Just a week ago, Circuit City was found to be cheating their customers out of the free copy of Call of Duty 3 as part of an advertised deal. So, you’d think the big retailers would figure out that cheating the customer is not the right way to go. Well, Best Buy obviously didn’t learn quick enough.
John (a reader of the site his name is linked to) witnessed Best Buy employees selling the last Wii in their store last Saturday – twice! One of the salespeople was holding a Wii, walking around the store claiming that it was their last one. It took just minutes to sell. Just under an hour later, another salesperson did the same exact thing. Although this isn’t illegal, there’s a good chance someone in that store left after an employee announced that the last one was sold… possibly going home to their kids without the Wii they had hoped to get. This is dirty on Best Buy’s part.
But, Toys R Us seems to prefer giving away a lot rather than a little… giving away for free, that is. There has been no official word on Toys R Us’ part, but rumors are going around that from November 18th to 21st, all Wii games will be “Buy 2, Get 1 Free”. This is an amazing deal – 3 games for $100, or less.
Also, if you are undecided whether you want a Wii or not, but wouldn’t mind getting a free one, your lucky day might be here soon. During Thanksgiving weekend (the 22nd to 25th), Comedy Central will be airing a code every hour (48 hours over the 4 day period), in which a Wii (along with other stuff) will be given away every hour.
November 16, 2007 at 6:48 pm |
I heard it’s the companies policy to hold back consoles so it doesn’t disappear all at once.
January 31, 2008 at 8:02 pm |
I read about this somewhere too. However, I really disagree with the policy of stopping the “disappearance”. A lot of people rushed in the morning to get the wii stocks only to find out they were cheated on? Very not nice.