This post is written and posted by Joy’s geek husband JAe. Â
This afternoon my coworker and I were at best buy picking up some modems after a t1 dispatch. While there I noticed that they had a Western Digital 1 Terabyte Network Storage device marked down from 449.99…….to 89.99. YES. A brand
name 1 TB NAS device for under a hundo.
For the uninitiated this is a little white box that holds TONS of stuff and you can access it from anywhere on the internet.
After running all possible scenerios through my head, is it the right SKU, is it the same one, I consulted the boss (my wife) and she gracefully approved my purchase. At this point the lovely purple box enters the realm of our yellow shopping cart.
Standing in line still debating upon wether or not the stellar cashier was going to ring my golden purchase up properly; I thought back to my days as a best buy employee hating every aspect of the organization. The cashier rings up my purchase without a blink and probably wonders why these two nerds in front of her are almost jumping for joy. “Is it marked down or something?”, she states with a “Wow…You are huge friggin geeks.” look in her eyes. We say “uhhh…ya, a little bit.” She shrugs and places the object of our excitement in my yellow best buy bag.
After getting back to the office and parading around my fabulous purchase to the flabbergasted eyes of our staff, Another coworker runs out to pick one up for him and one for someone in tech support. A Sales guy also makes the journey to find one tucked away behind another model, probably by a sneaky 14 year old, who had to run home to steal money from his mothers purse. Best Buy Crystal Lake is now sold out of $89 Western Digital 1 TB NAS devices.
This obviously leaves many of my nerdy coworkers in a drooling state. It looks like this. O_o
We called the Algonquin store to see if they would price match. As the lovely woman on the phone put it, “They went on clearance this morning at $269.99″. When we persist her to price match the NAS she consults her manager. As her
manager runs to call the other store, she calmly returns to the phone.
“I’ve checked our database and it appears that the Crystal Lake store is the only store in the district that is not selling those at 269.99. My manager is calling the store and has stated that we cannot approve your price match.”
Score one for the consumer.
