Best Buy
Door Buster Sale Ran Out of Stock, Customers Pushed to Similar Products

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All statements are correct in my belief and anything posted here is just my opinion...

For at least the 2nd year in a row Best Buy has had their Day After Thanksgiving sale...

They advertise very low prices in multi-page ads, in fact the prices I believe are so low they are below cost after the rebate game of course.

They limit quantities to stock on hand, do not offer rainchecks and some quantities are limited to a minimum of 2-5 per store.

I camped out all night waiting for them to open, in fact I was in the front of the line, there were approx 3000 people behind me at store opening for their 6 hour sale...

Even though I was first in line I did not get all the things I wanted, let alone the other 2999 or so people behind me...

They made you wait in lines just to get 1 single product, cameras here, computers there... They had say x's of product you had to wait in a line for a specific item and pay, then go to another line wait and pay it was ridiculous... The problem here is when they ran out of "sale" product they started pitching similar product or offered the sale product if you bought an accessory... This is my opinion of bait and switch...

Having a low price sale is great, but if the price is unsustainable due to the fact it is under cost it only benefits a few of the first people and hurts all others and makes them waste their time in stupid lines. Not to mention possibly being unfair competition for a local say computer store who cannot afford to sell an item below cost and is so much more reputable not to get into playing this game with their valued customers.

Actual Complaint,
I would like to see a class action suit brought against Best Buy, I have actual news video of me and child being interviewed at the front of the line in out tent and sleeping bags... I could get hundreds of people in that line to say they felt violated and that Best Buy should have known better to stock more or offer rain checks.

Charge 1 Bait and Switch
Charge 2 Unfair competition business practices

I'm sure employees will testify they were told to offer similar product, also my friend has a receipt for a $199 computer after rebate that was told he could only get the special if he bought accessories.


Company: Best Buy
Country: USA
State: California
City: Fresno
Address: 7550 N. Blackstone Ave
Phone: 5594460195
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