WTF Best Buy??

[Abe21599]

Ive been a loyal customer for a while to best buy. Always looking there first for deals and now they go and pull this?

Best Buy's Anti-Sales Trick People Into Overpaying for Computers

this is annoying. anyone else agree with me here?

EDIT: heres another link

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2010/05/best-buy-advertising-higher-prices-as-sales/

 

[zerosouls]

Ive been a loyal customer for a while to best buy. Always looking there first for deals and now they go and pull this?

Best Buy's Anti-Sales Trick People Into Overpaying for Computers

this is annoying. anyone else agree with me here?

I build my computers from the ground up, so it doesn't really surprise me distributers like this, especially the big ones would take advantage of the public like this.

 

[LtKen]

Big Box stores pull crazy stuff like this all the time. I stopped reading The Consumerist because I got tired of hearing about it.

BB gets my business because I'm impatient, but I also tread lightly, and know how to keep them from effing with me. You just have to know what buttons to push: they tried to sell me an "optimized" laptop at the marked up price because they didn't have any "unoptimized" units in stock. Rather than bend over and take it, I made it clear to the manager that he was going to sell me the laptop at the sticker price, or I was going to make his life hell.

You just have to know how to place the game.

 

[dr01dm0dd3r]

i understand your upset, but that is reaally offtopic from droids.

 

[DessoThumbs]

sorta like the ole bait and switch trick. I like BB but always look at newegg first. THEY ROCK. Amazon isn't bad and Office Max got my business on my daughter's laptop beating out everyone by about a hunderd bux or so. I try not to be too loyal to a big box or online store, just shop shop shop...
Here's my favorite pic from a recent trip to dallas:

 

[LtKen]

i understand your upset, but that is reaally offtopic from droids.

Technically anything that is not a Droid-based discussion is "off topic". Want the Venn Diagram or set theory notation?

 

[Abe21599]

i understand your upset, but that is reaally offtopic from droids.

this is the OFFTOPIC part of the forum - what should i post here?

and how is it that off topic? best buy is a retail electronics store and the droid is...umm...an electronic

 

[BlazinCaucasian]

i understand your upset, but that is reaally offtopic from droids.

thats why it was posted in the off topic section

 

[Abe21599]

sorta like the ole bait and switch trick. I like BB but always look at newegg first. THEY ROCK. Amazon isn't bad and Office Max got my business on my daughter's laptop beating out everyone by about a hunderd bux or so. I try not to be too loyal to a big box or online store, just shop shop shop...

yea i recently started using amazon and have always been a loyal customer to newegg but i always counted on best buy for like when you wanna go try something out..

 

[ricepuddin]

I took a nap leaning against that very BB vending machine ( i think, only seen one at DFW) because i was to tired (read lazy) to go to the USO.

You can always find a better deal, it just sometimes requires patients. something most of us are in short supply of!

 

[smokiedabong]

What's so hard ? Slide your Droid , input the product name , hit shopping . Or even easier , use the bar code scanner. It's showing you the price on eBay , Amazon , NewEgg , Buy , Best Buy , Office Max and another thousand stores . Do you think this requires patience and time ? Some of the products are cheaper , other more expensive , what do you expect , it's a business . Sometimes even the price on their website is 200$ lower than the one in store .

 

[aaf709]

I rarely go to BB myself and when I do, I know what I'm going for. The one I got my Droid from has pretty good people, though.

 

[titans]

i understand your upset, but that is reaally offtopic from droids.

That's kinda why he posted here, hence the forum section name "Off Topic Discussions"

 

[pyro6128]

i understand your upset, but that is reaally offtopic from droids.

haha who invited the rocket scientist

 

[Abe21599]

i love how more ppl are commenting on the one person who said i shouldnt post this here than the actual topic