Scammed At Walmart With Severin Horror Blu-Rays! (Fake, Bootleg)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2018
- Woe to ye, Walmart shopper and movie collector! In this video, you'll hear the cautionary tale of movies sold at the big blue store that aren't everything they appear to be! For fans of horror movies (and horror stories), fans of Severin Films, and Italian director Lucio Fulci.
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I remember back in the day, buying metal gear solid 2 at Walmart and there was a rap CD inside. When we returned it, the lady at customer service said she understood because they had alot of, "untrustworthy employees"
When I used to work in a video store, people would often cut the shrink wrap at the bottom, take out the disc and replace it with a AOL CD-rom. Then they would seal the bottom with tape. Then they would attempt to return it.
I remember many years ago, I bought the movie Goodfellas from Wal-Mart. When I got home, I took the plastic off, then took the three layers of anti theft tape off. Finally when I opened the case to watch it, the movie Presumed Innocent was in there instead. I went back to return it. I had to bring three new sealed copies back to customer service, and the lady opened them for me. Two of the three copies I brought back had Presumed Innocent in them. The third had Goodfellas. I finally got the right movie. I watched it later that night, and enjoyed it.
That had to have been some sort of manufacturing error, right? Especially if it was all sealed up. That's crazy.
Same with clock work orange wb re inburted me big time
I got the two disc SE of Christmas Story (WB) when it first came out, maybe 15 years ago or something. Christmas day, I popped in the special features and watched a few of them. OK, pretty cool, let's see the movie (even though I could just turn on TBS and watch it all day). I put disc 1 in and I see Sopranos. OK, must be some previews. Nope. Found out it was Sopranos, Season 5 disc 2 or something. Pull out the disc and look at it again, yup still says "Christmas Story disc 1". Printing error at the factory. I still have this disc as a "collectors item".
I love that movie
In 2004, I bought The Thin Red Line on DVD at a Target. Got home, wouldn’t play. Returned it for another of the same movie, wouldn’t play. Ive seen other weird things with DVDs, they do occasionally make errors in the production process. I still have an Ocean’s 11 that skips automatically to the 2nd chapter and a The Fast and the Furious that skips every race scene. Both were purchased new and sealed.
Bootleg DVDs and Blu-Rays are creeping into retail chains.
Amazon and Walmart both have this issue. DVD bootlegging isn't the big buisiness it used to be, but it's gotten a lot more sophisticated.
As an ex-Walmart employee I've seen this done before, someone steals the real disc and replaces it with another reseal it and hide it in a spot (usually the Bargain Bins, or behind other movies) where they hope we wouldn't find it and just walk out with the disc, even when they're found all we were supposed to do was log it as stolen and nothing was done after that, and keep in mind we weren't allowed to open the shrink wrap to check the discs. Hell I was an employee and I still remember buying a Star Wars Rebels box set only to find out that someone stole the set and put a cheap religious film in the sleeve, the only reason I got an exchange was I lost my temper at the Customer Service Desk
I know I'm late to the party, but it happened to me this week! I stopped by Walmart Thursday and picked up a series release with plans to have a binge day on my day off. When I opened the case, there was an old dirty Memorex disc in there. It was shrink wrapped and everything. I took it back, and the clerk was like, "they surprise me with a new scam everyday." I was able to get the right set. 🙃
Well at least you got it in the end of the day:)
Undoubtedly, someone scammed Walmart with a return. Inept employees took the return and placed them into stock without a valid tag. You were the unfortunate victim of a return scam.
Our local Walmart recently increased their disc section by leaps & bounds. Huge horror section with many A24 & Shudder Originals in their own sections!
Also lots of anime but catalog selections for most general releases except for new titles.🎃
We can only pray that that’s a trend
Wow what an emotional roller coaster! From surprised elation to confused disappointment. At least you got Lair of the White Worm for $5 and you got your money back on the other two. So I wouldn't call that a total scam because you still came out ahead at the end of it. I think the weirdest thing that's happened is my husband bought a double or triple pack of Robin Williams movies and one of the discs ended up being Napoleon Dynamite which I wasn't mad about because I wanted that movie anyway so we didn't take it back.
Yeah, it wasn't a total bust, and I'm glad to have Lair of the White Worm. This video definitely captures the excitement and disappointment, though. That's crazy about the Robin Williams DVDs and Napoleon Dynamite!
One of the of craziest stories of buying Blu-rays I've ever seen on RUclips. I bought a brand new DVD once and it was empty. That s only thing bad thing that happened to me of buying movies.
Buying a new DVD and discovering the case is empty is a pretty crappy surprise!
i had this happen to me as well
Ditto! But at Target!
Once bought a new ps2 game sealed with no disk. Took it back and wondered if they would believe me or not. The clerk was like oh ok no problem.
same. lucky i opened it in parking lot in my car. took it back immediately and told them. they was alike oh ok and gave me other copy. ever since no matter where. i tend to open them in parking lot to make sure before heading back home. 🙄
I went to Walmart and both copies of 47 Ronin Blu-Rays did not work and they tried to say that since I opened it that it was illegal for them to take it back. Had to speak to a manager just to get a refund. Everyone beware of cheap blu-rays from Walmart because I have not had the best luck.
