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Went to Best Buy today and this is exactly why I always stop to "just look" at the video game sections. My wife is always complaining about that saying I'm wasting time or whatever.. well today I showed her!
Saw Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the price card behind had the Best Buy label at $19.99! Immediately grabbed the game and price card, got in line, handed them to the kid at the register and said, "So this game is $19.99, right?" ..Should've seen this kids eyes get big when he saw the error (looked like the gamer type) He went and got the manager and he stood there for a minute studying the price card labeled incorrectly and he just said, "Hmm, this isn't right.." and I just said "Hey that's how it was when I went over there so.." Then he just rang me up, I win!!!
What's even more funny was Super Mario Galaxy was sitting right next to it labeled $49.99.. How could the second game be $30.00 cheaper than first!!?? I'm going to keep this receipt just because I love how it says $30.00 discount. ;D
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Nice score. :cheers:
Best Buy can be butts about that type of thing sometimes. Glad it worked out for you.
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Nice score. :cheers:
Best Buy can be butts about that type of thing sometimes. Glad it worked out for you.
Thanks man. Yea I know what you mean. I'm so stoked because I was holding off on getting that game for so long and it paid off. Not only that but I went in there with intent of getting a DS game, because I only need 30 more points on the Club Nintendo site to get the exclusive Game & Watch Collection DS game. I almost ended up getting one but I decided to make my rounds down the other video game aisles and found the Wii game priced incorrectly.
So really I got a Wii game I've been wanting for a long time instead of a DS game for the same price, I got 50 points instead of the 30 points I needed, and now I'm getting a free exclusive DS game from Club Nintendo site. I got to say, today was a good day.
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I don't agree with this thinking. If you know something's labeled wrong, why should you expect them to honor that incorrect price? What would you have done if they said "I apologize, but that price is incorrect and we really can't sell it to you for $19.99."?
Do you think there's a possibility that someone could lose their job for that incorrect pricing?
Went to Best Buy today and this is exactly why I always stop to "just look" at the video game sections.
Are you saying that you actually look for this kind of mis-pricing? Often?? If so, might I suggest scanning the Automobile and Real Estate sections of your newspaper. Just one omitted zero.... :cheers:
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Actually yes. It is the store's responsibility to accurately price their products. If they don't it's their own fault.
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I don't agree with this thinking. If you know something's labeled wrong, why should you expect them to honor that incorrect price? What would you have done if they said "I apologize, but that price is incorrect and we really can't sell it to you for $19.99."?
Wow you're cool.. I knew they had to honor that price because when I used to work at places like Sears, Big 5, etc. they had to honor whatever the price tag read. Now, I can see them not giving it to me if it was something ridiculous like $1.00, but this was no price tag/sticker that anyone could've just peeled off another game and stuck it on there (ticket switching) this was an actual Best Buy label/sticker affixed to the card that read "Super Mario Galaxy 2: $19.99" so I knew they had to honor it.
Do you think there's a possibility that someone could lose their job for that incorrect pricing?
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Went to Best Buy today and this is exactly why I always stop to "just look" at the video game sections.
Are you saying that you actually look for this kind of mis-pricing?
Umm, that's exactly what I said
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I got it for free and didnt even play it......................
I am gangster like that :burgerking:
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I really try to support B&M when I can, but lately all my purchases are newegg.com and amazon. The hassles of dealing with the retail stores make physically shopping a rarity for me these days.
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If something is labeled incorrectly, the store pretty much has to honor it. Unless someone is switching labels.
I always demand they do, it false advertizing if they don't.
I have a buddy that stops by Stop & Shop every couple of days and checks the DVD's.
Every couple of weeks, he finds one for $5.00.
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I don't agree with this thinking. If you know something's labeled wrong, why should you expect them to honor that incorrect price? What would you have done if they said "I apologize, but that price is incorrect and we really can't sell it to you for $19.99."?
Do you think there's a possibility that someone could lose their job for that incorrect pricing?
Went to Best Buy today and this is exactly why I always stop to "just look" at the video game sections.
Are you saying that you actually look for this kind of mis-pricing? Often?? If so, might I suggest scanning the Automobile and Real Estate sections of your newspaper. Just one omitted zero.... :cheers:
Lol youre kidding right!? Its not like its some Mom and Pop place trying to make a buck here, this is Best Buy we are talking about. They pretty much cornered the retail side of the electronics market. Well, here in CA at least. Going to the losing the job part, no, I dont think they would lose their job, but I imagine they would be reprimanded for not doing their job correctly. Kudos to getting that find, I wish I could find stuff like that.
I agree with the person that said its false advertising. Besides, they do stuff like that for quality control. Albertsons says that if they dont label their groceries correctly, if it rings up at a different price, you get the damn thing free. Same kind of thing if you dont get a recepit at Panda Express, you get it free. Its to keep people in line so they do their jobs, because if they screw up and dont do it, they pretty much get called on it because they know who is responsible. I think its great. Screw Best Buy, they can afford it. That game has made a ton of money anway. :cheers: :applaud:
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Actually yes. It is the store's responsibility to accurately price their products. If they don't it's their own fault.
Totally agree. Besides, the S in MSRP is "suggested". They could charge 19.99 if they WANTED too, but instead they screwed up. Good job for sticking it to em!
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:applaud:
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Yes, it is the stores responsibility to make sure that items are priced correctly. I don't go out of my way looking for pricing mistakes, but I have gotten a few "deals" that way over the years.
I am surprised that more stores haven't gone to electronic price displays.
We have Kohl's department stores in our area, not to be confused with kohl's grocery stores that I have seen is some areas. Kohl's has these small LCD displays that can be updated via a wireless broadcast. I am sure there could still be pricing mistakes with these, but they pretty much eliminate the problem of employees forgetting to take down the sale prices after the sale period is over.
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Lol youre kidding right!? Its not like its some Mom and Pop place trying to make a buck here, this is Best Buy we are talking about. They pretty much cornered the retail side of the electronics market. Well, here in CA at least. Going to the losing the job part, no, I dont think they would lose their job, but I imagine they would be reprimanded for not doing their job correctly. Kudos to getting that find, I wish I could find stuff like that.
Americans wanting everything so cheap regardless of consequence (or making a buck, regardless of consequence) is why you have such a ---smurfy--- economy for the last 2 years. "It's Best Buy we are talking about" could just as easily be worded as "it's people clinging to low-paying jobs we're talking about".
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Lol youre kidding right!? Its not like its some Mom and Pop place trying to make a buck here, this is Best Buy we are talking about. They pretty much cornered the retail side of the electronics market. Well, here in CA at least. Going to the losing the job part, no, I dont think they would lose their job, but I imagine they would be reprimanded for not doing their job correctly. Kudos to getting that find, I wish I could find stuff like that.
Americans wanting everything so cheap regardless of consequence (or making a buck, regardless of consequence) is why you have such a ---smurfy--- economy for the last 2 years. "It's Best Buy we are talking about" could just as easily be worded as "it's people clinging to low-paying jobs we're talking about".
What difference does it make if Im American? And judging by that remark you must be canadian then. Consequence? Really? So youre saying some dumbass that screwed up at work shouldnt get reprimanded, even if it means the business lost money, just because he has a low paying job? I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch. With money as the main aspect of the entire business. Yeah, I get paid more than a sales associate at Best Buy, and Im human so Im going to screw up, but when I do, I get in trouble for it. I dont even know what your point is, except to talk ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- about Americans.
Damn right PBJ. Just because a person has a low paying job, doesnt mean he cant do it correctly.
Take a look at our economy for beyond the past few years.
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I love it when you are looking at laptops at best Buy, the salesman (or saleslady) walks up and the first thing they say is "I dont get any kind of commission."
But you start talking about knocking off a little on the price, or throwing in a free wireless mouse and they say, "let me ask the manager."
Works every time.
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Damn right PBJ. Just because a person has a low paying job, doesnt mean he cant do it correctly.
