Man Has Rocky Start to the Holidays After His PS4 Turns Out to Be a Box of Something Else

Man goes to Walmart and buys PS4 for his neice, then finds out he bought a $400 box of non-PS4 things.

Photo Removed
Complex Original

Blank pixel used during image takedowns

Photo Removed

If there's one thing Igor Baksht learned this Christmas, it's that it's O.K. to peak inside the box a little early.

Baksht went to a Walmart in Stapleton, Colorado, to purchase a PS4 bundle for his 13-year-old niece. This would have been an everyday transaction if it weren't for a combination of two things: Baksht told 7News Denver that the employee who retrieved the PS4 from its locked cage told him that (1) the box was heavier than usual, and (2) that it had previously been returned. Instead of checking out the contents of the box then and there (which, I mean, c'mon, how many more signs do you need?), Baksht took the PS4 home and decided to finally open it up right before he was about to wrap it, “just to make sure everything was inside, that all the contents were inside, all the games were inside,” Baksht said. “When I opened it, I said, ‘Oh my God.'” That's when he discovered this:

1.

You're looking at two sacks of rocks taped together. Obviously Baksht panicked and took the box to a nearby 24-hour Walmart, since the store he bought it from was already closed. There, Walmart told him that he had to return it at the original store. So, he did just that the next morning, and that Walmart told him he was out of luck since there wasn't enough proof that he didn't just take the PS4 and put the rocks in himself. "I never stole anything in my life. The most criminal thing that I've [done], I got a driving ticket," he told KMGH. 

Baksht put in a few phone calls to Walmart's corporate office, and on Christmas Eve he was told he could return to Walmart and get his money back for the rocks. This type of scam (switching a product with something else of similar weight) is nothing new, and has worked on people buying iPads off of Craigslist, or game systems at other Walmarts. No word if Baksht's niece ended up with a console or not the next day. 

Latest in Pop Culture