I used to buy from their 7.99 blu ray bin all the time and never had any issues, and most of them even come with digital copies (which I love because I'm disabled and it makes watching multiple movies while laying in bed easier). The only thing close to an issue I had was in redeeming the digtial copies of some of the Batman movies (the 89 and 90's series) because you had to go through a whole other system than I was used to.
I tried it the way they said and it didn't work so I had to contact their website. Then I had to go through a mess including scanning and e-mailing them my reicpts and after months they finally went through. Never had that issue with any other movies before or since.
They just say that because they were lazy. It's not Illegal to take them back, but they can just give a gift card, A movie equal or lesser value, or cash back. Some stores in the company will only do the first two because of scams and sometimes they won't take it if you didn't buy it from that store location. I worked for Wal-Mart and had to deal with this all the time. I never turned a customer down like that and gave you BS. I would ask you what was wrong with it, give the three options, and apologize to you. that's good customer service.
I don't know about illegal but I have had them tell me that with movies and software they can't take it back once it's been open and can only trade for another copy if you say it doesn't work properly. I know because I accidentally bought a CD-ROM of house plans when I thought it was a mapping program (I wanted it for modern role-playing game mapping) and that's what they told me.
Now, with other stuff, if it's open or you don't have a recipet they can give you store credit (which I have done) but anything, where you could copy it or play it and return it,) they generally don't let you.
Of course, I've also heard that if you make a big enough scene they will take anything back.
I constantly find Vestron blu rays at Wal-Mart for ten bucks. Not random ones floating either. Ten or so years ago I found the Severin release of HARDWARE at Wal-Mart. I also noticed this video is 5 years old so you may have noticed this as common by now as well.
Zombie 3 artwork looks kinda like Freddy Krueger's eyes.
Its the cover off wrwtfww records a vinyl issue of 300
Even before Part 2, this Walmart u described sounded really shady in general
I had a similar situation that happened to me in 2012 at Best Buy in Knoxville, TN. I collect a lot of media in DVDs, Blu-ray disc, vinyl records, and CDs. I was in Best Buy in 2012 looking at CDs. I came across a Japanese edition of Johnny Winter "Johnny Winter" (Self titled). It was the only copy they had and didn't have a price tag. But I wanted the CD. I took it to the cashier, thinking that the cashier could scan it and tell me the price. She scanned the CD and no price was available. She called the store manager to the front. He scanned it and called some other Best Buy stores. He told me no other Best Buy store had the CD and it wasn't suppose to be in the store. And he didn't have a clue as to how the CD got inside the store. He also told me he could not sale me the CD without it being in their system. I told him I didn't want to leave the store without the CD. Again he told me he couldn't sale it to me without it being in the Best Buy store system and there was no price tagged to the CD. I pulled out my smart phone and looked it up on amazon and eBay. I showed him the best price I could get from those two sites was $40.00. Somehow, he put the CD in their system for $40.00. I might add I was there at the store for hours and hours, talking with the manager while he was trying to figure out what was going on and a way he could sale the CD to me. I recently looked online for the CD and I can not find it anywhere online.
Hello, do the letters "TM" always have to be displayed above the word "Disc" when it shows the words "Blu-ray Disc" in the front of the case? Have you seen Blu-ray Disc Movies without the "TM" in the front of the case? Thanks
Sort of reminds me of one time I went to walmart, bought Rise of the Guardians new when it came out and found the disc on the inside had a scratch/removal of the print on top of the disc. The disc was fine, no scratches at the bottom, but I found it odd that a new movie would have some damage. I don't usually buy movies too often at walmart. So it was weird.
As far as taking anything back, it's semi true. It varies a little bit. My grandfather works at walmart and people will return half eaten food items because they "didn't like it" or something like that. Halloween costumes the day after Halloween get returned a lot and other random things. I wouldn't be surprised if dvds got returned and re-sealed or just discounted down. I can't prove this, but seeing how walmart under pays it's employees and takes majority of the profit, what do you expect?
This doesn't amaze me anymore. This happens on the daily, nobody does their jobs properly nowadays..... they don't care.
some of the comments on this video are nasty.. sorry this happened to you.. my guess is a third party seller was selling them on walmart, someone possibly returned them to walmart and they ended up there.. and yea its true, walmart does take anything back..
As a previous walmart employee, they will most definitely refund almost anything if you have receipt/proof of purchase. Half of the returns get sent back to the warehouse.
I just found this channel from this video and I’m so glad I did! This content is right up my alley. You have a new subscriber in me!
Welcome, Victoria! I'm glad you found the channel! The rest of my videos are way happier. LOL.
I enjoy the detail in your speaking, I learn from it. Thanks for the channel and great videos!
Both of those Zombie films are for sale from walmart's website for $20 somebody just bought them and swapped the discs and returned them...no big mystery..Lair of the White worm is on the site also
Someone who owns the Severin Blu-rays says that the packaging isn't even the same and neither is the limited edition sticker. It's looking more and more like this was completely made at home with a printer.
@@CerealAtMidnight i own them...whats different about yours?
They said the limited edition sticker was in a different font and that the Blu-ray cover hyped the the soundtrack CD, which was included.