The whole false advertizing thing was to stop stores from bait and switching. If you see something is accidentally/ unintentionally priced wrong and you buy it for that wrong price, you are no better than the person who sees a wet floor and slips on it to get an easy lawsuit settlement.
By the way, Best Buy doesn't fail from your win. Just like it hasn't failed from all the other forms of theft. It'll just have the rest of us pay more to absorb your deception.
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Love it, last year my dad calls and tells me "I just bought a $1300 TV but the bill shows $680". My personal fav was when I bought $62.17 in gas and I said would pay by debit, he enters the price and all I see on that little screen is $2.17 OK? Dammm right OK!
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If you see something is accidentally/ unintentionally priced wrong and you buy it for that wrong price, you are no better than the person who sees a wet floor and slips on it to get an easy lawsuit settlement.
By the way, Best Buy doesn't fail from your win. Just like it hasn't failed from all the other forms of theft. It'll just have the rest of us pay more to absorb your deception.
Seriously? The game was labeled a certain price and he jumped on it. He did absolutely nothing wrong. If they didn't have to honor it, there's no saying which stores are "accidentally" labeling products lower to spur sales from people who either aren't paying attention or are too apathetic to complain. Thankfully, consumers have rights and part of those rights is to have products accurately priced on the floor.
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I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
As to RayB's point, part of the point that I think it was making is that the same people who scream "Buy American, Save Our Jobs" are the same folks who are happy to take advantage of mistakes that cost the American economy money. In this case, the mistake didn't hurt the foreign companies who made, licensed and sold the product, but rather the American company who sold it.
That, and the fact that Americans (and Canadians for that matter, to a lesser extent) want things as cheap as possible, which is the primary reason that manufacturing (and other) jobs have flown the coop.
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The whole false advertizing thing was to stop stores from bait and switching. If you see something is accidentally/ unintentionally priced wrong and you buy it for that wrong price, you are no better than the person who sees a wet floor and slips on it to get an easy lawsuit settlement.
Is everyone sitting down?
+1.
I don't understand the moral justification that it's OK to take advantage of a mistake at a big store but it's not at a mom-n-pop store. I don't see how the morality changes based on who the victim is. Best Buy will certainly be hurt less by the mistake, but that doesn't change the morality (good, bad, or indifferent) of one's actions. :dunno
I don't think much of Best Buy's sales tactics either. They range from pushy to outright deceptive (premium digital cables?), but it's my conscience I have to answer to when the day's done.
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I went to a clothing resale store recently because someone had given me some long-sleeve button-up shirts that didn't quite fit me. Out of four or five, they only wanted one, and offered two dollars. I asked them whether they donated clothes, they said yes, and I said they could keep the remaining items I'd brought.
The place uses these special credit cards that are kept when the credit runs out on them. When at the counter for the one item I was keeping, out of four I had tried out, the cashier told me I had about $14 on the card. ?? She said maybe the card hadn't gotten zeroed out before they gave it to me. Well, I did want one other of the remaining three items - so I bought it with the credit on the card.
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International and big business have no morals, and care nothing about us.
The fact that you can work at Best Buy and be poor is a testament to that.
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To detractors of the OP's deal, I have a similar story from the early 90's: I was at a record store and there was an Aerosmith box-set with two different prices - one for the cassette version and one for the CD version. The CD version was accidentally priced at the cassette price (at least $10 cheaper). I didn't know that was the case and brought it to the register where I was informed it was labeled wrong. I resigned to putting it back, without an argument or a complaint, but the cashier stopped me and told me THEY HAD TO honor the price.
This is not about "sticking it to the man". Businesses have a level of "accountability" they must adhere to and that includes pricing their products accurately and non-deceptively. Sorry the employee made a mistake or someone was having "an off day". Just because someone's job is labeled as "minimum-wage and trivial" doesn't make it any less important to the company.
Even though my job doesn't deal with customers in the normal sense (we're a title company dealing with mortgage customers), we OFTEN lose money because of simple mistakes because someone didn't charge a certain fee or did something wrong in the process.
It is not the customers' job to ensure employees are doing their job correctly (we can go the cynical route and even theorize that a disgruntled employee may sometimes mislabel products on purpose). If someone gets a substantial discount on an item, it should be a cheap lesson that management needs to zero in on the problems that exist in their organization. If it doesn't, well it's doomed to fail anyway.
EDIT (Another Point): Discarding rules, etc. - it may actually cost stores MORE in the long run denying borrower his/her credit in part due to a pricing error. Best Buy says that the price is not valid and suddenly you have a customer who (a) now distrusts the company and (b) will probably not return with, at least, hopes of scoring another "unadvertised deal" and possibly buying something else while there. I think some repeat business was worth more than the $30 they lost that day. They'll consider it a "loss leader" and move on.
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Don't get me wrong - I don't object to getting good deals and I think it's fine to take advantage of a price mistake if the store is willing to honor the mistake. That kind of service brings repeat customers. I have a strong objection to "sticking it to the man" attitudes.
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About 10 years ago I was working for Home Depot as a "Lot Attendant" (Cart Pusher) and I noticed there was a box of area rugs labeled with the price of the box next to it which was $20 or so less. I brought it to the attention of my immediate supervisor and mentioned that I was thinking about buying one tossing in a "if I were a regular customer you'd give it to me for the miss-marked price." Surprisingly enough, she went for it. WIN :P
Maybe a year ago Walmart had an end-cap of those upside down tomato planters marked at $5 when they were still $10-12 or so. Took a bit of work to get the right personnel over there to get the deal but again, put another one in the WIN column! After the fact I was kicking myself for not getting a few to give as gifts but when we decided to buy it we'd thought the price was legit and we could come back and get more. Oh well...
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it's more common that you would think...
http://smartcanucks.ca/canadian-code-of-practice-scanner-price-accuracy/ (http://smartcanucks.ca/canadian-code-of-practice-scanner-price-accuracy/)
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we OFTEN lose money because of simple mistakes because someone didn't charge a certain fee or did something wrong in the process.
Yup. I mess up on a quote, I honor it, even if it means I eat the cost of the screwup. It's my signature, I said I'd do the job for this, why shouldn't I have to?
Is it any different with Best Buy? Or a mom and pop store? They post a price, the signature and quote is implied -- they've said they will deliver this item for this price.
I hold up my end of the deal by paying, they should hold up their end of the deal by honoring the price they've listed at.
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it's more common that you would think...
http://smartcanucks.ca/canadian-code-of-practice-scanner-price-accuracy/ (http://smartcanucks.ca/canadian-code-of-practice-scanner-price-accuracy/)
I have actually had this happen on a number of occasions. Including getting the item for free when its under $10.00 .. It was just some toiletry items at shoppers drug mart but the shelf said one price and the cash register had another so she just threw it in the bag and said you get this item for free.. thats our policy..
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I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
I am up to current economics thank you, notice how I didnt say WHAT bank, but you assume most banks work with money right? Not ALL the American banks are in the toilet now anyway, most of them are back to being in decent shape. What Im saying is, like everyone else mentioned, is that if I screw up, I have to honor my mistake. If I quote a CD rate wrong, I have to give it to the customer at what rate Im quoted at. Like others have said, you need to eat the cost because it was your mistake. Thats all I was saying. RayB pissed me of at his "You Americans" remark. I hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
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RayB's just mad because 'Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. "Keep it down, eh?"'
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I needed to buy cheap plastic business card holders for a project I was working on. I looked online and found some at Office Depot for $2.13. Since I didn't want to pay shipping, I just printed out the product page (which said I could get it at the store for the same price) and headed over to the store across the street from where I work.
At the store they had these stupid hunks of plastic for $15 each. I needed 5, so I grabbed them, but there was no way in hell I was spending $75 for 5 plastic business card holders. I brought the online printout to the service desk and let them know the price was wrong at the store. The manager told me that I was a "thief printing out a forgery" so I told him to go look online himself. He went online and found the product at the same price I did. Then started swearing and pulled out his price policy book, slamming in down as hard as he can in front of me. Sure enough, they had to honor online prices like the web page said.
