Re: Best Buy Not So Best?
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Originally Posted by Jeremy Little
I did read it, and nowhere in that article does it discuss whether or not the employee KNEW the difference between the two links. So, by that definition, not knowing equals deception? Hmm.. That sucks.
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Again, completely missing the point. Whether or not each and every employee knows, the
practice itself is deceiving. This is something systemic.
If Chevrolet purposely manipulated figures so that you thought by looking on their website you could get a car for $15000, and then you go to the actual lot and the employee punches up an internal site mocked up to look like the website, if someone in the organization knows they do it, even if the actual salesman selling you the car doesn't know, it's still a deceitful practice.
And you can't tell me that people, specifically quite a few people, in the Best Buy administration don't know about it. That second site didn't create itself. Many people go into the making of those dual sites. And the fact that now BB is putting the disclaimer shows that they themselves now realize that they've done something that needs to be clarified.
Do you have a lot of BB stock, out of curiosity? I can't figure out why you seem to be unable to understand our argument. Or are you actually a mid to high level BB employee?
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| Since it is a tool for ordering products out of stock in the store and the package deals in the store can be better, there has to be two. |
Incorrect, and I think this may have something to do with your misunderstanding.
There's the "back end" stock/inventory system that looks nothing like Best Buy.com that the employees can use to check stock in their own and other local stores, as well as order inventory. It's inventory software, looks like a MS Access database (it's not, it's proprietary software, but I'm just using a descriptor). That database can reflect the in-store price just fine because it's their inventory system. I've seen that one. My bro-in-law used to work there, I've seen it many times.
They MOCKED UP another site, that might be linked to that database, but made it up to look like the Bestbuy.com site. So that way they can show customers who claim to see lesser prices on the web, but then refute those claims by showing a site that looks just like it, but with different pricing.
If you can't understand how that's deceitful, we should stop arguing because to me, and apparently quite a few others, it's pretty clear.
