I got screwed up at BB because they lowered the shelf price from 44.99 to 44.97 to have a reason to defeat the PM + MIR deal. I wanted to try the deal anyhow, even though I was a little wary of
"Does not apply to special, bonus or free offers, and in California cellular phones and pagers."
in the PM policy. It was funny walking into the store though, because the BB I went to had 2 or 3 greeters to welcome you. I walked into the store and some guy to my left at a stand said "Hello", I said "Hello". I thought I was past that stuff, about 30 or 40 feet from the door now, and some other guy walked right behind me and said "Hello", I said "Uhh, hello". Then I started moving over to a little cart of z340s that I saw sitting out in the front and some other guy walked up to me and said "Hello", I said "Um, yeh, hello." And the only guy to follow up and say anything else was the third guy, lol. He tried pushing the z340s on me as if a $4.37 price tag wasn't enough . He mentioned the 44.97 price with a 20.00 MIR, so 24.97 for a 50 dollar pair of speakers, I thought - ah crap, they screwed with the price. I picked up a box and left the area to get that guy off my back, he wouldn't leave me alone, heh. I went over to the HDs for the 20 dollar 40 GB HD deal to check things out and think about what to do with the speakers. I decided to go for it anyhow, and if things got messy I could just return the speakers.
So I bought them and got the rebate at the register, dropped them and the rebate slips off at my van and then just came back in with the receipt only. Went to CS to try and PM em to the OM price, but that was a no go. The CSR said after the rebate, the BB was .02 cheaper. I argued a tad with her but got nowhere (this is my first time trying a B&M Hot Deal, second Hot Deal overall, gimme a break). I told the CSR that I didn't get the rebates, but that I would rather not mess around with MIR anyhow since they usually don't come through (just pulling stuff outta my arse - I have no idea ). She still said no. Gave up, went on to try the HD deal, but no go, they tried to scam me on that one by saying that it had a 30.00 extra MIR (that I later realized was actually expired). So I gave up for the day. I'm gonna try the PM again tomorrow though. What sort of luck/advice do you guys have as far as the BB 44.97 PM to OM 24.99 even though BB 44.97 - BB 20 MIR = 24.97, so that BB is cheaper in the end than OM? I'll try to argue that the policy doesn't say after rebates, but the special deals clause could trip me up. Can I PM over the phone perhaps? With a more general CSR that doesn't really know/care as much?