The manager turned to me and said, "Well I guess you win, but it is ---smurfs--- like you that are destroying the Office supply retail Industry." I left a few choice words with him as I left with my card holders, but I could see the dude needed an enima. Asshat.
I guess my whole point is that it is not the job of the customer to interpret what prices are mistakes, and what prices are reasonable to believe correct, we are not product purchasing analysts. I don't think that $75 for 5 clear plastic business card holders is correct, but that dude somehow though I was ripping them off and thought the $2.13 was a price mistake.
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I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
I am up to current economics thank you, notice how I didnt say WHAT bank, but you assume most banks work with money right? Not ALL the American banks are in the toilet now anyway, most of them are back to being in decent shape. What Im saying is, like everyone else mentioned, is that if I screw up, I have to honor my mistake. If I quote a CD rate wrong, I have to give it to the customer at what rate Im quoted at. Like others have said, you need to eat the cost because it was your mistake. Thats all I was saying. RayB pissed me of at his "You Americans" remark. I hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
25 years in financial services in both Canada and the US specializing in risk management and compliance, which makes me believe that it is unlikely that *you* are eating the cost of your mistakes (other than perhaps a hit on your perfomance review), but rather it is your employer ... and people seem to believe that it is OK to rip off corporations.
And, yeah, I can understand the incendiary nature of the "You Americans" remark ... we Canadians get that stuff all the time ... mostly from "You Americans"
:P
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I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
I am up to current economics thank you, notice how I didnt say WHAT bank, but you assume most banks work with money right? Not ALL the American banks are in the toilet now anyway, most of them are back to being in decent shape. What Im saying is, like everyone else mentioned, is that if I screw up, I have to honor my mistake. If I quote a CD rate wrong, I have to give it to the customer at what rate Im quoted at. Like others have said, you need to eat the cost because it was your mistake. Thats all I was saying. RayB pissed me of at his "You Americans" remark. I hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
25 years in financial services in both Canada and the US specializing in risk management and compliance, which makes me believe that it is unlikely that *you* are eating the cost of your mistakes (other than perhaps a hit on your perfomance review), but rather it is your employer ... and people seem to believe that it is OK to rip off corporations.
And, yeah, I can understand the incendiary nature of the "You Americans" remark ... we Canadians get that stuff all the time ... mostly from "You Americans"
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Sure they can. They can take the money right out of any bonus earned. They could also fire you, demote you, cut your salary, etc. If employees screw up big enough, they will eat their mistakes. Business 101.
That's beside the point though, You say it's the customers fault for ripping off these corporations, I say it's the corporations job to ensure they don't get ripped off. Best Buy could have made sure they got $50 for Mario Galaxy by putting a $50 price tag on the game. Putting a $20 price tag on Mario Galaxy is a pretty good way to ensure the customer buys it for $20. Not the customers fault that he/she pays the price on the tag. And being American has nothing to do with liking the $20 price tag and jumping on the deal.
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Nice score. I had something similar happen to me at BB over the holidays. I found a wireless card for my desktop priced at 29.99. the rep rings it up at 69.99. I tell her where I found it, she checks the tag, and sure enough, cheap wireless card bought! Of course she removed the tag as we walked away from the display so no one else could cash in. Right place, right time, I guess. :cheers:
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I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
I am up to current economics thank you, notice how I didnt say WHAT bank, but you assume most banks work with money right? Not ALL the American banks are in the toilet now anyway, most of them are back to being in decent shape. What Im saying is, like everyone else mentioned, is that if I screw up, I have to honor my mistake. If I quote a CD rate wrong, I have to give it to the customer at what rate Im quoted at. Like others have said, you need to eat the cost because it was your mistake. Thats all I was saying. RayB pissed me of at his "You Americans" remark. I hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
25 years in financial services in both Canada and the US specializing in risk management and compliance, which makes me believe that it is unlikely that *you* are eating the cost of your mistakes (other than perhaps a hit on your perfomance review), but rather it is your employer ... and people seem to believe that it is OK to rip off corporations.
And, yeah, I can understand the incendiary nature of the "You Americans" remark ... we Canadians get that stuff all the time ... mostly from "You Americans"
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I still have a bottom line Im supposed to hit for the branch, so if Im paying some dude extra money off a CD for half a million dollars for a year, Im going to eat the mistake, thats less money I can work with to rate match other people, lose out on possible promotions, bonuses, etc. Pretty much exactly what Vigo said. And yes, given how some corporations aquire money, I dont feel bad for "ripping them off". Take a bank I used to work for, US Bank. They rip people off all the time, why do you think the banks had to overhaul the way fees get incurred? Because some senators son got ripped off and bam. Now the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- is changed. The problem with these corporations is that they have SO MUCH MONEY. I really dont think Best Buy is going to be hurt by the mistake. How often does that happen anyway?
Well, RayB has had some scathing remarks before, and I have never mentioned anything about Canada at all except that I want to go there. Im just tired of the blanket remarks like that. It just seems like the trend. "Talk ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- to americans cause its their fault all our economies are tied into theirs so when their ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- hits the fan, so does ours". :blah:
But I get your joke. :cheers:
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I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
I am up to current economics thank you, notice how I didnt say WHAT bank, but you assume most banks work with money right? Not ALL the American banks are in the toilet now anyway, most of them are back to being in decent shape. What Im saying is, like everyone else mentioned, is that if I screw up, I have to honor my mistake. If I quote a CD rate wrong, I have to give it to the customer at what rate Im quoted at. Like others have said, you need to eat the cost because it was your mistake. Thats all I was saying. RayB pissed me of at his "You Americans" remark. I hate that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
25 years in financial services in both Canada and the US specializing in risk management and compliance, which makes me believe that it is unlikely that *you* are eating the cost of your mistakes (other than perhaps a hit on your perfomance review), but rather it is your employer ... and people seem to believe that it is OK to rip off corporations.
And, yeah, I can understand the incendiary nature of the "You Americans" remark ... we Canadians get that stuff all the time ... mostly from "You Americans"
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Sure they can. They can take the money right out of any bonus earned. They could also fire you, demote you, cut your salary, etc. If employees screw up big enough, they will eat their mistakes. Business 101.
That's beside the point though, You say it's the customers fault for ripping off these corporations, I say it's the corporations job to ensure they don't get ripped off. Best Buy could have made sure they got $50 for Mario Galaxy by putting a $50 price tag on the game. Putting a $20 price tag on Mario Galaxy is a pretty good way to ensure the customer buys it for $20. Not the customers fault that he/she pays the price on the tag. And being American has nothing to do with liking the $20 price tag and jumping on the deal.
See, right on the money, AGAIN Vigo. :applaud: :cheers:
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Sure they can. They can take the money right out of any bonus earned. They could also fire you, demote you, cut your salary, etc. If employees screw up big enough, they will eat their mistakes. Business 101.
In many jurisdictions, for financial services, taking the money from the employee would violate a number of regulations. The other stuff falls under the bad performance review and also ends up costing the employer still more money. Business 102.
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Pulp Fiction?
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You can penalize them, but you can't take the same amount of money right out in financial services.
Doesn't really matter anyway as that was a specific response to a specific situation that is unrelated to the topic at hand.
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Its kinda funny how these threads evolve. :lol
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Heh, thanks Mike. It was pretty much a +1 on your point earlier, but I like to elaborate. :cheers:
I do live like 5 minutes away from Best Buy Corp, and know a number of corporate employees there. It is a sweet gig in an amazing building, They can handle a small hit on price for Mario Galaxy. Best Buy does not make its money off of fair prices, but preying on customers who do not know better. I needed to buy a SATA cable cable really quick, so I stopped at Best Buy. It was $34. I walked out laughing, no way in hell I would pay that price. :lol
You can penalize them, but you can't take the same amount of money right out in financial services.
Doesn't really matter anyway as that was a specific response to a specific situation that is unrelated to the topic at hand.
