Oh Best Buy...

[kaiju_wars]

On 12/20/2016 at 9:47 PM, awesomeness10120 said:

I mean, to be fair, they'll price match with Amazon.  So just find anything in store, see if it's cheaper on Amazon.  Get great deals.

Tis how I got a phone and my portable hard drive really cheap. 

[elkenrod]

In all likelihood this is just a pricing mistake?

 

What were the rest of the GPUs in the store priced at?  Like the 1070?

[jeonjaeng]

On 12/20/2016 at 10:50 PM, Syntaxvgm said:

Gives me an idea. 

-buy best buy's 1050ti

-order 1050ti online

-return other 1050ti to best buy, new

 Get 1050ti locally immediately for online price 

Flawless plan, couldn't possibly be stupid. 

orrrrr, just use the bestbuy price match guarantee... im not a doctor tho

[imPixelTV]

good lord 

[PaintChips]

In my area Best Buy never stocks GPUs higher than a GTX 1060 SuperClocked, could be the store is just inflating prices of the 1050 because they can't keep anything else in-stock or someone in the computer area wants to use sticker shock to push walk-in customers into buying a new iBuyPower or Dell XPS desktop instead.

 

Several BBs in my area in the past would do questionable price hikes so customers would have to do in-store pickup to get the lowest price, if I recall BB tries to use management performance scheme to boost in-store pickup for low-margin items vs upsell for normal walk-in retail shoppers.  OfficeMax/OfficeDepot pulled this scheme with printer deals, certain stores would reserve x-number of stock at one price so they could sell computers+printer and remaining stock were in-store pickup only.

I avoid retail stores as much as possible.

[TetraSky]

And then they say Internet shopping is killing retail stores...

[KWelz]

Never buy anything at Bestbuy without checking online and having them price match.