Sliding Game Sales Hammer Best Buy

[ThePuzzldPirate]

Snip - Seriously. Fuck Best Buy and everythin about them.

%100 agreed, I was trying to stop using EB games and get my pre orders somewhere else. Not only did they fuck up my preorder one way but in three fucking way at once!

1.Didn't get my special edition of Dark Souls
2.Didn't preorder my games properly so ended up with my other pre orders getting canceled when I bought Dark souls.(Who made this system anyway, ho thought this was a good idea?)
3.Untrained staff who wouldn't clarify anything, spent almost 1hr fixing said problems.

Just to add insult when shit was done. I get a 10$ gift cards for their mistake only to find out other Best Buys were offering 20$.

So yes, Best Buy can crash and burn, I won't be sad.

 

[algalon]

And lets not talk about Dynex products, their in-store brand name for pretty much everything that doesn't work. Their sales reps constantly try to push a dynex item onto me whenever I'm looking for anything outside a DVD. Never, ever, buy Dynex.

 

[Andaxay]

Bad times for brick-and-mortar stores right now, isn't it? Suppose this is another example of not being competitive with prices and poorly run by a bunch of trained chimps. Gutted for the people who will lose their jobs, though, that's never nice. I liked the Best Buy I went to when I was in Michigan at any rate - the prices are cheaper than here in the UK regardless where you shop over in the US!

 

[DeathQuaker]

For YEARS when I'd go to Best Buy, I couldn't find the game or DVD I was looking for. Or was full MSRP (not exactly the "Best Buy"). I could often easily find it cheaper in another store or order online. So I stopped looking for games and DVDs at Best Buy. You gotta carry the stock and you have to sell it at competitive prices if you want to sell it.

 

[Rapidriots]

(I've lurked on the Escapist for quite a while, but I wanted to put my 2 cents into this topic and register)

I've worked at Best Buy for almost 5 years now. It looks like most of you are saying the prices are too high. Since this is a videogame forum I decided to target that, and here are price comparisons on a lot of relevant games, plus software, plus movies:

- Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 & Adobe Premiere Elements 10 is $74.99. Amazon sells it for $105. Fry's has it for $149.99.

- Assassin's Creed: Revelations is $19.99. Amazon has it for $39.49, and we're the same price as Gamestop.

- Kid Icarus for the 3DS is $29.99. Gamestop is selling it for $39.99 and Amazon has it for $32.65 plus shipping.

- Madden NFL 12 is $29.99, and Gamestop has it for $59.99. Amazon has it for $42.99.

- Just Dance 3 is $19.99, and Gamestop sells it for $29.99. Same price as Amazon, but with us you get reward zone points AND don't have to wait on shipping.

- Need for Speed: The Run is $19.99, Gamestop sells it for $39.99. Same price as Amazon, but with us you get reward zone points AND don't have to wait on shipping.

- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is $34.99, Wal-mart sells it for $39.54, Gamestop has it for $39.99

- Final Fantasy Xiii-2 is $29.99, Amazon has it for $37.18 and Gamestop has it for $39.99.

- Buy 2 3DS games, get one free.

- Buy 2 pre-owned games, get one free.

- Pre-order ANY videogame, get a 40% bonus trade-in credit.

- Buy a PS3 at Best Buy, get a free controller.



Now for other forms of media like blu-rays, the current new releases we have for cheaper as well.

- The Muppets (the new one) blu-ray and dvd combo is $17.99 and Wal-mart has it for $22.96.

-Puss in Boots (blu-ray, dvd, digital copy) is $17.99 and Wal-mart has it for $24.96.

-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Blu-ray, 3D, dvd, digital copy) is $9.99. Or the blu-ray by itself is 7.99. Nobody else comes close to this deal.

On our midnight releases, we let our customers come in the store early (we don't close) instead of waiting outside in line like at Gamestop. We provide drinks and pizza and have videogames playing on our large screen tv's for customers to kill some time before they can buy their game and go home and play.

People saying that they HOPE we go bankrupt and close down is pretty uncalled for. For some reason people are just obsessed with talking about Best Buy's bad customer service, or bad quarterly reports. Kmart and Sears announced 120 stores closing at the end of 2011 and nobody made a big deal about that. We're also opening 100 MORE Best Buy mobile stores in the USA and opening over 400 stores in China. So, I don't really see why everyone is hating on Best Buy all of the sudden. We don't really deserve all the hate we're receiving, if you ask me. Of course, like I said earlier, I work there, so I'm not as eager as everyone else to join in the groupthink mentality.