I'm wondering if they just printed the artwork off the internet and made their own limited edition sticker.
That's what I was going to say in the comments..... so i read a couple to see if anyone else said the same thing... you did.. That is how it happened. They get the blu-rays and then get their money back. Happens everyday. My father bought a new airhose then when he got home it was a used one that a customer swapped out. Personally I would have kept the DVDs since they were only $5 and then sold them on eBay for a good chunk of change......
Yes, someone bought them (all available on Walmart's website for around $20 FYI), took the discs, replaced them with their old DVDs, then returned them.
That sucks - I would think someone bought from website carefully unwrapped bottom and took out B-Ray and replace it with DVD then back to Walmart.
So I clicked on this video thinking is was fairly new, then realized it was published exactly a year ago TO THE DAY, so happy video anniversary, man!
Haha, okay now that that's out of the way, what a weird event this all was. I'm as puzzled as you are, my friend. At least you were able to get your money back. And score on the $5 Vestron Blu! I'm not familiar with that movie, but I do know Vestron titles are usually on the pricier side (had my eye on the "Chopping Mall" blu-ray on Amazon for a while now and it's always around the $40 mark).
Weirdest thing that happened to me (in terms of collecting) is that I bought a used copy of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Special Edition at a pawn shop many years ago, and everything made it appear to be the original movie, right down to the disc art, but when I popped it in, it was the fourth installment, "The Next Generation" with Matthew McConaughey... I was so bummed, to say the least.
Anyway, sorry for this novel of a comment, LOL! I'm fairly new to your channel, loving your content man, keep up the great work! Cheers! -Jex
Weird things happening out there! The Scammed story had a happy ending, though, because Severin reached out to us at Cereal At Midnight and actually sent us those two movies. We reviewed them at CerealAtMidnight.com and are eternally grateful to Severin for being so awesome.
I’ve never seen anything that rare at Walmart. Though I once went to Walmart and all of the concert blu rays even box sets all scanned at $1. Needless to say I walked out with a ton, so did everyone else around me as they noticed that I was buying so many.
The weirdest thing ever. Very peculiar thing indeed!
You knew those movies were not Walmart releases and knew they were more than 5 bucks. True...you didnt make an offer but when she said "5 Bucks" your eyes lit up Im sure. After all was said and done you got 2/3rds of your money back and a 30 dollar blu ray for 5 bucks. Congrats, but Im failing to see how you got scammed. You may have not gotten what you wanted...but you didnt get ripped off either. You did alright. Scammed is pre-ordering 2 tshirts from Toe Tag and after a year of waiting only getting one of them. True story.
So many things, Mr. Cinema Junky:
1) I knew they weren't Walmart releases? Walmart doesn't have releases. They're a retailer. As explained in the video, things end up in the stores sometimes that aren't normally sold there. It never entered my mind that they weren't legitimate releases. As you'll see from other comments in this video, Walmart sells EVERYTHING through their site-to-store service.
2) You better believe my eyes lit up when she said five dollars. I'm a cinema junkie too, and the opportunity to obtain rare Blu-rays was super appealing to me. And it would be to you too.
3) The title of the video has multiple applications. Even if you don't think I got scammed (which I totally did, not by Walmart, but by whomever mocked up these bootleg releases), you can't deny that Walmart got scammed. Also Severin got scammed because there are bootleg versions of their product floating around now. As has been pointed out, there's a whole lot of scamming going on in this video. I'm just one of the parties involved.
Thanks for checking out the video. It's a bummer you didn't get one of your Toe Tag t-shirts. Customer service is in the toilet these days, and that's not right.
@@CerealAtMidnight Youre right...im not sure why I said walmart RELEASE, rather than "carried by walmart". Walmart definitely got scammed but if theyre just refunding money left and right without really checking the merch I cant feel too terribly bad for them. Bootleggers can suck it...for real. A scourge on the collecting scene and movie world in general. Re-reading my comment I came offf sounding like a dick which was not my intention. For that I apologize. Was trying to be more like
" look on the bright side/pat on the back"....lack of sleep, what can I say.
Unless someone stole that copy of "Lair" id say Vestron got their money for it, walmart made 5 bucks on it and you got a super sweet deal! Congrats! You have what looks like an incredible collection! Happy hunting! ✌
Cool, man. I appreciate the follow up. I do absolutely feel very grateful to have grabbed that Vestron release for five bucks.On the flipside, I also think it absolutely stinks that this is something we have to worry about at a huge retailer like Walmart, which should be a bootleg-free zone. I was back in there today getting an oil change for my car and was wandering through the media section. I saw a Warner Archive Blu-ray of the Lee Marvin movie "Point Blank" that I'm 99% sure was also a bootleg. It had artwork that looked like it was printed on a home printer, and it had the cheap shrink wrap just like the Zombie movies had. I hate that now I'm going to have to check for stuff like this at Walmart, even if it's just that one. And yeah, the video is a little dramatic because I wanted to record as soon as all this stuff happened. When I was happy, I wanted to convey my excitement to my viewers, and when I realized what had happened, I wanted to capture the disappointment when it was fresh and still raw. But yeah, it's all good. I got a sweet Vestron release out of the experience, and a video that's brought some cool people like you to check out the channel. Thanks again, man.
