Overly Positive

 Apparently there are some great shenanigans in the works over at Best Buy, now that Circuit City has gone to the great retail mall in the sky.

According to this little link from the Boy Genius Report, a class action lawsuit is being cobbled together in the state of New York because Best Buy has an internal policy to cock-block customers looking to get discounts due to a Price Match from competitors. A supposedly leaked internal memo talks about how to bamboozle the customers into disqualifying the price match by doing everything humanly possible to discredit it.

Oh, the unsavory things that come out in this interesting economical crisis. For all you geeks out there who live in New York, perhaps you might want to go to Best Buy, or talk to the lawyer putting this little deal together, and get in on the action. Who knows – you might get enough money to buy a Happy Meal at McDonald’s or something.

My few experiences with making large purchases at my local Best Buy have been interesting to say the least. I was promised, nay, guaranteed delivery of a flat screen TV I purchased. I gathered friends for the heavy lifting and setup, and on the night of the arrival, I found that the person should never have guaranteed me the TV at all, and that it wasn’t their policy to do so. Now, being the eternal optimist that I am, I simply asked for compensation in the form of an upgraded model for my TV by the same maker. Thirty-five minutes of haggling and a little persuasion in the form of making more trouble than a hurricane for their store later, I was driving home with a better TV than the one I was promised.

So be sure to check out this stuff, because hey, maybe that copy of Kirby for the DS that you wanted to buy “for your girlfriend or wife” you couldn’t price match might land you some bucks,