$30 BestBuy coupon for Geforce mistake

[IMeek]

It was worth the agony of lossing the Geforce4. sob, sob, sob

 

[Rainguy]

<< I'll sell mine paypal the money to getfuct@bellsouth.net >>



Hey dude, I tried to buy your GC but, PayPal says no such user??????WTF, man????


On a side note, how many people do you think are on the unemployment line after this fiasco? Can you imagine being in charge of the promos on the web site, screwing up the numbers and showing up to work the next day and hearing of 1500+ orders! :Q Oh my!

 

[KokomoGST]

Well, wouldn't it be unfair if some people didn't get the $30 GC or the card? I'm sure there's lots of us out there...
I even emailed back about my order and a BB rep just sent back the "read the terms" line... :disgust:

If you wanna be unfair, at least be equally unfair! This and I never got a cent from the Buy.com monitor fiasco either, despite being a part of that too.

 

[NMS]

Hey myn,

Although I'm honored that you would choose my words to steal, at least have the decency to indicate that you "borrowed" most of your post.

See the Fat Wallet thread on the same topic for the original (slightly more tasteful) post -- by ME.

N

 

[myn]

<< Hey myn,

Although I'm honored that you would choose my words to steal, at least have the decency to indicate that you "borrowed" most of your post.

See the Fat Wallet thread on the same topic for the original (slightly more tasteful) post -- by ME.

N >>




Damn straight, I stole it. Couldn't have said it better myself, hence the plagerism. I agree with you 100%.

 

[Ionizer]

I made this:

BEST BUY IS SUCK - THE MOVIE (A power point slide)

it's sorta funny, let me know what you think

AIM: ionizer5

 

[hoomza444]

got the coupon too......i got in on the deal when there were approx 101 posts on the original thread..in case that helps anyone

 

[telstar1]

<< I wonder what formula they used to come up with the $30 figure? >>



Take the salary of the person that posted the product ... divide that by the number of orders ... there's your $30.
Seems about right ... say he guy was making $42,000 ... and there were 1400 customers that placed orders. That gets us $30 each.

It probably came out of their insurance policy.
These places insure themselves for all sorts of screw-ups like this.

That's my guess at least.

 

[jasonja]

Got me a coupon too.... State of Emergency come to pappa!

 

[volfan]

The best deal I saw was an AMD XP 1800+ Retail CPU for $144.99 after coupon. The cheapest on Pricewatch is $155 + $15 shipping. Anyone else find anything good. Everything else I want seems to be at least $30 more than what I can get it somewhere else. I guess I am somewhat happy now. I say people need to chill with the lawsuit stuff. At least we've finally got them to do SOMETHING about it, and I think $30 is pretty generous considering how many of those they must have sent out. I've seen tons of pricing errors here, but none with the fire that this one lit. I think it's cause it was an item everyone wanted. If it was an old Radeon LE, I don't think there would have been such a stink.

 

[NMS]

myn,

Fair enough -- your heart's in the right place.

in your chest (yuk yuk).

N

 

[Boogak]

W00T!! Got mine, time to get me a scanner!

 

[Ionizer]

all of you are fools if you use that coupon now.

Don't give in and allow them to buy you out like this.

THE LAW IS ON YOUR SIDE.
If you use the coupon you are basically giving in and saying "ok this is fine" and it's simply not, why do you think they even offered it? BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY ARE WRONG and figured they could buy themselves out of the problem.

If you are going to use it, at least wait until the last day so you can at least see what else may arise.
Man people are such suckers.

 

[Boogak]

Hmmm... funny, the coupon doesn't say anything about having to give up your legal claim of a $129 GF4 card as a requirement to use it. Why are some people thinking that? I say use the damn coupon and continue b!tching at Best Buy so they send us more free stuff

 

[skoog]

We could maybe use the coupon and buy the GF3 ti 200 along with the 50$ mail in would bring total to 120 bucks +tax and maybe shipping. decent deal.


Though I know many of you already have this card.


also they had an ATI TV card deal that has a ten dollar rebate after coupon and rebate (10$ rebate) price would be 10 dollars plus tax and shipping.

link :

gf3 ti 200 visiontek

ATI tv tuner card

newegg lists the gf3 card at 165 plus 8 bucks shipping.

 

[Ionizer]

<< Hmmm... funny, the coupon doesn't say anything about having to give up your legal claim of a $129 GF4 card as a requirement to use it. Why are some people thinking that? I say use the damn coupon and continue b!tching at Best Buy so they send us more free stuff >>



Boogak,

In a court of law if you attemped to sue after accepting their offer which CLEARLY STATES IT IS BEING OFFERED AS A REMEDY TO THE MIXUP, then you would have no grounds because you have essentially accepted this counter offer and thus you have implicity voided your original.

You wouldn't stand a chance. So go ahead, if $30 is what you want to settle on and you need it so badly that you can't even wait until the very last day for the chance that something ocurrs before then, then go ahead. I will laugh at all of you when the law comes down on them and they state "well we don't have to give these people anything because they consented to accepting a $30 coupon"

LAF!

 

[skoog]

also since new egg has it for 165+8 dollars shipping we could try a pricematch to there. doubt they woudl let it happen though. would require someone very generous.


would be 173-30 coupon -50 MIR = 93 dollars. That would be pretty hot.

