Any time saved by ordering online and picking up the order has vanished chasing customer support people to fix something that would have taken a few seconds through their website.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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    8 months ago

    Regardless of how these protocols may be handled, they advise customers to use the refund option within the order screen on the website, which is what I did.

    If it’s broken, why even direct people there? I wouldn’t expect a half-working website from one of the largest retailers on the planet.

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      8 months ago

      Links generally don’t know if the service on the other end of the link is up or down at that time. I mean you could have it go out and prefetch the headers but that’s a lot of overhead for every link.

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        8 months ago

        “The service” in this context, would simply be another Walmart page. A page which also just happened to be one where I’d start the process of getting money back.

        It was not a page to actually process any transactions, but to start the process of requesting a refund.

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      8 months ago

      It’s not the first company to “offer self serve” where the action involves taking away revenue and just so happens to never ever work, requiring a call to their support. It’s almost as if they know some people will just give up and they can keep the profits.