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Cash907Censored
10/03/09

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Cool, so this means I'll be camped out at Walmart instead of BB this year. Fine by me, at least Walmart has more then 4 checkers working that morning. It took five minutes to find what I wanted last year, and almost two hours to pay for the fucking thing.
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SuperTuna
10/02/09

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That's ok because I haven't found myself in a Best Buy in about two years. My wife and I are quite happy avoiding the ol' blue and yellow.
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spydr101
10/02/09

@SuperTuna: <3 online shopping
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BeerManMike
10/02/09

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Why people shop at bestbuy is beyond me, bunch of mouthbreathers or soccer moms that know nothing and don't have/know a tech kid. This is coming from a son that has a dad that bought a 52A750 from them a while ago that came with a free blu-ray player. The price was decent but he ended up getting ALL the extras besides the monster cables, his "decent deal" cost him almost $3000, yup 5yr PSP. Sigh.
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nutbastard
10/02/09

@BeerManMike:

agreed. i dont think i've ever bought anything electronic in a brick and mortar store. internet research is better than what the ignorant sales person tells you. internet pricing is better. internet return policies are better.

then again, i bet the same people buy used cars from dealerships.
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Venomuss
10/02/09

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I have walked into Best Buy at least 10 times in the past 3 weeks.... And I walked out with nothing.
Why?............ Price!

Thank you Amazon, NewEgg and Ebay.
With Amazon Prime I have it next day for$3.99 or Free Two day shipping.
NewEgg is three day and sometimes faster.

Just because most if not all the other Electronics chains are gone does not mean you have no competition.
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nowayman
10/02/09

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I wonder on two things.

A major corporation is saying "we're adding more jobs." Jobs cost money.

Warehouses don't cost near as much money, which is why Amazon, online, etc are cheaper than Best Buy. Less employees.

Do you want jobs? Or a discount on an unnecessary purchase? I can't figure Americans out sometimes- they get butthurt about both sides of the same coin. We wonder where our jobs go even as we refuse to pay for them to exist.
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NeoAkira
10/02/09

@nowayman: There's a middle ground you know? You don't have to price something unreasonably high just because you have workers.

Prime example: There is a Fry's Electronics and Best Buy down the street from eachother. Both large brick-and-mortar electronics stores. Both have to pay their employees.

Fry's ALWAYS has the lower prices. So what I'm wondering is why you're protecting Best Buy's overpricing of its products?
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nowayman
10/02/09

@NeoAkira: Protecting overpricing is one thing, expecting and shopping only for ridiculous price cuts are another. Best Buy can be overpriced and you can purchase elsewhere. They'll sink or swim on that notion, and that's fine.

Again... adding jobs bitching about no fire sales. Best Buy can douche it up with an HDMI cable to a few people if that means someone's working this Christmas. Not one post here is saying "sweet! jobs!" How many other large companies are saying that today? It's worth more compliment than negativity. If GM did that, with their shitty cars and often shitty prices, I'm not sure I would mention how little I care for them AT that particular moment.
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Curves
10/02/09

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OK, if they dont want my money, there are plenty of other retailers who do......
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Slyd3z
10/02/09

@Curves: Screw retailers, I'd gladly accept your money. :)
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/02/09

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Are Best Buy blue-shirts as expendable as Star Trek red-shirts?
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OCEntertainment
10/02/09

@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: New set of employees every time I walk in the store? Yeah, sounds about right.
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Hiphopopotamus
10/02/09

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Is this a subtle signal to other retailers to keep prices at a stable level, or an invitation to undercut Best Buy?

(Airlines do this all the time by announcing price increases/decreases coming in the next 3-6 months and then if the other airlines don't make similar announcements, they don't actually change prices... it's like price-fixing but legal!)
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Monty
12/09/08

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Are you certain it is a Woot-off, because it seems to be the same cleaning robot thing that is on there every other time I visit Woot. Perhaps they just sell the same product over and over again. Then again, that would be a bit 'off'.
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Vroomtrap
12/09/08

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The iRobot Roomba 418 that's up now isn't even a deal. I just Google searched it and found at multiple other places online for the same price. w00t on!
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huginn
12/09/08

@Vroomtrap: the actual rooma 415, yes you can find cheaper (but not by much). The roomba with the Roomba Self-Charging kit as a bundle ($50-60). No you can't.

Plus it is a woot tradition and tis the season for traditions
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strider_mt2k
12/09/08

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Woot not.
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OMG! Ponies!
11/27/08

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Perhaps Curves and/or Lindsay would like to weigh in. They have a lot more credibility than any blathering idiot from CNN in my book.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/27/08

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So in reality it would have taken her all of 5 minutes to compile this list. Most of these products she either received a press release on, read about, or heard one of her coworkers talking about it. I'm sure she spend hours slaving away at this fluff piece right before a long holiday weekend...

Hey Veronica, around here we call that phoning it in.

Can't wait to see what you do for Christmas and New Years. Wait let me guess, top gadgets to buy with all those gift cards you got for Christmas and top gadgets to be on your wish list for 2009...
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Torley
11/27/08

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The Flip camcorders look like a lot of fun, but for the price, you'd be better served by a small form-factor digital camera that records videos just as well and does still photos much better. May not be as easy to upload to YouTube, but that's fairly easy to automate. I likey mah Canon 1100IS vewy muches.
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AmishJohn
11/27/08

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You may call it 'click whoring', but add an iPod or two, and we can just call it Giz.
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