 

[Lmandrake]

<< You're bending over for corporate retail. Does it feel good? Am I missing something? >>





Yes, you are missing a lot.

In short, a contract is a binding agreement in which an offer is matched by an acceptance and the resulting bargain is supported by the exchange of something of value. The one who makes the offer has control over the offer and may set any terms (provided they are legal) that they wish to the offer. If the offer is accepted, the bargain must be supported by adequate consideration (i.e. something of value) to be enforceable.

BB offers to sell the card at a price so low that almost everyone who sees it knows deep in thier GF4 lusting hearts that it is in error. The terms of the offer include a reservation of the right to cancel or rescind the sale if BB discovers it has made pricing error. Buyers, many of whom know the price is a mistake, offer up their credit cards. The funds for item are reserved, but not transferred. The sale is not completed. BB has not taken anybody's money. Some people get confirmation of the mistaken price by phone. The mistake is discovered. Cancellation emails are sent out. BB does not allow the transaction to be completed.

There is no "Bait and Switch." "Bait and Switch" refers to a crooked marketing technique in which a seller offers an item at an incredibly low price to get a person into their store (or, in theory, their web site) and the advertised item is not to be found. Crooked seller then attempts to palm a different item off on customer (for example, car dealer offers 2002 Belchfire Sport Coupe at $6K below invoice, only one in stock at that price was bought wholesale at auction after being dipped in raw sewage, all other Belchfires at dealer are marked up significantly).

Where was the "switch" here? Did BB offer to sell you all Savage 4's for the same price. I don't think so....

There is also the lame argument that they did get something of value. "They got my personal info." Donnez-moi une break. The original offer did not ask for your valuable info. It asked for your money. Unless the entire scheme was a fraud, in which BB never intended to sell cards at any price, but just wanted to trick them under false pretenses into giving up that precious info, this argument simply does not hold water. With all the means available to get that info, what value does it have anyway...

Still, thanks to the publicity generated on the net and BB's desire to turn this thing around in their favor, they offer up $30 coupons - which may be good from a PR point of view, but not likely something their legal dept. said they should do....

They made a pricing error. Their offer contained terms expressly designed to allow cancellation if there was a pricing error. They took no money, shipped no cards and no deal was made.

Also, how many of you, if asked under oath, would swear that you had no idea that the price might be the result of an error? Wasn't it just to good to be true? (Of course that latter would not apply to those who now wished they had fraudulently placed multiple orders to get as many coupons as possible....)

Grow up.

 

[Scootin159]

<< Where was the "switch" here? Did BB offer to sell you all Savage 4's for the same price. I don't think so.... >>



The switch would be the line in the e-mail stating that if you want a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 it is available for $399.99.

 

[bearauto]

1) The components of a binding contract: offer, acceptance, consideration. Here, we don't have consideration, so there is no contract...too bad.

2) Does Best Buy EVER price match with other online stores?

Thanks

 

[sp33dracer]

<< They made a pricing error. Their offer contained terms expressly designed to allow cancellation if there was a pricing error. They took no money, shipped no cards and no deal was made.

Also, how many of you, if asked under oath, would swear that you had no idea that the price might be the result of an error? Wasn't it just to good to be true? (Of course that latter would not apply to those who now wished they had fraudulently placed multiple orders to get as many coupons as possible....)
>>



TOS are not legal and binding, state law overrides that $hit, as for the money - they DID secure the funds and hold on to it for 5 days or more AFTER having issued cancellation notices (curious: What's the interest on a quarter million dollars for 5 days...j/k, kind of...). Tying up those funds suffices as accepting payment, so they did agree to the purchase - regardless of how bad their order system sucks. Reneging on that transaction would count as a bait and switch.

Speculation - no sooner can YOU say they definitely had "human error" than we can say that WE say that we knew it was a pricing error.

All in all, it's about good faith, and if you had all the facts and didn't just read the BS Press Release BB let out today, you'd probably have a different POV, and realize this fustercluck was not an honest mistake and was NOT DONE IN GOOD FAITH.

Even folks/companies/retailers etc who have money and power need to be responsible for their actions.

I for one will not be bought with $30 worth of store credit at a store that does business this way.

GOOD FAITH <> BEST BUY


Ionizer: you are right on dude, and the PP presentation is a farking howl...lol

 

[RadioactiveMagpies]

just saw the coupon in my email,
to use the measly coupon or call bestbuys and nag and
complain more like the leacherous freak I am?
The plot thickens

 

[bearauto]

Come on mates, I need to know if Best Buy can pricematch with an online store so I can get that PDA for dirt cheap! Otherwise, I'll just buy it from BB and Amex it for a decent price...

 

[Scootin159]

<< Come on mates, I need to know if Best Buy can pricematch with an online store so I can get that PDA for dirt cheap! Otherwise, I'll just buy it from BB and Amex it for a decent price... >>



Just give it a shot & see if it works.

 

[eviltommy]

flame me all you want but..

I was thinking, and technically shouldn't we all get something for $30 and do the instore pickup deal the last day the coupon stands. then go back and return it to BB for cash back or store credit. come back march 4th when the GF4 Ti4600 is on shelves with our online receipts printed out, (you did save copies/screenshots didnt you?). tell CS that it was a special preorder price, with enough charm and the right attitude they might give you it for $130, thats when you whip out that $30, bam! $100. in your face best buy!