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  1. wewa
    wewa September 17, 2013 at 12:42 pm |

    I am a RZ Silver for many years.
    I stopped shopping at BB earlier this year, after they constantly harassed me regarding returns.
    60 day returns mean nothing. Someone needs to do a class action against their false return policies in order to get sales.
    They tell you that the third party return verification company says I can’t return even 1 week old.
    And the manager I spoke to wanted to escort me out of the store.
    I spent over $10k last year at BB.
    Amazon, Costco, and Sams get my business now…

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  2. Jay
    Jay September 19, 2013 at 10:52 am |

    This really pisses me off.

    I just purchased a new 3D HD TV and a TV cabinet from Worst Buy. After many years of declining the cashiers’ offers to obtain a Reward Zone card, I thought, since I’m spending enough money to qualify, I might as well reap the rewards with a Silver Premier membership. I read all about the SP benefits just two weeks ago, before making my purchase at a physical store and signing up for Reward Zone.

    Typical for Best Buy customer service, no one bothered to inform me of this significant change.

    Thanks a lot, Worst Buy!

    So, are the Geek Squad services (e.g. home TV calibration, Harmony remote programming, etc.) no longer offered with these premier memberships?

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  3. Chris Henderson
    Chris Henderson September 27, 2013 at 1:39 pm |

    I called in for a Geek Squad TV calibration earlier in the week, 23 September 2013. It is and soon to be, was, a perk of Reward Zone Silver Membership to have your television calibrated once a year for no extra charge. I was told by the voice on the other end of the phone that the end of October 2013 is the end of in-house calibration service. I did not think to ask whether the calibration service was being totally phased out or if one could drag their 50+ inch television into the local Best Buy store for the complementary service.

    Every two to three years, I normally purchase a new Flat Panel Television due to the increase in picture quality during that time. I will no longer be shopping Best Buy for televisions. I purchased 3 televisions this year as presents for various family members. The least expensive was $430 US dollars (USD), the most expensive was $2700 USD. Even if I have a local Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) professional technician come to my house to calibrate my next television, the amount that I save by purchasing on-line will more than cover the cost of the professional calibration.

    I also discovered that the new Best Buy Extended Warranty on cell phones will soon be less worthwhile than the cellular phone carrier’s own extended warranties. I do not purchase those warranties, but I consider it worthwhile information for those who do.

    Hubert Joly, the current Best Buy CEO, is really helping to raise the stock price of the company, but I think that Best Buy will fail in the long term because of the extremely customer-hostile policies that it has adopted, unless new corporate management is introduced.

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