Many readers have had questions about Walmart’s 1-hour in stock guarantee. Here is all the information you need about that:
- Visit a Walmart store on November 28th starting at 6:00pm (local time)and select items are guaranteed to be in stock for 1 hour.
- If any of the guaranteed items sell out in the first hour you can purchase a Guarantee Card to ensure that the item will ship to your store before Christmas. But you have to be there during that 1 hour of opening to get the Guarantee Card.
- There is a limit of one Guarantee Card per customer per item.
Here is a list of the guaranteed 1-hour in stock items:
- iPad mini wi-fi 16gb black or white $299 plus $100 Walmart gift card with purchase
- 32″ Class LED HDTV $98
- Vizio 60″ Class Smart LED HDTV $688
- Call of Duty: Ghosts $39.96
- Select Video Games (Grand Theft Auto, Assassins Creed, NBA 2k 14, Batman Arkham Origins) $34.00
- LG Blu-Ray Player $38.00
- RCA 7″ Dual Core Tablet $49.00
- Furby Boom $29.00
- HP Pavillion Touchsmart 14-B109WM Laptop $278
- Straight Talk Galaxy Centura $29.00
- Beats by Dr. Dre Solo Headphones $114.95
- Graco Travel System $99.00
- 1 Carat T.W. Diamond & Sterling Silver Pendant & Earring Set $98.00
Hopefully this post answers all the questions you have had about how the 1-hour guarantee will work. 🙂
Becky
I appreciate this! I was wondering since Target is “limited to in stock items” and I going to have to be there before dawn to get my iPad & gift card?
Heather
Thanks for the great deals and info!
Penny
Thanks for the info!
Amy
Do you know if Black Friday items will be on the walmart.com website too?
Kenna
Thank you so much for helping us all out!
Brittany Smith
That is awesome! Thanks for the info!
Allyson
Cool thanks for the information!
Corina
Thanks for the additional info!
Bethany
This did answer my questions. Thanks for your helpful information, always!
Christine
Thank you!
Lauren McGee
Thanks for clearing that up!! 🙂
Heather Craghead
Will these items be online as we’ll?
Angie Grimwood
I was also wondering if these prices would be online as well at that time.
Lissa
I’ve been wondering about the sale being online too. I was hoping to order it from the website. Do you think we’ll be able to do that?
Susan
Must you get to the register within the hour? Or, do you just have to be in the store by then?
Jamee Lee
I’m also wondering this.
brook
I talked to the centerville Walmart and the said you can show up a couple hours early and the associates on the floor will have a map of where each guarantee item line will be at. You get in line and starting at 6 they will give you a guarantee card and the item if available. They stop handing out the cards at 7 but as long as you have that card you can purchase it. If you don’t get your actual item they will “site to store” it and you will be contacted once the item is ready. They said there will be tons of people so show up in time to wait in line!
Elizabeth B.
Thanks, I was wondering the same thing 🙂 I just hope the lines are not huge and that I’m able to get a guarantee card.
Shauna
I went last year for some items that were on sale at 8 pm. They had been unwrapped and everyone was crowded around the items with one hand on them. It was CRAZY! It was much more organized for the other item I wanted and you just got in line and they handed them to you.
Becky
I’m also wondering if these prices will be honored on-line. Do you know about that?
Robert
It says pretty clearly below the In-Stock Guarantee tag that it’s In-Store Only. Not sure why people can’t look for themselves and rely on everyone else to do it for them.
Jennifer Jones
Don’t be snarky. Where is your Christmas spirit?
Robert
It’s not yet Thanksgiving, so my Christmas spirit hasn’t arrived yet sorry.
John
Prick
April Love
Thank you so much. This is a great info.
Robyn
Thanks for the info!
Sara
Just have the same question as the others about prices on-line! Thanks so much!
Hannah
I am also wondering about online. Do you know if they still do the gift card deals online? Like the $100 gift card with purchase??