I do admit, CA has some of the most Employee sided labor regulations of them all, but I work in HR for a company that will not accept much loss from the employee mistakes. We have an "expectation based bonus", and we don't take money equal to the loss out of the bonus, the loss is calculated through a series of formulas, and the employee bonus cut ends up much more than the actual loss. >:D
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I avoid employees at BB like the plague.
They are required to expect everyone in there to have the IQ of 20, a wallet of solid gold, an unsatiable need to impulse buy whatever they are told is the "item to have", and a belief that the product will internally implode in a week without their warranty policy.
I'm pretty sure that's written in the employee handbook. :dunno
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i remember some sort of post or special on the big name stores that they have a policy at the door... You are either A, B, or C, A being you look like you have money, but have no knowledge of computers, the mom looking for the xbox type of parent who they can sell 6 controllers to, and us, who know what we are talking about... They dont want anything to do with C.
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i remember some sort of post or special on the big name stores that they have a policy at the door... You are either A, B, or C, A being you look like you have money, but have no knowledge of computers, the mom looking for the xbox type of parent who they can sell 6 controllers to, and us, who know what we are talking about... They dont want anything to do with C.
I believe that in a heartbeat. My question now is why the heck I keep getting in "Group A"....It's because I look rich, right?
right???
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it is not the job of the customer to interpret what prices are mistakes, and what prices are reasonable to believe correct, we are not product purchasing analysts.
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The manager turned to me and said, "Well I guess you win, but it is ---smurfs--- like you that are destroying the Office supply retail Industry." I left a few choice words with him as I left with my card holders, but I could see the dude needed an enima. Asshat.
Total ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. Managers can see what the wholesale price is on what's in their store. Places like staples jack up their prices for the suckers too lazy to shop around. I also have sneaky suspicion some people shop there for the tax write off. A printer from staples probably ends up being cheaper over five years through depreciation than the same printer purchased elsewhere for half that.
He's likely pissed because you hurt his year end bonus. Places like that really screw over employees and customersand reward their management.
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If something is labeled incorrectly, the store pretty much has to honor it. Unless someone is switching labels.
I always demand they do, it false advertizing if they don't.
In the USA, it depends on the State you live in before you can say false advertising (remember, its private property ((and no, you dont have to enter)) and if it wasnt publicly advertised, then it isnt advertised - I learned that in my legal economics/business/labor classes). Most stores try to make sure their items are priced right, sometimes there are errors. Usually to save a future customer, they go ahead and honor the label/sign.
Fordman
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Cheffo got my point, Mikezilla. To make it clear:
Ripping off Best Buy is not a victimless crime and could cost a guy his job. Didn't Circuit City or some other big chain go tits up not too long ago?
I just wrapped my point up in a broader context that Cheffo summarized fairly well: Too many people feel entitled to anything and everything they want without thought to consequence and then are first to ---smurfette--- and moan that their economies, jobs and home values are in the toilet. You have no problem ripping off big faceless corporation "Best Buy" but don't think that maybe there is a trickle-down consequence to that kind of behaviour; Those same people complain that big faceless corporations are shipping jobs outside the country.
Sorry if you don't like America-bashing but it's the truth (and Canadians are not that far behind).
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Ripping off Best Buy is not a victimless crime and could cost a guy his job. Didn't Circuit City or some other big chain go tits up not too long ago?
I would be hard presses to believe that a company like Circuit City went belly up because they mismarked so many of their products. It would have more to do with their overall business practice. Seriously, any company that supported the atrocity known as DIVX is bound to fail.
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Seriously, any company that supported the atrocity known as DIVX is bound to fail.
Queuing most obvious counter-example ...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Nb8DOoLyFwk/SwQVp2iKTUI/AAAAAAAAOKw/ZREAdOnUq1U/s400/mickey-mouse.png)
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Eh, I don't think $20 for an old, not very fun game is too far off the mark and I wouldn't have thought that was a mistake if I had seen it.
Just saying.
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This isn't about you unknowingly buying a game that was mispriced.
Please reread the subject and first post in this thread.
As I said in my other post in this thread, I think the original intent and actions is like someone calling a lawyer because they purposely slipped on some spilt milk.
:dunno
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My issue with the counter-arguements are people who are referring to this as:
Ripping off Best Buy is not a victimless crime and could cost a guy his job.
(a) He didn't "steal" anything.
(b) He continues to shop there - a REPEAT CUSTOMER (even if only to look for the accidental deals).
And I doubt anyone's losing their job. If a manager fired every employee who made a mistake there'd be no one left to work there. Paying out unemployment benefits and having to interview and train new people is a little bit of a hassle to punish someone for what could have been an innocent mistake.
But what say you if this wasn't the first (or second or third) time the employee made this error? Well then he's a poor employee and where I'm from you don't get to keep your job if you suck at it (or have no interest in doing it right).
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Seriously, any company that supported the atrocity known as DIVX is bound to fail.
Queuing most obvious counter-example ...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Nb8DOoLyFwk/SwQVp2iKTUI/AAAAAAAAOKw/ZREAdOnUq1U/s400/mickey-mouse.png)
EuroDisney was offset by their 100 year bonds. They probably made CC eat the losses to keep the books clean the same way Pepsi was (is) moving their losses to YUM!
Everybody knows Disney is the Devil. Any deal with the Devil is a bad one.
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Yeah, they tried to sell me a 6 foot HDMI cable for $75. I just started laughing, too.
cuz its ultra premium monster hdmi cable..GOLD PLATED
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And I doubt anyone's losing their job. If a manager fired every employee who made a mistake there'd be no one left to work there. Paying out unemployment benefits and having to interview and train new people is a little bit of a hassle to punish someone for what could have been an innocent mistake.
But what say you if this wasn't the first (or second or third) time the employee made this error? Well then he's a poor employee and where I'm from you don't get to keep your job if you suck at it (or have no interest in doing it right).
Why do I have to explain everything in minute detail? We're not a bunch of 6 year olds are we? I never said that his act directly would result in a firing. Life isn't always so direct and 1:1 like that. I'm talking about cumulative effects from so many people having the attitude that they deserve to "beat the system". If enough people screw a store out of their profit margins, eventually that store has to cut staff or shut down. We might as well be bragging about successful shoplifting.
Go for it guys. Post all your "wins" from sneaking stuff out of stores, or being handed back the wrong change and not having the moral balls to tell the clerk he/she made a mistake.
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i got a small (cheaply made no name) TV from the superstore grocery chain. the newspaper ad said 39.99 the tag on the display said 49.99 and rung up at 69.99... being WAAAY wrong, I got it at 29.99 (10 dollars off lowest price item scanning practice rules apply)
new kids room TV! Tada!
though i was kind of disturbed that when i opened the box.... the TV came with a complete set of schematics on a giant sheet of paper! :o .... i'm guessing the manufacturer isn't planning on fixing this one... :lol
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I've got no problem with a store making good on a mispriced item. It's that entitlement that gets me. The OP knew the item's worth and took the pricing card to the register with him.
The 'right' thing to do would be to bring the incorrect pricing to the attention of the store. Regardless of it being Best Buy.
So, you see someone unknowingly drop a $10 on the floor. Do you point it out to them or quickly cover it with your foot until they walk away?
Life shouldn't be 'Finders Keepers'. That's a kid thing.
Look for legitimate deals, not mistakes. Try sites like Woot.com, Hotdealsclub.com, monoprice.com, etc.
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Why do I have to explain everything in minute detail? We're not a bunch of 6 year olds are we? I never said that his act directly would result in a firing. Life isn't always so direct and 1:1 like that. I'm talking about cumulative effects from so many people having the attitude that they deserve to "beat the system". If enough people screw a store out of their profit margins, eventually that store has to cut staff or shut down. We might as well be bragging about successful shoplifting.
Go for it guys. Post all your "wins" from sneaking stuff out of stores, or being handed back the wrong change and not having the moral balls to tell the clerk he/she made a mistake.
