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Originally Posted by Alan_Bernardo
It does when you buy from Walmart. I don't care that the item should be the same, coming from the same manufacturer. Stuff I've purchased from Walmart, there's always something wrong with it, or something is missing, or something doesn't work as advertised, or it's lacking instructions altogether. It's second-rate, as if they're selling refurbished items, three times over, and pawning them off as the real stuff, untouched.
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I ordered my Clara HD from Walmart. Had it the next day and it's perfect (and early on, the Clara had a reputation for problem lighting regardless of where you bought it from).
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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
Allegedly it's not unheard of for Walmart* to get a "special" (read as "inferior") model due to their insistence on cheap at all costs.
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That is nonsense, at least as far as something from a company as small as Kobo. Now, Walmart is more likely to have the Aura 2 in store instead of the nicer and costlier Clara HD. But a Kobo you buy online from Walmart is identical to a Kobo ordered from anywhere else.
The only thing you have to be careful on is to make sure you are ordering from Walmart instead of a third party seller. Like Amazon, they may be sold out of an item, but still have it listed from a third party.