3751, Report:
#12051
Posted Date:
Jan 20 2002
Micron, Best Buy, knowingly sells Defective Products
I purchased a computer that I thought was a good deal. Beware, if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. I should have heeded those words. I went to Best Buy in Canoga Park and saw a great computer made by Micron with a dvd, cdrom, cdrw and the price was good. I bought it and...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3752, Report:
#11688
Posted Date:
Jan 19 2002
Curcuit City Open-Box Offers- WHAT A RIP OFF! *Consumer Information
It seems that Circuit City offers open box items at a discounted rate, however they neglect to tell you the discount you receive isn't worth the trouble it causes.
My husband and I purchased a 60+ Projection TV along with a SONY surround sound home theater system. The total purc...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3753, Report:
#11867
Posted Date:
Jan 18 2002
HRS Late Fee Rip Off
I obtained a Best Buy card last month and was told that I could make my payments in the store once I recieved my bill.
I went to Best Buy to pay on my card a few days before the due date and was told by the customer service rep. that payments could only be mailed in to HRS USA.I ...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronics Shops
3754, Report:
#11579
Posted Date:
Jan 15 2002
Best Buy Sucks....Ripoff
I had bought a PNY's 256MB memory (RAM) chipset from Bestbuy on Golf Road in Schaumburg, IL. I went to return the memory as I was planning to upgrade my computer and install RDRAM instead of SDRAM.
Tim (Best buy's Tech supervisor) told me that they would not take it back as t...
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Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3755, Report:
#11190
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2002
Salem Oregon Rip-off CIRCUIT CITY LOSES ANOTHER CUSTOMER - FOR LIFE *Consumer Suggestion
My husband and I purchased an HP laptop from the Circuit City in Salem, OR in February of 2001. At the time of purchase, we received a $400 ISP rebate (at the time we could choose between CompuServ and MSN). My sister-in-law had purchased a laptop with the same deal a couple of mo...
Entity
Categories: Computer Stores
3756, Report:
#11195
Posted Date:
Jan 10 2002
HRS USA & Best Buy - REBATE RIPOFF
PURCHASED A COMPUTER FROM BEST BUY AND FINANCED THROUGH THIER COMPANY -HRS USA. BEST BUY OFFERED A $350 REBATE WITH THE PURCHASE...
I SENT IN ALL REQUIRED RECEIPTS AND COUMENTS; BEST BUY REJECTED MY REBATE REQUEST REPEATEDLY -CLAIMING THEY NEEDED MORE INFORMATION.
I COMPLIED ...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3757, Report:
#664
Posted Date:
Jan 09 2002
Best Buy Stores policy stinks Boycott them! *REBUTTAL employee with an attitude
Best Buy Stores refuse service to check customers unless they have state issue Drivers license.........5 forms of I.D.....not
acceptable...photo Visa Gold Card....., United Nations photo
Security Pass, Student I.D., photo insurance card, check cashing
card?.......even more I.D...
Entity
Categories: Computer Stores
3758, Report:
#11127
Posted Date:
Jan 09 2002
E-Machines -- Poor quality products and deceptive/misleading business practices!
Back in August of 2001, I purchased an e-Machines T-1801 from Circuit City. After I had owned the computer for about two weeks, I started to have problems with it.
The major problem that I had was .dll errors which are driver errors. The errors would cause my computer to lock...
Entity
Categories: Computer Manufactures
3759, Report:
#10765
Posted Date:
Jan 06 2002
Best Buy / Belkin Rebate Ripoff
Bought a Belkin 4 port USB card for my computer. Came with a $10 rebate. Best Buy advertised the rebate and gave me a special receipt to send in to Belkin for the rebate. Sent in all the required paperwork and UPC code from the package and later received a card from Belkin tellin...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3760, Report:
#10713
Posted Date:
Jan 05 2002
The Best Buy Ripoff
back in 2000 i went to bestbuy in columbus ohio to get a new sound card for my computer i play alot of computer games so i wanted a good one I found a soundblaster live card the best one out at that time.
i got it home and was ready to install it when i open the box there was no...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Electronics
3761, Report:
#10363
Posted Date:
Jan 02 2002
DOGG Digital Speaker Rip Off
I went over to my friend house this weekend for a after Christmas get together. He showed me his new 36 TV that he won in a contest. Then he proceded to tell me about going to Best Buy in the Hayward area to buy a Surround Sound System. When he got there, a guy came up to him in the...
Entity
Categories: Stereos
3762, Report:
#10447
Posted Date:
Jan 02 2002
Stan Koch and Son Trucking. DON'T BELIEVE A WORD YOU HEAR!!!!
12/22/01
To: Stan Koch and Sons
From: Joseph and Susan Williams
Best Buy Dedicated Fleet
Dublin, Ga 31021
RE: Wrongful Termination
Sirs,
My wife and I have been with the Best Buy Dedicated Fleet in Dublin, Ga from the day it opened up in September/October of ...