I think you're making way more of this than it is. This is NOT a widespread problem with the economy going down the drain because there was suddenly some sudden outbreak of underpriced merchandise sneaking their way onto the sales floors of major retailers. The dude got a deal because someone fell asleep at the switch.
If you want to find "beating the system" mentality and the delusions of entitlement gamers are known for, go look at people who pirate video games. This is a story of a guy who got an unexpected discount due to a store's error and took advantage of a good deal. I can assure you, it doesn't happen 1/10th as much as you think. You can save the red flags. Trust me on that; I'm always bargain hunting.
And, for the umpteenth time: Best Buy is NOT losing out in the deal. He purchased an item he probably wouldn't have had it been priced accurately. Maybe it's a small loss on paper (and yes, I doubt the store spent more than five seconds fretting over that amount in the grand scheme of things) but advantageous in that it drives repeat business, encourage store loyalty and perhaps even lead to some word-of-mouth advertisement (e.g. the OP tells a friend about the deal, the friend goes in hoping to have the same luck).
I think what kind of gets me though is that I don't think anyone among us is qualified to be casting stones on this. If you find a $20 on the street, do you seriously spend the better part of the weekend tracking down its owner? If your bank didn't charge you a fee on an ATM transaction, do you call them up and make sure they correct that immediately? If you find the cashier didn't charge you for an item in your grocery bag, do you drive all the way back and pay them? When you use a MAME ROM, do you look up the copyright owner and mail out a check?
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And, for the umpteenth time: Best Buy is NOT losing out in the deal.
dude even at $10 they would be making money... where do you think the games/videos/software in the UNDER $5 bins come from?!?!
i bought a gamecube game from walmart one time... this one... http://www.amazon.com/Dragonball-Z-Sagas-GameCube/dp/B0006DNMYW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1294810433&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Dragonball-Z-Sagas-GameCube/dp/B0006DNMYW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1294810433&sr=1-1) on final clearance...
i paid 20 CENTS for it... i'll bet walmart still made money on it.
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Ok, let me just first off thank those of you who were backing me up on this one. :cheers: I did nothing wrong, if you go back and look at my first posts I mentioned that I went in there with the intent of buying a DS game then came across the mispriced Wii game I wanted. I always make my trips down the other videogame aisles to see if there's been any price drops on the games I've been wanting or any sale or clearance, I don't go out of my way to check all of their games to make sure they are accurately priced just to screw them.. And I really wish I'd taken a picture of the display card because it was legit, my first thought when seeing this actually was "Wow that's a good deal" then I started thinking "Nah that's too good to be true" but after reading the price and label carefully, then seeing that the sku # and model # matched the game, I said to myself "Well this better be right because I'm about to buy this!" How dare you guys say that a company should be allowed to display an incorrect price on a game, get some kids hopes up, then have the right to deny them that price upon purchase. And whoever that was comparing this to me purposely slipping on spilled milk then filing a lawsuit.. get bent. And people pointing out the oh so obvious.. Really?? Best buy didn't fail from my win?? Darn, and I really thought that $30 loss was going to drive them into the ground.. because only then I'd win huh.. I'm too lazy to go back and highlight and point fingers but whatever.
And believe it or not, the thing that hurts big corporations the most.. not shoplifting, definitely not this, but something called internal theft. I worked Loss Prevention for Macys & Sears and customers were the least of our concerns, the thing that hurt the company most was employees stealing. So all of you saying "Oh you dumb deceptive consumer :blah: tearing down businesses" get outta here with all that noise..
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anytime i see best buy i have nothing but...........not so much hatred but a big dislike. the first reason is when i was 19 i applied for a job there, they gave me 5 interviews total, for each interview they called me at random times and days and told me to get there as fast i could. Well they didn't hire me, and about 2 weeks later i went shopping there and the guy interviewing me approached me and said "oh hey the guy we ended up hiring didn't work out, do you want to work for us?" I pretty much told him to "fudge off". Reason 2, I needed help on looking for an item and i approached a worker and said "excuse me", well the guy looked at me and just said "im sorry i dont speak spanish". I know i look south of the border but damn, i never realised i looked like i didnt speak english. In my opinion the only place with worse customer service than best buy is walmart.
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And, for the umpteenth time: Best Buy is NOT losing out in the deal.
dude even at $10 they would be making money... where do you think the games/videos/software in the UNDER $5 bins come from?!?!
Well if it's ending up in those bins, it's because no one was buying it at any price. That was a common sight in 1983/84 when the industry crashed.
But you are correct - they always make their money.
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I remember towards the end of the Crash of '83 being able to get some great Atari games for as little as $0.50 at a local drugstore.
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I thought video games were like books and magazines where the store doesn't really own it and more or less sells it on commission?
:dunno
I was curious and looked this up and after digging around, retailers buy stock from the wholesaler at around 6% under the MSRP (EDIT: I saw various percentages after further reading, I can't nail down a definitive answer and went with the mean, more or less) - less for higher quantities and also based on if the purchaser in question is a BEST BUY or similar with enough advertising strength to move the units. (In other words: Best Buy very well sold that game at "cost").
As far as I know, video games were always an item the store had to buy as inventory. A notable exception was Nintendo's deal it struck with retailers when introducing the NES. Due to understandable hesitation from stores stocking video games again after the crash, Nintendo made an intial offer to buy back unsold stock when rolling out the system.
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Why do I have to explain everything in minute detail? We're not a bunch of 6 year olds are we? I never said that his act directly would result in a firing. Life isn't always so direct and 1:1 like that. I'm talking about cumulative effects from so many people having the attitude that they deserve to "beat the system". If enough people screw a store out of their profit margins, eventually that store has to cut staff or shut down. We might as well be bragging about successful shoplifting.
Go for it guys. Post all your "wins" from sneaking stuff out of stores, or being handed back the wrong change and not having the moral balls to tell the clerk he/she made a mistake.
I think you're making way more of this than it is. This is NOT a widespread problem with the economy going down the drain because there was suddenly some sudden outbreak of underpriced merchandise sneaking their way onto the sales floors of major retailers. The dude got a deal because someone fell asleep at the switch.
If you want to find "beating the system" mentality and the delusions of entitlement gamers are known for, go look at people who pirate video games. This is a story of a guy who got an unexpected discount due to a store's error and took advantage of a good deal. I can assure you, it doesn't happen 1/10th as much as you think. You can save the red flags. Trust me on that; I'm always bargain hunting.
And, for the umpteenth time: Best Buy is NOT losing out in the deal. He purchased an item he probably wouldn't have had it been priced accurately. Maybe it's a small loss on paper (and yes, I doubt the store spent more than five seconds fretting over that amount in the grand scheme of things) but advantageous in that it drives repeat business, encourage store loyalty and perhaps even lead to some word-of-mouth advertisement (e.g. the OP tells a friend about the deal, the friend goes in hoping to have the same luck).
I think what kind of gets me though is that I don't think anyone among us is qualified to be casting stones on this. If you find a $20 on the street, do you seriously spend the better part of the weekend tracking down its owner? If your bank didn't charge you a fee on an ATM transaction, do you call them up and make sure they correct that immediately? If you find the cashier didn't charge you for an item in your grocery bag, do you drive all the way back and pay them? When you use a MAME ROM, do you look up the copyright owner and mail out a check?
This is EXACTLY what I was going to say RayB, but Im going to add a little bit. I agree with all the points DaveMMR said, but you gotta keep in mind, the OP never INTENDED on going in and "ripping off" Best Buy by buying a game thats at the wrong price. Someone else mentioned the analogy of slipping on the floor then suing the company. Thats completely different. They have the INTENT to go in and try to collect on something for nothing. The OP said he originally went in there for a DS game I believe, then bam, he saw this little gem. And hell, for all he knew, they could have been having a sale! I just think its a little ridiculous how far you are taking this. You act like he punched an old lady in the face and stole her wallet or something. As someone else mentioned before, Circuit City went belly up due to many different reasons, one being they overcharged for their stock.
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the OP never INTENDED on going in and "ripping off" Best Buy by buying a game thats at the wrong price. Someone else mentioned the analogy of slipping on the floor then suing the company.
