Best Buy just announced that their third quarter profits are down 77 percent over all. They also announced plants to cut capital expenditures and yes staff members. With the economy in a bind like this it is just too much for electronic big box stores like this to hold on. Lets cross our fingers and hope Best Buy does not follow in the steps of Circuit City.
Best Buy are readying a Sony PS3 bundle that sees the 80GB version of the console joined by a copy of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, as well as Casino Royale on Blu-Ray. Set to launch on November 28th, the bundle will be priced at $400.
Best Buy have begun selling MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops with $100 discounts from the list-price. The deal is not limited to the older plastic MacBook, but the new late-2008 unibody aluminum version and its more powerful Pro sibling. According to some sources, Apple stores will be matching the Best Buy pricing “for the next few days”.
So you’ve read part one of our BlackBerry Storm 9530 review and you quite fancy wandering down to your nearest Verizon Wireless store come Friday 21st and picking up RIM’s new touchscreen handset yourself. Not so fast; contrary to initial reports that supplies should not be a problem, the word now is that after a last-minute handset reflash numbers won’t be quite as plentiful.
Okay, so we told you about a Target gift card yesterday that doubles as a digital camera. And it was pretty cool. You could take a picture of the recipient when they receive it and it’s a pretty cute idea. But now Best Buy is offering up a gift card that doubles as a speaker!
The Nokia N96 has begun to show up at Best Buy stores, where it’s immediately set to work putting the BlackBerry Bold unsubsidized prices to shame. While we scoffed at Best Buy’s $660 Bold price, we’re spluttering uncontrollably at the N96 coming in at $799.99. That gets you a 16GB 3G handset with 5-megapixel autofocus camera.
Family pestering for a new laptop this holiday season but economics leading you down the netbook aisles? Think again: eMachines are offering their full 14.1-inch widescreen notebook, the eMachines eMD620-5777, with a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive for a madly affordable $429.99.
Okay, so we just reported this morning that the BlackBerry Bold was available for pre-order from Best Buy for a whopping $660. And you might have found that to be outrageous. But CompUSA has them beat with a significantly higher price tag.
It’s not often we get to call a $660 cellphone a bargain, but if you’d been saving up for an unsubsidized AT&T BlackBerry Bold thinking that Best Buy’s price would be $679.99, you’ll be pleased by the news that it’s actually come in at “just” $659.99. The smartphone is currently listed as ‘backordered’, with delivery expected in 1-2 weeks.
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