[quote name='sgaldis']Yeah, Hasting's usually does this deal about once or twice per year. If you are fortunate/unfortunate enough to have one of their quirky little stores in your area, it is definitely the time of year to stock up on cheap credit. It is a common occurrence that B&M stores are ill-informed of deals like this, though, so going through FB for some help might be a good solution. The system and computers in general that Hastings uses in their stores are literally archaic, DOS-based monsters, so they are almost never programmed to have deals like this automatically included in transactions, like a lot of stores. 95% of the time, for an additional promotion like this, they will have a 2nd barcode that will be sent to the store, and they can scan that to give you the additional credit (once you've met the trade in terms/limits). As I said before, almost like clockwork, you can count on the local store not having the barcode, and/or even being aware of the promotion, but usually a call from a DM or corporate and a quick fax can solve the problem.
Hope this helps some of you not used to dealing with this store. I look forward to taking part in this deal again myself, but dread having to go through the whole hoopla of explaining things to them in-store. Hopefully it will be in their weekly ad tomorrow.[/QUOTE]
This sums up the B&M aspect of Hastings pretty well. It's funny how they were cutting edge, and state of the art, as far as retail establishments go, when I first stepped foot in a Hastings about 20 years ago.. and today they still have the same computers with orange font on a dark green screen and the same point of sale software that they did back then.