raven56706

I just went and they said they didnt pricematch. Did i miss something?

SuprVgeta

I just called them up because I am trying to find C&C Generals in my town. At first he said how much are they offering off, and i said $10. He said it had to be local, and I said it was from Best Buy, the closest one is like an hour from where I live. He said he wasn't sure, I could try and bring it in... but he didn't know for sure.

Sloth911

there has been some discussion on this already, the general consensus was that

1) PM policy from the central office is that PM is okay on certain titles, but they have no obligation to PM on all titles

2) on a store by store, and cashier by cashier basis, some titles will be PM and some wont, it really depends on the quailty of the sales person you run into

in general i think that you should try it, bitch and complain when they wont PM, maybe call a CSR and complain, then goto their competetiors and buy ti from them

Doug Schiller

You can thank Best Buy for killing EB price match policy.
When they offered Vice City so cheap the first week, it really scared the crap out of EB.
They rely on the preorder, first one to get it. Best Buy was supposedly selling it below or at cost.

Doug

matrixrok9

This is true. I was one of the angry customers that got screwed over this price match policy bs. When I picked up the game I told them Best Buy was only selling it for $39.99. They said they didn't price match. Of course when I went to Best Buy it was already sold out. If I had known they wouldn't have price matched, I would've just gone to Best Buy earlier that day to get a copy for sure. But stupid me, trusted Eb's misleading policy. I called the district manager and she basically said "go return the game if you want but we're not going to price match it" in a nice way of course. I also told them to either have a pm policy that worked on all games or none at all. Very unethical.

MrKen

Don't quote me on this one, but I think there is a $10 coupon in a recent EB catalog for C&C Generals, effectively making the price 39.99 and making the issue moot for this particular title.

As for the price matching in general, I agree that they should have a single easy to follow policy, but I also understand why they are backing away from it. What I really don't understand at all is all the people who get mad at the companies who go out of their way to get plenty of copies of a game, two or three days earlier, and keep it in stock the whole time, but they never seem to get mad at the guys who advertise a price and never back it up with product.

PS I hate Best Buy.

Doug Schiller

MrKen, you forget to mention the mall stores grabbing all the copies early and then gouging the prices $5 to $10 more the first couple of weeks.

Thank God for Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA or we would probably be paying $60 for new games (if EB had their way).