Wii-late: Or How Best Buy Sucks
This morning I joined the throngs of people who have waited out in the cold for a Nintendo Wii. Unfortunately I was not so lucky. I got to the Best Buy here at about 8:30 am, and the line was already fairly long. I had my cute iPod Nano to pass the time and I was hopeful. That hope would be gone by the time the store opened at 10 am.
News quickly spread through the line that a Best Buy employee had been camped out since the night before and had a list of 69 people who were first to the line. According to this unnamed induhvidual the store would be going by his list and everyone else would be out of luck. At this time there were about 130 people in line. No one knew whether to believe him, and it was quickly pushed out of our minds. A little later there was some commotion and we would all later find out that they had apparently handed out tickets for the Wii. There were 60 Wiis and over 130 people in line, so I missed out. Many people had more than one ticket, and at least one person went around asking if anyone wanted to buy his ticket for $300. You would then have to pay $250 on top of that and it was just plain ridiculous. The woman ahead of me told him he was disgusting and to get back in line. That was the best display I had seen lately.
As I was leaving I saw a guy and his son with 3 Wiis and felt sick to my stomach. Many of the people on line were planning to sell their Wiis, and they won't even wind up getting much for them online. In the end my experience was spoiled by the Nintendo haters who were just out to make a quick buck, the kind of people you hope will stay inside their nice warm house filled with the whirring of a PlayStation 3. There were no nice Nintendo fans at my Best Buy. At least not among the majority of the people who were able to buy a Wii. It looks like I will be waiting longer for my salvation.
Wrote on December 9, 2006 @ 11:00 am
[...] I was once going to post about my continuing Wii search. You may have read this post about my experience waiting out in the cold at a local BestBuy. Recently I kept my search to online retailers, and this past Wednesday I got lucky when I found the Wii available on CircuitCity.com. [...]
Wrote on December 13, 2006 @ 9:06 pm
It looks like your problem was with humanity and not really Bestbuy… I was at a Walmart and has the same thing happend to me. That was midnight, so i tried Circuit City and asshats were there as well. People suck….
Wrote on March 16, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
I would like to let people know what a ripoff Best Buy is. I purchased a 26 inch plasma tv got it home had nothing to plug it in with. Called the store they didn’t have a ac cord for it. All I got was the run around from them. I had paid cash for the tv. I also had paid cash for a washer/dryer the same day. I now am going to return the tv and cancel the washer and dryer. I would advise people not buy from Best Buy. They don’t seem to care if they have customers or not.
Wrote on September 5, 2008 @ 8:50 am
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Wrote on September 23, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Do what I did last year on vacation and get even, justice, your money back and a great sense of returning power to the customer. I ran into lots of Best Buy crap over a return that was indeed covered by policy, yet I could not obtain even with my roommate working behind the counter. So after consideration I went to four separate Best Buys out and away from my local area while on vacation. I purchased items I liked and always wrote a check and always for under $200. Then I called my bank and stopped payment on all four checks as they were defective – I claim defect if returns are denied for reasonable reasons and was simply waiting for BB jerks to take me to court so I could explain but it never happened and now won’t. This folks is not a returned check scenario…as in you can not legally be placed on a returned check list. One group tried and I told them I did not bounce a check but placed a stop payment and they removed me from their reporting and returned my check to Best Buy – I could sue the reporting check company and BB jerks as this is actually false credit reporting violating federal law but it would cost too much and who cares. My claim was faulty merchandise and now they have to pursue me in small claims court which is very expensive and it’s very unlikely the company would ever pursue it as they would spend more then they could recover. I also placed an electronic stop payment so an electronic payment could not run through my account – like a debit card transaction. It gets better…I live in another state then the bordering one where I made my purchases. I can’t be forced legally to return to that state for a civil hearing…laws don’t allow it for suck small amounts. The result is they have to sue me where I live which laws make difficult and it is also more expensive for the company. The only better way to do this to Best Buy would be to actually close the checking account after stopping payment on the checks, then there is no account to attempt to electronically access. So now we are even Best Buy. Thanks for the free digital camcorder, Blue-ray player and video games. I have now made a profit off of you and it’s been over a year so you can’t legally sue me anymore. Now that’s justice! Shove your returns where the sun won’t shine except at your life partner love in fest.