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    Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches

    Dear Best Buy, If You're Going to Cheat Grandmas, Don't Leave Photographic Evidence

    Rumor: Best Buy Dumping 80GB PS3, Will Only Sell 40GB Version

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    As a corporate policy this is hideous, fortunately the policy at my local Best Buy is to hire idiots who are incapable of such trickery.


    This allowed me to not only get a price match on an item that was out of stock at the competitor (conveniently right next door), but, due to their employees' inability to differentiate between models, a higher speced version.

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    A lot of those seem like pretty standard requirements on most price match policies. The difference is, a lot of times if you go to a Wal-Mart they will override the price anyways once you talk to a manager.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    Bah, price matching is just a gimmick. I wouldn't expect a brick and mortar to match an internet price, and retailers all maintain similar margins. IF the price difference is real, then you should just buy the merchandise at the other store. Nobody's going to match some other guy's misprinted "sale" flyer price. I just don't see these exceptions as much to get worked up about.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    Please God, let Worst Buy go down in flames.
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    03/23/09

    @b0bcat: "Please God, let Worst Buy go down in flames."


    Bad plan. I mean, where else are we going to go to compare and test drive an extensive selection of electronic products before ordering them on Amazon?

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    And in their infinite complacency, Best Buy moved to and fro across the globe, confident in their empire over this world.
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    03/23/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:

    So, are you saying aliens are going to come shooting up out of the ground and destroy all of the Best Buys? 'Cause that would be cool!
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    03/23/09

    @Hank Scorpio: But, across the vast reaches of the consumer base, customers vast, irritated, and unsympathetic, regarded this chain with weary eyes, and slowly, and surely, drew their plans, against them.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    So the employees are trained that the price match policy has requirements. SCANDALOUS.
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    03/23/09

    @underwhelm: So bait and switch is SOP. SCANDALOUS.
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    03/23/09

    @Killjoy: Show me where Best Buy claims to match prices without reservation. You can't because they don't.


    Every "price match" guarantee from every retailer has requirements, Best Buy is no different.

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    03/23/09

    @underwhelm: Yeah, but they will automatically try and deny you unless you argue the case that the price-match you want meets all of the policy requirements. And then even when you are right, they will try not to give it to you.


    That is shistey no matter how you look at it.

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    nope. Bunch of thieves, heard one of the geek squad punks trying to sell a lovely couple a copy of VMware for their Macbook air when they could partition and put Windows on it for free. Not to mention how poorly it would run on such underpowered Hardware
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    03/23/09

    @mcnuggetofdeath:


    Yeah it works fine on mine too. Maybe the customer didn't want to dual boot? I know people who would rather virtualize than dual boot just for convenience.

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    03/23/09

    @FDCPAGuy: LOL, MBA users. hehehe.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    Worked there when I was 14. Thought the employee discount was awesome. Then I heard about a revolutionary site called "amazon"...
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    03/23/09

    @Darrone: Amazon is evil, I spend so much money online shopping there, it's and addiction. NewEgg is also a huge weakness of mine.
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    03/23/09

    @Josh Tate: Newegg takes more of my money that I want to give them, but they keep sending me the coolest stuff!
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    Is anybody surprised? at all?
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    03/23/09

    @IcemanD: It's surprising to me that there is a bonus specifically related to price-matching and not just general sales price.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price Matches
    ..and yet, Circuit City is out of business...
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    03/23/09

    @CooperDToo: There is a difference between being evil and being incompetent.
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    03/05/09

    In reply to Dear Best Buy, If You're Going to Cheat Grandmas, Don't Leave Photographic Evidence
    ew, i would barf in my mouth if i knew that anything i purchased from best buy was ever handled by that bearded monstrosity. ew. gross. ew.
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    03/05/09

    @cloudnine: You should avoid the fleshlights in their sex toy section.
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    Image of chanmoss chanmoss
    03/05/09

    In reply to Dear Best Buy, If You're Going to Cheat Grandmas, Don't Leave Photographic Evidence
    stop shopping big box! shop local! is there such a thing anymore--a local camera salesman?
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    03/05/09

    @chanmoss: A local cameras salesman for me is a Ritz Shop, and boy aren't they better!
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    03/05/09

    @jblock: The problem with local camer/electronics stores is that they can't compete with the pricing. If you buy a camera from a local place (that isn't in reality part of a larger chain) you will pay a shit-ton more for it.


    Buy on-line. There are very very few local camera/electronics stores any more anyway.

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    03/05/09

    @chanmoss: Sure.


    We got Glazers in Seattle and Kenmore Camera in Kenmore.


    There are some other small mom and pop shops too.


    For all else, there is BHPhoto and CanogaCamera.

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