It was me who mentioned the analogy of slipping on the floor then suing the company, because he did intend on going in and "ripping off" Best Buy.
Went to Best Buy today and this is exactly why I always stop to "just look" at the video game sections. My wife is always complaining about that saying I'm wasting time or whatever.. well today I showed her!
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You know, it works both ways. I've walked into stores before and have seen large signs by the front that says things like "We're sorry, due to a printer's error, the item listed in this week's ad for $xxx is incorrect. It should be $yyy." (Fry's Electronics does this alot). Mistakes happen. If the store can cover themselves like that, they should also be expected to honor a pricing error that comes to their attention, especially if that's how they had it out on the floor. It's not about getting over on The Man.
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the OP never INTENDED on going in and "ripping off" Best Buy by buying a game thats at the wrong price. Someone else mentioned the analogy of slipping on the floor then suing the company.
It was me who mentioned the analogy of slipping on the floor then suing the company, because he did intend on going in and "ripping off" Best Buy.
Went to Best Buy today and this is exactly why I always stop to "just look" at the video game sections. My wife is always complaining about that saying I'm wasting time or whatever.. well today I showed her!
That could go both ways though, he could have meant that he was looking to see if things were on sale. I do that too. I just think the magnitudes of the offenses are a little skewed, but whatever. Its not like he got the damn thing for free or anything. I stand by what I said. "Rock on. Good score". :cheers:
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That could go both ways though, he could have meant that he was looking to see if things were on sale. I do that too. I just think the magnitudes of the offenses are a little skewed, but whatever. Its not like he got the damn thing for free or anything. I stand by what I said. "Rock on. Good score". :cheers:
If he thought he found a great deal you'd be right, but...
The title of this subject is Best Buy fail = I win, not Best Buy sale = I win.
The word "exactly" means a typo was exactly what he was looking for.
When people get hurt by accident they deserve to be compensated. Some people get hurt on purpose to win a big settlement.
:cheers:
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personally, I really don't see anything wrong...
he found an item inside a store at a price that he think its good, and he bought it.
if the store thinks they're really losing $$ / bad label / wrong price, and cannot honor it, the store will fight for it.
they didn't. so, nice score.
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Anytime I see an item mislabeled with an extra low price, I just steal it. It eliminates the hassle of telling the cashier it was labeled wrong.
:P
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That could go both ways though, he could have meant that he was looking to see if things were on sale. I do that too. I just think the magnitudes of the offenses are a little skewed, but whatever. Its not like he got the damn thing for free or anything. I stand by what I said. "Rock on. Good score". :cheers:
If he thought he found a great deal you'd be right, but...
The title of this subject is Best Buy fail = I win, not Best Buy sale = I win.
The word "exactly" means a typo was exactly what he was looking for.
When people get hurt by accident they deserve to be compensated. Some people get hurt on purpose to win a big settlement.
:cheers:
Dre-w did later clarify that he meant that he was looking for sweet clearance deals, but even if your interpretation was correct, Dre-w's actions proved that he was not out to screw Best Buy. He checked with an employee and inquired about the price. He let the manager check it as well. They both approved the price after carefully checking the tag, then Dre-w bought the goods. What more does he need to do?
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Would you mind autographing my Boy and his Blob DVDRs?
kthx
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what the ---fudgesicle---
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Anytime I see an item mislabeled with an extra low price, I just steal it. It eliminates the hassle of telling the cashier it was labeled wrong.
:P
Would you mind autographing my Boy and his Blob DVDRs?
kthx
;D
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If Dre-w later back pedaled I missed it, but even if his new interpretation of events are correct, Dre-w's actions proved that he was screwing over Best Buy.
He took the label with him to the casher to prove the mistaken price was printed. He kept the receipt to prove that the item wasn’t officially priced at what he paid for it.
What more could he have done?
Nothing, he did everything he could to prove he intentionally cashed in on someone else's mistake.
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and not a ---fudgesicle--- was given.
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That could go both ways though, he could have meant that he was looking to see if things were on sale. I do that too. I just think the magnitudes of the offenses are a little skewed, but whatever. Its not like he got the damn thing for free or anything. I stand by what I said. "Rock on. Good score". :cheers:
If he thought he found a great deal you'd be right, but...
The title of this subject is Best Buy fail = I win, not Best Buy sale = I win.
The word "exactly" means a typo was exactly what he was looking for.
When people get hurt by accident they deserve to be compensated. Some people get hurt on purpose to win a big settlement.
:cheers:
Dre-w did later clarify that he meant that he was looking for sweet clearance deals, but even if your interpretation was correct, Dre-w's actions proved that he was not out to screw Best Buy. He checked with an employee and inquired about the price. He let the manager check it as well. They both approved the price after carefully checking the tag, then Dre-w bought the goods. What more does he need to do?
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Does anyone else out there follow that logic? How does asking store employees about the validity of a price, showing them exactly where you think the issue is, and checking with them if the price is valid = trying to screw over Best Buy???
That's exactly the opposite, thats making sure you are not screwing over the store. Let Dre-w just enjoy his sweet find. To me his find proves nothing more than showing that Best Buy overcharges so damn much that anytime you find a good price it is assumed to be a price mistake.
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This thread's life has done nothing short than amaze me.
If he had walked up to the counter, and asked if he could buy that game at the price listed, and they told him no, he probably wouldn't have bought it. Or maybe he would have, but doubt it. Regardless, it was up to BB to either honor it or not. If they had not, the worst that would have happened was dre-w MAY not shop there ever again. But again, I doubt that. Apparently he likes a good deal. I also seriously doubt he would have made a big stink about them not honoring it, nor filed any lawsuits over something so insignificant and petty.
At no point in his post did he say he DEMANDED that they honor it. At no point did he threaten lawsuits or anything. He simply asked if it was correct. Then with a response to the manager after he came that is was labeled that way, the manager APPROVED it. No parties made a stink about it. For all we know, it could've been a one-day sale thing or something. How is dre-w supposed to know?
I guarantee you all if dre-w had said he would pay the (probable) full price of $49.99 for it, the manager would've politely declined, saying that he only need pay what was on the sticker. Would you still fault him for it?
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Ask RayB. :P ::)
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Does anyone else out there follow that logic? How does asking store employees about the validity of a price, showing them exactly where you think the issue is, and checking with them if the price is valid = trying to screw over Best Buy???
I can follow your logic, but I can also see the holes in it.
I knew they had to honor that price because when I used to work at places like Sears, Big 5, etc. they had to honor whatever the price tag read.
I knew they had to honor it.
He may have been checking if the price was valid, but valid or not (according to his logic) he knew he was getting it for that price.
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Seriously, Dartful? Are you really going to cast the first stone on Dre-w for getting $30 off of a video game?
You are guilty of having intentions to screw others much, much, much more than Dre-w:
I just bought a house so I want to unload the condo. There's a bunch of condos in my building that are going for 4 grand less than I owe on mine and they aren't even selling. I'm going to talk to a lawyer this week to see if I should let the condo go into forecloser or try and negotiate a short sale with the bank.
It'll screw my credit rating, but I have a house, a car and credit cards so I figure by the time I need a good credit score again I'll have built it back up.
Again, I'm not sure how forclosers/short sales work especially when you can afford to pay your mortgage and you’re just choosing not to. If they can take the difference out of my paycheck or take the other house, I won’t do it.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=104733.msg1109556#msg1109556 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=104733.msg1109556#msg1109556)
Yeah, you're the guy who didn't want to lose money on the condo investment you made, so you wanted to unload it all on the bank, screwing the bank for thousands, and forcing them to be the ones to put in the effort trying to sell it, even though you could afford to pay for it. If someone here is guilty of intentionally going in and trying to screw someone else, it would be you. I only hope you weren't successful in your attempt.
I'm done with your perverted sense of ethics.
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Best Buy sale = I win
Well I don't think that would be much of a win now if it was on sale legitimately..
