Splatoon 2 - Nintendo Switch - 24.57 Best Buy Pricematch
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Yes it been on reddit for 5 days. https://old.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitchDeals/comments/ac9tio/microcenterbestbuy_price_match_us_splatoon_2_2457/
However, today I found out, by going and talking to the people I normally work with at the store, exactly how to make it duplicatable.
Until now, the only information given was "Core Blue" which plenty of people have no idea how to use, where it is, or what to do with it.
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Makes sense. You're probably right it will be taken down eventually.
I make sites for a living, their app is pulling from the metadata on Microcenter and the Metadata on Microcenter is wrong. I don't expect microcenter to correct it, but bestbuy may stop it.
Yup. I'm a programmer, too. Now I might want to scrape all of microcenter to see what other mistakes they have haha
I am in colorado. Just go to best buy and follow the steps I provided. And they will match it for you.
Why would an employee listen to a customer telling them to follow these weird instructions
Lol, this is kind of what I'm thinking too. Power to those who swing it, though!
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So you want someone drive to bestbuy, purchase the game for you, then drive home, pack it up, drive and ship it out? To a complete stranger no less, and also they will risk a chargeback from, and you’ll reimburse them for the cost of the game and shipping?
Not only is it a complete waste of time for that someone, but they’ll actually be losing money.
Hate to say it, but asking people to “pick one up for me” isn’t going to happen these days.
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Based on your posts I disagree.
It's actually worked before on this site and I've done it for another person on this site, I'd make sure if someone did it they didn't lose money. Some people are willing to help others. Thanks for the input though!
In my line of work we say "cheap for a reason"
Did not work for me. I asked them to look up Microcenter and it wasn't showing as a competitor, so your area must have one at least in the state by my assumption. Would have been good to know before wasting my time.
I like to think of these YMMV deals in this context:
(Potential Savings * Probability of Success) > (Opportunity Cost)
If True, then try the YMMV deal; if not, then skip it.
I had success without any issues. I went to my backup Best Buy to hopefully avoid issues and it’s bigger store with a Magnolia Home Theater department. I asked a pretty easy going woman to check and see how much it was on Micro Center didn’t mention Core Blue and we went to a register and price matched it. It did require an override but approved once she showed him the Core Blue.
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So I don't have a Microcenter in my area. The CSC person initially told me they do pm microcenter and was able to find the price in the app. But she needed a manager override, who denied me due to Microcenter not shipping to Hawaii.
Does this always require a override? I feel like this manager was being strict. But I dont wanna waste time trying again.
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I'm curious if this would work for other clearance items that Microcenter carried but are OOS.
I have a Micro Center 55 miles away, so it’s closish. The woman helping me hadn’t heard of Micro Center but luckily she didn’t try to find it on her phone. I think this deal will require a manager since more than half off.
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This may work for other items and stores are out of an item. Can’t be 75% off since people were denied the $4.99 3DS because of system limits.
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This an error on in the meta data on the website. Best Buy’s Core Blue pulls from websites meta data. This deal is in store only and YMMV since it requires a manager override.
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Or simply having the correct information ahead of time would save me the effort. This was not presented as YMMV.
Agreed it wasn't presented as YMMV, but I'm of the opinion that all price matches are YMMV.
Just wanted to say thanks to the OP. I had a cert about to expire so I decided to give this a shot tonight. Keep in mind that a physical microcenter exists about 40 minutes across town.
My advice is to just ask nicely, be patient, and don't rage if they can't do it. I did have to request checking "core blue" since I explained it was an in-store only deal that won't be visible on a webpage but "I heard" it was in their system somewhere. The employee did have to ask for assistance in looking things up that way and then again for an override. But took me 10 min and worked.
My advice is to just ask nicely, be patient, and don't rage if they can't do it. I did have to request checking "core blue" since I explained it was an in-store only deal that won't be visible on a webpage but "I heard" it was in their system somewhere. The employee did have to ask for assistance in looking things up that way and then again for an override. But took me 10 min and worked.
You could preorder it back on Dec 3 when Amazon and Walmart were getting in pricing war going back fort and worth cents at a time. It ended up at $46.91. It got delivered today around 3pm. I wish Best Buy price matched preorders but they don’t so they lost the sale.
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Yeah good point, but I have a lot of reward points, so I burned them on this.
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Tried my luck at a different Best Buy and had success.
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