the end I’m going to be getting $80.44 back and no fifth tire that I paid for.
Any advice for working with FedEx on this or are their findings going to be the final decision?

Anybody local to CA Central Valley have an “extra” one that they ordered just to turn a profit? I can help you within reason.

 

[USMC_1Wire6337]

Hate to pop this feel good balloon but I’ve about decided that Walmart customer service sucks.
All five of my tires tracked identically from Iowa to my front door (CA). Problem is I only received four last Friday.
Called FedEx Friday and was told the fifth would be delivered Sunday. It wasn’t and I was extremely busy Monday so didn’t get to follow up.
Called Walmart yesterday to try and get a replacement shipped out and was told Monday was the last (7th) day to do that since they were from a third party vendor. Said they would refund my $80.44 but I couldn’t file a claim with FedEx.
I obviously declined that offer as $80.44 doesn’t buy a new tire.? They gave me a $25 promo code for my troubles.?
Call FedEx again to start a claim and went around in circles it seemed. Finally got it escalated to an investigation as their original offering fell in line with Walmart.
So now I wait. But I feel like in the end I’m going to be getting $80.44 back and no fifth tire that I paid for.
Any advice for working with FedEx on this or are their findings going to be the final decision?

Anybody local to CA Central Valley have an “extra” one that they ordered just to turn a profit? I can help you within reason.

That sucks. It looks like both parties are going to hose you on the tire by giving you your money back that isn't the cost of a replacement. Since 5th is for a spare, could you take that money and try and find a take off replacement from someone that went to 37"? Not perfect, but maybe close?

 

[Pedal Metal]

Hate to pop this feel good balloon but I’ve about decided that Walmart customer service sucks.
All five of my tires tracked identically from Iowa to my front door (CA). Problem is I only received four last Friday.
Called FedEx Friday and was told the fifth would be delivered Sunday. It wasn’t and I was extremely busy Monday so didn’t get to follow up.
Called Walmart yesterday to try and get a replacement shipped out and was told Monday was the last (7th) day to do that since they were from a third party vendor. Said they would refund my $80.44 but I couldn’t file a claim with FedEx.
I obviously declined that offer as $80.44 doesn’t buy a new tire.? They gave me a $25 promo code for my troubles.?
Call FedEx again to start a claim and went around in circles it seemed. Finally got it escalated to an investigation as their original offering fell in line with Walmart.
So now I wait. But I feel like in the end I’m going to be getting $80.44 back and no fifth tire that I paid for.
Any advice for working with FedEx on this or are their findings going to be the final decision?

Anybody local to CA Central Valley have an “extra” one that they ordered just to turn a profit? I can help you within reason.

Ace,
i don’t know that I have the “answer“, but I’d like to try and help by sharing if I we’re I in your shoes, I’d likely try to put it on Walmart to force their carrier to “make you whole”. FedEx, UPS have account managers that interact with their customers (I.e. Walmart), and the Walmart counterpart has the ability to lean HEAVILY on their supplier. So, I might re-try connecting to Walmart and escalate, escalate, escalate the call as high as you can until I got ahold of someone at Walmart that had the ability to intercede and call the FedEx account mgr. That may be a long shot, but that may result in a timely investigation that finds a tire missing a label in distribution or looser purse strings to cough up the complete damages to make you whole.

 

[aceisback]

That sucks. It looks like both parties are going to hose you on the tire by giving you your money back that isn't the cost of a replacement. Since 5th is for a spare, could you take that money and try and find a take off replacement from someone that went to 37"? Not perfect, but maybe close?

Maybe if all else fails but I was going for five tire rotation. I guess if it really doesn’t pan out then it will save me even more because I won’t have to buy that matching wheel for the spare.

 

[CJXJJT]

Nah, it has a stench to it

The stench smells like sour grapes to me??

 

[CJXJJT]

Go back to your original puchase confirmation from Walmart. From there open up the tracking on each individual tire, it may still show up yet. My first two tires showed up Sunday. At that point it showed all tires had been delivered(5). Two more showed up Monday, then the last one Tuesday. Even though the tires show delivered, if you dig a little deeper you might find that the tire is still on its way. There should be tracking for each tire. Goodluck!

 

[DanW]

Go back to your original puchase confirmation from Walmart. From there open up the tracking on each individual tire, it may still show up yet. My first two tires showed up Sunday. At that point it showed all tires had been delivered(5). Two more showed up Monday, then the last one Tuesday. Even though the tires show delivered, if you dig a little deeper you might find that the tire is still on its way. There should be tracking for each tire. Goodluck!

I wouldn't be shocked if they issue the refund and the tire still shows up.

My cousin bought a Rancho lift for his JK. I can't remember the online outfit from which he purchased it, but it was listed as lost. They refunded his money. Weeks later, it showed up. He asked the vendor to send a return shipping label so he could send it back. They told him to keep it. He paid $500 for it and wound up selling it to a lady in one of my Jeep clubs for $450.

Anyway, sometimes the retailers don't want the hassle or shipping charge to take things back when they are written off then show up late.

 

[dcmdon]

Hate to pop this feel good balloon but I’ve about decided that Walmart customer service sucks.
All five of my tires tracked identically from Iowa to my front door (CA). Problem is I only received four last Friday.
Called FedEx Friday and was told the fifth would be delivered Sunday. It wasn’t and I was extremely busy Monday so didn’t get to follow up.
Called Walmart yesterday to try and get a replacement shipped out and was told Monday was the last (7th) day to do that since they were from a third party vendor. Said they would refund my $80.44 but I couldn’t file a claim with FedEx.
I obviously declined that offer as $80.44 doesn’t buy a new tire.? They gave me a $25 promo code for my troubles.?
Call FedEx again to start a claim and went around in circles it seemed. Finally got it escalated to an investigation as their original offering fell in line with Walmart.
So now I wait. But I feel like in the end I’m going to be getting $80.44 back and no fifth tire that I paid for.
Any advice for working with FedEx on this or are their findings going to be the final decision?

Anybody local to CA Central Valley have an “extra” one that they ordered just to turn a profit? I can help you within reason.

It doesn't sound like Walmart Customer service sucks at all.
They will happily refund you the purchase price. Seems reasonable to me.

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