HD DVD $50 Bestbuy Gift Card!!!!!
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HD DVD $50 Bestbuy Gift Card!!!!!
HD DVD buyers are getting relief from Best Buy in the form of $50 gift cards if they purchased a HD DVD player before February 23 from the retailer. Following the lead of Circuit City, Best Buy is doing its best to console bitter HD DVD player owners who placed the wrong bet when buying a next-generation hi-def DVD player. In total Best Buy says it estimates a total of $10 million in gift cards will be distributed.
I'm going to Bestbuy tomorrow with my receipt to get my giftcard and buy Condemned 2 Bloodshot , this should be a good game.
I'm going to Bestbuy tomorrow with my receipt to get my giftcard and buy Condemned 2 Bloodshot , this should be a good game.
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Originally Posted by Silver™
I got mine at BB, so this is cool...
When a line of consumer electronics is curtailed, it’s often the retailer that gets the blame for pushing that “piece of junk” in the first place.
Now that the HD DVD format has gone belly up, stranding consumers with a defunct technology, Best Buy wants to make sure that that doesn’t happen to them. To assuage the feelings of the 200,000 customers who purchased HD DVD hardware or drives from a Best Buy store, the company will announce Wednesday that it is giving each buyer a $50 gift card to spend on whatever they want.
Best Buy’s move follows a similar, but less public, step from Circuit City. Earlier this month, Circuit City began to quietly take back HD DVD players, even if used, granting store credit for the full purchase price. The only caveats: returns must be made within 90 days of purchase. And you have to ask for it or learn about the action on the store’s Web site.
The Best Buy cards, which will not expire, will be sent automatically to most customers who purchased HD DVD hardware by February 23, when Toshiba announced that it was abandoning the format. Best Buy’s list includes those who belong to their rewards program, bought extended warranties, or purchased the machine on its Web site. Others need to show proof of purchase to get their cards.
If you don’t want to keep your HD DVD machine to use as a standard DVD player, the company will even buy it back via its Web site, www.bestbuytradein.com. In that case, customers can double-dip, getting a second gift card for the sale. (No trade-in prices have yet been established, said a company spokesman).
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...ref=technology
When a line of consumer electronics is curtailed, it’s often the retailer that gets the blame for pushing that “piece of junk” in the first place.
Now that the HD DVD format has gone belly up, stranding consumers with a defunct technology, Best Buy wants to make sure that that doesn’t happen to them. To assuage the feelings of the 200,000 customers who purchased HD DVD hardware or drives from a Best Buy store, the company will announce Wednesday that it is giving each buyer a $50 gift card to spend on whatever they want.
Best Buy’s move follows a similar, but less public, step from Circuit City. Earlier this month, Circuit City began to quietly take back HD DVD players, even if used, granting store credit for the full purchase price. The only caveats: returns must be made within 90 days of purchase. And you have to ask for it or learn about the action on the store’s Web site.
The Best Buy cards, which will not expire, will be sent automatically to most customers who purchased HD DVD hardware by February 23, when Toshiba announced that it was abandoning the format. Best Buy’s list includes those who belong to their rewards program, bought extended warranties, or purchased the machine on its Web site. Others need to show proof of purchase to get their cards.
If you don’t want to keep your HD DVD machine to use as a standard DVD player, the company will even buy it back via its Web site, www.bestbuytradein.com. In that case, customers can double-dip, getting a second gift card for the sale. (No trade-in prices have yet been established, said a company spokesman).
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...ref=technology
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