@@CerealAtMidnight Luckily, like counterfeit money, you can usually feel the shrink wrap and tell if it's factory sealed or not. Factory plastic doesnt have that elasticity to it. And unless they pop for thermal printing you can sometimes smell the ink from the print. And if all that passes the disc might have that purple hue on the info side (although there are places you can buy factory quality blanks). Im sure ya know this. There are titles out there that have been limited to digital formats and available only as torents or through 3rd party sellers that want to bend you over on the price. If it's something you really really want to see and all your avenues are exhausted then dl'ing or streaming is somewhat forgiveable. But when you burn it and try to make money off it...ugh...shame on them. Ioffer is full of such people.
Here's to those " keeping it real"! Peace, holmes!
Sorry..when I say "you" i mean in general...not you specifically...lol
I kind of had a feeling that walmart was selling bootlegs because I've seen copies of New Super Mario Bros. Wii where they're in white cases instead of red cases
I don’t think that’s a bootleg just a re release
I'd say you didn't get scammed, you got your money back so that doesn't count. You got a $40 dollar Blu-ray for $5 so it sounds like you scored an amazing find.
I got that Lair of the White Worm movie on DVD for about $0.50 at the pawn shop a few months back. Again it is on DVD but I didn't realize it was such a rare movie. I haven't even watched it yet to see if it's any good. The cover just looked kind of interesting and I was without internet for a little while at my house so I was buying a lot of pawn shop DVDs which have become super cheap lately.
That's why I always like the ones with the security sticker on the side of the case instead of on the top, because the only way to open it is to take the sticker off completely
my best guess is that the distributor that delivered the movies to walmart purchased bulk copies from a third party which in turn sells overstock, returns, exchanges, etc. These third party copies were not 'scanned' properly (some distributors sell bulk copies which a generic barcode for all their movies). The fact that Walmart was 'reorganizing' means that those copies where either received and not barcoded or not received properly. The point is that you were not scammed. Walmart deals with third party distributors and some of them offer cheap products (for a reason) and Walmart loves to find cheap deals for their stores.
Yeah it's obvious what happened:someone did a free upgrade of their movies. They bought the blurays, opened them up and switched them with their old junk.. As kids we used to rent VHS tapes from Blockbuster, make copies on a second recorder, then open up the tape cases and switch the tape inside.. Good times lol
I remember a few years ago I bought the first Captain America movie. When I took it home to watch it, apparently someone fucked up because the DVD was actually Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which wasn’t even out on DVD yet. So I returned it after telling them what happened and advised them to check the DVD’s since someone at the factories might have accidentally put Winter Soldier DVD’s in the first Captain America DVD’s.
This reminds me of the time I went to FYE many years ago and bought a Special Edition of Near Dark. I came home and the movie disc was in the case but the special features disc was missing. Instead there was a disc of a TV show that starred the same guy as ND, Adrian Pasdar. I didn't pay much for it and that's the only time I went there in my life so I didn't even think about returning it. That's terrible, but a strange story. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
You should've returned that.
When I was a much younger fella, in the mid to late 80's, I would buy video games, play the hell out of them, then the lady at the local video rental store would re-wrap them for me and I would take them back and either get a refund or exchange them for something different. She had a wrapping machine she would use to wrap the cases on her videos and games after she removed the media from the cases to display them on the shelves in the store. I always saved the receipt and they appeared unopened. Not an ethical thing to do on my part (I was a teenager), but the right game cartridge was always in the package and in pristine condition. Several years ago my brother in law had bought his son a PC game and when they got it home there was one of those AOL discs for 6 months of free internet in the package instead of the game disc. So it's by no means new that this type of thing happens.
I know somebody that owns a store and he told me you can get the seal labels and a printer to print that off and the cases and everything and make it exact copy bootlegs and shrink wrap them where they look exactly like a day from the store
I'm surprised the cashier sold you the blu-rays. Years ago when The ABC's Of Death was released I tried to buy a copy at wal-mart. When I went to check out the cashier scanned the item but it wouldn't show up in the system. She refused to sell me the blu-ray.
Horror Town USA it wasn’t the cashier that sold them it was a higher up person that was their for the Audit likely the DM
Ya it had tobe a higher up. I’ve two have seen things on the shelf’s that employs have put up earlier then there release date. The cashier would tell me they’re not allowed to sell me this item due to it not being in the system
Had that happen to me with a box set of Forbidden Planet when Circuit City still existed. They refused to talk to anyone higher up about finding out the price. I asked them, "do you really think the company wants you to NOT sell things?"
the cashier was the scammer, it's so obvious.
That's crazy man, but I get it. (As a KISS Fan), in the late 90's, KISS re-released their entire catalog on CD / Remastered, with the original "goodies" inside that were in the original albums (Mini versions of the posters / toys / etc...). A couple of my friends got played by our local Wal-Mart, apparently, people were buying the disc, taking out the "goodies" inside, and returning the CD's, which Wal-Mart put back on the shelf. Which totally sucks, especially when you are throwing down your hard earned money for something super fun inside a cool product that isn't actually there. We learned our lesson the hard way, to just stay away from that place. Great video! Sorry for the scam. Really dig your channel. Take care man.
