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		<title>By: Orchid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Orchid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After reading the article, comments, and combining it with my own experiences regarding Walmart, nothing they do surprises me any longer.  Nor should it surprise anyone else quite frankly.

Using the phones for illegal immigrants?  Considering the trouble some of their suppliers have had in that subject, and who they do business with...remember the Tyson trials and suits?  Somehow I don&#039;t think Walmart cares much about that aspect.

Drug dealers can get phones and anything they want for that matter outside of Walmart and do just that when and if needed.  Besides, think about it.  Why would a drug dealer go into a store and buy something like cell phones in that quantity knowing it would cause suspicion...besides plain stupidity?  They are more apt to send someone else in to buy what they want and/or need...that keeps their hands &quot;clean&quot; of it so to speak.

The whole terrorist groups theory, while it does happen at times, that too throws up red flags and casts suspicion on those people as well.  Again, most doing that would use some sort of cover to purchase such things.

Now the fact that people buy them to re-sell...that happens often.  Look at ebay and all the other similar sites. 

It boils down to this in my opinion:
MANY policies and practices of Walmart in-store as well as out are questionable at best.  

Also...if someone wants something bad enough...they&#039;ll figure out how to get it.  Policy or no policy...law or no law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After reading the article, comments, and combining it with my own experiences regarding Walmart, nothing they do surprises me any longer.  Nor should it surprise anyone else quite frankly.</p>
<p>Using the phones for illegal immigrants?  Considering the trouble some of their suppliers have had in that subject, and who they do business with&#8230;remember the Tyson trials and suits?  Somehow I don&#8217;t think Walmart cares much about that aspect.</p>
<p>Drug dealers can get phones and anything they want for that matter outside of Walmart and do just that when and if needed.  Besides, think about it.  Why would a drug dealer go into a store and buy something like cell phones in that quantity knowing it would cause suspicion&#8230;besides plain stupidity?  They are more apt to send someone else in to buy what they want and/or need&#8230;that keeps their hands &#8220;clean&#8221; of it so to speak.</p>
<p>The whole terrorist groups theory, while it does happen at times, that too throws up red flags and casts suspicion on those people as well.  Again, most doing that would use some sort of cover to purchase such things.</p>
<p>Now the fact that people buy them to re-sell&#8230;that happens often.  Look at ebay and all the other similar sites. </p>
<p>It boils down to this in my opinion:<br />
MANY policies and practices of Walmart in-store as well as out are questionable at best.  </p>
<p>Also&#8230;if someone wants something bad enough&#8230;they&#8217;ll figure out how to get it.  Policy or no policy&#8230;law or no law.</p>
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		<title>By: tiffany</title>
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		<dc:creator>tiffany</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s totally bogus! I work at walmart -in the connection center right now since april 09- and you can buy all those phones if you wanted to, you just have to buy 2 at a time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s totally bogus! I work at walmart -in the connection center right now since april 09- and you can buy all those phones if you wanted to, you just have to buy 2 at a time.</p>
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		<title>By: Bigperm</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bigperm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The real reason why is because people like me take these phones and sell them for more money...i can buy a prepaid verizon razor and flash it to postpay and wallah...money in the bank...and the phones that have codes in them to keep them from going on other networks??? I can pull all of those codes and make it work...THAT is why Walmart and other companies wont sell more than 2...its just that easy...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real reason why is because people like me take these phones and sell them for more money&#8230;i can buy a prepaid verizon razor and flash it to postpay and wallah&#8230;money in the bank&#8230;and the phones that have codes in them to keep them from going on other networks??? I can pull all of those codes and make it work&#8230;THAT is why Walmart and other companies wont sell more than 2&#8230;its just that easy&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, if a company doesn&#039;t want to sell you more than two it&#039;s their problem. Just go to the next store! 

First of all, I hate Walmart, it sucks!!!  HOWEVER, if you use a little common sense, you realize that if you&#039;re a normal customer and just want a phone for &quot;normal&quot; use, they will serve you. But if you really think about it, one person alone buying like 40 phones at once, will that be for anything POSITIVE?  Maybe in a few rare cases. But most cases it won&#039;t! Just think about it. 

Think about it. If you need a phone, or two, you can buy it, and it usually for legitimate use. 

But in a way, it kind of make sense not to sell the whole inventory at once. 

Even with the author, who is complaining, the policy worked. He didn&#039;t have a &quot;legitimate&quot; intention to use the phones. Although perfectly fine and not illegal, he was gonna write reviews about it. So i understand Walmart, being the bastards they are. 

And don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;m glad there are reviews, because I&#039;m gonna buy one tonight. JUST ONE!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if a company doesn&#8217;t want to sell you more than two it&#8217;s their problem. Just go to the next store! </p>
<p>First of all, I hate Walmart, it sucks!!!  HOWEVER, if you use a little common sense, you realize that if you&#8217;re a normal customer and just want a phone for &#8220;normal&#8221; use, they will serve you. But if you really think about it, one person alone buying like 40 phones at once, will that be for anything POSITIVE?  Maybe in a few rare cases. But most cases it won&#8217;t! Just think about it. </p>
<p>Think about it. If you need a phone, or two, you can buy it, and it usually for legitimate use. </p>
<p>But in a way, it kind of make sense not to sell the whole inventory at once. </p>
<p>Even with the author, who is complaining, the policy worked. He didn&#8217;t have a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; intention to use the phones. Although perfectly fine and not illegal, he was gonna write reviews about it. So i understand Walmart, being the bastards they are. </p>
<p>And don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m glad there are reviews, because I&#8217;m gonna buy one tonight. JUST ONE!</p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not a big Walmart Fan, just like everybody else, but keeps going back there to buy stuff, just like almost everybody else! 

