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Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices

Posted by timothy on from the wouldn't-want-to-tell-you-prices dept.

Sethb writes "It looks like Best Buy didn't learn from Wal-Mart last year, and has now invoked the DMCA in order to prevent FatWallet from posting information about what items they will have on sale the day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully FatWallet will stand up for themselves again, and Best Buy will be laughed out of court."

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  1. Best Buy =best scammer by bratgrrl · · Score: 2, Troll

    Never, in the history of the company, has Best Buy had an advertised sale item on the shelf. So it's a moot issue anyway.

    Friends don't let friends shop there, they are a terrible store.

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  2. Take Christmas Back by forii · · Score: 2, Troll

    This 'holiday' has gotten so far away from the original meaning that it shouldn't be called 'Christmas' anymore.

    No kidding! "Christmas" used to be a fun celebration of the winter solstice, something especially important for those people living in Northern Europe, where the winter nights are especially long and dark. A good reason to get together with friends and family, exchange gifts, and cheer up the season.

    And then those stupid mystical religious people had to come along and appropriate it for themselves by connecting it with the supposed birthday of their "prophet". Bleah.

  3. Who needs Best Buy anyway? by $criptah · · Score: 1, Troll

    BestBuy is nothing but a shit hole. When the chain came to our area, I was happy to see it because Circuit City did not cut it for me. I hoped to see a better selection, lower prices and somewhat educated sales people. Yeah, right...

    What we have here is a complete clusterfuck that is full of high school dropouts, stupid managers and anal security folks who check my bags everytime I come there. The prices are not as good as on PriceWatch and the service is poor. In fact, I am not going to purchase a single item from them after one of the sales people told my friend that a more expensive video card had a longer life span than the cheaper one (ATI 9800 was the cheaper card in this case).

    I have to admit, their initial DVD collection was impressive compared to what their competitors had to offer. But it all changed after I got a high-speed internet connection.