Comments on: Best Buy: A New “Dual Price” Strategy?

By: Melany

Melany — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:49:26 +0000

to Joe:
I’m looking for somehing on Bestbuy.com too
Some times they give very nice prices :)

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:16:16 +0000

What about the dual price strategy of Panasonic!
A TCP65v10, on their own website for 3.999,95 US dollar,must be paid “6.300″ Euro! (9.000 US dollar). Who is making a fiesta with our hard-earned money? Panasonic or the retailers who have a (forbidden) price convention?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:26:49 +0000

3 or 4 years ago, I saved at least $200 on a Whirlpool washer…couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the price online. It was a Monday afternoon/evening. Now, when I’m looking for something, I jump onto Bestbuy.com on Mondays to check the prices. Try it! I figure they are trying to lure people to their site on ‘off shopping days’, similar to mid week ‘one day sales’ at a physical store…I’ll take the better price any day of the week.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:48:52 +0000

I don’t think this is new for Bestbuy though. I bought a mouse and keyboard from them in January and the prices in the store where higher than what they had on the website. I had the print out with me from their online prices. They did price match but I had to go stand in the long Customer Service desk line because they could not help me at the register.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:33:16 +0000

I work for Sears selling electronics and we’ve seen a lot of these issues comming out of BB driving business our way, especially since our in-store prices were beating the competitions ‘online’ prices before addition discounts. Such as the Panasonic 50″ S1 was 899…

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:57:21 +0000

Best Buy has been doing that since at least when they opened here 7 years ago. The local store started price matching bestbuy.com in the last couple years sometime. I avoid the hassle by ordering off their website for instore pickup. I started that before they’d price match to force the lower price onto them.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:03:54 +0000

The major retailers have been doing this for years. I left the retail sector almost 4 years ago and it was common practice as far back as 8 years ago. I don’t know how this is so shocking today given the number of customer complaints we used to get. Even Circuit City highlighted this practice in their ads last year, claiming that they wouldn’t engage in that activity. Didn’t quite work out for them in the end though :-)

By: andy

andy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:59:12 +0000

other retailers such as sears are doing the same thing….such as the tcp50s1 for 899 online compared to 999 in store