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Cutriss writes "Steve Lynch of Hypothermia has been running a consumer awareness page following of an Internet pricing disagreement between Best Buy and over 2000 angry customers, where Best Buy refused to honor a web-only sale price of a GeForce4 Ti 4600 for $129.99, at a "Special pre-order price". The situation has escalated further - Rod Hill, Store Manager for Best Buy #513 in Tucker/Dekalb County, GA, had a customer arrested on Friday of last week, citing Fraud and Criminal Trespassing. Hill informed police that Abraham Cherian, an Indian American, was trying to rip off the store, the same store that had conceded to give another customer his video card as requested 10 days earlier. Best Buy is now apparently red-flagging inquiring troublemak^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers who attempt to obtain their purchased cards from Best Buy locations." FWIW, if the description of what happened is accurate, Best Buy has entered into a binding contract to sell the cards at the advertised price, and if they don't want to honor it, the people affected should take them to court (or contact their local Attorney General's office, which is what they appear to be doing). It's Best Buy's obligation to make sure their prices are accurate.
FWIW, if the description of what happened is accurate, Best Buy has entered into a binding contract to sell the cards at the advertised price, and if they don't want to honor it, the people affected should take them to court (or contact their local Attorney General's office, which is what they appear to be doing). It's Best Buy's obligation to make sure their prices are accurate.
Oh yeah? What state did you pass the bar in again?
I read this whole thing and it was obviousy a typographical error and these people are trying to get something for nothing. Best Buy should have continued to tell them all to get stuffed.
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2000 orders * $200 each = $400000
They can afford some bad press for nearly half a million dollars. I also don't think that a lot of their customers are going to be that upset with them for trying to not honor the price. It was obviously an error. The reason problem seems to be arising from them honoring the price to some customers, and then not honoring it for others. It kind of makes sence to give people the boards at that price if it were just a few, because it it isn't worth the bad press and upset customers. When you're talking about $400000, it makes more sence to live with a little bad press. If this was a smaller retailer a mistake like this could easily put them out of business. It doesn't make sense that people should be able to lose their jobs and that kind of money over a misprint of a price, even if it wasn't caught immediately.
Bah. Of course it was a typo. It says the card is listed at $139, for a savings of $200. Show me where in heck you see a geforce4-ti4600 listed for $339? it would be more like $250-300 savings if this were legit. It was a mistake made by best buy, they corrected it.. and now a whole bunch of dirty criminals are finding screen shots of the mistake and trying to commit fraud with it. It is BS. Its a good card, if you can't afford to buy it, then don't. But quit trying to cheat your way into getting a cheaper one.