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- Dec 29, 2005
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They do say on their website that prices in the store may be different. It says this on target.com as well I know. That doesn't mean that they won't price match. My local best buy stores have computers you can use to look up whether they have a product in stock and it connects to a website resembling bestbuy.com but it leaves off all the items not sold by best buy directly. They have stuff on bestbuy.com that are sold by a 3rd party and use their site as the storefront.
I think any issues with price matching are on each store and its management, not best buy as a whole. Their FAQs say they will price match competitors including amazon.com
Right, but what I mean is this. I had this experience like 5 years ago.
Bestbuy.com is a public website. Let's say a printer on there says $99.99. Sold in store (not a storefront item).
You go to the store and the printer is $129.99. You say hey but I saw this on your website for $99.99.
They load up their internal Bestbuy.com on a computer in the store, and show you it says $129.99.
They tried to trick you (this may have been my local store), lol, thinking the internal bestbuy.com was the public facing one. That didn't last very long but whether or not that was a local only policy or public across all stores policy I don't know, but it was obvious some trickery was being played.
I think this practice stopped very quickly. The "bestbuy.com" they were loading and showing you on their PC was not the public facing bestbuy.com.
I wonder how Best Buy has survived after amazon has taken over the world basically.
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