Friday, November 2nd 2007
Best Buy Gives Customers $299 HD DVD Player for $99
After Wal-Mart decided to sell the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player for just under $99 today, Best Buy decided to follow suit and was offering the same player for $99. However, the company met a problem when it let more people order than it had stock for - and Toshiba has now discontinued the HD-A2. You might expect a firm like Best Buy to simply cancel the orders and apologise to customers for the mistake, but Best Buy decided to go one better. Instead, every customer that ordered the HD-A2 after the stock was gone is having their purchase upgraded to the new Toshiba HD-A3, retailing at $299, for no extra charge! Best Buy does say that if you don't want the new HD DVD player you can have a refund instead, but as that's a saving of $200 I doubt too many customers will be interested in that option.
Source:
DailyTech
25 Comments on Best Buy Gives Customers $299 HD DVD Player for $99
hd-dvd for the win hopefully!!
BestBuy is making money on every sale because for everyone one we sell Toshiba pays us more.
The only real benefit of my discount I mentioned is that I can get the player for $5 cheaper and movies for 5-10 bucks less.
Plus 7 free DVD's!
What is the exact difference between the 199 and 299 model anyway?
Damn!