You would have to do that anyway. No one at At&T can help, they always send you back to Apple unless there is a billing error or sim replacement.
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Best Buy to Sell iPhone 3G Nationwide?
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You would have to do that anyway. No one at At&T can help, they always send you back to Apple unless there is a billing error or sim replacement.
San Francisco Best Buy
In the San Francisco Best Buy cellphones are sold and supported by carrier staff, ATT, Sprint etc. There is also an Apple section that sells iMacs and Macbooks, staffed by an Apple person. iPods are mixed in with the MP3 players, which is good because that shows how bad the other players look.
The infamous Geek boys and girls are not involved with cellphones or Apple products.
In the San Francisco Best Buy cellphones are sold and supported by carrier staff, ATT, Sprint etc. There is also an Apple section that sells iMacs and Macbooks, staffed by an Apple person. iPods are mixed in with the MP3 players, which is good because that shows how bad the other players look.
The infamous Geek boys and girls are not involved with cellphones or Apple products.
but this means you can make the phone cheaper with those best buy reward points that are about to expire.
But even RS's selection of electronic components has dwindled to a very sad state lately. It's just not as fun walking in there anymore. Half the store (the front half) has overpriced TVs, R/C cars, and phones, and the back half has a few aisles of crammed-together wire, adapters, and a few breadboard components here and there. In the 'old' days, you could piece together your own digital computer using off-the-shelf parts at RS. Now you'd be lucky to put together your own transistor radio.
I will have to agree with Ace. The SF Bay Best Buy is not a bad store. I have made many of purchases at the Harrison St. location. For every one store like that,however, there are plenty of Best Buy stores like the one that is located near me here in PA.
Let's see. Within 30 seconds of walking in the store, you become a few droplets of blood with the sharks swarming. The Mac selection is limited to an iMac 20" and a MacBook Pro. You never quite see any salesperson go out of their way to point out that they sell Mac's. There are no Apple trained employees.
The accessories are quite limited. They do have a Wireless Keyboard on display. It has been fingered more times then Freddy
. The grime build up reminds me of the finest Comp Usa (RIP). I actually did enjoy the Market St. location downtown SF.
I can just envision Best Buy locally having the iPhone and having their employees talk customers out of buying one for a Blackberry or any device that has some SPIFF on it. In all honesty, it would remind me of my local AT&T corporate store. iPhone, you must be kidding. They all want to sell Blackberries as the only thing worthy of your attention.
I am going to imagine that in some areas that it will be worth it. I just do not see it working in every location.
My 2 tarnished pennies worth and sorry for the rant.
Let's see. Within 30 seconds of walking in the store, you become a few droplets of blood with the sharks swarming. The Mac selection is limited to an iMac 20" and a MacBook Pro. You never quite see any salesperson go out of their way to point out that they sell Mac's. There are no Apple trained employees.
The accessories are quite limited. They do have a Wireless Keyboard on display. It has been fingered more times then Freddy
. The grime build up reminds me of the finest Comp Usa (RIP). I actually did enjoy the Market St. location downtown SF.I can just envision Best Buy locally having the iPhone and having their employees talk customers out of buying one for a Blackberry or any device that has some SPIFF on it. In all honesty, it would remind me of my local AT&T corporate store. iPhone, you must be kidding. They all want to sell Blackberries as the only thing worthy of your attention.
I am going to imagine that in some areas that it will be worth it. I just do not see it working in every location.
My 2 tarnished pennies worth and sorry for the rant.
Weird, most of the Best Buy's I've been to have mini Apple store kiosks setup with MBP's, MBA's, MB's, iMac's, and every flavor of iPod on display along with several accessories such as mice, keyboards, time capsules, hard drives, cases, etc.
What they have been lacking are iPhone accessories...especially cases.
Hopefully the addition of the iPhone will bring with it a greater variety of iPhone accessories. There is no Apple Store where I go to college, and AT&T's accessories are a joke.
i can think of two locations off the top of my head in town where an AT&T and Best Buy are literally right next to each other and an Apple Store ain't but a few minutes away. That certainly might make the next iPhone launch interesting with more choices within those areas to buy it.
I was at a Best Buy once checking out the mp3 players. A guy next to me was checking out the iPod Touch, and the Best Buy salesman said to him that the iPods were great, but the huge problem is that Apple limits you to having only 3 videos at a time on the device....
Best Buy - lovely...
Best Buy - lovely...
I will have to agree with Ace. The SF Bay Best Buy is not a bad store. I have made many of purchases at the Harrison St. location. For every one store like that,however, there are plenty of Best Buy stores like the one that is located near me here in PA.
