Best Buy just called us...

Jer wrote:
Unknown wrote:

Jer wrote:

Unknown wrote:

WGD wrote:

Got it. Tks! I suppose they are hoping that the certificates will
find their way into buying leftover HD-DVD movies.

Best Buy was very big down here - in support of Blu-Ray displays
with HD-DVD in the background. It appears that Best Buy and
probably others, made a decision a long time ago - which way to go
to force-feed the consumer.




"Tantalust" wrote in message
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"WGD" wrote in message
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Please, meaning what? Are they taking back Toshiba units plus an
add'l $50?




They're not taking the players back, they're just giving folks who
bought them [before a certain date] a $50 gift certificate.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage...&type=category




Best buy is ran by a bunch of incompetent morons. Four years ago I
lived in a town that according to their delivery system didn't
exist. It said every address in that town was invalid. I also found
out there were a lot of towns just like it. The stupidity of this
had to be costing them millions of dollars but when I called them
about it, they didn't seem to want to do anything about it. I had
earlier ordered a microwave for my daughter in another town and I
guess she had a valid address because they delivered it to her. When
I tried to order a clothes dryer from my invalid address, they said
they could deliver it to my daughters house. Since my daughter lived
60 miles from me, I said who's going to deliver it from my
daughter's house to mine. The incompetent fools didn't even want to
try to straighten out there f--ked up delivery system.




Most folks live at addresses that have zip codes, which the BB system
seems to handle rather nicely. RFD locations are problematic for
everyone. Maybe if you tied a orange ribbon around that dead tree
out by the main road (did they ever fix that bridge?), moved the cows
to the back pasture and left the front gate open, and promised a
really good tip, the BB driver might be willing to risk life and limb
while missing his lunch break to find you.


Do you work at Best Buy? Everyone has a zip code. Maybe you didn't
understand, Best Buy's delivery system did not recognize any address
in that town and lots of other towns. Some places try to tell a rural
customer, that UPS won't deliver to a rural address because it has a
box number, which isn't true. They are too dense to understand that a
rural box number and a P.O. box number are two different things.



No, not BB, but in an earlier life, I worked as a package delivery
driver and I hated trying to find rural addresses, always wondering if
the damn gate would be open and how many dogs would try to gnarl off my
face when it wasn't, assuming it wasn't still locked - not that I could
see because it's already dark thirty in the south forty. Even if I was
successful, I then prayed my truck didn't crush the cattle guards on my
way out, or whether I'd get the damn truck stuck in yet another mudhole
of a road spoiling the remainder of my tight delivery schedule and my
family's supper for getting home late again. And asking the driver to
lash the package to a fence post isn't gonna work either - unless fence
posts have recently been given signing authority and good hand writing
skills. You want packages delivered to the little house on the prairie?
Put a large secure lock box out by the public road with your address
indelibly painted on it. Now, for those uninitiated few, here's a tip:
Most package delivery drivers are union, and their contract doesn't
provide for hazardous duty pay. So, if the driver considers the address
to be a PITA, it goes back stamped "NOBODY HOME" (translation: nobody's
dumb enough to go near this place). Got it?

But this town/city with invalid addresses is not out un the boondocks.
It's a town/city, Got it.

"Unknown" wrote in message
m...
But this town/city with invalid addresses is not out un the boondocks.
It's a town/city, Got it.

Try telling them it is "rural number XXX" and don't use the term "box
number". You might want to discuss this with UPS and ask their opinion about
it.

Mark A wrote:
"Unknown" wrote in message
m...

But this town/city with invalid addresses is not out un the boondocks.
It's a town/city, Got it.


Try telling them it is "rural number XXX" and don't use the term "box
number". You might want to discuss this with UPS and ask their opinion about
it.

No, you do use the term Box, You don't want to use the term P.O.

An address like RR 3 Box 429 should get there but if you put P.O. Box
429, it probably won't get there.

But anyway, the invalid addresses I was talking were in town address not
a rural address.

"Unknown" wrote in message
m...
No, you do use the term Box, You don't want to use the term P.O.

An address like RR 3 Box 429 should get there but if you put P.O. Box 429,
it probably won't get there.

But anyway, the invalid addresses I was talking were in town address not a
rural address.

I am not telling you what the correct addressing is, I am telling you how to
get past the Best Buy order taker. If you place the order online, maybe you
will not have that problem.

Regarding in-town addresses, check with the USPS website and see if they
have that address in their database (use the zipcode lookup). I would also
check out the following website to see if they have the address:

http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-we...ER&language=en
Navteq supplies address verification for a lot of companies.

Mark A wrote:
"Unknown" wrote in message
m...
No, you do use the term Box, You don't want to use the term P.O.

An address like RR 3 Box 429 should get there but if you put P.O. Box 429,
it probably won't get there.

But anyway, the invalid addresses I was talking were in town address not a
rural address.

I am not telling you what the correct addressing is, I am telling you how to
get past the Best Buy order taker. If you place the order online, maybe you
will not have that problem.

Regarding in-town addresses, check with the USPS website and see if they
have that address in their database (use the zipcode lookup). I would also
check out the following website to see if they have the address:

http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-we...ER&language=en
Navteq supplies address verification for a lot of companies.



Here's another helpful site
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'

"Unknown" wrote in message
m...

Best buy is ran by a bunch of incompetent morons. Four years ago I lived
in a town that according to their delivery system didn't exist. It said
every address in that town was invalid.

===========================
I am fighting a similar problem right now.

I cannot register on their web site because my domain
name for my e-mail has a hyphen in it. They will not accept it.
I have written three letters and called customer service 5 times.
Still no fix on the web site and no recognition of the problem.
They are shutting the door to all people who have e-mails
with hyphens in them. Stupidity!

It is a 15 minute programming fix.

p.s. the RewardZone site recognizes it just fine.

Richard

Unknown wrote:
Mark A wrote:
"Unknown" wrote in message
m...

But this town/city with invalid addresses is not out un the
boondocks. It's a town/city, Got it.


Try telling them it is "rural number XXX" and don't use the term "box
number". You might want to discuss this with UPS and ask their
opinion about it.

No, you do use the term Box, You don't want to use the term P.O.

An address like RR 3 Box 429 should get there but if you put P.O. Box
429, it probably won't get there.

But anyway, the invalid addresses I was talking were in town address
not a rural address.

I used to ship to someone in a town in VT called Swanton. All I did was put
the name of his establishment and addressed it to Route 78 (no other
identifying number), Swanton, VT (and the zip code), and FedEx would have it
there the next day...!

WGD wrote:
Got it. Tks! I suppose they are hoping that the certificates will find
their way into buying leftover HD-DVD movies.

Best Buy was very big down here - in support of Blu-Ray displays with HD-DVD
in the background. It appears that Best Buy and probably others, made a
decision a long time ago - which way to go to force-feed the consumer.

I'm not sure what you mean, but it is an absolute gift to us that
Toshiba et al have killed of HD-DVD. Either format was fine, but two at
the same time was stopping acceptance dead.

As more releases come out on BD prices will come down... they are still
too high (media).

Cheers,
Alan

On Apr 4, 5:37*pm, Alan Browne
wrote:

As more releases come out on BD prices will come down... they are still
too high (media).

They might always be higher if media companies adopt a premium gas
sort of attitude.