Walmart sucks! Even if not considering how they are hurting America (they&#039;re in business to make money and while there are no laws agains how they do it...)
but the Customer Service is just HORRIBLE. Try to buy something that you can&#039;t just get yourself, like a TV or a bike, impossible! It could take hours!!! 

It&#039;s cheaper because they don&#039;t pay their employees right, therefore, service SUCKS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not a big Walmart Fan, just like everybody else, but keeps going back there to buy stuff, just like almost everybody else! </p>
<p>Walmart sucks! Even if not considering how they are hurting America (they&#8217;re in business to make money and while there are no laws agains how they do it&#8230;)<br />
but the Customer Service is just HORRIBLE. Try to buy something that you can&#8217;t just get yourself, like a TV or a bike, impossible! It could take hours!!! </p>
<p>It&#8217;s cheaper because they don&#8217;t pay their employees right, therefore, service SUCKS!</p>
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		<title>By: Sandy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OMG these ppl are not shipping phones from america. to nowhere CDM is mostly used here and GSM has been used for a long time in europe and every where else.my husband is deployed 2 Iraq &amp; they buy phones from the Iraqi&#039;s all the time and they are not phones we use here.  Walmart is crazy I just bout 3 phones the other day..3 and they acted like the 3 prepaid phones I was buying for the 3 kids that was standing right there was gonna kill somebody if I bought 1 more than 2. If I had left with 2phones worls war 3 woulda happened in my home. I did leave with 3 but every person that buys prepais is not a terrorist oor drug dealer and they defnitely won&#039;t buy phones here &amp; ship them to china when they are made in china..ppl wake the heck up!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG these ppl are not shipping phones from america. to nowhere CDM is mostly used here and GSM has been used for a long time in europe and every where else.my husband is deployed 2 Iraq &amp; they buy phones from the Iraqi&#8217;s all the time and they are not phones we use here.  Walmart is crazy I just bout 3 phones the other day..3 and they acted like the 3 prepaid phones I was buying for the 3 kids that was standing right there was gonna kill somebody if I bought 1 more than 2. If I had left with 2phones worls war 3 woulda happened in my home. I did leave with 3 but every person that buys prepais is not a terrorist oor drug dealer and they defnitely won&#8217;t buy phones here &amp; ship them to china when they are made in china..ppl wake the heck up!</p>
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		<title>By: Rick Cell Phone Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Cell Phone Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They are scared you will buy the phones and then send them overseas where they will be reprogrammed and used.  They made a deal with Tracfone not to sell more than two to a customer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They are scared you will buy the phones and then send them overseas where they will be reprogrammed and used.  They made a deal with Tracfone not to sell more than two to a customer.</p>
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		<title>By: Mac</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can pick out the ones that work for walmart.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can pick out the ones that work for walmart.</p>
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		<title>By: Rubi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rubi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>t-mobile wouldn&#039;t let me buy 1 prepaid phone, why because I had already bought my mom 1 two months ago!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>t-mobile wouldn&#8217;t let me buy 1 prepaid phone, why because I had already bought my mom 1 two months ago!</p>
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		<title>By: Shawn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I work in walmart electronics dept. at the moment and actually had this issue. If we tried to sell more than 2 prepaid phones at a time, it would actually prompt on the register that we can not sell more than to per transaction. I dont know if it is illegal but i do know it strikes as suspicious. Let me explain. One day 2 men came in and said they wanted to buy some prepaid phones. I ask how many and they said all of them. Tell me what would you do with 40 or so prepaid phones. So at the time i tried to sell three and it prompted sell not allowed exceeds max. quantity of 2. So i called a manager and he said do it in seperate transactions, so i did. During the conversation with the men i asked what they were going to use the cell phones for. They said it was for church. After the fact i realized what could so many cell phones could be used for, detenators.(not saying they were or are going to be used for that reason)The men came back the next day and wanted to buy all the ones we just recently put out. I once again i called management and he said go ahead. After i said you can ring them up because i wont and then explained my reasons. He then said we couldnt sale them all. It did not help that the men were of middle eastern decent.(might sound racial but its not)suspicion 1. Buying 40+ phones at once then coming back the next day to buy more 2.As of recent events(9/11) we learned cell phones can be used as detenators and i live very close to chemical and gas plants(sulphur, la) 3.Paid in all cash(non-traceable). You be the judge of why we canbt sale more than 2 phones at a time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I work in walmart electronics dept. at the moment and actually had this issue. If we tried to sell more than 2 prepaid phones at a time, it would actually prompt on the register that we can not sell more than to per transaction. I dont know if it is illegal but i do know it strikes as suspicious. Let me explain. One day 2 men came in and said they wanted to buy some prepaid phones. I ask how many and they said all of them. Tell me what would you do with 40 or so prepaid phones. So at the time i tried to sell three and it prompted sell not allowed exceeds max. quantity of 2. So i called a manager and he said do it in seperate transactions, so i did. During the conversation with the men i asked what they were going to use the cell phones for. They said it was for church. After the fact i realized what could so many cell phones could be used for, detenators.(not saying they were or are going to be used for that reason)The men came back the next day and wanted to buy all the ones we just recently put out. I once again i called management and he said go ahead. After i said you can ring them up because i wont and then explained my reasons. He then said we couldnt sale them all. It did not help that the men were of middle eastern decent.(might sound racial but its not)suspicion 1. Buying 40+ phones at once then coming back the next day to buy more 2.As of recent events(9/11) we learned cell phones can be used as detenators and i live very close to chemical and gas plants(sulphur, la) 3.Paid in all cash(non-traceable). You be the judge of why we canbt sale more than 2 phones at a time.</p>
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