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Detrimental
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Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true
#10849121 - 08/12/09 08:56 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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NEW YORK – Few if any of the deals retailers have offered online during the recession have been as good as Best Buy Inc.'s sale price of $9.99 on a 52-inch TV Wednesday. But it quickly turned out the offer was too good to be true.
The electronics retailer said it will not honor the $9.99 price posted Wednesday morning on its Web site for a 52-inch Samsung flat-screen TV. By early afternoon, the TV was listed at $1,799.99, almost half off the original $3,399.99 price.
Bloggers and Twitterers lit up the Internet with posts about the offer, some insisting Best Buy must honor it, others making jokes.
Best Buy, based in Richfield, Minn., said it has corrected an online pricing error and will not honor the incorrect price. Orders made Wednesday morning at the incorrect price will be canceled and customers will receive refunds, the company said.
Best Buy did not immediately return a call for additional comment.
Shares fell 27 cents to close at $36.50 Wednesday.
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TrancedShroom
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: Detrimental]
#10849159 - 08/12/09 09:01 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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I bet this was some sort of insider trading.
The stocks went way up when the TVs were being bought and then the executives sold and then the stocks went down when they announced they weren't honoring the price.
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: TrancedShroom]
#10849255 - 08/12/09 09:24 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Or.. the easiest and most logical conclusion; someone made a mistake when adjusting the website prices?!?!?
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highdroponics
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: Velazquez]
#10849262 - 08/12/09 09:26 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Velazquez said: Or.. the easiest and most logical conclusion; someone made a mistake when adjusting the website prices?!?!?
better yet... hackers.
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: highdroponics]
#10849292 - 08/12/09 09:33 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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I can't believe people actually thought they would get a 52" TV for $9.99. Fucking unbelievable.
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Detrimental
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: WakeboardrB]
#10849300 - 08/12/09 09:35 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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it could happen
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highdroponics
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: WakeboardrB]
#10849325 - 08/12/09 09:39 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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WakeboardrB said: I can't believe people actually thought they would get a 52" TV for $9.99. Fucking unbelievable.

Right? Especially having read it on the internet, I probably would have thought $999 myself, which is believable.
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: Detrimental]
#10849350 - 08/12/09 09:43 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Detrimental said: it could happen
No it can't. Never has, never will. Especially when most every consumer goods website out there states in their term that they are not liable for pricing mistakes and will not honor them.
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: WakeboardrB]
#10849368 - 08/12/09 09:46 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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I hate how everything has to come with terms and warnings these days, people just can't take responsibility for their own actions or are too stupid to understand and feel they have to sue everyone, what a shame that we live in a world full of inconsiderate idiots.
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: highdroponics]
#10849378 - 08/12/09 09:48 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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People try to take advantage of a situation. It's human nature.
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Detrimental
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Re: Best Buy $9.99 TV offer was too good to be true [Re: WakeboardrB]
#10849414 - 08/12/09 09:53 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Its a calculated move.
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