This actually isn't entirely true. BBY stores receive one big stock, but none are marked specifically for in-store pick up when they arrive. Although, stores are allocated more units to fill the in-store pick up orders. It's actually not until the day before launch that the online orders are...
As a former Best Buy employee, it's to prevent against people who are dumpster diving for receipts and grabbing the thing off the shelf and returning it like they bought it. It can be overridden however if the return is for, say, redeeming a video game pre-order or if the person returning the...
Principle of the forum > principle of your post. Rules are rules.
By your logic, if i wanted to purchase a car, I'd be better off going to Wal-mart and trying to buy a car there because it's more popular.
You see how Modern Warfare 2 is still full price at every single retailer across the board, even a year and a half after it's come out?
That's how long you'll be waiting.
Other than that, I know it was $47.99 at Best Buy this past week. Only sale I've seen on it since it's been released.