- Today I have the 10 things
you do not want to buy at Walmart.
Do not buy these thing, lotta hand motions,
I look like an idiot.
Do not buy these 10 things at Walmart or on walmart.com
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So the first thing I wouldn't buy
at Walmart this season is a barbecue.
And I know you're gonna get really excited
when they send you flyers and they try to get you excited
and if you look at the deals on their list,
you see a couple of Cuisinart barbecues on this list,
but a lot of these are just accessory deals.
The better barbecue deals from brands like Weber
and some more aggressive discounts
are actually at Home Depot and Lowe's.
And you can streamline your savings based on
where it is you're trying to buy.
Many of you ask when's the best time
of the year to buy a barbecue or a grill,
my answer is always Labor Day,
but if you can't wait till Labor Day
because who's barbecuing that long after that,
4th of July is the number two pick
and then the third, which has already passed,
is Memorial Day.
Father's day we do see some grill deals,
but they're generally tied to accessories.
So just keep that in mind.
The second item I wouldn't buy on Walmart
or at walmart.com right now, this season is a RoboVac.
There's one exception,
the Eufy RoboVac right here is 149 for the WiFi version,
if you were to get the RoboVac for 149 from Amazon,
just as an example, let's go to Eufy RoboVac,
and I'm gonna do some side-by-side price comparisons
which I hope astound you, 'cause I'm always really excited.
If you look at the version that Amazon has on sale,
for the Eufy Anker RoboVac,
they're $159 deal actually is not a WiFi version,
it just has the traditional remote control.
So with the exception of the Eufy, right here,
we are getting a WiFi version
for $10 less from Walmart.
The RoboVacs as a whole,
are more aggressively priced on Amazon.
You'll notice Roomba, but then more importantly
one of my other favorite RoboVacs
that I have reviewed extensively on this YouTube channel,
Coredy, just as an example, if you go search
for a Coredy deal on Amazon versus Walmart
you're going to find, at least at the time
that I'm uploading, many of the RoboVacs here
have insane coupons attached to them.
So for example, a $50 coupon on here,
on top of the savings is going to drop prices substantially
on both Coredy and ILife brands.
So I'm just mentioning that to you
as what I wouldn't buy, but again,
you're going to find in some of the price comparisons
that I'm gonna do right now,
very interesting markups where one store
is more expensive and another isn't
but more importantly, this is why I wouldn't buy
the following product at Walmart.
The number three thing I wouldn't buy from Walmart
or walmart.com is an expandable hose.
And you guys I think are gonna find
some of these price comparisons unbelievable
versus what you get one place versus another
but, let's take a look.
The 50 foot expandable hose is just as an example.
Start at about 32, but they go up to 45, 65
and the ones that are 25,
are things that I wouldn't really wish
upon my worst enemies backyard.
And just as an example,
on mattsdailydeals.com, if you go to the deal section,
I do have a $29 expandable hose.
That I have reviewed, it's $29.99,
I'm just trying to show this to you.
29.99 is the price that I found.
And just so you guys notice,
I'm not giving any extra love to Amazon as an example,
Amazon is $10 higher than the price
that I found for the exact same item.
So you can't adopt these rules, I'm buying only on Amazon,
I'm never buying at Walmart, I'm only buying at Target,
because on certain items, you're going to pay a lot more.
Which is actually what's going to bring me
to my next example.
And that brings me to the fourth item
I would not buy from Walmart, travel pillows.
Now I know many of you may or may not
be traveling on a plane,
but these are good for road trips,
they're good for lounging, they're good for the couch,
they're good for naps at your desk.
All sorts of reasons why you might wanna travel pillow.
And you're gonna pay a little bit more
at Walmart just as an example,
even though they're going to show you many coupons.
So this is a free delivery product,
16.99 for this pillow.
Amazon, as an example, has it for $13.99
with free Prime shipping and free returns.
