Update on Best Buy Gf4 price swap....for those interested....

[Zwingle]

Yes....I smell a lock coming......but I thought this was important....

Steve has posted an update with a letter from the AG office....here is what they said....snipped from Hypothermia......



<< This site was brought to my attention by a consumer in <edit> who had complained about the price swap. The attorney's in our office feel that Best Buy should be held responsible for the orders that were placed before the pricing error was discovered. Someone can't buy a gallon of milk in a grocery store, walk out, and then be forced to pay 3 times the amount they already have. Most other major retail stores, such as Sears, have honored mistakes like this in the past even though they did everything necessary to fix the error in time. I plan on looking into this as much as I can. I would appreciate if you could keep me posted on any new developments in this matter. >>



Maybe we will get our cards after all........wooohoooo!

 

[CKDragon]

That's a nice idea, but I've kind of let it go already. The $30 was more than I expected.

CK

 

[unclebud]

i just wanna know if you still shop at THE store
i'm peeping a few items as usual
but gonna get out of the game any day now

 

[chynkboi]

*sniff* didn't order one

 

[uwannawhat]

Thanks for the update Zwingle. It does look promising.

 

[Zwingle]

BBB also wants to finally arbitrate with Best Buy and the group of 2000+....Steve will arbitrate on our behalf hopefully....I see us getting this complete within a month or so.....

 

[Bob151]

Here's a thread in OT, http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=738678

 

[Tung]

 

[Z80]

Best Buy even managed to screw me out of my $30 coupon. I ordered a game online for pickup in the store at 6:30pm on 2/28/02. I never received the confirmation email that the game was ready for pickup. When I called Best Buy the next day the CSR canceled my order and had me re-order it. She gave me a case number and said I should call back after I picked up the game and they would give me a $30 credit. When I called back I was notified that the Credit Dept had refused to reissue my $30 credit. I complained and they gave me another case number. I haven't heard back from them. I really hate Best Buy!

 

[nugglife4me]

Crikeez, I just got my $30 traded in for $30 in GC's so even if this would work out I'm pretty sure my hand is already folded.

 

[Maverick215]

nugglife4me
<<Crikeez, I just got my $30 traded in for $30 in GC's so even if this would work out I'm pretty sure my hand is already folded. >>

I feel that the $30 was a reimbursement for the loss of time due to their "late" shipment of the card.

 

[manko]

<< I feel that the $30 was a reimbursement for the loss of time due to their "late" shipment of the card. >>

"time," as in, "frag time"...right?

 

[RossMAN]

<< Here's a thread in OT, http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=738678 >>



Beat me to it.

 

[DTBH]

swweeet I hope i get it! All that excitment then disapointment then anger might just pay off.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

^ ^

 

[oktane]

Zoo,

Same story here with me. I had ordered 2 DVD's online, and they said they could not validate my CC info and cancelled my order. Firstly, this is ridiculous as any store generally will tell you your CC is not working, and give you an opportunity to correct the error. I called me CC company, and they told me nothing was wrong with my card, and no authorizations had be received for Best Buy.

I tried reinstating my order, but BB wouldn't credit me back the $30 they owed me. I talked to a supervisor, and they sent an email off to somewhere, and I got a lame reply to the effect of "We're sorry you were unable to use your gift certificate, but unfortunately we cannot issue you another one."

I also hate BB, and they deserve to be hammered since they just don't seem to learn their lesson.

-oktane

 

[Coraanu]

Took me 3 orders and about 10 e-mails just to order a 50 pack of Acer CD-R's (which went from 9.99 to 12.99 by the time my order was processed) and Heroes III Complete. First 2 orders were canceled so I had to order online and get charged for shipping which they said would be refunded. =] Ah well $7 for a game and 50 blanks isn't too bad.

 

[Maverick215]

Once again, I find disappointment. Once again, I find no satisfaction. Once again, I find that Best Buy is a lazy tadpole swimming in an evil pond. What follows is a set of observations I have made about goofy party animals. We must make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence. Only then can a society free of its myopic magic-bullet explanations blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that if I said that the worst types of voluble, scornful libertines there are are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being totally honest if I said that I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to give you some background information about Best Buy. With an enormous expenditure of words, unclear in content and incomprehensible as to meaning, Best Buy frequently stammers an endless hodgepodge of phrases purportedly as witty as in reality they are harebrained. Only foolish scamps can feel at home in this maze of reasoning and cull an "inner experience" from this dung heap of malicious, unforgiving recidivism.