Entity
Categories: Trucking Companies
3763, Report:
#10188
Posted Date:
Dec 29 2001
HRS USA HOLDING PAYMENTS? RIPOFF - I wish I had never bought from Best Buy
I have had several payments that have taken 10 to 15 days to process by HRS USA. The most recent incident was I sent to their payment address by the United States post office priority mail meaning 2-3 days garunteed.
It took HRS USA 11 days to post it. I e-mailed their customer ...
Entity
Categories: Department & Outlet Stores
3764, Report:
#10036
Posted Date:
Dec 27 2001
Best Buy /LexMark UPC Rebate Rip off .
ON 11/10/01
I purchased a computer from Best Buy this was my first computer that I ever bought and I let the salesman know that. They inform me of what type of computers that were available and at what price, also stating the rebates as part of the the price. I was also bought a...
Entity
Categories: Computer Stores
3765, Report:
#9991
Posted Date:
Dec 26 2001
Ge Capital & Best Buy Cons Con-game
I'll make it short and sweet. I bought a computer from Best Buy and was not informed my financing Same As Cash option was a so called promotion. I've paid $600.00(one lump sum) on a $800.00 item and after just 4 months I learn I owe $142.00 in lates and finance charges. I called to ...
Entity
Categories: Financial Services
3766, Report:
#9722
Posted Date:
Dec 20 2001
Best Buy Hammered me nightmare royal screwing
Bought a computer from them or I should say my wife did using our credit card. Sales man sold here all kinds of software that wouldn't run on the damn thing!! When we return to try to get our money back it took 4 1/2 hours to get them to refund the money for the software!! That w...
Entity
Categories: Computer Stores
3767, Report:
#9682
Posted Date:
Dec 19 2001
I hate BEST BUY - Should be WORST RIP OFF BUY - No Nokia Rebaate
I just wanted everyone that reads this to know that BEST BUY should be named WORST BUY.
They are staffed by rude, uninformed, and inconsistent employees. I have been dealing with a Rebate offer from Nokia for over 4 months!
When I bought the phone, they said that I would ...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3768, Report:
#8712
Posted Date:
Dec 05 2001
Best Buy worst buy even worse service Rip off
They lie in their policy online and say that they match prices.
They do not!!! I did everything they asked. They refused to match price. Customer service is rude. BE careful!!!
Click here to read other Rip-off Reports on Best Buy
Entity
Categories: Department & Outlet Stores
3769, Report:
#8622
Posted Date:
Dec 04 2001
GE Capital Cons Cardco Misinformation, lying, ripoff
I made a Best Buy purchase and bought insurance in case of unemployment payments would be made. It was 18 months same as cash. I was making $100 a month payments. It was my understanding that would be the amount of payment if I became unemployed. They made minimum payment which won'...
Entity
Categories: Insurance Companies
3770, Report:
#7836
Posted Date:
Dec 03 2001
Best Buy/HRS USA credit card ripoff *REBUTTAL
I purchased a computer for my daugter's high school graduation. Best Buy was only to happy to set up a credit card for me. At the time everything was great.
Then, when I tried to collect on the promotional parts of this particular computer, I couldn't. I was suppossed to have...
Entity
Categories: Financial Services
3771, Report:
#3741
Posted Date:
Dec 03 2001
Best Buy bunch of bull, Westminster Employee Purchases *REBUTTAL
Amidst the popular rush for the new game console PlayStation 2, Best Buy in Westminster had an additional surprise and unadvertised shipment of a very limited amount of these sold out items. A line was then formed for the anxious customers who cosidered themselves lucky to even ha...
Entity
Categories: Audio & Electronic Retail Stores
3772, Report:
#8443
Posted Date:
Dec 01 2001
HRS-Household Retail Services (Roomstore)
This is not really a ripoff but trickery on the part of HRS. I paid off my account before any interest started. I wanted to call and close the account, I would call the 800 number press 0 to speak with a service rep and get a message All customer service representatives are busy wit...
Entity
Categories: Credit & Debt Services
3773, Report:
#6932
Posted Date:
Dec 01 2001
HRS USA rip-off Late payment fees *REBUTTAL ..Refund from the U.S. Postal Service!
On October 3, 2001, I called Best Buy to learn why I had not received a bill for two months, at which time I had been sending in payment without a bill. They have reported that the check I sent in August still have not arrived, and the check sent for September posted on time. Howe...
Entity
Categories: Credit Services
3774, Report:
#4499
Posted Date:
Nov 30 2001
Best Buy Golf Supply.com never delivered product! *REBUTTAL ..We did make an honest mistake, we do apologize.
I placed an order with this company on line for a set of golf clubs on 1/24 for my husbands birthday that is today 2/20. Their information stated delivery in 3-7 business days. The amount of the purchase for a set of Cleveland ta5 golf clubs was 399.95.
The site said that shippi...
Entity
Categories: Sporting-good Manufactures
3775, Report:
#8141
Posted Date:
Nov 26 2001
G G W Video FRAUD
I ordered a GGW Video in July and received charges in August, Sept, Oct, and Nov.... 23.98 a peice for Videos I did not recieve. I actually got a customer service number from my bank - 323-965-8710... They are crediting 3 of the shipment, and won't credit the 3rd because its over a ...
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Categories: TV Advertisements