Hey, thanks for checking out the channel and being cool! That's a crazy story about the KISS reissues. If you didn't know who was behind it, I would have suggested it was all a plan masterminded by Gene. Ha!
went from hyped cause they pulled one over on walmart to getting scammed themselves lmao
Actually, you didn't get scammed. You paid a price for something you weren't sure about. It's called "taking a chance". You only paid $5 each.
What a weird yet interesting story
I know this is an old video, but it's interesting anyway. Happy to see that Walmart decided to expand their media section.
What a GREAT story!!! Just subscribed, thank you !!!!
Welcome to the channel, Dion! The rest of the videos aren't sad. LOL.
Plot twist: you actually bought a very rare mispackaged dvd in a Blu-ray box that was worth thousands, but you returned them to Walmart :P lol
D'oh!
Cereal At Midnight lol only kidding, but this actually CAN happen, for example most recently some rick and morty season 3 dvds were recalled for this very reason. Accidentally having Blu-ray Discs inside dvd branded cases and the dvds missing the ending to an episode. Very collectible.
Wow this video broke my heart. I would have been let down too. Btw nice shirt where did you get it.
Thanks! I got the shirt from Target. They also used to sell it at Urban Outfitters.
@@CerealAtMidnight really imma look it up.
I tried to find a link but it looks like it's sold out at both places. If you Google Elvis Mugshot t-shirt, there are lots of them out there. It's actually Elvis' Army photo.
I tried to find it too. Sold out all try to find it thank u
I actually have the shriek show releases of Zombie 3, 4, and 5 in a set called "The Zombie Pack" and that goes for like 7 bucks. My best guess for what happened was someone bought the Zombie 3+4 limited edition releases and replaced the discs, so that walmart would except it?
Maybe, but I can't imagine someone dropping that kind of money for a limited edition Blu-ray, which will definitely increase in value, and then getting rid of the cases. I think they're a fabrication. The Severin discs come in black cases. I think this was a screwjob with someone trying to dump their old shreik show releases after they upgraded and make some money. Man, those Shreik Show DVDs looks bad, don't they?
For 5$ i would had kept the DVDs. I mean you got the artwork, you do have the movie (even if its an old DVD and not a blu ray) and its just 5$... You also made a good deal on the third one so...
This is a very common scam at Walmart.
Walmart employees don't care & are told to just get the customer out of the store.
I work at wal mart. I'm a manager for shipping and recieving Either online order and they didnt pick them up or someone got em online and returned them considering they were fake im guessing someone returned it
Your Walmart is different because the ones in my area does not do money returns for items from the electronics department.
You either get a Walmart card that can only be used at Walmart, or you can exchange for another of the same item.
That's probably a good idea.
Weird! I once bought a Magic the Gathering starter deck and instead of two rares, several uncommon, and many commons, it was all rares and land. This was way back in the 90s.
It’s funny because for awhile you could actually get the Vestron release of Maximum Overdrive, but that was the only one and only for a short time.
I've seen Vestron stuff at my Walmart around Halloween last year.
Lucky bastard.
My take is someone most likely bought them, maybe through store pick up online or even maybe luckily found them in store. Took the old disks they had at home and put them in the cases and returned them for cash refund. Most likely they duped an employee who didn't know and/or didn't care.
A familiar thing happened to me at a liquor store I used to work at.
I think that's probably a good guess!
An example of: If it's too good to be true, it usually is. The Zombie DVDs came out of the Shriek Show box set, The Zombie Pack, which itself is becoming collectible as well, like many of the other Shriek Show box sets. There's also Zombie Pack 2. Those sets, like the MGM Midnight Movies, are OOP and so they often go for more than original price. I usually try to get those kinds of box sets just a while after they are released to get the best price, before OOP. Found many Midnight Movies sets at a local Big Lots cheap, several years ago. There are certain box sets that you can get a feel will be collectible, of course not the totally public domain things usually. Exceptions I found are some of the East-West doubles and CatCom doubles. A few Front Row doubles, too.
I have bought boutique titles from Walmart website last one being the arrow deep red limited edition. I have seen them in the clearance section from time to time since boutique titles aren't sold in stores. But never been scammed . Worse that happened to me . Is buying a title and the code is missing since they cut the shrink wrap and put the slip back over it and I never looked great video
I recently bought Dunkirk on blu-ray for two dollars at the swap meet, slipcover and all. only to realize that the blu ray was just the special features disk. I inspected the disk to see if it was scratched, but didn’t look at the front of the disk closely. It came with the DVD but still. Dang I felt so jipped.
Yes super Walmart’s & Best Buy stores have a small film section now the staff at times will tell the customer to buy the films online. Like amazon or from the film distributor to get the film you want.. but yes it’s sad now I remember you could go to Walmart or Best Buy and get your film sometimes old films and now well.. it’s just sad.. thanks so much for sharing your story many blessings to you
So many scams going on. Someone possibly scams walmart, you scammed walmart, walmart scams you but you walk away with a $5 vestron flick so you still win.
I once found a Best Buy edition of the series NCIS at Walmart which was strange. It even had the Best Buy label on it.
