Best Buy Accused of Overcharging

An anonymous reader writes "Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has accused Best Buy of overcharging its customers. His accusation is that customers see one price on Best Buy's website, in stores salespeople would show them a different internal site from a kiosk. Best Buy denies the charges. 'Previously, the company confirmed that store employees have access to an internal Web site that looks nearly identical to the public BestBuy.com site, but the company's policy is always to offer customers the lowest quoted price unless it's specifically identified as a deal available only to online shoppers. Jerry Farrell Jr., Connecticut's consumer protection commissioner, said the lawsuit should be a warning to companies to be more transparent in their business practices.'"

Comments

Well, this is pretty much standard

[Anonymous Coward]

By that, I mean this is the Mexican way of doing business. Bait and switch. Or they just rob you (that would be the geek squad division).

Re:Well, this is pretty much standard

[Anonymous Coward]

Or they just rob you (that would be the geek squad division).

Either that or send some perverted Chinaman to film your naked daughter.

duh

[brian0918]

Shouldn't this be obvious? No one in their right mind shops at Best Buy unless they've been stuck with a $50 gift card (that'll get you a 2-pack of AA batteries). I once saw two copies of the same movie being sold for $10 difference (one was title "Leon", the other, "The Professional"). I moved copies of the (still overpriced) cheaper version over to the more expensive version.

Re:Bait and switch --- wire fraud??

[danbert8]

Geek Squad is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard of. It doesn't take a geek to install a stick of RAM... Also their advertising is funny as hell, they have a GIRL on the Geek Squad!!!!
 
(I know, they probably only did it to look diverse, but we know female geeks don't exist, and they surely wouldn't be caught dead in a Geek Squad outfit)