I once worked for Best Buy, so I’m more than familiar with some of their less-than-honorable practices. They’ve developed a rather tarnished reputation over the last few years for things like bait-and-switch tactics and constant mis-prints on their website, so it’s refreshing when they actually do something nice for a change.

They recently had the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player marked down to $99 (yes, the same as Walmart did). Unfortunately, they quickly ran out of stock, and many customers got stuck with a backorder notice. However, that particular player has been discontinued, so there won’t be anymore coming.
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