I’ve gotten a few sealed empties from my Walmart the wrapper only had a small slice but not large for a disc.
One of the weirdest finds I’ve found at Walmart was the hentai series Viper GTS. It was just a whole stack sitting there with dvds of dragon ball gt and other anime.
I cannot say I know what happened, but you ever see a DVD/Blu-Ray release from Wal-Mart? In order to have your product sold in Wal-Mart, they require it to be at a low price. So companies will cheapen their product somehow in order to get it into the store. It happens with toys especially. But I notice with movies, that they will have a movie sold but it is as bare boned as possible. It's like buying from the Redbox kiosk with NO special features whatsoever.
That's true. Walmart sells reduced Scream Factory Blu-rays and seasons of TV shows that are only available there.
I bought a WWE mystery mini from Walmart once. It was sealed in clear plastic and glued, but, when I opened it, someone had put a Hot Wheel in a sandwich bag. Apparently, someone went through all that trouble and returned it so they could steal a $7 piece of plastic. It was so ridiculous I had to laugh.
WOW. That's so much trouble for very little money.
Someone bought the Blu-rays. Replaced the disks with the crap, resealed them and then returned them as "unopened items". They may have even been returned to Wal-mart with a Wal-mart receipt for other DVDs purchased at Wal-mart and the clerk did not verify what was being returned.
I got the return of the living dead scream factory with the slip at best buy at 7.99. They put the wrong price for the blu rays.
Ps do you know where I could get colored blu ray cases ie black, red, and other colors
Nice find on Return of the Living Dead. Meanwhile, I've never done custom cases, but I do know that people seem to prefer a company called Casetopia. Here's a link: www.casetopia.com/category_s/1477.htm
@@CerealAtMidnight thanks for the link man really appreciate it. I want want more variety in my cases, sick of mostly blue cases
You have to be kidding me? Wal Mart is just is two bit dishonest. Once we got this laundry soap in that looked like Cheer, but it was spelled Chear. We took down the Cheer soap, and put up the Chear soap. When it sold out, we put back the Cheer.
This sort of thing is rampant in the action figure aisle. People buy new figures (especially Marvel Legends and Star Wars) and return the packaging to the store with older less desirable figures inside. I’m not sure what kind of blu-ray collector would only want the disc and not the case or insert, but I’ve seen people do stranger things with their media collections.
Yeah, the issue with the case is the thing that keeps me from thinking it was a switch job. I can't think of anyone who would buy a Blu-ray that was limited to 3,000 units and dump the case. But you're right, people do strange things.
Todd4LOM ...and with diecast cars. People return premium brands with a $1.00 car or a scuffed up used car inside. I’ve even seen cars returned without wheels and in pieces.
I had a customer tell me about people buying boxes of sports cards (specifically the Panini brand), opening them up, taking out the rare cards and resealing them. An easy way to tell this had been done was that the plastic wrapping on factory-sealed boxes have black bars with the Panini name on them. Sure enough a few weeks later a man comes to the store to return some sports cards. Red Flag #1 - They were Panini basketball cards that I didn't recognize from our store. Red Flag #2 - The plastic wrap didn't have the Panini name on it. I told him we couldn't take them back and when he asked why I told him about people opening up and resealing the boxes. He didn't complain so I'm pretty sure he was part of the scam
Damian Vonderharr I wish more stores were more vigilant like that but Walmart really doesn’t seem to care.
I sympathise with you over your semi-tragic deal experience.
It is possible that either those Zombi 3 / Zombie 4: After Death titles were Amazon returns that were bought by a dishonest collector who wanted to replace his old Media Blasters DVDs (I own a copy of that same MB DVD of After Death and I'm planning on getting the Severing version of that same film - as for Zombi 3 I have the British 88 Films DVD) with the Severin BDs and simply swapped out the BDs with the old DVDs and resealed them to return them, knowing fully well since the returns will be tossed into a warehouse or trashed, thus getting approximately $50 of stock for free without fear of being found out. As for how those got into that Walmart store... Your guess is as good as mine (unless the store sells Amazon returns but given there's no price...).
As for my experience, I remember back in 2004, my 18-year-old self walked into a Big W store near my home in South Western Sydney (Australia) and found a copy of the Avenue One DVD of "Howling 3" which was supposed to be a free gift with a copy of Region 4 (a then-current now defunct Australian DVD magazine). The magazine was missing. I took the DVD to the clerk but since they could not locate the missing mag, they could not sell it.
So I was walking out of the store, in fact I had just reached three metres out of it when the manager came running out and offered it to me for $5. I accepted.
Now to explain something since there are people out there who remember the Avenue One catalogue, which were all highly mediocre quality and were at the time considered the worst in the country. But I was very early in my collection and "Howling 3" was only available in either a $10 DVD from MRA Entertainment or that Avenue One disc (which I still have, although I lost the cover long ago) so I didn't lose out.
Scream factory releases cheaper non special editions in similar artwork but with no special features. It could be that they are stocking some severin stuff, for the Halloween reset.
