Taking a whit back from the giant

I shop at Wal-Mart, as millions other people do. Over 70% of my monthly household expenses are made at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club, and I have never been given anything back from the giant... until today :-)

Today a coworker told me he wanted to buy a handheld console for her daughter and I recommended him to buy the Nintendo DS Nintendogs bundle, which was released in the US just three weeks ago, on October 24th, the same day Wilma hit us in South Florida.
I bought that same bundle at a local Walmart (where else :-) ) just a week later for $149.92 plus taxes, for a final cost of $160.41

Anyway, he googled a little and found the lowest price available was at Walmart.com, at an incredible price of $129.82. He asked me if I thought that price was ok, and I immediately told him to buy it, because that price surely was somebody's mistake. Well, he did it. He bought it.... and me too.

I couldn't resist the temptation for that price and purchased another one. With shipping and taxes added, it finally cost me $143.82, which is still lower than the list price. Now I can start growing fat twice faster.

Well, it happened they realized their mistake and, an hour after my order was confirmed by email as shipped, they marked it as "Out of Stock". (if they have already corrected the price, here's a screen shot with the original one)

Too late Walmart, I beat you... It's only a $20 difference, but for me it was big victory... and anyhow, you'll still get all my money for everything else :-(

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