Best Buy selling Apple Products

[Opteron]

Apple has pretty strict Minimum prices requirements of resellers. So, I don't think you're going to be seeing lower retail prices.

However given the right non-english speaking sales rep, cash works wonders.

 

[tntoak]

Best Buy recently bought the Canadian Big Box Electronics retailer Future Shop. Future Shop is a long standing Apple dealer obtained when they bought out one the earilest Apple Dealerships (they sold Apple II's) in Vancouver, Canada. Is this the source of their dealership agreement with Apple?

Actually, Best Buy has owned Future Shop since at least 2001. Best Buy did carry Apple for a while when the iMac first hit big, but they ended that program after Apple wanted what BBY felt was too much control over their sales floor. From what I have seen and read, the decision to reintroduce Apple has nothing to do with Future Shop as much as BBYs push towards convergenge in electronics (what Apple has been doing with iLife for years)

 

[xy14]

Why Best Buy Quit

The reason I heard that Best Buy quit selling Macs is bacause when they were colored, everyone wanted different colors that were in stock so no one ever bought them and Best Buy decided to quit. This time in the contract, it said that Apple can not sell any multi-colored or similar items and that is what they did with the iPod Mini, so that is why this new deal with Best Buy is going to go down the drain.

Also, I think that if Apple gets rid of the iPod Mini or makes it just one color and Best Buy doesn't terminate the deal, Apple should start negotiating with larger businesses (Wal-Mart, Circuit City, CompUSA, even Target) and then everyone will buy Macs and then Microsoft will get small and then they will know what it's like to have 3% of the market and then Apple will start letting its OS be used on Intel and then Apple can get rid of it's own computers and Mac OS will prosper and Microsoft will have to go out of business. MAHAHAHAHA!

 

[tntoak]

The reason I heard that Best Buy quit selling Macs is bacause when they were colored, everyone wanted different colors that were in stock so no one ever bought them and Best Buy decided to quit. This time in the contract, it said that Apple can not sell any multi-colored or similar items and that is what they did with the iPod Mini, so that is why this new deal with Best Buy is going to go down the drain.

Also, I think that if Apple gets rid of the iPod Mini or makes it just one color and Best Buy doesn't terminate the deal, Apple should start negotiating with larger businesses (Wal-Mart, Circuit City, CompUSA, even Target) and then everyone will buy Macs and then Microsoft will get small and then they will know what it's like to have 3% of the market and then Apple will start letting its OS be used on Intel and then Apple can get rid of it's own computers and Mac OS will prosper and Microsoft will have to go out of business. MAHAHAHAHA!

Actually, considering how many iPods Best Buy sells, I'd be surprised if they would be willing to lose that revenue stream by terminating the contract with Apple. As far as the notion of letting Wal-Mart, CompUSA, Circuit City, etc. sell Macs, CompUSA already sells them, Wal-Mart would want too much control over the sales and distribution fronts (this has already been addressed in this thread), and Circuit City either was approached by or approached Apple themselves about carrying Macs, but the two parties couldn't come to terms on an agreement.

You also have to remember that the reason Apple pulled out of most retailers was because of the way Macs had been relegated to the back corners of the stores. The only way Apple will go into a store is under their terms, because the do not want to see a return to the old days when the PC section was large and clean, and the macs hadn't been moved, let alone dusted, in weeks.

 

[merman637]

netboy...

First time poster, w00t! :-D

Anyways, this idea of BestBuy selling Apple products is kinda cool. I mean, alot of the stuck up Windows people would never set foot in a Mac store of some kind, so maybe they might stumble across the Apple section at their local BestBuy while looking for the latest Windows product.

Also, maybe this will be the break us young Mac users need to get jobs selling the machines we love! I don't know what your feelings are, but CompUSA has really given me the shaft; I guess it's expected from them!


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Netboy

I feel your pain man...compusa is the ONLYplace nearby that sells apple, and they think they are GOD'S gift to computer stores...however the mac guy at this store IS pretty knowledgable...even if they did try to sell me a broken laptop for $100 less than retail....Sheesh...
anyway...good to see an okie in here...
MERman -moore ok

 

[merman637]

consignment

Actually, considering how many iPods Best Buy sells, I'd be surprised if they would be willing to lose that revenue stream by terminating the contract with Apple. As far as the notion of letting Wal-Mart, CompUSA, Circuit City, etc. sell Macs, CompUSA already sells them, Wal-Mart would want too much control over the sales and distribution fronts (this has already been addressed in this thread), and Circuit City either was approached by or approached Apple themselves about carrying Macs, but the two parties couldn't come to terms on an agreement.

You also have to remember that the reason Apple pulled out of most retailers was because of the way Macs had been relegated to the back corners of the stores. The only way Apple will go into a store is under their terms, because the do not want to see a return to the old days when the PC section was large and clean, and the macs hadn't been moved, let alone dusted, in weeks.

Not to mention the haedaches of selling on consignment like Wal-Mart, and the returns!!! who would let their company take that abuse???!!!
MERman

 

[itsa]

My CompUSA is wonderful. They've been good on a number of occasions in various ways. As an aside, I was once browsing Windows notebook computers. The rep came up, asked me what I did and what I needed the machine for, then suggested that I might be happier with an Apple notebook. This employee was *not* the store's Apple representative, so his appraisal was honest, not self-serving.

Needless to say, I went back to that same store when I was ready to buy.

elo

I've sold about 10 Mac's at CompUSA and I don't even work there... (never have). I know it sounds like I'm a nerd but, when I lived in St Louis I would go into CompUSA and just stand around until someone asked the people that worked there something about Macs... and I would jump in and correct them. I got a kick out of helping people make the right buy... and even bigger kick making the Comp guys look like idiots.

 

[wdlove]

I've sold about 10 Mac's at CompUSA and I don't even work there... (never have). I know it sounds like I'm a nerd but, when I lived in St Louis I would go into CompUSA and just stand around until someone asked the people that worked there something about Macs... and I would jump in and correct them. I got a kick out of helping people make the right buy... and even bigger kick making the Comp guys look like idiots.

I enjoy helping people myself. So I realize what a good feeling that felt. What kind of reaction did you get from the CompUSA person?