I remember when I was younger I went to a mom and pop CD store. I know, I'm showing my age here, but it is what it is. Anyway I bought a CD, with my allowance. I remember riding my bike and racing home. I couldn't wait to listen to MTV's new Mix CD. It was the Now that's music before Now that's music was around. So I open up the shrink wrap and eagerly open the case, only to find that it was empty. I didn't even get the wrong CD, I got nothing.
After looking around and making sure I didn't accidentally drop the CD when opening it I went back to the CD store. Luckily the owner believed me and just gave me a new CD. But I always remember that when I open 4K or Blu Ray for the first time.
Sounds like you got a return that someone swapped out for an upgraded version. Wal-mart generally will refund you with credit for damn near anything, even products that they don't sell. The employees are low paid and the ones in the returns department deal with the most crap. If it looks sellable they'll put it back on the shelf to let someone else get it, or they'll send it back to the manufacturer for a write off, so they really don't care. Wal-mart isn't scamming you, they just don't give a shit, Someone else is scamming them, and they are just passing the buck.
I bought The Aliens director cut on DVD at Walmart, it worked and wasn't a bootleg, but it had 2 discs one for the movie and one for special features. What caught my eye was that the discs weren't number one and two but 3 and 4. It was in a regular type of DVD case but the the numbers said 3 and four. Now before I bought this set a month or so prior the were selling all four of the Alien movies in a quadrilogy DVD set (meaning the first 4 Alien movies) . I think they took out Aliens from the set and sold it by itself. You're right I think when you say Walmart will take whatever.
So you ended up paying $5 for a $40 blue ray? WIN?!?
Actually, it's believable I've found some obscure movies, international titles that did not have wide releases, or obscure versions of films that are worth $50+ online. Some of them were the real thing, but the others were clearly scams or almost bootleg.
Dude this is crazy haha that blows that would have Been a crazy find plus I don't care how long it takes you to tell a story your the best
Thanks, Shane. There’s a follow up video to this. Severin sent me the movies for free. The video is called “thank you, Severin Films.”
@@CerealAtMidnight yeah i just watched that haha ive been listing to you why we are moveing so ive been burning thrue alot of your vodeos im going to cheak out your web site when you settle in to our apt
I keep hearing from people Walmart takes anything back, but my experience has been that as long as you have the receipt and return in the return window there is no problem. Ive seen people try to return things without a receipt and they haven't been allowed to. I would say it must depend on the store, and if it's well managed and if they are going by the rules of the corporation.
The other possibility is, someone could have made the fake cases sealed them and snuck them in. That would explain the UPC not registering with their system. Just a thought, your theory could have been the correct one as well.
Aw man Heath, that joy on your face was just taken away. Your switch and return theory makes sense, I've used a shrink wrap machine at an old job so I could easily see someone doing that. For movies my worst burn has either been buying a blu ray and the disc is missing. Recently I've been burned on buying Marvel Masterworks online. I accidentally bought a soft cover (damn those Barns and Noble edition) edition but the seller said "oh no all of my trades are hardcover." So I decided to buy more of them to save on shipping. Well I didn't save on shipping the weight of the books greatly increased the price I had to get them sent to the US border. Then all the additional books I bought were softcover! Then when I wrote back he said "well I got it wrong, the listing says softcover."
Duuuuuude, that Marvel Masterworks thing is terrible! Seems like you should be able to report that, especially since you have communication from him directly saying they're hardcover.
We’ve been going back and forth but it’s not worth shipping them back. How about this if I get any $$$ back I’ll donate it to your channel?
I'd rather you just get the Masterworks you thought you were buying.
Oh no worries Heath I reckon the best case is I get my money back for the books and keep them. I did end up getting the hardcovers from another seller from Canada. So there's a silver lining it's just figuring out what to do with the books if I have to send them back I'll just keep them. But if I get my money back and get to keep them I'll donate the money to the channel.
My experience with Walmart is that they tend to have short runs of certain movies that they put on the shelf for a limited time (1 - 2 weeks) after which they're pulled from the shelves. This isn't the case with all movies, but is with some. I've also had a number of bad discs where whatever box they had must of sat in water. I have a theory that some of Walmart's movie stock could be returned Amazon discs/media. A lot of times the short term stuff I've seen at Walmart has been featured on Amazon. Walmart can be problematic to deal with sometimes. They didn't want to believe my "bad discs" despite the fact that it was less than 1 hour later, but luckily when they opened the next copy of the same disc it had the same damage.
I know that Sams Club and its parent walmart have a plan o gram for each week of the year....week 1, week 2, etc. get 'em in get 'em out.
If the movies are sealed, you can get a cash refund. If they are open, you can only exchange it. I cannot imagine someone at home could shrink wrap so well they resealed it and returned it.
This sounds like a classic case of someone trying to scam walmart with non walmart returns, looks like the person put their old copies into the blu ray cases so that walmart would see that the titles match the discs (they probably dont examine close enough) and then my guess is walmart sealed them to re sell them, or the person just sealed them first.
I read in another thread those weren't actual blu-ray releases, but bootlegs due to the color of the cases and the stickers... Am I correct?
