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I’ve had two interesting price match experiences at Best Buy. The first is when I bought a vacuum cleaner. The web site said it was on sale for $50, so I went
by Mister_Snuggles 6y ago
I’ve had two interesting price match experiences at Best Buy.
The first is when I bought a vacuum cleaner. The web site said it was on sale for $50, so I went to the store to buy it. It was $100 in the store, so I made them price match themselves.
The second was with a MacBook power adapter. Future Shop, a Canadian store similar to Best Buy, had it for $95, Best Buy had it for $105. By getting Best Buy to price match, I got it cheaper because they will beat the price by 5%. Here’s the interesting bit though: Best Buy owned Future Shop at the time (they’ve since retired that brand), so once again they price matched themselves.
In both cases they did it without complaint, but they did verify the competing price, etc, as they should.
- stormtroper1721 6y agoInterestingly enough all the futureshops that I’ve seen were converted into bestbuys by only changing the colour of the branding material from red to blue - everything else literally stayed the same
- Mister_Snuggles 6y agoIn my city they kept them as separate stores for quite a while, but in-store branding definitely changed colour. At one point, a Best Buy and Future Shop were actually sharing a parking lot. It was in a large "power center", with many stores between them, but still the same parking lot. It took quite a while for Best Buy to finally rationalize its store locations and get rid of the redundancy. Some Future Shops took on Best Buy branding, and in cases like the one above one of them was picked to close.
- dwild 6y agoIn the shopping center close to where my parent lived there was a single store between the two. I remember it wasn't rare to see BestBuy labels in Futureshop too. They only closed the Futureshop once they merged them.
- sukilot 6y agoBestbuy had a fraud lawsuit where they made a fake in-store website with inflated prices in order to avoid price matching themselves.
- Mister_Snuggles 6y agoWow! How did they think they'd get away with it? This must have predated the prevalence of smart phones.