What if I already have HSI service from the same provider....

if signing up today thru comcast, should i be worried that they will come before sunday, or of any install charges?

cnIsfg said:xraymikek said:How can they enforce the "one per household" rule if all bar codes are the same? I doubt BB will type your address in the register.

Unless it has changed recently the Best Buy POS system asks the cashier to enter the phone number used during the Internat signup offer when the barcode from the broadband confirmation is scanned. It then retrieves your broadband order and it appears as a line item on your Best Buy receipt. If it can't find your order no discount is given.

Wrong. I purchased a computer today with it. The cashier didn't ask for any information, the name on my sheet wasn't even mine. No call, no credit, no confirmation of any kind. The barcode for Joe Schmoe in Arkansas is the same barcode and serial as Jack Black in Hollywood. There is no way to scan it and identify the origin.

goodfoot920 said:So I signed up at bestbuy.com for the internet service and it doesn't say anything about the $100 off a laptop on the sheet with the barcode. Should it?
Can anybody answer that?

CptSavAHo said:cnIsfg said:xraymikek said:How can they enforce the "one per household" rule if all bar codes are the same? I doubt BB will type your address in the register.

Unless it has changed recently the Best Buy POS system asks the cashier to enter the phone number used during the Internat signup offer when the barcode from the broadband confirmation is scanned. It then retrieves your broadband order and it appears as a line item on your Best Buy receipt. If it can't find your order no discount is given.

Wrong. I purchased a computer today with it. The cashier didn't ask for any information, the name on my sheet wasn't even mine. No call, no credit, no confirmation of any kind. The barcode for Joe Schmoe in Arkansas is the same barcode and serial as Jack Black in Hollywood. There is no way to scan it and identify the origin.

I never stated the verify credit and EVERYONE knows by now knows the barcode on the confirmation is ONLY the coupon code. However that has no relevance to what Iposted since the barcode only triggers the process to get you phone number. They DO ask for you phone number and verify you have an order for THAT phone number. The name or other garbage on he confirmation has no meaning. At leaset in my area (AZ) and I am sure most others that is how it works. The system prompts the cashier for your phone number and it verifies if you have a Internet broadband order in their system. It doees NOT verify the status of the order just that you have an order. (Perphaps you used a RZ card which automatically brings up your phone number? I don't know, but I DO know the process because I watched at LEAST a dozen customers who signed up these broadband offers trying to and apply it to the two sub $500 laptops laptop offers this past Sunday go through this process while waiting to do at return at the CS desk. Most had to wait a few minutes for the system to update because the BB POS cound not find their broadband order when it was just created at the in-store kiosk. The $100 discount would not apply without a phone number to order verification.

poolearmor said:andrey02 said:goodfoot920 said:So I signed up at bestbuy.com for the internet service and it doesn't say anything about the $100 off a laptop on the sheet with the barcode. Should it?
Can anybody answer that?


me too

my paper say nth about the $100 instant saving

mine is Time Warner Cable

I had Comcast. After the UPC, the next heading says "YOUR ORDER DETAILS". First subheading is plan name followed by brief details. Second subheading says Promotions followed by the sentence (in bold) Save $100 instantly with any Laptop purchase.

xraymikek said:poolearmor said:andrey02 said:goodfoot920 said:So I signed up at bestbuy.com for the internet service and it doesn't say anything about the $100 off a laptop on the sheet with the barcode. Should it?
Can anybody answer that?


me too

my paper say nth about the $100 instant saving

mine is Time Warner Cable

I had Comcast. After the UPC, the next heading says "YOUR ORDER DETAILS". First subheading is plan name followed by brief details. Second subheading says Promotions followed by the sentence (in bold) Save $100 instantly with any Laptop purchase.

oh yea
i got it thZ

Signing up for HSI on bestbuy.com was a waste of time for me. Manager said district required sign up in store only. They just signed me up again in store. Of course, mine was a legitimate sign up. OP, please put YMMV in title, or change price to $349.

On the Comcast Printout, it states "Save $100 instantly with any laptop purchase. Save $100 on any Laptop when you sign up for Comcast High Speed Internet Service at Best Buy."

Sounds like you have to sign up in the store, in addition to just having them scan the bar code on the printout. Hmmmm...

cnIsfg said:

I never stated the verify credit and EVERYONE knows by now knows the barcode on the confirmation is ONLY the coupon code. However that has no relevance to what Iposted since the barcode only triggers the process to get you phone number. They DO ask for you phone number and verify you have an order for THAT phone number. The name or other garbage on he confirmation has no meaning. At leaset in my area (AZ) and I am sure most others that is how it works. The system prompts the cashier for your phone number and it verifies if you have a Internet broadband order in their system. It doees NOT verify the status of the order just that you have an order. (Perphaps you used a RZ card which automatically brings up your phone number? I don't know, but I DO know the process because I watched at LEAST a dozen customers who signed up these broadband offers trying to and apply it to the two sub $500 laptops laptop offers this past Sunday go through this process while waiting to do at return at the CS desk. Most had to wait a few minutes for the system to update because the BB POS cound not find their broadband order when it was just created at the in-store kiosk. The $100 discount would not apply without a phone number to order verification.

Sorry but your information is wrong. I've bought 14 laptops since Sunday using coupons for every purchase. Not a single confirmation of any kind. The coupon I used yesterday and today don't even have my name and address on them. When sales noticed it I just explained it was my roommate-to-be and they went right along with the sale.

I repeat for the dense-in-the-head crowd that's frequenting this thread:

BEST BUY DOES NOT CONFIRM THE COUPON CODES WHEN THEY ARE ISSUED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR WHEN YOU USE IT TO CHECK OUT IN THE STORE. THE BARCODE IS THE SAME REGARDLESS OF INFORMATION YOU ENTER OR THE SERVICE YOU SELECT. THE STATE YOU LIVE IN YOUR FAVORITE FLAVOR OF ICE CREAM AND THE NUMBER OF ZITS ON YOUR FACE WILL NOT EFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO USE THE PRINTED COUPON.