StephanieA
In the fine print the ad says the iPad mini and gift card deal is an in-store only sale.
Christa
This is really good to know information. Thank you for sharing.
Toni
Thanks for this post. I’m looking to get the $49 tablet. The ad says it starts at 8. Does that mean I have to be in line or what ever between 8-9 to get the guarantee? Or can I just show up sometime before 9 after in get other items I’m looking for? Thanks for the help
Ginny
Great deals, but these are for Thanksgiving, not Black Friday right? I love bargains, but will not sacrifice family time on Thanksgiving.
Amy
Thank you so much for researching and posting this:)
Angela Meyers
So the Ipad mini is going to be $199.00 after the GC??? That’s super duper! I wonder does it mean if you want, say the $98 TV and the Ipad mini you only get a ‘guarantee’ for ONE item in stock?
Ariel Fox
Thanks for the info!
Aubri pennington
I was looking for the best deal on iPad mini! This is the best so far! Thank you!
Sarah
My ADD goes crazy with all the stuff!!
Megan
Thanks
Lydia
Good to know, thanks.
Maggie
Good to know!
KD
Thanks!
Natalie
Wondered how that would work!! Thanks for the info!
Jenn
Thats a great deal for the ipad mini – even though its the older version.
cathy Foster
Awesome! Thank you!
Jessika Pearce
Perfect!! Thanks for the info!
Lorrie Law
Thanks for all your hard work and research!
Katie
Do you know if you can get these prices online?
Cherylee
From what I have been reading the one hour deals are only in store.
Hilary Johnson
Has anyone does this before? I wonder what if the line is over an hour long? Say you get there are 6:30 and get right in line but there are are already an hours worth of people in front of you? Unless they are not checking you out back there… Does any of that make sense? 🙂
CRA
Typically they have an associate there to cut off the line at that time and monitor who was last (last year they gave that person some sort of card of something to signify they were last)
Char
So here’s the thing – can someone clarify – do you have to be in LINE within the hour – or checked OUT by 7 – because, lets be honest people -this is walmart….. its going to take them FOREVER to check people out.
Tiffany McBaine
You have to be in the line to either get the item or a card. You can check out at any time.
Jamie
It will be like paying $199 for an iPad mini! Fantastic deal! Thanks for the info!
monica
awesome!
Jasmine
Does anyone know if the tablet is a quality product? I’m having a hard time finding something to compare it to.
laurie
thank you.
Beth
You are the best! Thank you for keeping us informed!
Angie
So if you get the Guaruntee card and not the item, do you still get the gift card when you checkout? Also, can you use the gift card the same day?
Marielle
thank you!
keely hostetter
We are taking advantage of this, this year. Thanks
Ruth
Here’s my question: If I show up at 6:00, fill my cart with doorbusters and don’t check out until 9:00, are the 6:00 prices still good? My logic says yes, but Black Friday/Thanksgiving isn’t always logical.
Andrea Clark
Very helpful information! Thank you for clarifying some questions we all have had.
Marianne
Thank you for the info. I might actually have a chance at getting the headphones my husband wants!
Shannon
Yay! Thanks for all this info!
Amy D
Thank you so much!
Shelly
I have a feeling Ill only get through one guarantee line before the hour is up…. I better decide what I want the most I guess 🙂
Jaime S
Last year I got the iPad with the gift card and it was a similar deal to the ones this year. It didn’t matter when you checked out. The line was very long but everyone got a card for it. I waited maybe 2 weeks before I got the iPad. And the store notified me when I could pick it up. I did see the same deal come up later online…
Rosemary
I ordered the iPad yesterday, but I was wondering about the gift card, was I supposed to get it when I payed or do I get an electronic one?
Katie bullock
Thanks
KaDee
This is so good to know. Makes waiting in the line better because you know you have a better chance of getting what you came for.
Cass
Thanks, appreciate the info!
