Best Buy in stock on 5/14

Perry44574 · May 7, 2001

Just stop by Best Buy and the person I talked to was helpful enough to check on his computer, he said 'Ah..new model,...yes, in stock...will be on the shelf by 5/14,' he even quote me the price $699.99. Then I walked next door to Circuit City, where those high school kids have no knowledge whatsoever and didn't even bother to check when it's coming.

I think Best Buy should be reliable cos they are someone Sony won't mess with. Guess I have to wait till next week to find out.

Perry

Bradly · May 7, 2001

If you get the paper delivered. It'll probably have a thing in the add for them, if they're gonna have them. Comparing to last year when the S70 came out... it's about the same timing. I was on vacation at the timeshare for that release also. Hope they get them in for you.

Opps, did I just drop that S70 in the water! Darn, guess insurance will have to get me an S75.

Perry said:
Just stop by Best Buy and the person I talked to was helpful enough
to check on his computer, he said 'Ah..new model,...yes, in
stock...will be on the shelf by 5/14,' he even quote me the price
$699.99. Then I walked next door to Circuit City, where those high
school kids have no knowledge whatsoever and didn't even bother to
check when it's coming.
I think Best Buy should be reliable cos they are someone Sony won't
mess with. Guess I have to wait till next week to find out.

Perry

fg · May 8, 2001

Then I walked next door to Circuit City, where those high

Perry44574 said:
school kids have no knowledge whatsoever and didn't even bother to
check when it's coming.

I've had just the opposite experience. BestBuy is full of pimply faced minimum wagers who I've heard them tell people to buy more RAM if they don't have enough space to store their files....

Circuit City is a little better with older guys with ties who seem to know what they're talking about and are a little more interested in you I presume because they work on comission...

BestBuy is the McDonalds/Sweatshop of the electronics industry.

bob d · May 8, 2001

fg said:
City is a little better with older guys with ties who seem
to know what they're talking about and are a little more interested
in you I presume because they work on comission...

That's been my experience. That doesn't mean I like Circuit City though. The salesmen are too pushy.

Catrue · May 8, 2001

Bob d said:
fg said:

City is a little better with older guys with ties who seem
to know what they're talking about and are a little more interested
in you I presume because they work on comission...

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That's been my experience. That doesn't mean I like Circuit City
though. The salesmen are too pushy.

Went by my local Circuit City and was told they would be selling the S75 when it comes in for $799.00 until they had no more S70's. Then they proceeded to try and convince me to by one of their discounted S70's for $699.00. I walked out and ordered from Sonystyle.com.

C True

fg · May 8, 2001

Catrue said:
Catrue said:

That's been my experience. That doesn't mean I like Circuit City
though. The salesmen are too pushy.

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Went by my local Circuit City and was told they would be selling
the S75 when it comes in for $799.00 until they had no more S70's.
Then they proceeded to try and convince me to by one of their
discounted S70's for $699.00. I walked out and ordered from
Sonystyle.com.

HA! Did you mention that to them on your way out the door!

Bestbuy/CC=Bush/Gore

lesser of two evils... luckily WE HAVE A REAL CHOICE when it comes to our cameras and can go online....

SteveC1 · May 8, 2001

I did buy my S70 last year from Best Buy..the sales clerks were OK, but really, all of us know what we want to buy before we go in so it didn't matter to me if they weren't knowlegeable on the cameras.

I did buy the 3 yr. extended warranty which I'll use to replace mine with the S75 if it breaks. My main concern was if the sales clerk could fill out the forms properly.
I'm surprised that Circuit City sells the S75 for $100 more than Best Buy.
Steve C.

Catrue · May 8, 2001

Steve C. said:
I did buy my S70 last year from Best Buy..the sales clerks were OK,
but really, all of us know what we want to buy before we go in so
it didn't matter to me if they weren't knowlegeable on the cameras.
I did buy the 3 yr. extended warranty which I'll use to replace
mine with the S75 if it breaks. My main concern was if the sales
clerk could fill out the forms properly.
I'm surprised that Circuit City sells the S75 for $100 more than
Best Buy.
Steve C.

Unfortunately, we don't have a Best Buy where I live, only Circuit City and Sears for electronics. The closest BB is over 2 hours away

Ken40578 · May 8, 2001

Perry said:
Just stop by Best Buy and the person I talked to was helpful enough
to check on his computer, he said 'Ah..new model,...yes, in
stock...will be on the shelf by 5/14,' he even quote me the price
$699.99. Then I walked next door to Circuit City, where those high
school kids have no knowledge whatsoever and didn't even bother to
check when it's coming.
I think Best Buy should be reliable cos they are someone Sony won't
mess with. Guess I have to wait till next week to find out.

Perry

Just to let you know that the S-75 will go on sale at 649.99 at Best Buy. I looked at the terminal when the salesman checked availibility. I just don't know when, neither did he

Lucien · May 8, 2001

I don't think circuit city really will sell $100 above MSRP. I would say It's much more likely he didn't know what he was talking about...

Usually they do sell at MSRP and you can almost always bring the price
down when you negotiate (not that I like that but it works).

I'd go to circuit city to check out the product in the store, then if I like it I may order it on the internet. The price difference is just very high if you
add up the sales tax (here in WA 8.6%). Easily adds up to > $150.

Steve C. wrote:
...

SteveC1 said:
I'm surprised that Circuit City sells the S75 for $100 more than
Best Buy.
Steve C.