Reminds me of a situation I ran into back in the early 90's when Playstation was still new. I had gone to Toys R Us and picked up a couple games. Got home, opened them and there was nothing inside, at all. When I went back and spoke to the manager, I was informed that there was a rash of this happening. Apparently, someone was buying the games, carefully opening them, keeping the game, re-sealing it, and returning them.
It's crazy that it's been going on for that long.
A criminal mind will always find a way. Those little strips along the top and sides, are actually very easy to take off intact. I do that so I don't leave pieces of it stuck to the cases when I open them.
I had something similar happen with a Funko POP! figure. I walked into Wal-Mart and was browsing the toy aisle when I saw a Marvel Collector Corps Exclusive Miles Morales Spider-Man Funko. Because it was an exclusive, there was no bar code on the box. They had put a yellow printed bar code on the bottom. I have no idea how or why they had it, but I bought it for $9.
I can tell you what happened. I went to get a C.D.. I picked it off the shelf and took it to the self-checkout. When I scanned it the machine prompted me to get an associate. When I did, they took me to the Customer Service desk where they scanned it again. They realized it wouldn’t scan cause it wasn’t scheduled for release for a few more days. They weren’t allowed to sell it yet.
In his case they didn’t know what they were doing and sold it at a pretty good discount. I’ve also purchased (like 4 times) movies or box sets that had the incorrect movie in it when I got it home. Probably a mistake at the manufacturer.
Cmon man. Theres no reason to be this close to tears.
It's a story, Evan.
I once found a bootleg Cannibal Corpse VHS tape that was shot in Montreal for $1. You bet I bought that shit. I don't even like Cannibal Corpse. I just found it funny that they'd be selling it at a Walmart.
In the early 90's I knew someone that replaced the DVD with an AOL disk and reseal it and then return it. Walmart screws everyone, so why not screw them?
bud I know most of those 5 dollar blurays come straight from mexico..(I heard most of our discs,games,animes come from there)its probably just a bunch of Italian bootlegs that like ya said,after cycling they were repackaged and sent out..its wierd the stuff I find in those bins but more often than not I find sweetness and at 5$,why would you return it?did he say if the discs played the zombie movies?...some gems are just worth holding onto!
You are probably correct on your assessment of what happened. I would point out that Lair of the White Worm was and still is available at Target, but at five times what you paid. Having worked there, I've seen plenty of Dvds/Blu rays/Video games returned that 1) had price tags from WalMart or Toys R Us on them, 2) had obviously been opened and resealed, or 3) are items Target has never carried, in store or online. It is a side effect of the "customer is always right" fallacy that bad word of mouth is more destructive to sales than fraud.
Might have been the ol' China Shuffle. Factory A produces 3,000 Blu-ray cases but when factory B sends the discs over, they're all old DVDs. So they just fill the order, seal the cases, and move onto the next order. There's so much stuff coming out of China, mistakes are bound to happen. Sort of like when you buy a box of GE light bulbs but when you open it all the light bulbs are Philips. May have been a malicious scam, might have been a mix-up. Maybe there's 3,000 DVDs out there on sale for $2.99 with a really nice Blu-ray inside. Neat story to tell either way.
Those B movie releases used to be in the Walmart Blu Ray bin for $5 all the time.
The DC comics you refer to are available through Wal-Mart as an online order, it does not appear that they are stocked in stores. Sorry to hear about your blue ray problems.
Its really easy to get scammed at Walmart, because I have a 4K UHD Bluray case with Bad Boys 1-2 Bluray in it. What I expexted to be in the case was Bad Boys For Life 4K UHD Bluray. The locking clip on Sony cases was gone, and the case was shrink wrapped, to easy to open.
Semi - related: 4 years later I did see legit Vestron titles with digital codes at WalMart .. even bought them ..
Dude, I used to work at Wal-Mart and you would not BELIEVE the stuff people returned! We would find stuff all the time where someone would buy a tv, then put there old tv in the box, and return it. Then we would just sell it again! So someone buys a 1200 TV ( at the time that was only like a 36 inch tv) and finds out it's the wrong tv in the box. I recently got an Iron that was clearly sold b4 bc it was all fucked up, and not even the right box! Man, we once got a bunch of movies that clearly had Best Buy stickers on them!
I meant to say it was the wrong iron, not box
It's crazy how many comments I've gotten from people who either still work or used to work at Walmart and how different their experiences are. I've had several people tell me I'm a liar because Walmart doesn't take things back if they're used, or if the item isn't sealed, or whatever, but I've had a lot more comments like yours where they talk about how Walmart will take anything back, usually without even really checking the items. Crazy stuff. There seems to be no solid policy about returns.
I actually bought a Blu-ray copy of Freddy vs Jason at Fry's Electronics for $7 and the plastic looked a little funky. When I got home and opened it, there was nothing inside 😆
I just came across your channel and You will probably never read this because your video is over a year old but I used to work for the 3rd party company that did the resets plus the week adding and removal of movies. The movies not scanning is a error of the movie distributors. I have see movies for different countries arrive in stores. Now as far as the scam goes it was 1 of 2 things. Someone switched the discs, which I have seen happen but never that elaborate or 2, when a movie does sell for whatever reason it gets sent back to the Distribution company and sometimes they take out discs out of 1 package and place it in another pack to make a new onl
Thanks for the info, Gil!