Let's see, how we can reword this title w/o me coming off sounding like someone who had this diabolical plan to rip off Best Buy with hopes of bankrupting them by purchasing a video game that was accidently mispriced by their staff..
Best Buy mistake = me rewarded by manager
A Best Buy error = A best buy for me
Best Buy employees = best people to buy from
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Just because you all can't get awesome deals on stuff doesn't mean you have to crawl up someones bum because they did. :blah:
do you complain when something goes on sale?
do you tell them they should be selling it at the full retail price not a sale price?
do you refuse to buy items if they are sale?
of course not.
like i said, they don't care if they sell something at 59.99, 29.99, 9.99 or 0.99 because the big box company bought 1,280 cases of them at 0.12 cents each... to give it to you at a "deeply discounted" price (ERROR OR NOT) they still made a heap load of money from it. the only reason it's 59.99 in the first place is because THATS WHAT THE MARKET WILL PAY. SERIOUSLY... some items have an 8,000% (eight THOUSAND percent) markup.
i'm not saying go stick it to the man, or that getting a discount is wrong. if someone mis-labels an item and they have to sell it for that price... big deal, go fix the others. nobody's getting fired. nobody's going out of business.
last i heard big box company executives where not going hungry.
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Vigo compares screwing Best Buy with screwing Banks.
Vigo fail = I win!
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Meh, this thread is turning nasty. Lighten it up please or have me lock it, either way...
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Vigo compares screwing Best Buy with screwing Banks.
Vigo fail = I win!
I think he is saying that youre a bit hypocritical, especially in magnitude of the offence. The dude got a discount because something was priced wrong in the amount of 30 bucks. And like Lilshawn said, they make so much money on those things anyway, they already turned a profit even with the price being what it was. Not paying your mortgage because you know the only consequence will be a bad credit score is a tad different. So its easier to say "screw the bank, if they werent charging such high interest rates, I would be able to afford paying my mortgage" than to say "screw Best Buy, they priced a game wrong and Im not going to pay full price due to their error"? Just seems a little...um... I dont know... Retarded?
I love how you call it "screwing Best Buy". Its actually laughable. THEY are the ones that "screwed" themselves by not listing the correct price.
I cant believe either that Mario Galaxy isnt a greatest hit, or whatever the Wii calls their old games anyway.
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If something is labeled incorrectly, the store pretty much has to honor it. Unless someone is switching labels.
I always demand they do, it false advertizing if they don't.
In the USA, it depends on the State you live in before you can say false advertising (remember, its private property ((and no, you dont have to enter)) and if it wasnt publicly advertised, then it isnt advertised - I learned that in my legal economics/business/labor classes). Most stores try to make sure their items are priced right, sometimes there are errors. Usually to save a future customer, they go ahead and honor the label/sign.
Fordman
Ok, I guess it doen't follow the legal definition.
I was just taking it as the price labeled is the price they have to honor.
They are advertising it in the store.
It's like others have said, they have old sale signs up and they honor the price.
They usually take them down right away.
Now, I could see if they had some generic sign and the sign or product get misplaced then maybe.
But if something has a sticker on it with a price, that should be the price.
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Vigo compares screwing Best Buy with screwing Banks.
Vigo fail = I win!
I think he is saying that youre a bit hypocritical, especially in magnitude of the offence. The dude got a discount because something was priced wrong in the amount of 30 bucks. And like Lilshawn said, they make so much money on those things anyway, they already turned a profit even with the price being what it was. Not paying your mortgage because you know the only consequence will be a bad credit score is a tad different. So its easier to say "screw the bank, if they werent charging such high interest rates, I would be able to afford paying my mortgage" than to say "screw Best Buy, they priced a game wrong and Im not going to pay full price due to their error"? Just seems a little...um... I dont know... Retarded?
I love how you call it "screwing Best Buy". Its actually laughable. THEY are the ones that "screwed" themselves by not listing the correct price.
I cant believe either that Mario Galaxy isnt a greatest hit, or whatever the Wii calls their old games anyway.
Thanks, mike! :cheers: That's exactly what I mean. I wasn't trying to compare Best buy with the Banks at all, I'm just trying to point out the hyprocacy in Dartful's view.
Dartful, I'm not trying to call you out for the voluntary forclosure thing, sorry if I sounded too condemning. I'm no moral crusader. I understand you were just trying to do what was most beneficial to you. I just pointed out a case where you admitted you could pay your bills, but wanted to dump it others for your personal benefit....simply to point out that you really are not the person to be slamming a guy $30 off of a video game.
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Hear hear brotha. :cheers:. That last sentence was gold. :applaud:
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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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Hear hear brotha. :cheers:. That last sentence was gold. :applaud:
Thanks, Mike...and I appreciate you putting my earlier post into focus. I'm pretty sure I am partly responsible for Saint chiming in... I'll admit, I was pretty grouchy when I wrote it.
Angry posting has the same sort of imparment as drunk posting, but the results are just not nearly as funny. :lol
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.
This trick allegedly works pretty well for carting games back and forth between Best Buy and Wal-Mart. I've had friends clear a couple hundred in cash for their trouble with receipts to prove it.
:dunno
And there are people who do that every chance they get. The only time that I "forgot" ;) my receipt is the time that I got two of the same video game for my birthday, and I needed to exchange one for a different game. The gift receipt I was given was bought more than 30 days from when it was gifted to me, though.
I never thought they would make such a big stink about exchanging a sealed video game with receipt for some other game, and leave such a gaping loophole in the return policy at the same time.
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No problem Vigo, I understand. You couldn't attack the message so you attacked the messenger.
Since you're obviously a fan of mine you already know that I don't get offended, in fact I found your frustration entertaining.
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now that we have ALLLLL this behind us...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3045626532_2f08d02d95.jpg)
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No problem Vigo, I understand. You couldn't attack the message so you attacked the messenger.
Since you're obviously a fan of mine you already know that I don't get offended, in fact I found your frustration entertaining.
I made it pretty clear I wasn't trying to attack you, even though it's all too easy to do, I was just grouchy yesterday...so it came off as a bit of a rant...and sorry to burst your bubble, but I wasn't frustrated at you, just at my ---smurfy--- job. It was a good way to vent, so I guess I should thank you. :lol
And yeah, I know you well enough, I also remember you were always dangling around P&R, I never cared enough to request access after it got locked down, but I assume you are still the life of the party around there? :dunno
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Now that the thread has devolved into hurt feelings and strong opinions about entitlement and sticking it to the man...
...how many people in this thread downloaded SMG2 off a torrent site? :hissy
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*raises hand*
Still haven't played it, though. :P
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*raises hand*
Still haven't played it, though. :P
+1... played for 10 minutes though... just to make sure it worked.
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download it is ok....
starting a thread about it is ok too...
just call it "recycling data on the internet..."
then everybody hold hands... lol...
it almost sounded "green"...
but if you start a thread called
"I downloaded = best buy fail !!"...
then it will turn into a 3 page rant thread... lol....
for the record... I don't have that game... yet...
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but if you start a thread called
"I downloaded = best buy fail !!"...
then it will turn into a 3 page rant thread... lol....
it already is a 3 page rant thread :lol
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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.
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
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Now that is outright theft! (also why wal-mart has their own barcodes on major retail items; ie Proctor & Gamble products)
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.
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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.
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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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When Circuit City went under, everyone was googling everything and very few folks were buying anything.
I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
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When Circuit City went under, everyone was googling everything and very few folks were buying anything.
I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
And who knows how many tickets you would get in that timeframe ?
;)
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When Circuit City went under, everyone was googling everything and very few folks were buying anything.
I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
And who knows how many tickets you would get in that timeframe ?
;)
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
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When Circuit City went under, everyone was googling everything and very few folks were buying anything.
I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
And who knows how many tickets you would get in that timeframe ?
