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It is being widely reported by eye-witnesses that this last weekend's
Best Buy xflop three-shitty 're-launch' promotion was a scam and even
being used for bait-and-switch tactics.
It turns out that xflop three-shitty units are trickling in to
retailers at a rate of two or three every couple of days. Most
retailers like Target, Circuit City, Sears and others have just been
putting them out on the shelf as they got them. That is why there are
these isolated reports of people finding a unit or two here or there
during the past few weeks.
It turns out Best Buy cooked up this 're-launch' promotion and then
stockpiled units until each store had about 20 to 30 units available by
the 18th for the 're-launch' promotion, not selling any in the previous
weeks. Then they 'leaked' internal memo flyers out on to the Internet
so everybody would know there was a 'secret second shipment' promotion
sale on the 18th.
To make a dastardly situation worse, it has been widely reported that
Best Buy managers let lines build up far in excess of the known number
of xflop three-shitty units available without informing the people in
line that had no chance of getting one. When the doors opened on the
18th, the people that hadn't got a reserve ticket were 'informed' that
there was a $499 Compaq laptop computer promotion going and they could
"play all their games just as well on it". Apparently, many people that
were disgusted after waiting in line all night just went ahead and
bought the piece of crap Compaq laptop computer, just to have
something.
This whole xflop three-shitty launch has been filled with this type
of really low-down, nasty marketing tactics although this one had
nothing to do with Micro$haft directly, except for their incompetence
in delivering enough units, artifically creating a hyped up demand.
Well, this entire fiasco is just about over with just a small spurt of
after-holiday sales, then the xflop three-shitty descends into a big
slump all the way around.
Best Buy xflop three-shitty 're-launch' promotion was a scam and even
being used for bait-and-switch tactics.
It turns out that xflop three-shitty units are trickling in to
retailers at a rate of two or three every couple of days. Most
retailers like Target, Circuit City, Sears and others have just been
putting them out on the shelf as they got them. That is why there are
these isolated reports of people finding a unit or two here or there
during the past few weeks.
It turns out Best Buy cooked up this 're-launch' promotion and then
stockpiled units until each store had about 20 to 30 units available by
the 18th for the 're-launch' promotion, not selling any in the previous
weeks. Then they 'leaked' internal memo flyers out on to the Internet
so everybody would know there was a 'secret second shipment' promotion
sale on the 18th.
To make a dastardly situation worse, it has been widely reported that
Best Buy managers let lines build up far in excess of the known number
of xflop three-shitty units available without informing the people in
line that had no chance of getting one. When the doors opened on the
18th, the people that hadn't got a reserve ticket were 'informed' that
there was a $499 Compaq laptop computer promotion going and they could
"play all their games just as well on it". Apparently, many people that
were disgusted after waiting in line all night just went ahead and
bought the piece of crap Compaq laptop computer, just to have
something.
This whole xflop three-shitty launch has been filled with this type
of really low-down, nasty marketing tactics although this one had
nothing to do with Micro$haft directly, except for their incompetence
in delivering enough units, artifically creating a hyped up demand.
Well, this entire fiasco is just about over with just a small spurt of
after-holiday sales, then the xflop three-shitty descends into a big
slump all the way around.