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Best Buy fail = I win!
lilshawn:
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"I downloaded = best buy fail !!"...
then it will turn into a 3 page rant thread... lol....
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it already is a 3 page rant thread :lol
Fordman:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on January 13, 2011, 02:59:38 pm ---Screwing Best Buy would have been going back and getting ALL the rest of the Super Mario Galaxy 2 games and making them sell them to him at that price, then later returning them for the full price because he "forgot" the receipt.
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This is the main reason why the stores' return policies have changed a lot in the last 10 years. People have made a lot of money by buying at best buy on the 'day after thanksgiving', holding on to the item, then returning it for full price. Now that is outright theft! (also why wal-mart has their own barcodes on major retail items; ie Proctor & Gamble products)
I had a buddy that bought $600 worth of items at other stores at deep discounts, taken them all back the best buy, "forgot receipt", got the store credit, walked out with $740 TV. He stole $140 from Best Buy! That is why the stores keep changing their return policies.
Fordman
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Fordman on January 14, 2011, 11:22:03 pm ---Now that is outright theft! (also why wal-mart has their own barcodes on major retail items; ie Proctor & Gamble products)
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Ah... the dreaded Wal*Mart SKU. That's not the only reason Wal*Mart use it. Remember about oh... ten or fifteen years ago Wal*Mart actually had a say on game content? For those who don't remember, basically game companies would create a whole different SKU of a particular game because Wal*Mart policies forbade certain games with certain content to be sold at their stores. IIRC, Xatrix practically bent over double to get "qualified" for the Wal*Mart SKU (they made up for it by letting buyers download patches to their Wal*Mart games to bring it to par with non-Wally games). I believe Valve considered it at one point as well....
I believe Wal*Mart finally realized the fallacy of their logic when the game devs finally told Wally to shove it. Gamers were going to get their non-wally friendly games regardless of what Wal*Mart wanted and if they weren't going to spend their dollars at Wally, they had no problems spending it elsewhere. Thank the Gods the game companies quit bending to Wally's will.
In a nutshell, the SKU's are different because the products are literally different. I've never purchased music at Wally world, but don't they still censor all their music? And half of their crap kitchenware gets a Wally SKU because they've cut so many corners they're really not the same product elsewhere.
In any case, Wally World isn't the only one that does that. Home Depot and Lowes do that with their appliances, even if the appliances are identical. It's built into their contracts (or whatever they use). Which is truly lame, they'll take back ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up lumber from literally anywhere and used sewage plumbing but won't touch an appliance ??? Go figure.
ChadTower:
Actually, a lot of major manufacturers have different models for different major retail chains. You'll look at a TV at one chain store and see one model number. At another store the button is an oval instead of a circle and has a different model number but is identical in every other way. That's how they offer such awesome price match policies that they never actually have to use. You can't price match a TV model that only exists in your store.
ChadTower:
The difference is probably the amount of people who can Google on a mobile vs having to have done it at home beforehand.
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