Return / Rebuy On BF Merchandise

badboi said: LOL No you have to purchase the item on Black Friday.
You'd think a senior member would know what they're talking about.

YankeeRedneck - For BF return/rebuys, it's an area that YMWV...it is often dependent on the staff working that day whether they want to help you. Also, one of the biggest obstacles is getting the same model before Black Friday that will be on sale. Some stores, including Wal-Mart, won't put out the specific model that's on sale until Black Friday, so it's impossible to purchase in advance.

I personally have done return/rebuys on smaller items numerous times on Black Friday, usually without even having the merchandise with me.

Xanthuos said: badboi said: LOL No you have to purchase the item on Black Friday.
You'd think a senior member would know what they're talking about.

YankeeRedneck - For BF return/rebuys, it's an area that YMWV...it is often dependent on the staff working that day whether they want to help you. Also, one of the biggest obstacles is getting the same model before Black Friday that will be on sale. Some stores, including Wal-Mart, won't put out the specific model that's on sale until Black Friday, so it's impossible to purchase in advance.

I personally have done return/rebuys on smaller items numerous times on Black Friday, usually without even having the merchandise with me.

Can you tell us which retailers allowed you to return/rebuy electronics on BF? Can you help us? Members here would love to know. Thank you for your time.

heelflip131313 said: Couldn't you just return the item you bought on BF with the reciept from a few days earlier?

Sure you can. They will accept returns. Now if you are planning to immediately rebuy it you are in for a rude awakening. It has to go through their system first. Plan on spending a few days, due to the season, waiting.

P.S.

Are you one of those ' Gen Y' generation types.

LMMFAO

C320 said: YankeeRedneck said: In general, can you purchase a BF item a few days before it goes on sale
and then do a return/rebuy on the same item? Do stores have special rules for this on Black Friday stuff?
Would you have to do it on BF or could you do it a few days after BF? Thanks

1k+ posts, member since 02, o'bummer modified avatar and you ask a 'gen Y' question like this. STFF.

LMMFAO

Not gen Y. Not even sure what age that is !!

They suspend their policy for BF.

YankeeRedneck said: I guess general consensus is you cant do this?

I always thought that places like BB have a policy that if
the price goes down in 30 days you get the difference back.

As I recall from the past couple years, BestBuy doesn't accept returns until after noon when all the door buster sales have ended.

bokkasrealm said: Bingo bango bongo. Bestbuy and a few other stores have started no return policies during bf sales. Return rebuy is just crap anyhow and a way to cheat other people out of the sale.

Bingo bango bongo. Set your bong down.

bokkasrealm said: That is a quote from Quantum Leap. If you seriously believe buying merchandise 2-3 days prior to the actual sale just to cheat the people who stand in the freezing cold for the same deal, then you need to evaluate the way you think.

ok..that explains everything...(quoting from some tv show and expecting everyone to know what you are smoking) .......you go stand in line with the other losers.......my time is too valuable for that

I once was in a quarter mile long line at the cash registers at a Staples a couple years back (before I switched to only online ads in the morning) and someone tried to do that and people in the line to check out literally tried to start rioting before the CSM even said "we don't do that". They had police there for the lines, but it was a good thing for that idiot because he was about to get trampled at the very least.

YankeeRedneck said: dkcs said: They suspend their policy for BF.

who does?

I can speak from experience that Sears BM will not price match one day sales. I learned this the the hard way during BF 2008. I normally just head straight to Sears with all my BF ads in hand and have them PM all the items I've chosen in my ads. This was a great annual routine for me because Sears doesn't have overnight campers waiting in line and they do 110% PMs. But all goods things come to an end. Last year they changed their policy just before BF and now I have to get in line just like everyone else.

I've done this plenty of times. Staples, Home Depot (circular saw and shop vac last year) Sears, Circuit City come to mind. I've done it so many times I can't remember which stores or when. The key is you have to return/rebuy during the hours listed, so if it's a doorbuster and prices are good only until 11 am, you have to do the return/rebuy before 11 am. By 10:45, most of the crowd is gone, so it's no hassle for the cashier to simply do a return and let you but it again. If the store was still full of angry shoppers grabbing for everything, I could see where they might be perturbed. Worse case scenario, you return it for a full refund of the purchase price.

I've done it at best buy two different years.

One was a video card, the other was a Gameboy Advance. I bought them about a week before Black Friday, then around 10 or 11am I went to the customer service desk and got them to price match the items. If they didnt I would have just asked for a refund. These were a couple years back so they could have changed their policy since then.