http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/ Engadget Comments for Best Buy advertising higher than regular prices as sales? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
I read the post a couple of time, and I still don't get it.]]>May 24th 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
All retailer do this. I remember years ago going into Music stores years ago, then is when we had to walk in to stores to buy Music... Anyway, they would have most CD's retail for $12 - $15 (RIP that Process!) and then all of a sudden the "Sale" came and you saw the sticker on that CD that was $15.99 the week before and it now said:

Regular Price: $21.99, Sale: $18.99.

Welcome to Rip-Off Ville, and you're a Resident!]]>May 24th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/Agreed and heaven forbid anyone from doing some research before buying a laptop or otherwise big ticket item...]]>May 24th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Yup. Common tactic that is used in ALL retail stores. Heck, I remember working at CompUSA just last year and they would jack prices up by $20-$50 for the "blow out sale!"]]>May 24th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Actually, this kind of news regarding Best Buy's sales practices is why I never shop there. From bogus in-store setups comparing overpriced Monster HDMI cables to component cables to charging $55 for a $50 gift card and now this all adds up to a pattern of abusive and deceitful sales practice. ]]>May 24th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/

Agreed.


Stick to the apple rumors........not the "hard hitting" journalism.]]>May 24th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
I worked @ a CompUSA in NorthEast Philly back in like 1996... WORST JOB EVER!

People came in there with the Chip on their Shoulder wanting to pick a fight.]]>May 24th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/only stupid people should have a problem with this. there's two things to think about when looking at this situation, if you're going out, and buying new TVs/laptops/fridges etc w/out ever shopping around, but just trusting the price u see in ad is the best price, 1) you're a dummy or 2) you have just way too much money on ur hands.

And even if in the case you buy a laptop at the regular price when it is advertised, and the next week it were to go on sale....who said you can't 3) price match it? Word to the uninformed: if you buy something at best buy, look at the date of your receipt. Come in 30 calendar days after your purchase, go to customer service, and say ''i would like to price match this''. When they scan/type ur receipt information into the computer, the computer automatically gives you the lowest price in the last 30 days/4 weeks worth of ad changes. So be wise, and not lazy, and you might actually save yourself a few dollars. ]]>May 24th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/Who hasn't priced something on the Dell web site only to go back two minutes later and the price is different? Or look up the identical item on the Dell business site and find it's cheaper.]]>May 24th 2010 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Basically what happens is Best Buy raises the price of their laptops a couple days before they are advertised in the ad. You would assume the advertised price is the lowest it is offered at, but in reality, after the sale is over, they drop the price back down to its original price. Yes, they do it, I've witnessed it myself.]]>May 24th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Lol bestbuy only changes prices on sundays... they dont change something on a friday and then take it back down for some sale...

Lowest advertised price means its the lowest price the manufacturer has ever allowed them to advertise.

Dont say stupid things.]]>May 24th 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
False, prices change daily, I should know, I work there! I spend the first hour or two of my day repricing the store. Not only do they change daily, sometimes price changes happen midday on occasion.]]>May 24th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Shocker! Best Buy ain't a best buy. Apple rules though!]]>May 24th 2010 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://bit.ly/blackfriday-2009-walmart-worst-video]]>May 25th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Best Buy elsewhere.]]>May 24th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
If the price is too high, then get it somewhere else, but I am not going to be one to begrudge any company trying to sell something for an actual profit. And to those who did not know before.

As advertised =/= On sale

It's like people complaining about some services/attachment costs being a rip off. All the while they are getting a machine orders of magnitude more powerful than what was available yesteryear, and at a FRACTION of the cost of the older machines, even with the add ons, with less margin for the companies that sell the items and make them. But who cares about them. ]]>May 24th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
I like the customers who say that a 350 dollar celeron laptop is WAYYYY too expensive or that netbooks are WAYYYY too heavy. It's almost like they didn't know notebooks/netbooks existed until yesterday.]]>May 24th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Next we're going to hear that they markup cables and accessories... ]]>May 24th 2010 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
Only if Gizmodo posts it first hours earlier... Seems to be the trend lately... This, the Hulu on 2.2 etc... :(]]>May 24th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/]]>May 24th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
In other news, Goldman Sacs reached an agreement with the senate..]]>May 24th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
this is no different from that lady in canada who was ripped off on a mazda. some companies like mazda will stand for the good of their customers and make sure this kind of thing doesn't ever happen to their products, and some companies like HP obviously don't give a crap about their customers and will let best buy and others get away with it. i'm not talking about the legality of it or the money-making logistics of it. just basic human decency.]]>May 24th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/14/followup-mazda-terminates-canadian-dealer-that-swindled-custome/]]>May 24th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
I wouldn't say they NEVER go on sale, just, rarely do.]]>May 24th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
.........it's scummy to sell products with legitimate markup over msrp at a walk im store? To lazy consumers who won't research prices?

Imagine if best buy allowed you to purchase from other vendors. Or if they didn't put a clearance sign on these prices. Oh wait!]]>May 24th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/HP could care less. Best Buy purchases these computers from them to RESELL, so as bad as it is they can mark it up all they want. HP already has their money, so they don't care. Same with every other company in the world.]]>May 24th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
i understand that being decent isn't as profitable as being a scumbag (and being a scumbag is not illegal), but it makes my heart beat easier and slower knowing i'm not a scum bag. also knowing that i am educating at least some consumers to make better choices.

one time not too long ago i was at best buy shopping for a GPS unit. the blue shirt told me to buy a garmin because garmin owns 13 satelites and tomtom only owns 5, therefor garmin is better. no dipshit, niether of them own any satellites, they use public signals sent from us air force satellites, and theres only a dozen of them total. things like that aren't illegal, and they shouldn't be, but they are 100% wrong and people who practice them should not be allowed to breathe the same air as me :-)]]>May 24th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/
How is this news?]]>May 24th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/best-buy-advertising-higher-than-regular-prices-as-sales/May 24th 2010 1:14PM