A Denver man who bought a PlayStation 4 bundle from Walmart was shocked to discover two taped sacks of rocks inside the box instead of the game console.
These kinds of stories seem to crop up once or twice almost every holiday season, but bags of rocks in PS4 boxes is nonsense one would expect from Craigslist, not a major retailer. Igor Baksht purchased the console last Friday as a present for his 13-year-old niece, according to 7News Denver, at which point the store employee who retrieved the unit from a locked case told him the "Grand Theft Auto V" bundle had previously been returned.
Right then and there...that moment was the time to open up the box and check the contents. If you ever purchase anything that has previously been returned, not opening the box before dropping a few hundred dollars isn't too bright.
Mr. Baksht instead waited until he had left the store.
"Just to make sure everything was inside, that all the contents were inside, all the games were inside," said Baksht. "When I opened it, I said, 'Oh my God.'"
The man also claims the employee who retrieved the unit for him commented on how heavy the box was.
Unable to return the unit to the original store as they had closed for the evening, Baksht took the box of rocks to a 24-hour Walmart and tried to return it there. That didn't go over too well...as one would imagine.
On the morning of Saturday, December 20 he had a crack at returning it to the store it was purchased from, only to be told there was nothing they could do. So he called the store multiple times. He called Walmart's corporate offices. Finally, on Christmas Eve, the store manager called Baksht and told him to come and get his refund.
So, the upshot of this story is: At some point, either in the past month or so or just this week, Walmart traded a PlayStation 4 "Grand Theft Auto V" bundle (which Igor Baksht somehow imagined would be an acceptable holiday present for a 13-year-old girl) for two bags of rocks. This whole mess has "Darwin Award Winner" written all over it...
