Select Walmart Stores have
Google Wired Nest Protect (2nd Generation, White) for
$46.82.
Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available.
Thanks to Community Member
telemachos for finding this deal.
About this product:- Tells you what and where: Nest Protect speaks up to tell you if there's smoke or CO and tells you where the problem is so you know what to do
- Know from anywhere: Connect the Nest Protect to Wi-Fi and it'll send a message to your phone if the alarm goes off
- Nest Protect sees the CO you can't: Carbon monoxide is odorless, invisible and deadly. When there's CO, Nest Protect tells you where it's hiding
- Nightly Promise: Nest Protect tests its sensors and batteries constantly and lets you know they're working with a quick green glow at night, and a motion-activated light
- Silence the chirp: Low-battery chirps ever rattle your dreams? Nest Protect shows you its batteries are good before you doze off
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Here's the hangup. Walmart requires a return and repurchase, and they don't honor online price or the original purchase price. I found newer stock with the Google branding instead of the Nest branding I received, and was told return/repurchase was the only option.
Sounds like a dead-end, but it's not necessarily. The newer Google branded product has the same SKU, so you could simply purchase the new stock at full price, and return the old stock with that same receipt.
The ethics of all this is murky. Walmart wasn't forthright that their motivation for discounting was to clear inventory of product that has half the remaining life left. You read a product description and you expect to get roughly what was advertised, not half that.
Exchanging the item just means some poor uninformed sucker is going to get stuck with old junk. I still don't blame the consumer, because it's not their job to make sure a perishable good is sold within a reasonable timeframe.
Final thought. If Google provides a 7 year warranty from the purchase date, and the expiration date is less than that, it seems Google is legally obligated to honor that warranty. Keep in mind Google's service for hardware failure is basically nonexistent. You can't talk to a person about replacing something under warranty, and even if you do, they will put you into a recursive loop of he ll that leads to nowhere. Then you're stuck wondering if you hire an attorney to sue Google for $40.
Also, if I go through the online return process, Walmart gives me the option to exchange (https://i.imgur.com/UbJqwRt.jpg). But again, that relies on them getting more in stock. I'll hold onto mine for a few weeks and see if they get any new stock.
Also, if I go through the online return process, Walmart gives me the option to exchange (https://i.imgur.com/UbJqwRt.jpg). But again, that relies on them getting more in stock. I'll hold onto mine for a few weeks and see if they get any new stock.
Since I'll be returning to a different store that's closer, I figured I'd also just purchase from that store. I'll have to see if they have any fresh stock.
All that said, what explains the fact that many (most) are getting very old stock from as far back as 2015 when fresh stock remains on the shelves? The whole explanation for the stale stock was that employees grab what is most accessible, which happens to be the newer stock. How is it they did that for the past 7 years, but then when this "deal" came around all of a sudden they are digging into the back of the display case to pull the stale units? Why the change in behavior all of a sudden?
It can't be coincidence that behavior has changed when so many are reporting receiving stale units. Seems the pickers are being instructed to spend the extra time to grab the old stuff.
As an aside, I'd be willing to keep my 2018 units if the price was $20. Walmart should probably just toss all their old stock instead of trying to clear them through unsuspecting customers.
Here's the hangup. Walmart requires a return and repurchase, and they don't honor online price or the original purchase price. I found newer stock with the Google branding instead of the Nest branding I received, and was told return/repurchase was the only option.
Sounds like a dead-end, but it's not necessarily. The newer Google branded product has the same SKU, so you could simply purchase the new stock at full price, and return the old stock with that same receipt.
The ethics of all this is murky. Walmart wasn't forthright that their motivation for discounting was to clear inventory of product that has half the remaining life left. You read a product description and you expect to get roughly what was advertised, not half that.
Exchanging the item just means some poor uninformed sucker is going to get stuck with old junk. I still don't blame the consumer, because it's not their job to make sure a perishable good is sold within a reasonable timeframe.
Final thought. If Google provides a 7 year warranty from the purchase date, and the expiration date is less than that, it seems Google is legally obligated to honor that warranty. Keep in mind Google's service for hardware failure is basically nonexistent. You can't talk to a person about replacing something under warranty, and even if you do, they will put you into a recursive loop of he ll that leads to nowhere. Then you're stuck wondering if you hire an attorney to sue Google for $40.
Seemed like such a good idea…
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Seemed like such a good idea…
Not sure clerks would pay attention to things like serial number when they are used to simply scanning the SKU, and if it matches, completing the return.
Not sure clerks would pay attention to things like serial number when they are used to simply scanning the SKU, and if it matches, completing the return.
Would love to know if that's not the case though.
I might try it and play dumb if it errors out.
Would love to know if that's not the case though.
I might try it and play dumb if it errors out.
A person could purchase multiple Protects with differing manufacture dates. They install all of them at the same time, but eventually the first one will deactivate when it reaches the programmed expiration. Are they just going to replace the 1 unit, or buy replacements for all at the same time, thus repeating the same problem of getting varying manufacture dates?
There just has to be a better way to make this product, I'm just not seeing it.
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