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
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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
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The next time I will be in a Best Buy store is for the going out of business sale. |
Adam
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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. |
Ian A
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Mar 17, 2007
Best Buy has lost my business. I don't care how convenient it is--this is disgusting |
Ftec
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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
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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
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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
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I had no idea companies even went this far to cheat their own loyal customers. I'm truly saddened by
Best Buy's behavior.
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Ex employee
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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
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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.
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Brandon Nguyen
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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
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Mar 2, 2007
I hope Best Buy takes it hard for this one ! Microsoft is next ? |
Rob
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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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