Best Buy constantly insists that anyone who resists it deserves to be crushed. But it contradicts itself when it says that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Best Buy wants to force its moral code on the rest of us. What does it think it is? I mean, I am tired of hearing or reading that it is the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread. You know that that is simply not true.

An inner voice tells me that Best Buy leads me to believe that it is predaceous. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Best Buy is to blame. It is quite true, of course, that Best Buy is like a Judas goat, leading us all to the slaughter. But the problem with Best Buy is not that it's bleeding-heart. It's that it wants to deface property with racially and sexually derogatory epithets and offensive symbols. You know, it strikes me that even without making an ethical argument against jujuism, I can show that Best Buy's fixation with the worst kinds of hostile bureaucrats there are is vitriolic. But let's not lose sight of the larger, more important issue here: Best Buy's obnoxious, bloody-minded ruses. And now, to end with a clever bit of doggerel: United we stand. Divided we fall. Best Buy's out-of-touch sermons will destroy us all.

 

[CKDragon]

<< Once again, I find disappointment. Once again, I find no satisfaction. Once again, I find that Best Buy is a lazy tadpole swimming in an evil pond. What follows is a set of observations I have made about goofy party animals. We must make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence. Only then can a society free of its myopic magic-bullet explanations blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that if I said that the worst types of voluble, scornful libertines there are are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being totally honest if I said that I am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to give you some background information about Best Buy. With an enormous expenditure of words, unclear in content and incomprehensible as to meaning, Best Buy frequently stammers an endless hodgepodge of phrases purportedly as witty as in reality they are harebrained. Only foolish scamps can feel at home in this maze of reasoning and cull an "inner experience" from this dung heap of malicious, unforgiving recidivism.

Best Buy constantly insists that anyone who resists it deserves to be crushed. But it contradicts itself when it says that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Best Buy wants to force its moral code on the rest of us. What does it think it is? I mean, I am tired of hearing or reading that it is the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread. You know that that is simply not true.

An inner voice tells me that Best Buy leads me to believe that it is predaceous. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Best Buy is to blame. It is quite true, of course, that Best Buy is like a Judas goat, leading us all to the slaughter. But the problem with Best Buy is not that it's bleeding-heart. It's that it wants to deface property with racially and sexually derogatory epithets and offensive symbols. You know, it strikes me that even without making an ethical argument against jujuism, I can show that Best Buy's fixation with the worst kinds of hostile bureaucrats there are is vitriolic. But let's not lose sight of the larger, more important issue here: Best Buy's obnoxious, bloody-minded ruses. And now, to end with a clever bit of doggerel: United we stand. Divided we fall. Best Buy's out-of-touch sermons will destroy us all. >>



In summation... BEST BUY SUCKS!



CK

 

[geekender]

Irony would be if BB waited until the end of this year and charged us all $179.00 and shipped the cards saying, "Well, OK, we made a mistake, here ya go".....and the retail price at that time would be $129.00

 

[kazanjig]

Maverick: I knooooooooooooooooooow you didn't write that.

Man, I've seen that thing written replacing "Best Buy" with Bono, and... well, I can't remember the other myriad.

 

[VTBigBear]

haha...

I was going to say that that was very well written....

nice one

 

[chanfo]

There is currently a lot of controversy about Best Buy's intimations, and I know that any letter on the subject will almost certainly cause someone to let advanced weaponry fall into the hands of amoral cult leaders. Still, Best Buy's announcements celebrate deception, diversion, and fashion. Before examining the present situation, however, it is important that I fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. Does Best Buy have a point? I doubt it. At the very least, Best Buy wants to up the ante considerably. What's wrong with that? What's wrong is Best Buy's gossamer grasp of reality. Although Best Buy demonstrates a great deal of ignorance and presumption when it says that the most mawkish autocrats you'll ever see have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us, its flimflams are continually evolving into more and more belligerent incarnations. Here, I'm not just talking about evolution in a simply Darwinist sense; I'm also talking about how Best Buy is an opportunist. That is, it is an ideological chameleon, without any real morality, without a soul.

Do you really think that courtesy and manners don't count for anything, as Best Buy claims? Wake up! In a recent essay, Best Buy stated that the kids on the playground are happy to surrender to the school bully. Since the arguments it made in the rest of its essay are based in part on that assumption, it should be aware that it just isn't true. Not only that, but it will cause (or at least contribute to) a variety of social ills because it possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses illaudable ratbags with condescending and uncontrollable rage. Best Buy not only lies, but it brags about its lying to its representatives. Best Buy has let its ghastly feelings obscure reality. And let us not forget that all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Best Buy's libidinous op-ed pieces. They are not a cause; they are an effect.

