So I was shopping with my wife today and I said “oh let’s see if my membership helps out.” So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I’m paying for in this membership if the items “original price” is higher for me than it is for regular shoppers?
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Edit: yeah, I am derp, the protection plan is part of the cart and is what makes the “member” price higher without the discount. Leaving my original response in case anyone doesn’t know what would be illegal, if it was actually happening here
~~This is, in fact, actively illegal. Companies cannot advertise a “sale price” under a number of circumstances, such as when the price is the same absent the sale (e.g. there’s no actual discount) or when the price was artificially raised just prior to the “sale”: https://content.next.westlaw.com/practical-law/document/I6dfb3ee4077511e89bf099c0ee06c731/Beware-of-the-Sale-Complying-with-Promotional-Pricing-Guidelines~~
In this case, the “regular” or non-member price was raised precisely 0 seconds before applying the uh… “discount”. Pretty cut-and-dry violation by any metric.You got a free protection plan, according to the image you posted.
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I mean, you got a 2 year extended warranty and free delivery, both of which I’m sure Best Buy charges for.
Yep, that protection plan is $1.49. The real sin here is having the “Original Price” not be an obvious order total, but that’s pretty minor.
Looks like you might be getting some sort of protection plan thing for free. Check that out. It lists the member price as $0
I haven’t been to a best by since the local one closed a couple years ago. They closed it do to poor sales and I can see why. Every time you would go there, the shelves weren’t stocked. Things weren’t organized, it was obvious that nobody that worked there gave a fuck so why would I wasn’t to support a business that was in such bad shape. It was common to either not be able to find a single employee to help you with something or they would have 20 people working that would ask if you if you need help every 3 minutes.
i posted about having this experience on reddit a year or two ago and people were pissed? but yeah, empty shelves and barely any employees. it sucks, because i used to enjoy going there to see what’s new.
TIL people still shop at Best Buy.
If you want to get fleeced but still be respected the next morning, shop Monoprice or NewEgg.
Jeez. Best Buy? Just shop like you deserve to be treated like a carpet.
I know about Best buy and Newegg but what’s the deal with monoprice?
Yeah….also curious. It’s been a couple of years but when I previously bought stuff from Monoprice it was a smoking deal and I’m pretty certain none of the cables I bought ever failed me.
They were my go to for a long time for good charging cables and dongles. Don’t know what happened with them. I do know they got delisted from online shops.
I’ll still shop there if I can use trade in credit for old tech. But I literally only spend the store credit I get back from old tech. Its usually something that’s several years old and worth like $40-50, and I spend it on something I was planning to buy anyway. I’ve tried reselling that kind of thing on eBay. It doesn’t move because nobody wants a windows 7 computer or an old pair of earbuds from 7 years ago.
Omg they raised the original price to create some puny “savings”? That’s scammy AF
Okay, I like physical games and don’t like the whole gamestop meme thing, so I went to Best Buy a few times for games. They didn’t have Pikmin 4 when it came out, and no one there heard of it. I went to Target next door and they had some promo stuff they gave out and the person working the games section was dressed up like Oatchi.
Guess I’ll go to Target for physical releases, not BB.
Some less tired viewers have correctly pointed out that the “warranty” was added for a price and discounted in the cart, as well as free delivery. Perhaps, if you don’t find the UI misleading like I did, this isn’t a bad thing.
Greetings fellow Hoosier. The Castleton Best Buy is particularly awful, though I guess the website is not necessarily a reflection on that. Did you check the Micro Center to see if they have what you’re looking for?
Microcenter doesn’t sell fridges, unfortunately. However, I have been pretty pleased with them since Fry’s is out of then picture. That was a rough couple of years.
Oh, bummer. But yeah, I remember being simultaneously bummed about the Fry’s closing, and also feeling vindicated that they were going out of business after how bad they had become in their last years.
Oh for sure, they really went to crap the last few years.
