{"id":398553,"date":"2010-03-06T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002941"},"modified":"2010-03-07T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:41:02","slug":"best-buy-doesnt-really-want-to-sell-any-300-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/398553","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy Doesn’t Really Want To Sell Any $300 Headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris tells Consumerist that he wanted to exchange $300 for a pair of headphones, but Best Buy was uninterested in actually selling them to him. Which is odd, since we thought that was the point of this whole “retail” thing.<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

Just thought I’d share with the world, my experience at the Best Buy
\nlocation in [redacted], WI this evening.<\/p>\n

I’m looking for an excellent pair of headphones, anything $80 and up,
\nso naturally I head to Best Buy knowing they have several models on
\ndisplay. After trying a few out and getting a feel for what I’m
\nlooking for, I take a look at a set of Bose QuietComfort headphones
\nand put them on. I like them, so naturally I look for a price tag.
\nNone to be found. I look throughout the display, try to find the
\nheadphones on endcaps in the entire area, nothing.<\/p>\n

So I thought to myself “alright, perhaps an employee will walk by and
\nask if I need help, but in the meantime I’ll keep looking around for
\nthe headphones”. And after being in the store for 30 minutes, not a
\nsingle Best Buy employee came by to see if I needed anything. The
\nwhole iPod\/mp3 section of the area may as well been quarantined off.<\/p>\n

Now I’m not entirely helpless where I need to be asked for help, but
\nout of all the times I get asked by retail clerks if I need assistance
\n(especially at a place like Best Buy where it’s practically guaranteed
\nyou’ll be asked by someone for help), when I actually need it there is
\nnaught a clerk to be found.<\/p>\n

Instead of giving in and finding a clerk, I went to the nearby
\nlaptop\/HDTV on display, went to the Best Buy website, and looked up
\nthe price myself. I plan on going back next week to pick up
\nheadphones and a nettop, if any of the clerks will bother doing their
\njob.<\/p>\n

The headphones are $300, by the way. And Best Buy couldn’t possibly
\ncare less if you were interested in them.<\/p>\n

So there, that’s my story. I want to vote with my wallet and just go
\nwith NewEgg, but I don’t have to deal with shipping and waiting longer
\nwhen the store’s literally 5 miles from my house.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe they don’t really want to sell any headphones because there’s no way to have the Geek Squad optimize them<\/a>. Or is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris tells Consumerist that he wanted to exchange $300 for a pair of headphones, but Best Buy was uninterested in actually selling them to him. Which is odd, since we thought that was the point of this whole “retail” thing. He writes: Just thought I’d share with the world, my experience at the Best Buy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}