Or you could get the CompUSA boxed Maxtor 80GB this way...
I was reading
THIS, and thought to myself why not go to CompUSA, who did not have this drive on sale, and say "Best Buy has this on sale for $79.99 after rebates can you price match?" I then planned on taking that receipt to BB and having them price match the $79.99, and then I would get the $50 in GC/MIR. Well here's what CUSA did, they said they would match the price, but instead of just marking the drive down, he put $50 on a gift card and then ran that through before I paid for the item, so the receipt just shows the regular price for the drive, and was paid for with a $50 gift card and the remaining on a credit card. Well this was no help at BB because it doesn't show the drive as being marked down. I'm thinking CUSA did it this way just for that reason, BB and CUSA are virtually next door to each other in this shopping center. So, I don't really need this drive at that price, so I take it back the next day. The refund guy credits the WHOLE AMOUNT back to my credit card, that's $50 in my pocket for free. So I turn around and buy the 80GB that they have on sale for $99 less the $50 the guy just gave me and viola, 80GB HD for ~$50!
Obviously this is a brag and a YMMV, but I am curious if anyone has heard of CUSA doing this to keep from having their receipts used somewhere else for price matching, and I'm also curious if they take into account that if the item is returned to them unopened, that they have to give up the gift card amount.
Rock on, anandtech effect
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