Let's see. Within 30 seconds of walking in the store, you become a few droplets of blood with the sharks swarming. The Mac selection is limited to an iMac 20" and a MacBook Pro. You never quite see any salesperson go out of their way to point out that they sell Mac's. There are no Apple trained employees.
The accessories are quite limited. They do have a Wireless Keyboard on display. It has been fingered more times then Freddy
I can just envision Best Buy locally having the iPhone and having their employees talk customers out of buying one for a Blackberry or any device that has some SPIFF on it. In all honesty, it would remind me of my local AT&T corporate store. iPhone, you must be kidding. They all want to sell Blackberries as the only thing worthy of your attention.
I am going to imagine that in some areas that it will be worth it. I just do not see it working in every location.
My 2 tarnished pennies worth and sorry for the rant.
My only question is why would they talk customers out of the iPhone? I've talked to the BB mobile dept people in my store and all they want is a chance to sell an iPhone. There are basically no downsides to buying one (except the price per month
) and AT&T coverage is quite well in this area. I'm pretty excited for it's arrival. 
Agreed
I desire to be in the know. I wish i had some kind of connections, or was a somebody that new stuff before it was public knowledge. I guess I'm in the wrong business.I bow to you sir
Will they be using Windows to ring up these iPhones?
The last time I was there the computer crashed in the middle of my purchase.... my credit card was still of course charged, I just got no receipt. Awesome.
The last time I was there the computer crashed in the middle of my purchase.... my credit card was still of course charged, I just got no receipt. Awesome.
I am glad Best Buy sees Apple as a major player again and is attempting to keep up with the Apple wave. It's sad they can't hire any adequate employees. I attribute this mostly to the management of BestBuy is just awful. They permanently banned me from the store at least twice and I come in the next day and they are clueless.
They attempt to upsell warranties and restore disks that already come with the computers and then don't even honor what they say. They'll promise if it breaks, they'll give you the latest model, etc. BestBuy is a joke and I'll only buy something that's cheap and I don't have to deal with someone to buy it.
The employees just lie to customers to sell them whatever they feel like. Most are punk kids that know nothing. There are exceptions, but in general, they are all losers. I try to help people that are being misled by the employees there all the time.
They attempt to upsell warranties and restore disks that already come with the computers and then don't even honor what they say. They'll promise if it breaks, they'll give you the latest model, etc. BestBuy is a joke and I'll only buy something that's cheap and I don't have to deal with someone to buy it.
The employees just lie to customers to sell them whatever they feel like. Most are punk kids that know nothing. There are exceptions, but in general, they are all losers. I try to help people that are being misled by the employees there all the time.
bad news
great. my best buy is too crowded enough as it is. you would think they are handing out free money every day. now i will have to deal with more people congregating at best buy and also deal with trying to find a place to park. I hate the damn iphone. I so wish it would go away forever.
great. my best buy is too crowded enough as it is. you would think they are handing out free money every day. now i will have to deal with more people congregating at best buy and also deal with trying to find a place to park. I hate the damn iphone. I so wish it would go away forever.
Cash for my iPhone
iPhones are activated from a portable device...that portable device requires a "plastic" form of payment. If you have cash, you can purchase a gift card in the form of "plastic" and buy your phone. Cash was gladly accepted for me.
iPhones are activated from a portable device...that portable device requires a "plastic" form of payment. If you have cash, you can purchase a gift card in the form of "plastic" and buy your phone. Cash was gladly accepted for me.
That's what I'm sayin. I think BB is the best option out of all the other retailers.
good for their halo effect
this is like adding a halo effect to the halo effect. Nearly 1000 Best buy stores offers macs and ipods, and now in september, iphones. There will no doubt be a lot of people who can't access an apple store locally but do have a best buy who didn't even think about going to best buy to buy apple products in the first place, until now, because this will get a lot of press. The iphone will open people's eyes to the fact of apple product availability at best buy. I didn't know about it until today, I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm guessing the space these stores devote to pcs will shrink quickly to accomodate apple growth. I wonder if Best Buy will be installing apple branded genius bars too? In the end this should be good for apple products and the war against pcs.
this is like adding a halo effect to the halo effect. Nearly 1000 Best buy stores offers macs and ipods, and now in september, iphones. There will no doubt be a lot of people who can't access an apple store locally but do have a best buy who didn't even think about going to best buy to buy apple products in the first place, until now, because this will get a lot of press. The iphone will open people's eyes to the fact of apple product availability at best buy. I didn't know about it until today, I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm guessing the space these stores devote to pcs will shrink quickly to accomodate apple growth. I wonder if Best Buy will be installing apple branded genius bars too? In the end this should be good for apple products and the war against pcs.