rich-y

Thought it important to post this here since time is of the essence. I will also post this in the "Store Forum" so others can find it.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 10:32am EST

BestBuy.com offering 99 cent holiday shipping

Atlanta Business Chronicle - by Jennifer Niemela



Best Buy Co. Inc.’s Web site will offer 99-cent standard shipping on most products for the holidays, the company announced Tuesday.

The offer doesn’t include products that require a scheduled delivery. Best Buy, (NYSE: BBY), which has 21 metro Atlanta stores, also said that orders placed by 10 a.m. on Dec. 21 will be delivered by Christmas.

Best Buy’s online site saw a 24 percent spike in unique visitors on Black Friday. It’s the fifth most-popular online shopping site, according to comScore.

Other retailers have also been cutting shipping fees in what’s become a cutthroat holiday season. Minneapolis-based Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) kicked off a free-shipping promotion on 100,000 items (for shoppers spending $50 or more at its site) in early November, two weeks earlier than usual.

NCC1701E

Too bad they didn't have the 99 cent shipping during Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend. I would've ordered a ton through them but chose Amazon instead because of the high shipping at BB.

Snowmaker

That's almost as good as the FREE shipping I get for being a Premiere Silver RZ member.

RoadToPerdition

With so many other companies offering the same or better prices than Best Buy AND free shipping, I'm not sure why this is even newsworthy?

Timber

I'll just stick with the Amazon free shipping.

ebertofsmut

Ditto.

asianxcore

I just got a $15 BB Gift Card in the mail today so I'll probably use this shipping at least once

leahcim

Too bad every time they drop a BR price, AMZ beats it within 3 hours time.

If I would get my BB rewards already, I would be rollin'!

Timber

Are they also going to stop charging sales tax during this time as well?

jjcool

99 cents for their shitty Smartpost or UPS Mail Innovations shipping is still too much.

NCC1701E

UGH! I hate both of those services with a passion!!