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Ed Real
Mar 8, 2007
Intresting about the repackaging. I bought an xbox360 from one of their store and I found out from microsoft that it was already register and I no longer had the 90 day warranty. I was able to speak to the manager and I had to pressure him to give me another xbox360 to replace this unit since it was already used.
 
 
 
Bipin
Mar 8, 2007
This crooked style is a BestBuy ingrained culture. I was sold a Toshiba computer that BestBuy knew to be facing a class action lawsuit because of overheating problems. When it subsequently died they charged me $700 to repair it.

 

Jim Burke
 
Mar 9, 2007
The next time I will be in a Best Buy store is for the going out of business sale.

 

 

Adam
#254
Mar 10, 2007
I know some of the ComUSA stores are not ran well, but here in Phoenix all I hear is "We will miss your store". "I have shopped in other stores including Best Buy, and your guys are the most knowlagable".
This is what I here every day now sense last Tuesday
and I want to know why we are closing.

Gary
Mar 14, 2007
HEADS SHOULD ROLL!!

Ian A
 
 

 

 

Mar 17, 2007
Best Buy has lost my business. I don't care how convenient it is--this is disgusting

Ftec
 
Mar 16, 2007
Now I see why I walk out of there not buying anything.I just never liked the place. And I knew more than the sales reps.You get what you pay for.

 

Anthony
Mar 18, 2007
I have been taken for a ride by this very scam and did not buy their product at first. I went home and printed it out and they told me it was last weeks flyer. I went home and called it quits. every one is getting scamed from theese big company's it needs to stop.

 

Stephanie
 
Mar 16, 2007
I live in Delaware and had this experience before. It never made sense to me until now. As we all know, Best Buy offers a discount the first week a movie is out. I checked the discounted price online, but when I went into the store, the movie was back to a regular price (it was a Sunday, and the sales person told me it only runs from Tuesday-Saturday). I disagreed with him and was told shown the "website" which provided the higher listing. Now doubting myself, I insisted I had bought movies before on a Sunday at the discounted rate. I was referred to Customer Service. After waiting in line for more than 20 minutes, I was told to doublecheck the "customer" Internet-connected computer station to reaffirm my price. I again found the higher price. I then called my husband who was at home and had him check the Internet price I had seen. He confirmed the lower price I had started to doubt myself on over the phone to me. Armed with him on the phone, I went back to the Customer Service counter and waited in line for another 10 minutes. After fighting with the Customer Service representative for over 5 minutes about the price (they called in two salespeople who confirmed the higher price) and made to feel like I was stupid and deceitful, I pointed up at the store's policy of always honoring lower prices and was told (finally) that if I could fax a copy of the website printout with a date stamp at the bottom to their attention, they would honor the lower price. Almost an hour after I entered the store, I finally left with my new release movie with my discounted five dollars and full of frusturation at how I was treated and how if I hadn't insisted or asked the right questions, I would have been bullied into paying the higher price on an item they were banking on I would want bad enough to just not deal with the hassle. I never knew about the double website, and I couldn't figure out how there were two different prices on the same website, but I am glad this story has finally given me a basis for not feeling like I was crazy and I fought the right battle.

Kate
Mar 20, 2007
I had no idea companies even went this far to cheat their own loyal customers. I'm truly saddened by Best Buy's behavior.
 
Ex employee
i worked for best buy out of a store in texas for quite a while, and yes they do have a intranet site that is used form many dif things, as for training the goal of bestbuy is to push for more then what is bargained for. goals are made daily and met daily that is how they make the money they do. the intranet site is all used for helping the employee with "certain" deals that are needed to be skirted.
John
 
Mar 2, 2007
As a former employee of Best Buy it is very true that the 2 differing sites exist, although i actually didn't find out about it until i heard the news reports, and when i asked other employees about it, they didn't know we had 2 separate sights either. it isn't as much about the sales person trying to cheat the customer, as much as the company trying to cheat the customer, I'll bet the majority of non supervisor and manager employees have no idea about the 2 different websites.

 

 

Brandon Nguyen
Mar 2, 2007
The same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. It didn't make sense at the time. I thought I had a bad memory. This is truly underhanded and conniving on the part of Best Buy. When they first opened many years ago, they definitely had the best prices. But now, I will never buy another overpriced item there ever again. Whoever's been in charge in corporate, they are running a once great company into the ground.

Scott in Illinois
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Mar 2, 2007
This happened to me when I tried to buy the D-Link Home Media Server. I checked the website, found it for something like $179 on BestBuy.com, 5 minutes later I ran over to the store and found it for closer to $200. I asked one of the "experts" why it was more expensive and he directed me to what I now believe to be the 'intranet' website and showed me a $199 price not 5 minutes after I checked the site at home. Amazingly the employee suggested they might have updated the website price in the 5 minutes while I was driving!
Monkey poooh
 
 
 
Mar 2, 2007
I hope Best Buy takes it hard for this one !
Microsoft is next ?
Rob
 
Mar 2, 2007
All I can say is Buyer Beware, I would venture to guess this as a very common problem. there is an easy fix. Don't leave any of your hard earned money there. I can assure you I don't.

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