KD · May 8, 2001

Saw the same thing. The guy told me that he doesn't know how many he will get, may be a small quantity. But he told me that he doubt BB will mark down the price to 649.

But I do hope that your salesperson is right though.

--KD

ken said:
Just to let you know that the S-75 will go on sale at 649.99 at
Best Buy. I looked at the terminal when the salesman checked
availibility. I just don't know when, neither did he

Ken40578 · May 9, 2001

If you have a Best Buy Card, many times they have special sales that are not open to the public, that's how I got discounts on other sony products that I've purchased. Perhaps that's where that 649.00 sales price comes from. If they weren't going to ever discount it they probably wouldn't list a discounted price at all. I'll keep fingers crossed, but I'm going to buy one anyway even if I pay 699.00

KD said:
But I do hope that your salesperson is right though.

--KD

ken said:

Just to let you know that the S-75 will go on sale at 649.99 at
Best Buy. I looked at the terminal when the salesman checked
availibility. I just don't know when, neither did he

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KD · May 11, 2001

I went to Best Buy again to check on their computer(Laurel, MD). The guy show me it's 5/13(Sunday). However, the computer didn't tell him how many he will get. He only know that their delivery truck will come Saturday night.

I don't know about you guys, but I plan to go to my local Best Buy at 11am when the door opens and test my luck this Sunday.

--KD

Perry said:
Just stop by Best Buy and the person I talked to was helpful enough
to check on his computer, he said 'Ah..new model,...yes, in
stock...will be on the shelf by 5/14,' he even quote me the price
$699.99. Then I walked next door to Circuit City, where those high
school kids have no knowledge whatsoever and didn't even bother to
check when it's coming.
I think Best Buy should be reliable cos they are someone Sony won't
mess with. Guess I have to wait till next week to find out.

Perry

fg · May 11, 2001

KD said:
I don't know about you guys, but I plan to go to my local Best Buy
at 11am when the door opens and test my luck this Sunday.

--KD

I guess you don't have a mother!

My brother unloads the trucks at BestBuy. He has his eye peeled for me!

-fg

KD · May 11, 2001

You are wrong. I DO have one, except she's in Tokyo and probably buy herself an S75 on that day as a gift. ;-)

--KD

fg said:
I guess you don't have a mother!

My brother unloads the trucks at BestBuy. He has his eye peeled
for me!

-fg

Larry41813 · May 11, 2001

Perry said:
Just stop by Best Buy and the person I talked to was helpful enough
to check on his computer, he said 'Ah..new model,...yes, in
stock...will be on the shelf by 5/14,' he even quote me the price
$699.99. Then I walked next door to Circuit City, where those high
school kids have no knowledge whatsoever and didn't even bother to
check when it's coming.
I think Best Buy should be reliable cos they are someone Sony won't
mess with. Guess I have to wait till next week to find out.

Perry

Perry

Based on your report, I called our local (Cleveland, Oh) Best Buys. The kid in the digital camera department said the Sony Rep told them the S75 would be there the end of May, early June. I mentioned your report and asked if there was a computer he could check. He said unfortunatly, no.
I hope you have better luck with your Best Buys. Keep us posted.

Larry - looking at his VAD-S70, two 64MB MSs, PCMCIA > MS, Microtech case, spare battery and charger and patiently waiting for his S75 to get here from EMS Computing

fg · May 11, 2001

has anyone seen the bestbuy "computer"? I was told that nothing is "in the computer" until it's in the store. It is possible differnt bestbuy's operate differently....

I'm banking on my brother's ability to "set one aside" fresh off the truck...

-fg

Larry41813 said:
Based on your report, I called our local (Cleveland, Oh) Best Buys.
The kid in the digital camera department said the Sony Rep told
them the S75 would be there the end of May, early June. I mentioned
your report and asked if there was a computer he could check. He
said unfortunatly, no.
I hope you have better luck with your Best Buys. Keep us posted.

Sam35068 · May 11, 2001

Yes. I saw the computer at lunch today and it said that they (S75, P50, and P30) are supposed to arrive on May 13 and be in full stock by May 15.

Sam
(by the way I live in Chesapeake, Va)

fg said:
I'm banking on my brother's ability to "set one aside" fresh off
the truck...

-fg

fg said:

Based on your report, I called our local (Cleveland, Oh) Best Buys.
The kid in the digital camera department said the Sony Rep told
them the S75 would be there the end of May, early June. I mentioned
your report and asked if there was a computer he could check. He
said unfortunatly, no.
I hope you have better luck with your Best Buys. Keep us posted.

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Gordon43936 · May 11, 2001

Thanks for sharing the info. I happen to live in the same area and I will go check out Laurel and Columbia Best Buy store on Sunday

-Gordon

KD said:
I went to Best Buy again to check on their computer(Laurel, MD).
The guy show me it's 5/13(Sunday). However, the computer didn't
tell him how many he will get. He only know that their delivery
truck will come Saturday night.

I don't know about you guys, but I plan to go to my local Best Buy
at 11am when the door opens and test my luck this Sunday.

--KD

Todd44998 · May 11, 2001

I just called a Best Buy in my home town in California and they said there shipment with the S75 will most likely come tonight and could be on the Floor tomorrow 5/12!! So call tomorrow and check your stores people and get your Mamma's a new Camera.

Best Buy in stock on 5/14

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