Best Buy

Reminder: Being On Sale Doesn’t Make Something a Deal

One of Best Buy’s daily deals today is $40 off the Hipstreet Equinox 2. Normally retailing for $180, the 10.1-inch Android 4.0 tablet can be yours this very Friday for a mere $140, which is $40 closer to the roughly zero dollars it’s worth. Remember, kids: a sale and a deal are two entirely different…

Best Buy’s Got a Crazy Sale on the MacBook Air

Best Buy apparently didn’t lose enough money matching Walmart’s iPhone prices. Now it’s running an absurd two day sale on MacBook Airs. You can save $200 off four 2012 models, which is the deepest discount on a new MacBook Air Dealzmodo has ever seen. The promotion is running through tomorrow, so you’ve got a day…

Whoops, Best Buy Accidentally Gave Away $50 in a Coupon

Best Buy released a too good to be true coupon earlier today: Spend a $100 and save $50 automatically when you pay with a MasterCard credit card. The fine print had excluded a few products but it was pretty much a free $50 bucks for everything else. So predictably people took advantage of ol’ Best…

Best Buy Lost $65K In One Day Trying to Price Match Walmart’s iPhone Discount

Best Buy dropped the price of the 16GB iPhone 5 to $150 last month, and Walmart bested that with a $127 iPhone. Now Best Buy says lost a whole $65,000 on this one product in just one day because it was forced go meet that lower price. In a recent WSJ article, Best Buy alleges…

Best Buy’s Got Some Free iTunes Money For All You Last-Minute Shoppers

Gift cards—especially in their digital form—are the ultimate, last-minute cop-out gift, and if you’re willing to trek out to your nearest Best Buy, they’ll reward to effort with a little bit of free iTunes money. All their physical iTunes gift cards are 20 percent off. Now the deal is only on their physical gift cards,…

Surface Will Be Available at Best Buy and Staples This Week

One of the big obstacles preventing Microsoft’s Surface from being successful has been the fact that it’s only available direct from Microsoft. Not any more: by the end of the week, the tablet should be available from Staples and Best Buy. https://gizmodo.com/7-ways-to-save-the-microsoft-surface-5967456 ZDNet initially reported the news, which has now been confirmed by the websites…

Best Buy Screw-Up Results In an Amazing “Buy One Get Five” Deal on iPads

Most of the time a shipping error is a pain in the ass for you. Maybe you get the wrong thing, maybe you don’t get anything. Sometimes though, it can be a huge boon, like when Best Buy accidentally sends you five iPads instead of one and then says “You know what? Keep ’em.” That’s…

Best Buy Canada has let slip that a new slimmer Wii—the Wii Mini—will be available from December 7th. Oops. [Best Buy]

Of Course People Are Already in Line for Black Friday

There are sane people. There are insane people. And then there are people who line up for Black Friday deals more than a week early. These two women camped out in front of a Best Buy on Wednesday of this week so they can snag some Black Friday deals after Thanksgiving. It’s the earliest the…

90% of This Year’s Black Friday Ads Have the Exact Same Items and Prices As Last Year’s Black Friday Ads

It’s not always super door buster TV deals that are better and even cheaper than last year, a lot of times big box stores sell the same exact items for the same exact price. Hell, sometimes they even charge more. NerdWallet took a look at Black Friday Ads and found some interesting stuff. NerdWallet took…

Best Buy’s prematurely listed the fat Nokia Lumia 920 at $150 on contract. Again. Seems that’s the price! [WPCentral]

Best Buy’s Got (Slightly Less Than Usual) Free iTunes Money Today

While it’s not quite the 20 percent firesale we’ve grown accustomed to, Best Buy’s 15 percent off of iTunes gift cards still represents a healthy discount on your possibly overpriced movie rentals and season passes. Get it while it’s hot! Which it should be all day. Oh, and if you ever wanted a strong argument…

Best Buy’s Got Free iTunes Money All Day

Today’s Best Buy daily deal is amazingly good: it’s offering up $50 iTunes gift cards for just $40, including free shipping. The card doesn’t have any strings attached: it can be redeemed against music, movies, TV shows, games, apps, whatever, just like the full-price vouchers. Only, it’s 20 percent cheaper. The deal’s running today only,…

Best Buy Is Making Its Own Cheap Android Tablet for Some Reason

After the Kindle Fire proved that people wanted cheaper tablets, everybody started making them. Google made the Nexus 7, Apple is coming out with an iPad mini and now Best Buy wants to make its own cheap Android tablet: the Insignia Flex. The only difference is that Best Buy’s cheap tablet isn’t small. It’s a…

Best Buy Will Match Amazon’s Prices This Holiday Season

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Best Buy plans to match the price of internet retailers like Amazon over the holidays this year, as well as offering free home delivery when stores are out of stock. According to a good ol’ “person familiar with the matter”, the electronics chain is assuming the strategy over…

Best Buy Wants You to Spend $1000 on a HDMI Cable

Best Buy, who must think that if people are silly enough to shop there, they might be a big enough sucker to get ripped off on HDMI cables, is offering a “diamond” “high-speed” 2-foot HDMI cable for the most ridiculous price of $940. What a steal! What a criminal rip off. It’s a glitch, of…

Go Get Free iTunes Money at Walmart Right Now

Following in Best Buy’s illustrious footsteps, Walmart is currently offering digital $100 iTunes gift cards for $80. Which, for those less mathematically inclined, amounts to $20 of free money to spend on apps, books, movies, or season four of The Wire. The deal appears to be only valid on the Benjamin edition, but you’ll burn…

Louis CK’s Not-Best Buy Experience Reminds You of Every Time You’ve Ever Been to Best Buy

Clearly the big box consumer electronics store featured in last night’s episode of Louie isn’t Best Buy. The people here are wearing red shirts, not blue ones! And everything else is… well, okay, everything else is exactly the same. Clearly Best Buy has plenty of problems that are out of any one person’s control. But…

Here’s Why Your Geek Squad Appointment Has Been Delayed Until Half Past Never

A tipster who works for Best Buy has told us that the company on Tuesday began implementing a “restructuring plan,” which is PR-speak for massive layoffs and the reason your Geek Squad appointment has been indefinitely delayed. So if you got a call earlier this week letting you know that your appointment must be rescheduled…

Best Buy Founder Planning Buyout

Best Buy has had a rather tumultuous year. So it perhaps comes as no surprise to hear, from the Wall Street Journal, that its founder Richard Schulze is planning to try and take the company private. https://gizmodo.com/best-buy-chairman-to-resign-over-ceos-affair-5910344 Schulze currently holds a 20 percent share of Best Buy, and is presumably rather worried that, if he…