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Why Best Buy charges $100 more for iPhone 8+?
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Exactly. Just let them know (even though they already do) and they'll match
I haven't done it with phones, but Best Buy is really good with price matching. They make it very easy.
I bought a TV a few years ago, then about two weeks later, it went on sale, so all I had to do was bring in my receipt and the ad ... VOILA! I was credited something like $400.
I'm not sure why they do this. But this might be the only product where they charge more than the MSRP.
Because I have BB gift card to use. I don’t find anything in Best Buy worth buying other than iPhones.
the idea is they can price match for those who ask AND for those who want to use coupons they can say "SORRY no double dipping!" coupon or price match.
Bastards i tell ya.
Bastards i tell ya.
Best Buy is such a smart company. They really know how to get customers to think highly of them.
That's why you ask them to price match, then once the total rings up, then you give them the coupon.
It's a lot harder to say "no" after saying "yes" than it is to say "no" in the first place.
Also retail employees generally don't care what price you buy it at, unless their boss will hassle them about it.
I have not been inside a Best Buy stores in years. I prefer to buy on Amazon as Prime member or head to Costco or Walmart. Eventually it will head the way of JC Penny, Circuit City and Sears.
Simple reason not everyone has an Apple Store down the corner, across town or in many cases wthin a 100 mile radius.
Dave
Yes, but the store makes extra money from carriers for every activation. Since the store doesn’t get paid that extra bonus if they sell unlocked full price, they price the unlocked phones higher to discourage anyone from getting it without an activation (and if they pay the higher price it makes up for the carrier commission anyway).
That's not true at all. For one best buy doesn't price unlocked phones higher. If anything, some of the unlocked phones are actually cheaper than their carrier specific counterparts (the unlocked S8 being one of them) . Best Buy simply doesn't make money off of iPhones. From a business standpoint, I get it. It's all about profit. However most stores will price match apple.com. But yeah theres 0 profit in an iPhone like there is in....say a Galaxy S8, unlocked or carrier specific.