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<blockquote data-quote="Viper16" data-source="post: 1846998" data-attributes="member: 1558"><p>My only beef with Best Buy is there is no local competition for them anymore, Circuit City, CompUSA, and Mom & Pop Stores have all left. Best Buy knows this and attempts to make advantage of it by making more profit. Just look at when blu-ray movies were first new, they had little competition until Target and Wal-Mart started stocking. Best Buy would try and charge $29.99-35.00 per disc. When Target and Wal-Mart started putting $22-25.00 or something like that, then Best Buy dropped a little bit to become closer in the competition. This pretty much goes for a lot of their merchandise in their stores. </p><p></p><p>And if the model isn't flying off the shelves...a lot of times they have older models, while the online e-tailers have the latest models with all the new features and sometimes for less than what Best Buy is charging for the 1-2 year old model. </p><p></p><p>I was looking at some PolkAudio speakers and went down to Best Buy, found out they had the model below the one I was looking at, and I looked at the price and it was the same price as the model I originally was looking for. The staff of people there suck and a lot of them, not all, really have no clue as to what the hell they are talking about. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, Best Buy uses an online application process with a pre-set list of questions asking about your personality and abilities to communicate with customers, with no questions on technology or knowledge of product. The computer then calculates the % of answers that match what Best Buy criteria is, and then you may get to have a physical interview with the manager. </p><p></p><p>Let's face it, brick and mortar stores outside of grocery stores, will never be able to be as low priced as the larger online e-tailers can be. It is all about quantity of sales and high turnaround of product with very low overhead that is causing the low prices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Viper16, post: 1846998, member: 1558"] My only beef with Best Buy is there is no local competition for them anymore, Circuit City, CompUSA, and Mom & Pop Stores have all left. Best Buy knows this and attempts to make advantage of it by making more profit. Just look at when blu-ray movies were first new, they had little competition until Target and Wal-Mart started stocking. Best Buy would try and charge $29.99-35.00 per disc. When Target and Wal-Mart started putting $22-25.00 or something like that, then Best Buy dropped a little bit to become closer in the competition. This pretty much goes for a lot of their merchandise in their stores. And if the model isn't flying off the shelves...a lot of times they have older models, while the online e-tailers have the latest models with all the new features and sometimes for less than what Best Buy is charging for the 1-2 year old model. I was looking at some PolkAudio speakers and went down to Best Buy, found out they had the model below the one I was looking at, and I looked at the price and it was the same price as the model I originally was looking for. The staff of people there suck and a lot of them, not all, really have no clue as to what the hell they are talking about. Unfortunately, Best Buy uses an online application process with a pre-set list of questions asking about your personality and abilities to communicate with customers, with no questions on technology or knowledge of product. The computer then calculates the % of answers that match what Best Buy criteria is, and then you may get to have a physical interview with the manager. Let's face it, brick and mortar stores outside of grocery stores, will never be able to be as low priced as the larger online e-tailers can be. It is all about quantity of sales and high turnaround of product with very low overhead that is causing the low prices. [/QUOTE]
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