Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount"
voracitude@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is, in fact, actively illegal. Companies cannot advertise a “sale price” under a number of circumstances, such as when the price is the same absent the sale (e.g. there’s no actual discount) or when the price was artificially raised just prior to the “sale”: …westlaw.com/…/Beware-of-the-Sale-Complying-with-…
In this case, the “regular” or non-member price was raised precisely 0 seconds before applying the uh… “discount”. Pretty cut-and-dry violation by any metric.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
They gave him a protection plan. The price of the item didn’t change.
ji17br@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
And free shipping. I think he would have been charged for delivery on the non-member order. Probably why he didn’t add it.
Unless the item he is buying is one of the “exclusive offers”, then I don’t really see the issue.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well its really hard to say tbh. Delivery isn’t available in the top section but has a different area code. On the bottom section it’s a different area code but has delivery as an option. Without checking if the top has free delivery without membership when the area code is fixed there’s no way to tell. Some places do offer free shipping on cart values over whatever designation they set.
Looks like they got a free protection plan though
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Best Buy and most retailers offer free shipping on items $100 and above most of the time. You just don’t see that until checkout. No special plan needed. It’s to compete with the likes of Amazon.
voracitude@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s true, I didn’t notice that it was part of the cart with a (discounted) price. It looked like an optional extra that could be added. Makes the whole thing a nothingburger. Yet again, a derp is me - at least I have a few dozen friends in the same boat this time!