[turey22]

hello, does anyone know why best buy went from selling hd sd boxes at 99 dollars to selling them at 169.99? i went to the store and saw this price plus went online and saw that same price. the dvr sd box also went down with them to 79 dollars,

 

[litzdog911]

I just check myself. Seems crazy. HR21 HDDVR is only $30 more.

 

[Michael D'Angelo]

I checked a few minutes ago too and I don't understand it either.

 

[P Smith]

They should give you $100 back after activation as I heard.

 

[JLucPicard]

So they take a receiver that had been $99 and jack the price up to $169 so they can give you $100 back? I cannot for the life of me think of how that makes good business sense. Unless you figure that nobody looking to buy had any idea that they were just selling for $99!

 

[inkahauts]

So they take a receiver that had been $99 and jack the price up to $169 so they can give you $100 back? I cannot for the life of me think of how that makes good business sense. Unless you figure that nobody looking to buy had any idea that they were just selling for $99!

Its good business sense for Directv and Best Buy in terms of them not loosing as much money or booking the losses of selling the units under cost until after the units have been activated, and it shields best buy from having to track the sales as diligently...

Sucks for the customer though!!!

 

[Jin So]

but remember anything you buy from local retailers are leased, and come with commitments

 

[photostudent]

Its good business sense for Directv and Best Buy in terms of them not loosing as much money or booking the losses of selling the units under cost until after the units have been activated, and it shields best buy from having to track the sales as diligently...

Sucks for the customer though!!!

State makes more on sales tax though...

 

[JLucPicard]

Its good business sense for Directv and Best Buy in terms of them not loosing as much money or booking the losses of selling the units under cost until after the units have been activated, and it shields best buy from having to track the sales as diligently...

Sucks for the customer though!!!

I'm sorry - no matter how you slice it it will not make sense to me to take a unit with an established $100 price tag, then jack the price 70%, just to arrive at a 30% discount - just have a sale taking 30% off! If a gallon of milk normally sells for $3.79 and you want to have a sale selling a gallon for $3.50, you don't jack the price up to $7.00 a gallon then have a 50% off sale.

And I have no idea what you mean by "it shields Best Buy from having to track the sales as diligently" unless that means you will sell fewer units messing with the prices like that so there will be fewer sales to track.

 

[dreamyip]

it sounds like nothing... but now you have to pay higher tax because of the retail price is $70.00 higher. Who is the genius to figure this out!? Good enough to to piss off loyal D* customers

 

[tonyd79]

They could have made the 30 bucks the rebate and kept the retail price where it was.

Silly, silly, silly.

 

[JLucPicard]

And when all is said and done, we'll probably find it was one of those infamous "web site errors". :lol:

 

[spartanstew]

And when all is said and done, we'll probably find it was one of those infamous "web site errors". :lol:

It must be contagious.

i went to the store and saw this price

 

[JLucPicard]

Oops. That part slipped my mind after the amount of discussion.

 

[turey22]

crazy business methods!!!

 

[turey22]

where does it say about the 100 dollars rebate after activation? i didnt ask them but its something i should of asked them. people might not even buy the reciever without knowing abouy the "rebate". does directv control the retail prices or are they subject to change?

 

[bigwad]

If a gallon of milk normally sells for $3.79 and you want to have a sale selling a gallon for $3.50, you don't jack the price up to $7.00 a gallon then have a 50% off sale.

Kroger does it around here all the time. Buy 1 get 1 free, means the price went up at least 80% right before the sale started!!!!

 

[paulh]

If a gallon of milk normally sells for $3.79 and you want to have a sale selling a gallon for $3.50, you don't jack the price up to $7.00 a gallon then have a 50% off sale.

Kroger does it around here all the time. Buy 1 get 1 free, means the price went up at least 80% right before the sale started!!!!

Consumers are dumb some times. I heard a Kroger clerk say that Krogers could take an item that is normally $.59 and sell twice as many when they put it on a 10 for $10 sale. For some reason, buyers go nuts on that sale.

Worst are the "Going out of business / Clearance sales" Some outfit buys out a closing store's inventory at a discount, jacks up the prices 30+%, then gets customers to think they are getting a great deal at the initial 25% off everything!
It'll be 2 months slowly dropping the percentage before they offer prices that are actually better than normal sale prices.

 

[Ken S]

By raising the price Best Buy will take in more cash on the sale. The rebate...or programming credit activation (more likely) is probably coming from DirecTV. So, if you're Best Buy this makes a lot of sense (and a few more dollars).

 

[fluffybear]

Consumers are dumb some times. I heard a Kroger clerk say that Krogers could take an item that is normally $.59 and sell twice as many when they put it on a 10 for $10 sale. For some reason, buyers go nuts on that sale.

Worst are the "Going out of business / Clearance sales" Some outfit buys out a closing store's inventory at a discount, jacks up the prices 30+%, then gets customers to think they are getting a great deal at the initial 25% off everything!
It'll be 2 months slowly dropping the percentage before they offer prices that are actually better than normal sale prices.

I was surfing through the paper the other day and happened across a grand opening sale for "Going out of business furniture"