Comments on: Best Buy Has a Lot of “The Last Wii”s

By: Zera

Zera — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:14:34 +0000

As another former best buy employee in Las Vegas NV I have to agree that the other people claiming to be employees might be the average joe employee (you just haven’t realized how sick and twisted the company you work for is). Best by uses the exact same techniques the Nazis used to recruit and convince those recruits to stay and not only that defend their “Good Name”. Sorry guys you need to get out as soon as possible because Best Buy is flat out evil, I had countless experiences of my managers doing stuff like this to make the sales. It doesn’t matter though because there’s a reason most people don’t stay very long with Best Buy because eventually they always see something like this and leave to find work elsewhere. The few who make it high in Management are thus insured to be as sleazy as the manager they saw doing things like this as they have no conscience. For the other side of this story albeit just as bias as a pro Best Buy sit see http://www.ihatebestbuy.com/
This is par for the course for BB.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:39:54 +0000

Wii is definitely the way to go.

By: marine

marine — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:31:50 +0000

forget the wii get a computer

By: Required Name

Required Name — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:08:08 +0000

See, THIS is why I won’t work in retail anymore!

By: kaklong

kaklong — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:46:04 +0000

Well, i hope since it’s already 2008, the Wii should not be in a serious shortage anymore.. i waited a long time for my wii – luckily i’ve gotten it and it’s worth the wait too =)

By: Thomas Wayne

Thomas Wayne — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:35:50 +0000

One potentially good side-effect of Best Buy slowing down sales (if they do) is that it keeps the eBay resellers from buying them all and trying to sell them at a large profit. There are plenty of Wiis available on eBay yet none in the store.

I realize most stores have a limit of one per family, but some people don’t honor that. I know of someone who bought one, and while in line he pretended to be calling his brother. After checking out, he went to his car, changed clothes, and went in and bought another one. And he’s putting all he gets on eBay to make money. That’s part of the reason there are none in the stores right now.

By: MuBamHam

MuBamHam — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:36:50 +0000

That’s what you get for living in America. Happy Holidays!

By: topher

topher — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:38:03 +0000

Nope. This would be “big box” suicide. They are to worried about losing all there customers to walmart.

By: I work somewhere else, too!

I work somewhere else, too! — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:01:03 +0000

I have to agree with my fellow Target team member…stores aren’t required to hold merchandise and only sell so much per day by Nintendo. Nintendo sends out the amount they want to sell by the week; they don’t give us a shipment and forbid us from selling x amount. The one thing that stores will do, however, will be storing product they get in if the item is advertised in their sale ad in the next week. For example, we got Wiis in on a Wednesday night truck, but we did not sell them until Sunday when they were advertised in the sale ad. If we weren’t to of done that, we would have angry guests who lined up Sunday morning be irate because we had already sold our quantity the week before when it wasn’t on ad.

By: Michael Mc

Michael Mc — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:39:04 +0000

Get over it! They are not inflating the price. They are getting people into the store! This has been going on in the retail business for decades!!

By: Horstradamus

Horstradamus — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:33:23 +0000

Really, who cares how best buy sells its merchandise. You’re all acting like the people snapping up the Wiis are complete morons. They came looking to buy somnething and walked away with something at the regular price. And to those of you who are saying this is illegal; get real.

By: Glomb

Glomb — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:43:52 +0000

best buy is full of shit, i work in the game headquarters in basingstoke wher we hav just got almost 10,000 wii’s in for christmas, bestbuy dus certainly not hav the “last of the wii’s”

By: I work elsewhere

I work elsewhere — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:42:51 +0000

i love how some people are claiming its corporate policy or nintendo policy to sell less consoles. i work for target and i can tell you that we got 60 in for one sunday advertisement and they were all gone in 2 hours. if ninteno wanted to limit the amount sold, they would just sell less. and the stores themselves are out to turn a profit. if people feel they dont have to fight for their wii they are more likely to buy accessories and games for it as opposed to buying and running like hell.

By: Abstract

Abstract — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:56 +0000

“Rich: I love how you directly attack the credibility of the people claiming to be Best Buy employees while also claiming to be a “former best buy employee” yourself.”

I love how you confuse Rich with Ross. It’s not the same person, asshole. Try reading next time.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:12:58 +0000

ok A) It is NOT corporate policy to sell a certain amount per day. The only corporate policy is to sell whatever we possibly can. The only merchandise we dont keep on the floor is overstock and product that hasnt been received yet. Its not like we have a huge vault in the back of the store for storing product we dont want to give to customers. For instance, consoles are stored in a cage(for security reasons) in the middle of the store in plain sight for everyone.
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and B) Jack you are a hypocrite. You are more sleazy for lying to us about having bought the ‘last one one the store’ every time than the rest of are for having a job.

By: Heru-Ur

Heru-Ur — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:47:15 +0000

This is sleazy, lame, and bordering on illegal no matter how it is justified or rationalized.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:07:37 +0000

Zeroes-

You are jsut as sleazy as the rest of the best buy employees. You say you have a “policy” to sell a certain amount of a day… Do you honestly expect me to believe that best buy TRIES TO SELL LESS A DAY?! Best buy isnt the only place that does with video game consoles though. Since the first xbox came out, every single console ive bought has been “the last one in the store”. Give me a break.

By: Hank

Hank — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:27:03 +0000

I have ‘em in my e-store.

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:54:18 +0000

Also, in our store, we always sell out wii’s like crazy. no need to play cat and mouse.

The only time we say we ruptured stock is when certain individuals who are only interested in re-sale buy lets say SIXTEEN laptops without service plan. Especially since marges on laptops range from 2 to -15 % we take a pretty big loss. So we say we have like two… Hence we keep our numbers in check.

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:47:20 +0000

I work at Best buy in sales. We basicaly sell under the guise of not selling. Don’t blame best buy, blame the manager or supervisor advising this techinque. We have a guy transfered from another store. Hes a jerk who no one can stand and the store he came from, on boxing day. get this. Made two lines, a service plan line and a no service plan line. And customers willing to pay for the service to protect their purchases of the bat got served first. THAT is sleazy. And it all depends on he manager. Speaking of sleaze, the closet bets buy to us, used to send all their returns to us. So, instead of their store taking a loss, ours was. THATS sleazy.