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Best Buy has always earned my disdain with their retail price mentality. But now, the NYT is reporting that the mega chain and Circuit City have both told sales associates that a little haggling to get the sale done is fine. People in the company are saying this is not new. But I'm sure many don't know about it, so it is to consumers. Translation: Before you buy, bitch about the prices, Chinatown style.
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Wow: Best Buy and Circuit City Unofficially OK With Haggling
Best Buy has always earned my disdain with their retail price mentality. But now, the NYT is reporting that the mega chain and Circuit City have both told sales associates that a little haggling to get the sale done is fine. People in the company are saying this is not new. But I'm sure many don't know about it, so it is to consumers. Translation: Before you buy, bitch about the prices, Chinatown style.
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Best Buy Pledges $50 For Each HD DVD Buyer; Trade-Ins, Too
Apparently, the cost of Best Buy declaring Blu-ray the winner is $10 million—at least, that's how much it plans to give away when it issues a $50 gift card to everyone who bought an HD DVD player or HD DVD Xbox drive before February 23. (So, BB sold at least 200,000 HD DVD players in 2006 and 2007?) And it's not even something you have to fight for: If you are in the Reward Zone program, bought it with a Performance Service Plan or just made the transaction on BestBuy.com, the company will send you a card by May 1. If you paid cash at a store, though, you'll have to dig out that receipt. The company, like its competitor Circuit City, is also offering trade-ins for players and discs, regardless of where you bought them, through BB's online trade-in center. Make the jump for extra details.More »
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iPod Nano Getting Purple Paint Job?
This image from a Circuit City advertisement seems to show the iPod nano dressed up in yet another sickening color—this time deep purple. The advertisement was spotted in a circular today, but we have not seen it for ourselves. Has anyone glimpsed a shot of the picture in question? And do we really need purple to add to the list of nauseating colors the iPod nano already comes in? Sentences ending in questions aside, we have seen the iPod shuffle gain a similar purple treatment, so it does not seem imposible. We'll let you know as soon as we hear any official word on the potential update. [Connection Podcast]
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Old Websites Sure Are Funny
Digging through websites cached from the 90s is akin to seeing a celebrity's high school yearbook pictures—during the early, awkward years of the web, brave companies made a stab at winning consumer hearts through 15" CRTs and 14.4k dial up modems. Inspired by this MSU page, we decided to take a gander through the Internet Archive's Wayback machine (a service that started saving pages in 1996). Needless to say, we found some funny stuff. More »
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Circuit City Clearing Out HD DVD Players For Cheap, For Ever
A Circuit City employee writes on the High-Def Digest forum that Big Red is taking Toshiba's already deep HD DVD price cuts a step bloodier: They've tagged the cheap HD-A3 and higher-end HD-A30 as clearance items, moving them out the door for $100 and $150, respectively. Placing HD DVD on clearance effectively means Circuit City is quitting the format, at least on the hardware side. Someone ring the bell, please. [High-Def Digest via Max Console] UPDATE: It looks like this was probably a pricing error. [High-Def Digest]
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Circuit City Black Friday Ad Offers Best Deals So Far
The Best Buy Black Friday ad held a couple deals in terms of reasonably priced TVs and a $399 Sony laptop that's sure to sell out before you even get in the store, but Circuit City has its own set of goodies for you to camp out for. More »
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Circuit City Becoming 'The City' With Best Buy-like Store Layout?
The reported Circuit City store redesign may not have come yet, but we've found pictures of a supposed concept store that looks and feels a lot like Best Buy. This Circuit City store—which has the new name "The City"—is open to the public in some unknown place. Our tipster says it's a last ditch effort by the CEO to revive the company, but the domain "thecity.com" has been registered by Circuit City since 1995. Whether this experimental store will expand to nationwide status is still unknown. The above pic is from the Richmond, VA retail location down the street from the corporate office. [Retailworker - Thanks Tipsters!]
Circuit City is irked about seeing their weekly ads up on Cheap Ass Gamer and DVD Talk before they hit the Sunday papers, especially the one that revealed the PS3 price drop—they've subpoenaed both sites for info about the leaker. [Kotaku]
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Buy One, Get One Free Xbox LIVE Points (and Subsequently Games)
This Sunday's Circuit City ad is offering savings of $20 on the purchase of two Xbox LIVE accessories $19.99 and up. Constomers have double checked, and the deal applies to LIVE points, which means you can get a two-for-one special on 1600 point cards! Go forth, buy the cheap cards, and get future LIVE Arcade purchases for half price. Or just sell them on Ebay. [ad via joystiq]
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Dealzmodo: Toshiba Satellite S4527 Dual Core Vista Notebook, $650
Circuit City has $100 off a pretty snazzy Toshiba laptop. The S4527 laptop has a T2080 1.7GHz processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB hard drive, CD/DVD burner, 15.4-inch widescreen, Wi-Fi, card reader and includes Windows Vista Home Premium. The grand total is $650 after the $100 instant savings. Not bad for an average laptop, although I would prefer a Core 2 Duo processor. More »
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Microsoft Vista Launch Deals
Tomorrow is Vista's official launch date and if you're one of the
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Circuit City to Internet: Don't Use Our Coupons
Yesterday in our Dealzmodo, we posted a link to a $40 Circuit City coupon, which could be used on a Wii if they were available this weekend. Then we saw this post on digg:ADVERTISEMENT CORRECTION NOTICEMore »
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Dealzmodo: You. Wii. Circuit City. $209
In addition to Best Buy, the birdies are saying that Circuit City will also have Wii's in stock this Sunday, but the fun doesn't end there. Print out this awesome coupon to receive $40 off your purchase of $199 or more bringing the Wii down to $209. If you don't get a Wii, don't fret, just use the coupon on a giant TV or refrigerator to compensate for your loss. More »
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