"All I got was a rock."

[Mister_E]

Jodi Wykle knew her son would be thrilled when she gave him a new Nintendo DS for his birthday.

Instead, he was rocked.

According to WTSP-TV, the confused teen opened up his gift only to find bunch of stones and a rolled up Chinese newspaper in place of the popular handheld.

All I got was a rock.

Needless to say, mom was equally stunned.

"When he opened it, he was pulling the seal off, my sister-in-law carries a pocket knife and she opened it and that's when he pulled it out and it was Chinese newspaper and a bunch of rocks," she explained.

The troubling discovery prompted the Florida woman to contact the local Wal-Mart where she bought the curious box and complain, but reportedly workers there told her it wasn't their problem and that she should contact Nintendo instead. Of course, Nintendo told her roughly the same thing, leaving mother and son with a $138 box of rocks.

"They don't want to do nothing. They want me to keep the box of rocks. I'm not buying a box of rocks for $138," she said.

Amazingly enough, however, Wal-Mart soon caved after learning that the same box of rocks had been previously returned by another disgruntled customer. How exactly it made it back onto store shelves remains a mystery, but for her troubles, Wykle was given a full refund and a $20 gift card.

It's not the first time Wal-Mart has gotten into hot water for selling a questionable handheld. Earlier this month, a PSP system bought at a different Wal-Mart store in Florida was found to contain a memory stick filled with pornographic images

[XpHoBiaX]

Awww that sucks. But I have to admit that was real funny.

[Stormfalcon]

And people wonder why we have to open up items being returned at Fry's, even when they're shrinkwrapped/strapped.  Of course, the folks we deal with there try to be more clever than that (such as substituting an old video card instead of trying to pass off rocks as a video card).

[G.I.R]

That's what you get for shopping at Wal-Mart.

[Sunara Ishi]

And this is why we buy things new. -.-;

If they are marked anyway. -.-;

[XpHoBiaX]

Dude, you wouldn't believe what would be returned at walmart!  >:(
At the walmart out here, people purchase tents, then return them, and thta shit goes back on the shelves.

I used to work in softlines, and people would open up the packages of underwear, take the new ones and put old ones in the packages. NASTY! God it was gross!

[G.I.R]

I've heard stories of people buying an XBox-360 at Walmart, and when they open up the box all they got was a Red Ring of Death.  ::)

[Stormfalcon]

I've heard stories of people buying an XBox-360 at Walmart, and when they open up the box all they got was a Red Ring of Death.  ::)

Heh...the other day, we had someone try to return an Xbox which had its innards swapped.  Had the shell of a recent model, but the the innards were that of a pre-HDMI model.

[LordKefka]

... or something like this..

http://kotaku.com/5158829/tales-of-horror-from-the-circuit-city-liquidation