Even though Best Buy has aired its disapproval of being criticized, I still contend that if you don't think that the choice we face as a nation is whether to run our country ourselves or let foul-mouthed champions of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine run it for us, then think again. Best Buy's press releases share a number of characteristics. They divert attention from Best Buy's unprovoked aggression. They muzzle Best Buy's critics. And they provide financial support to backwards banana republics and their presumptuous dictators. Put together, these characteristics imply that Best Buy says that people don't mind having their communities turned into war zones. What it means by this, of course, is that it wants free reign to paint people of different races and cultures as dissolute alien forces undermining the coherent national will.

Best Buy's bait-and-switch tactics epitomize fanaticism in its truest form. This is not rhetoric. This is reality. Just like dirty clothes on the floor and cluttered closets, Best Buy's mess won't go away if we simply look the other way. But I digress. Best Buy believes that it is the ultimate authority on what's right and what's wrong. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself, but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by Best Buy and its boisterous spin doctors.

From this perspective, Best Buy favors obfuscation and deviousness above frankness. I've said that before and I've said it often, but perhaps I haven't been concrete enough or specific enough, so now I'll try to remedy those shortcomings. I'll try to be a lot more specific and concrete when I explain that I unquestionably have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Best Buy exploit the public's short attention span in order to lower this country's moral tone and depreciate its commercial integrity. According to the laws of probability, if Best Buy can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals, then it will become virtually impossible for anyone to make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence. Best Buy's thralls, who are legion, say that nothing would help society more than for them to put a maladroit spin on important issues. Sorry, I don't buy that. It is time for someone to weed out organizations like Best Buy that have deceived, betrayed, and exploited us. Will that someone be you?

 

[chanfo]

Might I also add that ......

It's time to tell the truth about Best Buy. What follows is the story of how Best Buy can be so rich in the rhetoric of democracy and yet so poor in its implementation. You know what I mean? Here's some food for thought: Best Buy's canards manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: numb the public to the interventionism and injustice in mainstream politics. Phase two: lower our standard of living. Would we, as thinking people, believe nutcases who tried to tell us we're all self-righteous? I say "no."

In order to solve the big problems with Best Buy, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must expose some of its blasphemous deeds. I receive a great deal of correspondence from people all over the world. And one of the things that impresses me about it is the massive number of people who realize that if you want to hide something from Best Buy, you just have to put it in a book. I insist that people who work with Best Buy's flunkies discredit themselves. Let me try to explain what I mean by that in a single sentence: If I have a bias, it is only against pestilential devious-types who institutionalize sex discrimination by requiring different standards of protection and behavior for men and women. In light of my stance on this issue, it is our responsibility to ourselves, to our posterity, to our ancestors, and to the God of Nature, which made us what we are, to reinforce the contentions of all reasonable people and confute those of ignorant scum. And here, I contend, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in Best Buy's cop-outs. Best Buy's pledge not to calumniate helpless jerks is merely empty rhetoric, invoked on occasion for theatrical effect but otherwise studiously ignored. I may be opening a Pandora's box by writing this, but it must be stated quite categorically that I could make an argument for the idea that the trouble with such naive tyrants is that they intend to abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology. Don't make the mistake of thinking otherwise. Best Buy does, and that's why it wants me to stop trying to upbraid it for being so uppity. Instead, it'd rather I walk around with a mountain of pain and suffering welled up inside me. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily.

In this case, the obvious solution is also the correct one. The destruction of the Tower of Babel, be it a literal truth, an allegory, or a mere story based upon cultural archetypes, illustrates this truth plainly. In an atmosphere of false rumors and misinformation, we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Best Buy. It is quite common today to hear people express themselves as follows: "Best Buy is totally unmovable by truth or reason." If you're still reading this letter, I wish to compliment you for being sufficiently open-minded to understand that when one examines the ramifications of letting Best Buy replace the search for truth with a situationist relativism based on disorderly, brutal Maoism, one finds a preponderance of evidence leading to the conclusion that it tries to make us think the way it wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. The facts are in: Best Buy's words are capricious to the core.

 

[Zambonni]

Chanfo - What the hell are you on? (I'd be interested in trying some myself!)

Ok, guys. Drop the deal for pete's sake. It is over.
As a Wounded Monitor Child (origins of this Hot Deals forum), I know how you feel, but it is over and you will not
get your cards. period.

You got $30, be glad you even got that.