So I was shopping with my wife today and I said “oh let’s see if my membership helps out.” So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I’m paying for in this membership if the items “original price” is higher for me than it is for regular shoppers?
TIL people still shop at Best Buy.
If you want to get fleeced but still be respected the next morning, shop Monoprice or NewEgg.
Jeez. Best Buy? Just shop like you deserve to be treated like a carpet.
You can still get a deal on occasion at Best Buy, but you have to be careful and you have to be ready to walk away.
I know about Best buy and Newegg but what’s the deal with monoprice?
Yeah….also curious. It’s been a couple of years but when I previously bought stuff from Monoprice it was a smoking deal and I’m pretty certain none of the cables I bought ever failed me.
They were my go to for a long time for good charging cables and dongles. Don’t know what happened with them. I do know they got delisted from online shops.
I’ll still shop there if I can use trade in credit for old tech. But I literally only spend the store credit I get back from old tech. Its usually something that’s several years old and worth like $40-50, and I spend it on something I was planning to buy anyway. I’ve tried reselling that kind of thing on eBay. It doesn’t move because nobody wants a windows 7 computer or an old pair of earbuds from 7 years ago.