Best Buy Sells iPhone, Tries To Fleece Customers With Some Accessory Sales
Now that Best Buy is selling the iPhone, it would appear that all is not quite so rosy for the consumer, who should be benefiting from the increased sales competition. Apparently, Best Buy is counting on new iPhone customers not to do any price comparisons, because they are selling the iPhone 3G Dock for a good $20.00 more than Apple itself charges.
While some of the accessories are priced the same as the Apple Store (such as the replacement headphones at $29.99), the 3G dock is inexplicably priced at $49.99. When we asked a store manager why the price was so much higher, she essentially replied that Best Buy sets their own prices. However, all is not lost, as she stated that Best Buy will match Apple Store prices providing that you can show that the price is $29.99 (with a printout of the web page, for example..).
A word to the wise — do some sanity checking on the prices before spending your hard earned cash at Best Buy…
Here is a screen cap of BestBuy.com’s price for the dock — exactly the same as the brick-and-mortar price.
Apple.com’s price:
Have you seen any other examples of excessive pricing of iPhone products at Best Buy or other stores? Let us know…
