Ok this may provide hope for the people who are in an area that the card is $169. I did some work calling around a verifying the $79 price in other markets. Pretty simple work. I then asked a BB CSR why I can't just have my local Best Buy price match the other stores that have the lower price? The response was that they are in different markets and therefore prices would be different and that it wasn't policy to match other BB stores out of your area. I figured that was well enough. However I REALLY would like a new card, I'm currently on a GF2 MX, so I emailed BB.com and asked wtf was up with the lame pricing policies by not matching their own store. Here is what I got.
Quoted from my email from bb.com Customer Care:
As you may know, Best Buy offers a price match guarantee to protect customers from sudden price drops. If within 30 days (14 days for computers, computer peripherals, radar detectors, camcorders, and digital cameras) of your purchase, you find the same product offered at a lower price, we will refund that difference plus another 10% of the difference.
This offer is good on new, factory sealed, products of the same brand and model that are available in-stock at any other local authorized retailer. If the lower advertised price is a Best Buy price, within the product return time frame, you will receive an adjustment for the lower price during the advertisement time frame.
So I assume all we have to do is pick up the card at $169, and run to customer service, have the phone number and store number of another store that has the product at the lower price and give the info the the CSR, have them call and verify and take the difference off the price.
$169 - 79 = $90 difference
$90 x 1.10 = $99 price match
$169 - $99 = $70 + tax!!
I hope this helps all of us who thought we were stuck w/o getting in on this deal!!!!
PM me if you want me to forward a copy of the entire email I recieved from the BB rep.
GOOD LUCK!
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