Coylette
Definitely helpful! You guys answered all my questions and then some! Much appreciated!
Rachel
Thanks! It’s hard to read into the store rules and promos sometimes. Walmart is a tricky one with their sales lasting for 3 days, etc.
Kate N
Wow! Thanks!
candice
I had no idea Walmart was doing this. I like the guaranteed in stock idea. Thanks for the information!
Shauna Burton
Thank you! That helps!
Alicia
Thanks Melea. Happy Thanksgiving.
jen
Thanks! I was wondering how this worked. This is great info!
becky
Thanks for always keeping us updated.
Mykal Shirley
Thanks for all the great info! You are awesome!
Cathy
Good to know! Having a husband in the medical profession that has to work on holidays, I am sad that all these stores are opening on Thanksgiving , so I guess this is something I will miss out on.
Chantele Sedgwick
I had no idea they did this. Thanks for the heads up!
Laura
I had no idea! Thanks for the info!
Amy C
Awesome Deal!
Kay
Thank you so much. You are so good at clarifying information and it’s really helpful in planning my strategy!
Tina
I just spoke to our electronics mngr at our local Walmart. She said that they are doing wristbands this year so instead of getting a “ticket” in your line, you will get a band which guarantees you to get the product as long as you come back to pay for it within an hour from the starting time. This allows you to walk around and get other bands or items rather than waiting in that same line.
Kacie
Wow! Much better than the ticket idea and having to stand in line and miss out on all of the other deals. Thanks Tina! Happy Thanksgiving and Shopping 🙂
Annie
This was helpful, thank you. We are excited for the great deal on the blu ray player
Kristen F.
Thanks for the heads up.
Ang
I stood in line for 3 hours last thanksgiving to get the 60 in Vizio, I think this is awesome that walmart is doing in stock guarantee, less waiting time and more time to spend with your family.
Denise
Thank you!
EliseH
Thanks for letting us know! I was confused about which products were included when I was looking at the ad.
Tiffany D
I really want to get the Beats headphones but I am wondering how the price match thing works if I want a particular color? I don’t want to wait in line and fight the crowds if I don’t get my favorite color. Does anyone know?
Terra
Thanks for going through things like this and explaining them. It is very helpful to be able to go to one site (freebies2deals) and find out about most the deals that I need, and some that I wasn’t expecting!
Brenda
Thanks for answering my questin. Your amazing to do all this for us.
Janet Pierce
That is very helpful!
N. X. Excelsisdeo
These deals don’t look like they’re worth waiting in any line for. NEXT!
Katie P
Good to know
Zinthia
For those of you that want the deal online and not to make lines in store. I just got an email from Best Buy (which kept their apple deals hidden until today) they have today only online sale of the mini ipad for $299 plus a $100 BB gift card that will be mailed to you.
Now my question is, the gift card you get at Walmart since you get it same day, can you use the gift card that same day towards other products/doorbusters? I can surely use that gift card to buy more gifts on items they will have that day. But don’t know if they are restrictions where GC can only be used after certain date? i read somewhere that it can be used for a future purchase.
CRA
Typically with a gift card it can’t be used on the same register trasaction and take up to three hours to post the amount on the gift card. My suggestion, if you like BB more, get it there, but if you are willing to wait for it at Walmart, take a friend and you get in line and buy the Ipad while they get in another line and once you have bought the Ipad call and check the GC balance, if it says $100, give it to your friend to pay for your remaining gifts! If not, then you always have a GC for another time (like next year or groceries 🙂 )
Kevin
Best Buy deal says “Sold Out Online”. Looks like we all missed out on that one.
Kevin
So, do you think they’ll have ANY of the iPad Minis actually “in-stock”? Or will it just be “get in line and get a card”?
