Best Buy to make internet price matching permanent to prevent 'showrooming' - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Best Buy had originally instated a price-match guarantee for the holidays, a program designed to combat the practice of treating the store like a show room before completing the actual purchase online. Best Buy has announced it's making the program permanent, beginning on March 3rd... As before, Best Buy won't match any online retailer's price, but instead has a list of 19 retailers it will match. Those retailers include Apple.com, Amazon.com, Crutchfield.com, and Walmart.com....[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/15/3994050/best-buy-internet-price-matching-permanent-showrooming[/url]

That's cool.

That's actually very, very smart of them. I can't tell you how many times I've used Best Buy as a showroom.

brb editing the sources of webpages and bringing them to bestbuy $100 ipads here I come

Well amazon is selling this for -$400

[QUOTE=koeniginator;39614957]brb editing the sources of webpages and bringing them to bestbuy $100 ipads here I come[/QUOTE] To do so, you'll need to bring in the URL from the competing retailer and have Best Buy definitively match it to the product you want to purchase. rip

[QUOTE=scout1;39615025]To do so, you'll need to bring in the URL from the competing retailer and have Best Buy definitively match it to the product you want to purchase. rip[/QUOTE] well there goes that plan

get into the computers host file and redirect it

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;39615033]well there goes that plan[/QUOTE] It was a decent plan

Hm, I'm confused now. I got Battlefield 3 from them during the summer for $10 to pricematch Amazon.

And here I thought showrooming would kill them but Best Buy survived and adapted when Circuit City didn't.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;39615095]And here I thought showrooming would kill them but Best Buy survived and adapted when Circuit City didn't.[/QUOTE] I miss circuit city now.

[QUOTE=scout1;39615025]To do so, you'll need to bring in the URL from the competing retailer and have Best Buy definitively match it to the product you want to purchase. rip[/QUOTE] yes the url is dropbox.com/zeke129/fakeapplewebpage.html

Would they take a bit.ly link or something similar or do they search it themselves?

[QUOTE=Zeke129;39615290]yes the url is dropbox.com/zeke129/fakeapplewebpage.html[/QUOTE] I am disappoint you did not actually upload this.

Walk into said store, hijack the local DNS server, redirect apple.com to fake page with lower prices, profit!

am4zon.co.cc/freecomputers.html [editline]16th February 2013[/editline] wonder if anyone will try that

[QUOTE=Demolitions2;39615231]I miss circuit city now.[/QUOTE] but why

[QUOTE=koeniginator;39614957]brb editing the sources of webpages and bringing them to bestbuy $100 ipads here I come[/QUOTE] I did this at Tesco the day Diablo 3 came out, at midnight, they didn't have it on the system yet but I said I had the price from the Tesco website and showed them on my phone, after lowering the price by £10 first of course.

This is fucking awesome. Why? I just got a job at Best Buy in the computer department. My discount after three months of working there? Cost plus 10%, I make out like a fucking bandit, everyone there does.

[QUOTE=koeniginator;39614957]brb editing the sources of webpages and bringing them to bestbuy $100 ipads here I come[/QUOTE] they have to check the web page from the cash register's web browser

It's a good policy. I got $100 off a tablet thanks to their price matching.

I had to go to Best Buy the other day for the first time in years... ...After first attempting to go to the one I always used shop, which has since closed down. Felt nostalgic. On topic: Seems great to me, I wonder if they'll match Amazon's lightning sales.

Which prices from amazon do they match, the headline one or the lowest one? I could enjoy some $0.01 software

[quote]As before, Best Buy won't match any online retailer's price....[/quote] Wow. It's fucking nothing. EDIT: Seriously. How does this make them any less of a show room for online retailers?

[QUOTE=Zephyrs;39616174]Wow. It's fucking nothing. EDIT: Seriously. How does this make them any less of a show room for online retailers?[/QUOTE] Uh, are they supposed to just let every retailer work? That wouldn't end well. Instead they did 19 pretty popular websites.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;39616218]Uh, are they supposed to just let every retailer work? That wouldn't end well. Instead they did 19 pretty popular websites.[/QUOTE] I read no online retailers as excluding them all. That's very poor wording.

Well the next sentence clears it up. That's poor reading :v:

no price match on microcenter.com :(

I really want to understand this but I don't, can someone tell me what this does?