Fuck you, Best Buy

[sigma7]

Spindle of 100 DVD+Rs on a shelf for $22. Not an impossible, but a good deal. At checkout: "That'll be $62." Uh, no.

Went back to shelf, checked price code. Yep, that's the right spindle. Asked wandering blueshirt WTF. "Oh, that's left over from March." Blueshirt takes price down, advises that there are other deals on other spindles, if I just check the circular. Well, look what's on a nearby shelf: a circular with two 50-DVD spindles on sale for reasonable sums. Prices are not marked on shelf. Of course, I could pick one up, carry it the length of the store to the register and just hope that the circular price carries over.

Or I could just say "Fuck it" and go to Staples tomorrow, which is eminently more reasonable.

People. It's not that hard.

I guess that's what I get for going to Best Buy.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, last time I went there was for the "exclusive manga" with Appleseed Ex Machina. There were six copies of the DVD shipped to the store, six copies of the manga shipped with them. There were no copies of the manga to be found in the store, but all six DVDs were there. So a blueshirt probably eBayed 'em.

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but i believe the correct thing to do, at least on the store's end, would be to apologize for that tag not having been removed, and as a gesture of good will (since, after all, you had that price in mind, that's why you snagged that spool anyway), sell them to you AT the price advertised just below them. At least, that's the way it is with any place i've ever run into that scenario.

Maybe i'm glad i didn't get that job at Blegh Buy after all.

[blemt.livejournal.com]

Company policy is that you have to honor the posted price. Otherwise it can be argued as a bait and switch.

Stoopid blueshirt. :)

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

I just spent far too long trying to find the actual law - and coming up empty handed - but I know when I was working at that place I shall not name in the 'Ville we had someone from one of the State gov. department things pop in a few times to make sure that all the clearly labeled price and shelf tags matched what the items scanned at, and we were fined when a certain percentage didn't. Long story short, if an item is clearly labeled at a certain price and there isn't any visible fine print saying "offer only good on the fifth Tuesday of every Feb. in a leap year" or something like that, the store has to honor the price or risk being fined by some state run department. Wish I could remember who, sorry.

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the BBB...