Originally posted by: TinMan2
Has anyone in Washington State purchased the laptop for under $524 (excluding HSI discount)?
Originally posted by: konakona
so just to be sure, do you just walk in to the store and ask them for the HSI deal?
people keep mentioning getting the coupon scanned which is nowhere to be found
Originally posted by: bigsnyder
Originally posted by: ClemsonJim
Just picked up one in Charlotte for $530 at the Independence Best Buy...they have 4 left. They wouldn't go for the $100 HSI coupon and said that it was for online purchases only. They didn't even attempt to scan it. Oh well. I needed a new laptop anyway.
Has the Charlotte store drop the price another $100 as some other stores have?
Originally posted by: midway
My best buy tells me that the price is $636 when I call them, and when I go to the store and have them look up the price, again $636. Will this possibly ring up cheaper at the register or is my BB just fucking with me and everyone else in the area by not clearancing these as much as others.
Originally posted by: midway
My best buy tells me that the price is $636 when I call them, and when I go to the store and have them look up the price, again $636. Will this possibly ring up cheaper at the register or is my BB just fucking with me and everyone else in the area by not clearancing these as much as others.
Here in north Texas, there are 25 BestBuy stores in a 50 miles radius. Clearance prices vary from one store to the next, and none of the stores will pricematch clearance items. Nor will they transfer clearance merchandise from one store to the next, even if the price is exactly the same at both stores. If you buy a clearance item at one store and try to return it a store that has a lower price (so you could buy it back at the lower price, for example), they usually will not accept the return.Originally posted by: MorrisDancer
Originally posted by: midway
My best buy tells me that the price is $636 when I call them, and when I go to the store and have them look up the price, again $636. Will this possibly ring up cheaper at the register or is my BB just fucking with me and everyone else in the area by not clearancing these as much as others.
They told me the price was set by the volume of sales at a given store. The store 3 miles from home was 625. The one 14 was 525. I asked them to check availability at other stores and I could see the different prices at various stores. One store was supposed to have them and when I got there they were out. The associate said "Your store would not price match?" The next store down the road had several at 525. Prices in the area were all over the place.
BestBuy isn't "screwing" with you. They are simply maintaining the integrity of their pricing. They have every right to do that. They don't have to lower their prices just because you want them to. Nobody has to do that.
Why do you say they're "idiots"? Just because they don't have the same prices on their clearance items as the stores that have the lowest prices? Here's a leading question. Are they "idiots" for not having the same prices as the stores that have the HIGHEST prices? If all of their prices were the same at every store, something tells me you wouldn't be happy about it. You wouldn't find these super bargains at ANY of their stores. They would be consistent, though. Would that make you happy?Originally posted by: ghost recon88
It all boils down to one stupid factor, and that's that each Best Buy store is on their own for how they price their clearance items. If there was a universal clearance price set by the Best Buy Corporation, people wouldn't be getting screwed over by pricing differences from store to store. Instead they leave it up to managers and some are bigger idiots then others when it comes to pricing clearance items.
No, I'm being serious. Every retailer has the right to set their own prices. I mean, duh.Originally posted by: kki000
BestBuy isn't "screwing" with you. They are simply maintaining the integrity of their pricing. They have every right to do that. They don't have to lower their prices just because you want them to. Nobody has to do that.
wtf r u talking about?
integrity of their pricing? yer being funny right?
I'm sure they would sell their merchandise to you for their stated prices. Sounds like you're the one who's keeping you from giving them your money.Originally posted by: kki000
Ive gotten this at 4 different bb and they all have tried everything they could to stop you from giving them money to get this product.
Seriously, I commend you for not trying to cheat them by claiming you wanted internet service without intending to get it. When a customer signs up for internet service at the store, BestBuy receives a rebate from the service provider. When people use a fake coupon, BestBuy does not receive the rebate, so BestBuy is getting screwed. That's like telling them, "You have to give me $100 off, but you won't get your rebate, suckers." And people have the nerve to call BestBuy a "thief".Originally posted by: kki000
all 4 had no idea how to deal with the hsi coupon, even though it was listed right in their weekly sales flier. And no i didn't "cheat", i actually signed up for the internet service, everything waqs legit, i really wanted the fios service and i wanted to buy the laptop.
Sounds like you need to stop buying things from them. If I felt the way you do, I'd never shop at BestBuy. Why do you keep going there? I mean seriously, wtf?Originally posted by: kki000
bb has no integrity, or any clue.
they are screwing with you, each and every time you walk in their doors.
Their prices are actually set according to a complex set of rules that take the sales volume of each store into account. I wouldn't expect someone who doesn't work at BestBuy to understand their procedures, but just because you don't understand their procedures, that doesn't make them "idiots".
Anyway, it's not uncommon for store employees at ANY store to be unfamiliar with what's printed in their weekly ads. For example, my parents bought a range at Sears recently and tried to use a 10% off coupon that I gave them, and the people at the store had no idea how to handle it because they had never seen it before. It was on the Sears.com website, but the computers in their stores are not connected to their Sears.com website, and they couldn't look it up at the store. I honestly don't believe they were trying to cheat my parents; they simply didn't know what they were supposed to do. It was frustrating, but they don't deserve to burn in hell or anything like that.