Now you could say, all right deal guy,
all right slightly annoying person
who can't fix his tie properly for the life of him,
there we go I fixed it,
you're just showing one brand,
that's always more expensive at Walmart.
Absolutely not, just as an example
if we're gonna talk about the specific brand.
They're actually cheaper on their cast iron cookware
from Walmart, where you're paying $10 more from Amazon.
So, I promise, I have no life whatsoever,
and I spend every waking moment
searching through websites and deals
and price history so you don't have to do that work,
but just to show you that example one more time.
Cheaper pillow from this brand on Amazon versus Walmart,
but you take the same brand and you apply it to cookware,
you're paying $10 more when you shop on Amazon
making Walmart the better deal for cookware,
but the worse deal for travel pillows.
The number five product that I would not buy
at Walmart, laptops.
In fact, if you actually search through
just an HP 14 inch laptop as an example,
not only are half of the products
not even shipping from Amazon or coming from Amazon,
but the price is history is strange,
there's deals that aren't actually deals.
You're going to do better at Best Buy
and there are continuous price drops
and price match guarantees on the laptops.
Just if you guys are wondering,
I'm using this as an example,
I don't think this is a good laptop
or a particularly great deal.
But I am just showing you that for a major brand
that a lot of people are shopping from,
that would be a product that I wouldn't buy.
But that's what I have to say about laptops.
We're gonna get to home networking in a moment,
but I do wanna take a brief break.
I did get a lot of requests which
I'm actually noticing come into my inbox
as while I'm standing here,
about air conditioners, window AC units.
A lot of you have signed up for my email newsletter
and you are asking so I'm gonna tie this
into the Walmart video just as an example.
This is not part of my top 10 list,
consider this a spur of the moment bonus.
But if you look at the window air conditioners on Walmart,
some of them are off brand, some of them are okay,
but for an 8000 BTU unit, look at these prices,
320, 523, 526 for an LG,
you're actually going to do better at Home Depot.
Toshiba 8000 BTU, Frigidaire, LG,
like way cheaper than many of the offerings
for 8000 BCU that you are seeing
at Walmart and on walmart.com
so I'm just throwing that in there as an example,
but that was not what I meant to talk about.
Number six, one of the product lines
I would not buy from Walmart,
or in general right now,
are home networking and many of the mesh expansion systems
and just WiFi boosters as a whole.
Let's take the Netgear RAX15,
which is very popular right now. Let's see if I can find it,
and you're going to find a price of 149 on walmart.com
It's very popular.
But if you look at Amazon, it is $99.
$50 less for the exact same product.
Guys, that's 50 bucks,
and you can see it's very popular,
it keeps selling out, so if you are interested,
I will tell you right now, that is not a good product
to grab right now on Walmart or on walmart.com.
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All right, moving on.
The number seven product I would not buy,
or product line, at Walmart or walmart.com.
Very popular right now, patio umbrellas.
Now Safavieh I don't know a whole lot about them
for the show that I host in New York from time to time,
they've been on set, I think they're a New Jersey brand,
can't really remember, but they have nice stuff.
But as an example, this umbrella,
which is the black and white is 146 on Walmart
and I actually bought this for my backyard
from, oh it's sold out now, Home Depot.
But just as an example, oh it's out of stock,
that's so sad, the price here was $110
and it's been consistently $110.
Walmart is somehow telling you the list price is 187
and the sale price is 146, that doesn't make sense to me.
I can't, from what I'm looking,
model number wise, brand wise,
the list price seems too high,
which is why the sale price or the rollback,
which will appear in your feeds, will entice you,
I'm telling you right now, don't buy it.
I'm not calling the deal bogus,
but I'm just saying it's not properly represented
in my opinion, and that might not be a fault
of Walmart's, it might just be how
the distributor listed it on the website,
but that is a no-no.
Oh, did you guess deal number eight?
Electric toothbrushes.