The reason I wonder is because I need TWO of them, but the fine print says “1 guarantee card per person per item”. ðŸ™
omar nicarry
I purchased an ipad mini on the 1 hour stock guarantee and can’t find the Walmart.com/1hour guarantee website to validate same
B. Delk
Yeah, I’m sitting online trying to register for the item I’ve purchased. A 30 second timer counts down and re-starts again. Millions of people are registering their purchased item online. I don’t think I’ll be able to get in prior to the deadline. This is a scam I say….
B. Delk
P.S. If you can’t register in time they will give a Walmart Gift Card. This is the biggest crap I’ve ever seen…
GS
I got the guarantee card for the Ipad mini and checked out. charged 299.99.
I didnt get a gift card when I checked out at the register. The cashier said everything is handled online.
For those of you who got the guarantee card, did you get your $100 gift card at the time of purchase?
GS
after a few error messages I was able to complete the online process. To answer my own question, the $100 gift card is emailed when the Ipad mini is shipped.
david pelfrey
how do you register your guarantee card walmart.com/1hourguarantee says can not display page at this time
Amy e
Pretty sure the makers of the obamacare website made the 1-hour guarantee website too. I first got to the site and it said can not display page. Went back 5 mins. later and now I have got the page saying they are extremely busy.
John
Walmart in Brandon fl did not honor the guarantee. Employees and one man that identified himself as a manger at the electronics department did not know about the cards and had no interest in helping get one. Basically employees seemed unhappy about working today and were having a hard time hiding it. I finally found the area the iPads were. Found two female employees with a box with several iPads which they declined to sell. They did tell me they might have some to sell after 8 and suggested I shop until then. I decided I will pay a little more somewhere else where they have happier employees.
Ishmael
Ok I have a guarantee card for a 32″ tv and I’m trying to register it. Once I’m at the website I make it past the 30 second countdown thing but can’t make it past the part requring the access code from the receipt. It keeps showing red saying that its invalid. Can anyone help me this is so frustrating!!!!!!!
Teresa
Ok went on the site put on my receipt information to get it sent to the store but the one hour csrd i was given when you scatch it off is not where you can get the #s properly so am I still gonna get it for that price cause I cant get the code in ??
mac Morris
went to a walmart in ohio got a wrist band for ipad mini. got a ipad in hand and a voucher/gift card for another. at the register she rang up my ipad mini and then gave me $100 gift card then she rang up my voucher/gift card for the ipad mini and did not give me the gift card for that one so i asked why and she had no clue so we go a manager and the manager said that the system was screwing up so she had me pay for my purchase then after that she gave me another $100 gift card. when i got home and did the one hour guarantee online that is when i found out that you do not get the gift card until the item is shipped. so i made out like a bandit. got 2 ipad minis and $300 worth of gift cards when i was only entitled to $200.
Trish
If only the sale ad were true.
Imagine your surprise to find all in stock mini iPads sold out 4 hours before the sale began. Here’s how Black Friday at my local WalMart played out.
Wrist bands were given out to customers up to 4 hours before the sale for mini iPads was to begin. These lucky people were able to pay for and get the in-store / in-stock ipad (and a $100 gift card) once the advertised sale began; all other customers who waited in line were given a 1-hour In Store Guarantee flyer.
Those of us with flyers paid for the mini ipad at the store and were told to register on line with a code from our cash register receipt and a code from our flyer to ORDER our “already purchased” mini to be shipped to our local Walmart. The mini MAY get here as late as three days before Christmas, but the kicker is the gift card.
While you have already forked over $325 to Walmart for your mini, (which may not get here within next ten days) the advertised $100 gift card WILL NOT be given to you until you pick up your mini.
My issue is with the wording on the sale flyer — a $100 gift card with purchase. The ad DOES NOT say with purchase and pick up of item.
Walmart’s response when I pressed them on their holding my gift card hostage was, “the transaction is not complete until the customer picks up the item, and since there are many dishonest people who could cancel their order after we(Walmart) had given them a gift card , this type of person would have essentially received a free gift card.”
