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Best Buy to start price matching online stores

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i hate best buy and their rip off squad, im their ultimate showroomer. however this week they have pny flash drives on sale (8 gig=$3.99, 16 gig=6.99) so i bought 20 of each. if you need flash drives and youre near a best buy thats a pretty good deal
 
With so many companies doing price matching now, I wonder what will come of this. The small businesses who can't afford a loss every time someone asks to do a price match will pretty much go under. Big companies like best buy can afford this, but not small mom and pop shops.
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
i hate best buy and their rip off squad, im their ultimate showroomer. however this week they have pny flash drives on sale (8 gig=$3.99, 16 gig=6.99) so i bought 20 of each. if you need flash drives and youre near a best buy thats a pretty good deal
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lol why would you buy so many?


I did buy one so I could make it the Recovery drive for my Surface Pro, and free up 8GB on the SSD. I have one or two I'll use, at least one is just a MicroSD card in a MicroSD USB reader, mainly just to back up something or, more often, simply serve as an "install disc" for a pc.

I do want a larger one, more importantly a faster one. USB 3 drives of appreciable storage still are expensive however.
 
I've been shopping a lot more at local stores lately. Usually when I'm shopping at a retail store, I'll look the price of whatever I'm looking at online, then end up buying it online. I'm starting to notice the the local prices are the same as Amazon and Newegg for a lot the stuff I'm buying. Now I that pay sales tax on Amazon, I just buy it locally if the local price is the same.

I've also taken advantage of Fry's price-matching for a handful of things.
 
its also worth noting that if best buy is out of stock on a sale item, you can go to their website or to the kiosks in the store and order the item (shipping is FREE) and get the sale price. this is unlike stores like frys that hook you with limited numbers of sale items (so the advertsied item isnt available). i used to hate best buy but now they pretty much have the same prices on lots of things as newegg and amazon so im sort of warming up to them
 
Train said:
pretty sweet, but what's to stop one of those 19 from totally price bombing best buy? I assume Best Buy has to have some safeguards, like "site must have item in stock"
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isn't in stock a pretty standard requirement for matching? I know frys would not do it for me on an item OOS at microcenter.
 
sounds good
comes down to process tho
if i can go in and show them a card on newegg and its not pulling teeth great
if its some make me feel weirder than i do to begin with in there(ordeal) then
no way
 
When I lived in San Jose, CA, I had a Fry's Electronics 5 minutes from me. A Microcenter was 10 minutes away in a pinch. As well as the usual big box stores.

Having moved to a place where there the nearest Fry's is 265 miles away, I rely on fast Newegg and Amazon shipping, and when I just need to have it "now!"... Best Buy, which is always more expensive and usually a hassle.

I needed a natural keyboard for work and a new Blu Ray player, so went to Best Buy to showroom. I asked if they price matched and they said yes, even to online stores.

So at the register, I showed them Amazon.com on my iPhone, where the kb was $20 cheaper, and the Blu Ray player was $60 cheaper, and a manager came over, punched in their code and was checked out in a few minutes.

Basically, now that they pricematch, if Best Buy has what I need, I'll run down the street and pick it up there.
 
Trey22 said:
When I lived in San Jose, CA, I had a Fry's Electronics 5 minutes from me. A Microcenter was 10 minutes away in a pinch. As well as the usual big box stores.

Having moved to a place where there the nearest Fry's is 265 miles away, I rely on fast Newegg and Amazon shipping, and when I just need to have it "now!"... Best Buy, which is always more expensive and usually a hassle.

I needed a natural keyboard for work and a new Blu Ray player, so went to Best Buy to showroom. I asked if they price matched and they said yes, even to online stores.

So at the register, I showed them Amazon.com on my iPhone, where the kb was $20 cheaper, and the Blu Ray player was $60 cheaper, and a manager came over, punched in their code and was checked out in a few minutes.

Basically, now that they pricematch, if Best Buy has what I need, I'll run down the street and pick it up there.
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Same experience. It has to be sold by Amazon though not fulfilled by Amazon.
Best buy car audio guy was excellent as well.
 
I bet the FW and SD crowds are going to go nuts over this.

"Im going to PM BB with soopercheapcrap.com and then use an expired coupon with a GC I got from opening up credit card that I cancelled so I can 5% off these blank DVDs!"
 
Except for Frys, Amazon and Newegg (with sales frequently listed on Slickdeals) you really don't see very competitive pricings out of the rest of online retailers listed. I think this might be a good move in a possible distant long term. Wall St. only cares about seeing merchandise leaving the showroom floor.
 
So what do you do exactly, just simply tell the cashier that Amazon has this item for ** price? Or do you have to actually show them something?
 
lol I looked up some speakers for my car, Best Buy has them for $129 and Amazon has them for $61. Nice mark up. I should totally get them to price match :awe:
 
I greatly prefer buying from a local store instead of ordering online. Ordering online means I have to wait until they attempt and fail to deliver while I'm at work, then go to the post office (or worse, the UPS/Fedex depot) the next day to pick the item up. Buying local is much faster, less hassle, and I can easily return the item if I need to.
 
Target announced at the start of the year that they'd price match to Amazon.

The catch to all these price matching schemes is that the big companies like Walmart, Target and Best Buy get their own unique SKU's and sometimes model numbers of the very same exact items which allows them to claim it's not the same and won't price match.

Just ran into that a few weeks back at Target, did Amazon barcode scan look up on a blender. No results. Then just type in the brand and model line and sure as shit, there is the same exact in every single way model with the only exception being the UPC/SKU numbers which of course will not be honored for price matching.
 
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