Archive for the ‘Retail’ Category

I didn’t expect to be posting a follow-up within 36 hours of my first post, but the saga has come to an end… exactly three weeks (to the hour) after it began.
To make a long story short, I called the store, they called corporate as I was instructed by corporate yesterday.
Corporate then called the repair [...]

Today, I detail my first experience with Best Buy’s Product Service Plan (PSP). My Westinghouse W3213 HDTV died on May 14th.
In this post, I’ll show you the details of the program, and how to properly fulfill a claim when your technology wears out.
Yes, this is only Part I. It has become so long, we’re going [...]

It’s all over the news today that 117 Best Buy stores are taking part in the largest national e-waste recycling effort ever. It’s a pilot program, so it’s limited to three large areas.
But, Best Buy markets are a bit deceptive. For example, the San Francisco region includes Sacramento… a good 90 minutes away.
Thankfully, Best Buy [...]

Despite initial promises of fixing the typos in their specifications, Amazon.com, Best Buy, and Eee PC maker ASUS now refuse to respond to any form of inquiry in regards to the Eee PC’s specification malfunction.
ASUS original spoke on behalf of Best Buy, claiming that they were working with the company to have the specifications fixed, [...]

If your Best Buy stocks a lot of Energizer Energi To Go products, you may have this one on clearance. It’s already off the web site, so you’ll have to go to the store to check.
The item is the ER-i75 portable charger. This is a unique charger designed for PDA, iPod, and Zune-shaped devices. Essentially, [...]

I’ve decided to return my Eee PC. Despite there being a few placed that mentioned it, I wasn’t aware that the Eee PC’s CPU was underclocked. The Eee PC 701, has a Celeron M 900 MHz CPU, but ASUS decided to downclock it to 630 MHz.
Sorry, but that’s too slow for me. And, I refuse [...]

Best Buy is once again selling the Western Digital Passport 320 GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 hard drive for $149.99. Use a 10% Off Coupon to bring the price down to $134.99.
This is a very good deal for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a small hard drive with huge capacity. It only needs a single [...]

If you want HD movies on the cheap, Best Buy is clearancing the Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player for $49.99. Microsoft promises they will maintain the full warranty on the drive, and you can use it with a PC, too.
While the future of HD-DVD movie production is still unclear, it may make a comeback for the [...]

Best Buy employees don’t like you. You are enlightened. You know how to game the Best Buy clearancing system.
Why don’t they like you? Because Best Buy employees have, for years, padded their wallets by buying up all the clearance items… not just in their own store, but in every store near them. After all, they [...]

One of my big gripes with Price Protectr (okay, fine, I don’t have any big gripes… it’s a small one), is that it didn’t let you go back in time and add a purchase that you made, say, four of five days ago.
True, Price Protectr lets you chose a different date, but the options were [...]