What?! So I am being treated like a dishonest person? Walmarts ad DOES NOT say with purchase AND pick up of item. This is false advertisement, so who is being dishonest here??
Keep at it Walmart and that’s all you’ll have shopping there, I’m out!
Amanda Greene
False ads is absolutely true!!! Come to my surprise I bought 2 mini ipads 1 hour guarantee in store after so much confusion with so many managers co workers at walmart once your shipping goes through which should be a few business days then your gift cards are suppose to post online but did mine friday morning and still waiting but once it post online you can go shopping online but if you wait till they ship your minis it is still ecard meaning only shop online so Ibbelieve the better business bureau needs to know about this because I am still irate about the bracelets being given out 4 hours earlier and no one can tell me where that was advertised because it want
Amanda Greene
Access code not working go back to store to get new access code my aunt had the same problem
JAGGA
The Ipad Mini Walmart put on sale that day had “One Hour Guarantee”. That means in that one hour guarantee period, whoever got the ticket of that item and paid for that item must have the item too. They cannot say the item is out of stock, and especially, they cannot say the item is out of stock when they already get paid for the item 17-18 days ago. And now they sent me an email showing they canceled my order saying the item is out of stock. When I paid for the item on Black Friday night(17-18 days ago), the item wasn’t out of stock. On Black Friday, I stayed awake the whole night and got the ticket including excess code and paid for my ipad Mini, and registered my purchase online, and in few hours I already received the confirmation email from walmart, which showed my order will be ready between 12/14/13 and 12/22/13 at my local walmart store. And now on the 12/13/13, I received an email showed that walmart issued $328.16 to gift card and canceled my order. I didn’t stay awake the whole night on Black Friday to buy just walmart gift card. If I want to buy just Walmart gift card, I can go to the store anytime and buy it.
I already bought the case cover for this ipad mini, and emotionally attached to this item, and have been waiting for since I paid for my item(17-18 days ago). If Walmart wasn’t sure whether that item would be “in stock or out of stock”, the Walmart wasn’t suppose to advertise “One Hour Guarantee” on the sale paper, and make customers paid for the item at the store right a way. It is really immoral if they cancel the order just like this saying the item is out of stock, especially in these type of cases.
JAGGA
Walmart must have made millions of dollar enforcing customers, including me pay for the item on Black Friday. I have paid $328.16 for my Ipad Mini at the store, and registered the excess code online. I have received the confirmation email from walmart, which showed my order will be ready between 12/14/13 and 12/22/13 at my local walmart store. And now on the 12/13/13, I received an email showed that walmart issued $328.16 to gift card and canceled my order. I didn’t stay awake the whole night on Black Friday to buy just walmart gift card. If I want to buy just Walmart gift card, I can go to the store anytime and buy it. If Walmart wasn’t sure whether that item would be “in stock or out of stock”, the Walmart wasn’t supposed to advertise “One Hour Guarantee” on the sale paper, and made customers paid for the item at the store right a way. Now they don’t want to refund the money either saying their system won’t let them refund the money; moreover they issued gift cards.
So, one hour guarantee deals came out a scam, and it’s called cheating.
JAGGA
Someone or we all have to step-up and fight for this issue. I and may be all people who suffer have all the receipts and documents, which would help to law suit them.
Amy
Don’t be fooled. I waited in line for 2 hours at the Marysville Walmart for the beats headphones. I got my ticket that I had to go online and order the headphones. I of course had to pay for them up front. Anyways they are suppose to be here before Christmas. Well I got an email stating that the order is close to being here but they (Walmart) was going to be sending a 10.00 gift card for any inconvience in case it doesn’t arrive before Christmas. Which told me that they would not be here before Christmas. I if course had to pay for the headphones up front but they have failed to follow through on their before Christmas promise. What a joke I will not be doing this again. Shame on you Walmart!!
Linda
I have gone through the same thing. How can Walmart ruin Christmas for innocent children. Corporate greed has went too far this time. Never again will I fall for their lies!!