Posted on 04/12/2013 8:08:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I like Best Buy and try to support them with all my major electronics purchases. I like to be able to go into one of their stores and physically handle and inspect what they're selling.
Best Buy is now price matching Amazon although many of these prices are only reflected on their website. The store will honor their website prices when making an in-store purchase. You have to let them know the price difference because they can't keep up with Amazon's constantly changing prices (their website does though).
The internet brought a lot of great advances into our lives but I believe killing off all the brick and mortar stores has not been one of them. I think the world will be a less enjoyable place when all of the Best Buys, Barnes and Nobles, etc. have shuttered their storefronts.
I don't deny that she probably did trade on insider information. But it's the government's burden to prove it. Nancy Pelosi made much more money on insider trading, yet members of Congress are exempt from laws against it. Jon Corzine is still a free man. Clearly, the feds wanted to make an example of Martha.
Yes, she was arrogant and stupid, but the punishment did not fit the crime.
That's Martha for you. She gets support (deserved) then manages to open Big Mouth and lose said support. That's my read of her. She did avoid every vestige of politics on her program--it simply was not germane to her show. Prison changed her, obviously.
I've watched her for YEARS because I like what she does, but I realize I'm only seeing the "T.V. package" persona that she wants us to see.
Amen.
She lied; that was her mistake.
There is ALWAYS someone smarter. Always. And, since she pissed of The Wrong Person(s) somewhere along the line, a smarter attorney was found. Smarter person caught her lie.
Yes, she thought she was above the law: hubris/arrogance, rather, pride. One of the seven deadly sins.
Ah me. Now that I am older I don't do most of them anymore ONLY because I know how stupid it is and how bad for me they are. I still have trouble with gluttony. :(
1. I have no idea if she deserved jail time or not since I KNOW that I NEVER, EVER hear the whole story from the media. Nothing new there. My comment was merely an observation.
I DON'T understand why she changed so. She never, ever talked politics on her show. It was a great show. She did ALL house/home stuff. I especially liked her cooking and gardening information. Great stuff.
The other stuff, sewing and such, didn't interest me but I marveled at her multi-talented approach. It was novel for the time.
2. True enough. I learned that by the time I was 16.
Nancy Pelosi....now where, o where, is the barf graphic when I need it?
I like Best Buy and buy a lot of my electronics there. They are good with the Apple products such as iPad, Apple Express, Apple Extreme and have a better warranty than the local Apple store. Also, one can recycle old computer screens, TVs, worn-out receivers, etc., for free there.
For the Lenovo products that I favor for actual work - as opposed to the Apple products for fun - I have to shop Amazon, Tiger Direct and other online retailers for those electronics. Best Buy carries some of them online, but they are the lower price point models and not the really good ones.
Any list with Hyundai and without GM is a leftist hack job. Millions will never, ever buy a Government Motors vehicle again. Hundreds probably remember that EPA “investigation” and boycott Hyundai because of it. Yet Hyundai makes the list and GM doesn’t? Ok, whatever.
Oh, they’re a boon for the customer - they just don’t gain you a THING as a business owner.
The Groupon custmers we saw? Yep. There for the deal, then we’ve never seen them again.
And those bloody coupons never really expire - the value just goes down, so you have to count that as well. And the paperwork Groupon expected MY STAFF to collect was ridiculous, time consuming and, again, useless to us, but good for them. Data mining, pure & simple.
Will you go back to that same salon and pay FULL PRICE for a haircut in the future? Highly unlikely.
We have SO trained the General Public to shop sales, wait for year-end clearances, wait to buy Christmas ‘junque’ until post-Christmas - we’ve really shot ourselves in the foot in so many ways in retail.
And that’s my story and I’m stickin’ with it! :)
Best Buy sold me a “new” computer, when I tried to collect the rebate I found out that somebody already collected it. Best Buy sold me a used computer as new.
Only by loudly raising hell inside their store did the manager agree to give me my money back. I suppose that he could have had me arrested instead but as I told him, I have friends at the local newspaper who would love to hear my story.
Arrogance is not a Federal crime; if it were, Obama would be looking at a lot of time.
You really offended Mark Sanford and Lindsey Graham for leaving them off the list.
lol, meant Lance, DOH!
Were you using them to push a service or a hard product? Just asking out of curiosity. We were approached about a product push about a year ago. It became a big hassle and we wound up not doing it. It was WAY front loaded for them. Looking back, I don't know where the juice would have been for us.
So, after getting the deal, would you now go back to that hair cut place and regularly use the service at the full $25 price?
It was $30 worth of product (Garden Center) if they bought the Groupon for $15. Even after it expired it was still worth $15 to infinity and beyond; they STILL show up, two years later! I should’ve just stood out front handing out $20 bills, LOL!
Most useless promotion marketing ever did...
NO but i told lots of others who can and will buy, about the great haircut i received so....if i have rich friends who’ll patronize the shop on my recommendation....the vendor still gets value from the deal....
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