Dirty f---ing **** (Best Buy)

unc2701
unc2701 Posts: 3,587
edited March 2007 in The Clubhouse
One more reason to boycott:

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-watchdog0302,0,5198012.column?coll=hc-utility-local
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited March 2007
    'eff BB. Wouldn't shop there if you paid me.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited March 2007
    Don't shop there either.

    Most of the time I only go to the hi-fi stores and specialty stores, but once in a while CC will have a good deal...
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  • Bill Ayotte
    Bill Ayotte Posts: 1,860
    edited March 2007
    How does this not surprise me? On top of all of that, they have the worst customer service known to man. I tried to buy a dlp there, but no one would help me after asking four different people. Maybe because I am 24, and don't look like I can afford it. Oh well. Circuit City was more than happy to accept my $2000.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited March 2007
    Its just the opposite here. CC is absolutly terrible with CS. Everytime I go in I end up walking around the whole store, no one helps me and they are all standing in one corner shooting the ****. They just look at you like "oh what now". I dont see how that store sells anything. And my understanding is that they are on commision.
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited March 2007
    jakelm wrote:
    Its just the opposite here. CC is absolutly terrible with CS. Everytime I go in I end up walking around the whole store, no one helps me and they are all standing in one corner shooting the ****. They just look at you like "oh what now". I dont see how that store sells anything. And my understanding is that they are on commision.


    yeah, but does CC have a fake internal website with inflated prices so they can rip off customers?
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited March 2007
    This is the same company that had an executive publically **** about customers that come in for the items on rebate and don't spend money on anything else. What a bunch of smelly ****.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited March 2007
    Wow; I go to best buy once in a while to look around; sometimes I buy music on sale. No more.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2007
    Wow! That's really bad. At CC we used the same website as the public.

    (and no, CC is not on commission and hasn't been for years).
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  • MSALLA
    MSALLA Posts: 1,602
    edited March 2007
    BB only sells junk any way as far as audio gose. I only use them for movies and music. I hope this takes some of the wind out of Bets Buy's sails. We had 3 really good audi shops in our area until BB opened up. Now we only have them or tweeter.
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  • krabby5
    krabby5 Posts: 923
    edited March 2007
    busted!!

    I don't buy big things there anyways..their audio is pretty low-end nowadays..I'll buy music and video games from them..that's it

    I think they have some nice tv's, but I go to Ultimate Electronics for my big ticket items...those guys seem to at least know what they're talking about..
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2007
    What cracks me up is how the people who run these organizations are stupid enough to think they can get away with crap.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited March 2007
    I mainly buy new release and sale DVD's. Every once in a blue moon they'll have a good hard drive special.

    Thats about all.


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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2007
    I smell "class action"...
    More later,
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  • krabby5
    krabby5 Posts: 923
    edited March 2007
    Tour2ma wrote:
    I smell "class action"...

    yeah...so we all get a $0.03 check..:D
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited March 2007
    krabby5 wrote:
    yeah...so we all get a $0.03 check..:D


    Yeah, but the attorney that handles the case can retire on the profits.:)
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited March 2007
    Any store that has a 100 foot velvet rope "containing" the return line in JULY should be met with a dubious distinction at best. I could understand a gigantic return line the day after Christmas but if they have one, year-round, that is almost constantly full/occupied, that should tell you something about the merchant you are about to do business with. It turned me off right away.
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  • PolknPepsi
    PolknPepsi Posts: 781
    edited March 2007
    Halo wrote:
    'eff BB. Wouldn't shop there if you paid me.
    I have said these exact words to my wife.......
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited March 2007
    ;) :d
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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited March 2007
    cc isn't on commission... lol.

    and bb is about on the same lvl as cc
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited March 2007
    This isn't surprising, and CC isn't any better.
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited March 2007
    Barber insists that the company never intended to mislead customers.

    BULLSH!T..... Why else would they have it?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited March 2007
    I love Best Buy.
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  • Mike682
    Mike682 Posts: 2,074
    edited March 2007
    When I was in to pick up a memory card awhile ago, the item was on sale on the BB's website but not on sale in the store. I had a BB sales guy show me their "website" on a store computer to price match themselves (which is retarded) and the prices were different........that explains why sales people never "knew" anything about their internet prices. Scumbags
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2007
    If they have something on sale I want, I buy it...same as any other retail store.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited March 2007
    I won't shop there. I haven't seen anything I could possibly want from there that I couldn't find online anyway.
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  • aba4430
    aba4430 Posts: 80
    edited March 2007
    I bought a memory card reader (Sandisk) a couple of months ago. Prior to leaving work that day, I saw the price was ~$17.99 on their website. I did not print out the page. When I went to the store, I found it at ~$19.99. I told the salesperson that it was $17.99 on the website; she pulls it up and it was actually ~$19.99. I thought it was funny, but did not question it. Two bucks is not huge, but corroborates the screwyness going on.............
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  • krabby5
    krabby5 Posts: 923
    edited March 2007
    aba4430 wrote:
    I bought a memory card reader (Sandisk) a couple of months ago. Prior to leaving work that day, I saw the price was ~$17.99 on their website. I did not print out the page. When I went to the store, I found it at ~$19.99. I told the salesperson that it was $17.99 on the website; she pulls it up and it was actually ~$19.99. I thought it was funny, but did not question it. Two bucks is not huge, but corroborates the screwyness going on.............

    just for the fu@k of it, I would go back and raise hell...
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2007
    krabby5 wrote:
    just for the fu@k of it, I would go back and raise hell...

    Me too.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2007
    We should find a bunch of things online that are on sale and go to the store and see if they are on sale. If they look it up through their intra net, ask to use the computer and go to yahoo and search for best buy and if it comes up, start yelling at the top of your lungs "Theyre trying to screw us all!!!!"
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  • krabby5
    krabby5 Posts: 923
    edited March 2007
    I just read the story in our paper. Apparently a guy found a laptop for $729.00 online..He wanted to buy it for his father's birthday, which was only 2 days away, so he didn't want to order it online and wait for it to be shipped. At the BB, the price was $879 on their website..the guy got confused and asked if he could check..that's how they found out..

    I don't know if he ended up buying the laptop or not, but BB sent him a $50 gift certificate and NO written apology..:mad:
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