;)
Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- that was funny. Well played good sir. :applaud: :cheers:
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I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
Yeh I got a heck of a deal at CC on my Philips 40" LCD w/ ambilight feature for only $900 back in '07.. They were selling it for somewhere around $1200 and I had been eyeballin it for awhile, so when I finally got my tax return I went in there to purchase it only to find out that they were sold out of that model.. But the guy was really cool, wasn't trying to sell me on similiar crap or upsell, he called other stores to check if they had any but no luck, so he mentioned I could buy the floor model if I wanted and I'd get a big discount, I had never purchased anything before that was a floor model so I was pretty skeptical at first but when he said he'd throw in a 3 year warranty for only $100.. that worked for me! Still less than what I had originally gone in there looking to spend so.. go figure I buy the 3 year warranty and they go out of business a year later.. ha
Which Frys do you live 45 mins from? The one of the 91 by Camelot?
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Up in Minnesota, I think I would take a Fry's at any day. Living in BB stomping grounds does nothing for bringing the price point down. We have a couple Ultimate Electronics, which I only went to once. It was a large store layout, but seemed to be only filled with a bunch of stereo equipment lying around on the floor, huge waste of space. Not to mention the prices were only on par with BB.
Yep, I shop Newegg a lot.
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I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
Yeh I got a heck of a deal at CC on my Philips 40" LCD w/ ambilight feature for only $900 back in '07.. They were selling it for somewhere around $1200 and I had been eyeballin it for awhile, so when I finally got my tax return I went in there to purchase it only to find out that they were sold out of that model.. But the guy was really cool, wasn't trying to sell me on similiar crap or upsell, he called other stores to check if they had any but no luck, so he mentioned I could buy the floor model if I wanted and I'd get a big discount, I had never purchased anything before that was a floor model so I was pretty skeptical at first but when he said he'd throw in a 3 year warranty for only $100.. that worked for me! Still less than what I had originally gone in there looking to spend so.. go figure I buy the 3 year warranty and they go out of business a year later.. ha
Which Frys do you live 45 mins from? The one of the 91 by Camelot?
I would stay away from floor model TVs... cos they are turned on whenever the store is open, and sometimes, even when they're closed. Also, a lot of them have their settings maxed... that will shorten the tv's life a lot...
well, but you're sure you wont get any dead pixel....
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While I agree with that, I have to say that sometimes the savings is worth it. I picked up a 32" Sony LCD 1080p TV for under $300 at Sears because it was a demo. It was in perfect condition and the picture is awesome. I was wary but it is a great TV. I still have trouble finding as good a TV for that price.
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I miss Circuit City. Service was state of the art. I hate having to go to BB for everything, Im sure as hell not going to Fry's either, because its a 45 minute drive. :-[
Which Frys do you live 45 mins from? The one of the 91 by Camelot?
The one down here in San Diego. It used to be an Incredible Universe. Its off the 15 freeway. I live east, and there is ALWAYS traffic so it takes about that long. Sometimes I actually like walking around the store instead of shopping for stuff at Newegg, but I suppose if there arent too many other places to shop at except for Best Buy, then Newegg will be getting my business.
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Oh right on, I'm headin up to SD for Supercross in Feb. What the heck was "Incredible Universe"?? I keep hearing people talk about that.. was that something cool I missed out on or was it just another Frys? But yeh I'm with you on the walking around the stores, sometimes you'll find stuff there they don't even have listed on their website. About 3 years ago I went into Frys and they had a bunch of NES carts on an endcap. They were all the same game though, I think it was a hockey game and some other sports game and for some reason they were all just cartridges and had clearance stickers on them. I wonder if they used to do trade-ins or if they just found all those games in the back stockroom haha
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Universe)
Basically, it was a bunch of Rat Shack stores on super steroids. IIRC, there wasn't anybody like Incredible Universe on the same scale when they first opened their stores. According to the Wikipedia they folded because of competition from stores like Best Buy. Personally, I think it was a bit more than that. I think the stores were a bit ahead of their time and Tandy really didn't understand how to operate such a business. For instance, the old IU is so far out of the way that the only reason anyone would go in that direction is if they were headed specifically to that store, Arco or trying to hit the I-5. I didn't even know that store existed until a friend of mine took me there and that was long after Frys took it over.
Even when IU sold their only profitable stores to Frys, that store still sucked balls. Partly because of the location but mostly due to Frys tendency to treat everyone like criminals and cattle. But I guess that business model is successful enough, Frys opened another store East of that location right next to the automall.
Not that anyone cares, but the old Incredible Universe building aka Frys is still on Tandy Drive (http://maps.google.com/maps?channel=s&hl=en&q=4100+Northgate+Boulevard&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=4100+Northgate+Blvd,+Sacramento,+California+95834&ll=38.643489,-121.47465&spn=0.004718,0.009173&t=h&z=17) except the owners of Frys won't admit it (http://www.frys.com/template/isp/index/Frys/isp/Middle_Topics/H1%20Store%20Maps/sacramento/). Pretty ---smurfing--- lame. ::)
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About 3 years ago I went into Frys and they had a bunch of NES carts on an endcap. They were all the same game though, I think it was a hockey game and some other sports game and for some reason they were all just cartridges and had clearance stickers on them. I wonder if they used to do trade-ins or if they just found all those games in the back stockroom haha
I'm not sure but I think there was actually a company that resold used games, kind of like Gamestop. I saw a similar set up at K-Mart. A bunch of individual NES carts in separate plastic baggies and stickers. No boxes, manuals, sleeves or anything. The selection was pretty crappy though. There was probably about 30 games or so and only four or five unique titles.
Anyhow, I digress. I have a vague recollection of some company buying NES carts in bulk (online perhaps?) and reselling them through stores like merchandise. I believe K-Mart was one of the carriers. Frys might have been another. I think they were planning to buy older console games as they aged, such as the Genesis, SNES, so on and so forth and sell them at affordable prices. I think I might have seen a few bagged Gennie games. I can't quite recall.
Nothing further ever manifested though.
edit: Wait. Three years ago? I saw those plastic baggie carts in K-Mart sometime around 200..2ish. I think I last saw them right around the time K-Mart liquidated all their PSOne peripherals. Picked up two PSOne monitors for less than $20.
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Basically, it was a bunch of Rat Shack stores on super steroids.
No, not really. It was basically a bunch of different stores inside one giant one. You had the appliance store, video game store, stereo store, etc. All united by a central stage that had either bands or an in-store DJ. I recall the stores were more or less isolated from each other with half walls and such.
Have you actually worked at Rat Shack? Their entire goal is to put a shack within 5 minutes of every person in America then become the go-to store for everythin. A lot like how IU was.
All Fry's maps are simplified like that, btw.
It's not about the pretty pictures PBJ, its about the address. Check again.
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I read through about half of the first page and got bored, so maybe this has been addressed. But Best Buy has no legal duty to honor accidentally mis-labeled items. That's not false advertising. Their decision to honor the price was a customer-satisfaction based policy decision.
The trick in situations like these is to ask yourself, is this law ridiculous? A law that made a store honor a mistake like this when the mistake has caused nobody substantial harm would be absurd. The law (usually) is not an ass. People are inclined to believe these urban myths when they want to, i.e., when the law gives them some absurdly unfair advantage. If you operate on the assumption that the law is not an ass your ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- meter will help you spot these things 9 times out of 10 (infrequently the law actually is an ass).
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Trust the guy selling speakers out of his van, it's breaking his heart to sell them so cheap.
;D
Last time I heard that was at Circuit City or CompUsa.... I miss those days. Best Buy by themselves sucks ass.
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Last time I heard that was at Circuit City or CompUsa.... I miss those days. Best Buy by themselves sucks ass.
+1
But I have to admit I helped contribute to CompUSA's demise. I basically went there to shop and then bought on-line to save money. They carried every type of Palm Pilot under the sun back in the day so it was a great place to go try them out before buying on-line.
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This thread's life has done nothing short than amaze me.
Amazingly this thread has done nothing but shorten my life.
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If you do not watch prices I am sure the average consumer gets screwed royaly by prices that register higher than marked and sale prices that were not entered so reg price is charged. Consumer Beware !!!!