Originally posted by: blurredvision
Originally posted by: KJW
Originally posted by: vetteguy
Is this online only? I'm assuming so, since it wasn't in their ad, which means CC won't pricematch (heck, they probably wouldn't PM even if it was in their ad).
The deal was advertised on the back page of the sunday BB ad. Definitely not online only.
QFT. Check the fine print in the topic summary also.... "online and B&M".
Yeah, I saw that later on...missed it. Of course, it would help if Best Buy and Circuit City hadn't stopped including print ads in papers that are delivered outside of the city where they're located (now I have to hit the website every week and I often forget about the last page).
Anyway, I hit CC after work, and asked about a price match. The severely confused worker in the DVD department first told me that no, they won't pricematch DVDs, then took a breath and told me that yes they would but only if I had an ad, then said yes but I had to do it at the front desk but had to buy them in the DVD department first, etc.
By that time i took the DVDs away from her before she hurt herself and went to the front. After 20 agonizing minutes of waiting while the clerk called what was presumably every Best Buy store in the tri-state area (couldn't chance that ONE store was out of stock, now, could we?) she reluctantly agreed to PM seasons 1-4. However, she said she most certainly would NOT PM season 5. When I asked her why, she said "because it's new. It just came out this week, so it wouldn't be on sale anywhere". I pointed out the ad from Best Buy indicating that yes indeed Season 5 was on sale. She said "nope, we don't PM new stuff".
Huh?
I asked her again why they would not honor a price just because it was new. She stared at me for almost a minute, then, as if her internal script kicked in, said "all other stores are out of stock". So, somehow, they went from in stock but won't PM because no other stores have them on sale, to they don't PM new stuff, to every other store is out of stock. She then offered to sell it to me anyway, and said (get this, this is the best part) that I could "come back later in the week and get a PM". I asked how I could get a PM later if she wouldn't do it now, she replied "oh by then it'll be back in stock".
Am I communicating with these people on some other plane of existence?