Whether you're going for Sonicare,
Oral-B or the one that I'm using, which I love,
which I did an unboxing of on YouTube not long ago
because this toothbrush has a 12 month battery life.
Just as an example, you're gonna pay
quite a bit more on Walmart,
this toothbrush is 99 on walmart.com
and retailers like Amazon and from the distributor directly,
you're looking at $79 or less.
Just throwing that out there,
not a great purchase right now
on Walmart or on walmart.com.
Now the advice I'm giving you could change by season
but this is very specific for this time of year
and if you are stocking up on furniture,
I know that many Walmart shoppers
are very eerily grabbing up these furniture deals.
I need you guys to help me with this,
so please, if you're a frequent Walmart shopper,
if you've purchased furniture at Walmart.
In my personal opinion, I don't think the quality
is that great, there are I'm sure many exceptions,
but I would not buy furniture at Walmart right now
and possibly in general.
With the prices and what you get,
and some of the rollbacks on some of these brands
that I've never heard of.
Rather than shop for furniture at Walmart
or on walmart.com I find that Overstock
has some very aggressive deals.
And I like the style, I think it's come a long way.
Even Wayfair has some crazy incentive,
it's like every day there's a living room
sale furniture that they have on Wayfair.
So, subscribers, viewers, if you have great success
with your previous purchases for furniture
on Walmart, please call me out,
leave a comment, tell me I'm totally wrong.
But I would very much like to mention that
as something I wouldn't buy.
And then number 10, this is a big thing right now,
'cause I get to show you a deal as well,
which is always really exciting.
The headphone deals on Walmart
and on walmart.com are not a good buy in my opinion.
There are a couple of deals which are price controlled.
So the Apple AirPods that you see right here
are the same price everywhere,
Best Buy, Amazon, when they drop somewhere
they usually drop another place.
But if you look at the Powerbeats
and some of the other deals here,
many of which have more competitive product drops
on different channels and different avenues.
If you're looking simply for a great pair
of Bluetooth earbuds, without the active noise cancellation
and you're just looking for some crazy bang for your buck.
You're not going to find it on walmart.com
and I am going to show you a deal that I found
just because it's a way for me
not only to promote my website obviously
and make money from it, but,
I find deals you just don't see anywhere else.
And the Decibel Sound Molecules
that you guys see right here are not only
a great pair of earbuds which I've reviewed
a little bit on my channel,
I'm gonna do a more extensive review
in a few weeks hopefully, it's a pair of earbuds
where the charge case not only powers
your headphones back up,
but they will charge your smartphone
or your tablet as a powerbank,
so you get a powerbank and a pair of headphones
and these are $19.99, you're not
going to find that on Walmart.
So, that would be the top 10 list
of what I would not buy on Walmart.
Mattsdailydeals.com just as an example
of what you can find elsewhere.
I'm gonna give you guys a bonus,
which is a not good purchase right now, anywhere.
And those are DSLR cameras.
I know many of you have been requesting
those deals and bundles from me.
The bundles that you see right now,
whether they are on walmart.com or Amazon,
they're just being repurposed by the same third parties.
So if you guys see, Adorama Camera right here,
BeachCamera, you're gonna see B&H, Tri-State Camera,
these same stores repackaging these bundles again
and again are advertising camera deals
on Amazon, on Best Buy, they're the same.
So Walmart is not worse, Amazon is not worse,
they're just not good anywhere.
And they're selling old cameras,
where they create these list prices that seem really high,
because they're packaging in every possible accessory
they can throw at you and then they're creating
the list price for the bundle value.
So they're telling you that the flash has a certain value,
the wipes, the tripod you're probably not gonna use,
the SD card which camera manufacturers
and gonna get you for free
and then every possible thing they can throw in.
That drives up the cost of the bundle,
so they can say it's 849, where the camera
in here is probably worth like 400 bucks or 350 right now.
You think you're getting a deal
because we're programmed to perceive things a certain way,
but those aren't deals right now,
so don't waste your time.
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