Best Buy Scam
I was pretty shocked upon reading this one. Pretty bold, Best Buy. One of my blog counterparts, who normally has nothing good to say about Best Buy would have a hay day with this one.
Best Buy, like many other retailers offer a price matching program. Meaning, if you see the exact same item for the same price at another store they will honor that price. Best Buy takes it a step further and says if you see an item for a lower price on their web site they will honor it in the store. So, you pay lower Internet price. This is where it gets interesting.
Customers began to find themselves confused when checking the in-store computers to make sure that the Best Buy web site price was not lower than the in-store price. They found that the prices they were viewing on the computers in the store were not quite as low as they remembered seeing on the computers at home. Put simply, web prices were somehow higher when shopping online inside a Best Buy store.
What was going on? Well, come to find out, Best Buy was using an in-store Intranet. It was a private version that looked almost the same as their public Internet web site. There was only one difference - prices were higher. A secret investigation conducted by a reporter from the Hartford Courant gives more detail.
Best Buy has admitted to the secret in-store site, and is being investigated by the state of Connecticut. But, Best Buy says that the pricing issues were a mistake (not intentionally higher) and they never meant to mislead anyone.
For, now do your research at home and make sure to take your price comparison printouts with you.
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February 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Best buy sold us a pc for $1600.00 with piece of shit vista on it.We called and wanted to switch back to XP and the asian idiot said no can do!So I waited for this “idiot” to get off work and asked him wtf! He told me to basically fo so I knocked him out and waited for him to wake up.Then he took me seriously and changed my shit back to XP.This is what you have to do to these Best Buy pricks to get what you want.Don’t hesitate it work’s!
February 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Duuude I did almost the same thing!!Loool! But I forced his ass back in the store and shoved the sec guard outta the way who is an aquaintence and he changed it!!
February 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Best Buy has been repairing my laptop since the end of October 2007. I have this expensive warranty that states “Best Buy will replace your item if it is serviced more than 3 times. My laptop has been sent in 9 times and remains to be un-repaired. They will not replace it. I have constantly been told it will be repaired. Since the onset of the feassco,they have broken the USB port, the power switch, and it is really dirty now. I have called explained this many times to there wonderful staff at 1888bestbuy and to any manager when they will talk to me at the store and I get the same reply: “We can’t replace it without approval” Who’s approval God himself… Anyway, I won’t go away, I am persistant. I will not purchase another item from them….