Ok, I’m not a BB fanboy, but come on. I do think people whine too much. Yes, BB ought to issue gift cards for the screw up, but move along and stop taking everything as a personal assault. Sometimes thi gs get screwed up.
the author does not know finance or history.
“big blue” is always IBM.
Best buy is not big blue, big yellow perhaps since the phone book is dead.
I just like the fact that christmas has the last laugh at “worst buy”
Well a lot of attorney generals will have fun in the next year going after Best Buy.
I really never cared for the store and very much miss Circuit City.
They pulled the same crap with med last year when I was buying my teenager a laptop. Left me scrambling at the last minute. Found a better one at Staples.
Christmas is stressful enough.
I think someone at BB was OK’ing orders in excess of inventory, thinking they could get enough to cover.
Sounds like somebody guessed wrong, Heads should roll.
I don’t know. I still had Christmas. Guess Best Buy wasn’t as all-powerful as this blogger thinks.
Dell did the same to me. Promised delivery by Christmas but their shipper won’t cooperate. The shipper said I was lucky they even took my call.
Geez what a whiney little butt-hole this guy is. Maybe he is just trying to advance the notion of how evil capitalism
is.
Under communism these gifts would have been plentiful, I am sure.
Let’s ask the people of the former USSR, they can tell us.
My sisters bf got a great deal on gigantic hd tv. He was 4th in line (started on Wednesday). He made many “friends”, met family that have been doing this for quite sometime.
He paid $210 for a $1200 tv. He also went home, took a 5 hour nap (the others in line held his spot). He told my sister he couldn’t go back, it was too much, but she encouraged him to do so.
She came over, we had our Thanksgiving meal, then she made him his holiday plate and took it to him.
He told the story at our Christmas gathering. He said he met so many nice people. I asked him how BB did such great crowd control.
They came out to the people in line and asked “who is here for _____? They then handed out 20, or however many of those items they had in stock, bracelets.
“Who is here for tv’s?” Same thing. After those who had bracelets were allowed in and all done, they then allowed the rest of the public in, 20 at a time.
He said there were people yelling at him and the others in the front saying “no way you’ve been here for 2 days”, etc.
Well, they were and they got what they wanted at a “give away” price.
It WAS NOT the mad rush as we have all witnessed on many a video. BB had great crowd control.
Serves them right fir dissing Santa. I hated those ads.b
Several years ago Toys R Us ran into the same problem but they did the right thing by sending shipments with priority mail or over night and promised if you didn’t get your order by Christmas Eve they wouldn’t charge your card.
Honestly, I would start a shareholder’s suit for negligence against the officers personally: this is too unreasonable to be excused as a ‘business decision.’ Reboot? That’s an I.T. solution, not a business solution.
Only if the meaning of Christmas to you is a gew gaw from Best Buy.
Best Buy sux. They have been screwing over customers forever.
Wait...
How did people do Christmas before best buy was invented?
People don’t even know what Christmas is anymore.
I too, found the Santa ads disrespectful and an insult.
Honestly, their advertizment agency said “Let’s insult and denigrate Saint Nick at Christmas - what a great idea”? And the people at BB went along with it?
I don’t shop BB when I can go elsewhere, and I usually do go elsewhere. Why? What’s more important than selling me an item at a good price? Service after the sale. I bought in inexpensive TV, after 35 days it wouldn’t turn on. BB refused to accept it back as defective, no in-store credit, no refund, nothing.
Since then, I have purchased 3 HDTV and a very expensive home theater system. Nothing, not even the cables came from BB; and likely nothing ever will.
Over-anticipating a weak shopping season is forgivable....
Not having the capacity to order and ship late is just stupid.
If Mr. Burns is that shallow that an electronic item not being shipped to him by Best Buy will ruin his Christmas, he has larger problems than Best Buy not shipping his electronic item. He just doesn't know it yet.