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If you look at today's Best Buy flyer you will notice some really good sales going on, one being for a Compaq Laptop for $449.00. Now I woke up early this morning just to see how they handled the fiasco. I showed up at 6:45am this morning to drive up to a line with over 65 people already waiting. As I walked up to the line I heard everyone talking about how they are excited to give their child a new XBox for the holidays, some speaking about selling theirs on Ebay for $900.00 (laughing too).. As 7:30 approached I heard some people who were up in the front of the line talking about a ticket they got at 6am. Now by 7:30 the line has grown to almost 200+ people in hopes to get an Xbox. I was very shocked since 45 minutes later I still never heard from one Best Buy employee coming outside to inform the customers all tickets have been handed out.
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As 8:00am approached the line started moving and people were getting excited as they approached the door to then find out that they handed out 53 tickets at 6am. I personally knew what to expect but did the other 140 people behind me? No!! They were furious.. As I entered the store immediately I heard an employee scream out "Everyone all the XBox360's are sold out, but we have a great deal on a Compaq laptop for only $449.00). So I immediately followed the employee along with 25+ people to see this sale. Once we got to the computer department I overheard the employee hard selling a customer who originally was going to buy and Xbox 360 saying, "Why do you need an Xbox360 when you can buy this laptop and play all "games" on this?" Now I was shocked first of all since this customer had no thoughts of buying a laptop but the customer apparently changed his mind as he started to fill out paperwork for the $449.00 laptop. The next comments from the Best Buy employee were, "Do you have AntiVirus Software? Do you have a wifi network? Do you have computer security software? Do you want to watch TV on this laptop (Slingbox)?" I could believe this but after the transaction the sale turned into a $1,750 purchase!
Why am I writing this? Because Best Buy knew they were getting limited quantity (some as little as 25) nevertheless they publicize a flyer with the XBox 360 on the front page of the sale flyer. What about the mysterious memo that was floating around the net showing the quantities of XBox 360's? How about the flyer that appeared on the net 4 days before the actual sale? Is it a coincidence? I bet not!
