Best Buy to Carry...

[iJon]

Originally posted by raeingoth
Actually, Alienware is pulling out of Best Buy. Not sure if it was because of who's fault but soon you will not find them at your local store.

wow, thats interesting. im curious why too. do you know if best buy serviced these machines (although i would never trust best buy fixing anything of mine) or did they ship them off.

iJon

 

[raeingoth]

Originally posted by Wonder Boy
So if I wanted a job as an apple person at best buy, should i go to best buy, an apple store, or online?

Not through Best Buy, BB doesn't handle the hiring (or management/payroll) of any manufacturer reps... Probably Apple once it starts unless they hire their reps out through a secondary company.

 

[raeingoth]

Originally posted by iJon
wow, thats interesting. im curious why too. do you know if best buy serviced these machines (although i would never trust best buy fixing anything of mine) or did they ship them off.

As far as I know the Techs did do some work on them (at least at the stores I've worked at), though not all. My guess is that Alienware was getting little representation probably (hrmmm... never any Alienware reps... very high-end machines... no outside training... yeah) and wanted to sever ties. That or Best Buy wasn't making enough profit off the machines, though they are custom built so I dare say that can't be the case.

 

[Wonder Boy]

Originally posted by raeingoth
Not through Best Buy, BB doesn't handle the hiring (or management/payroll) of any manufacturer reps... Probably Apple once it starts unless they hire their reps out through a secondary company.

That's what i thought, thank you.

 

[donigian]

This is great news for Apple. It will definately help increase their marketshare if they have lil' Apple Stores within the Best Buy like in CompUSA. Apple people have to help sell the Macs; otherwise, PC people will steer everyone away.

 

[tazo]

where macs should really go is costco. people already go in there and buy a thousand dollars worth of stuff. they have a big computer section there, and with ****ty hp systems in the same price range as a imac, i think apple could do well.

just my 2.5 cents

 

[e-coli]

Originally posted by tazo
where macs should really go is costco. people already go in there and buy a thousand dollars worth of stuff. they have a big computer section there, and with ****ty hp systems in the same price range as a imac, i think apple could do well.

just my 2.5 cents

That would severely undermine the Apple brand. Putting Apple products in a warehouse shrine to consumerism would make the products seem cheap.

That will never happen.

 

[cubist]

Originally posted by e-coli
That would severely undermine the Apple brand. Putting Apple products in a warehouse shrine to consumerism would make the products seem cheap.

That will never happen.

My local Costco used to have CRT iMacs.

 

[iJon]

Originally posted by cubist
My local Costco used to have CRT iMacs.

just like circuit city, best buy, and sears. hmmm, lets think why they are not there anymore.

iJon

 

[fred_garvin]

That would severely undermine the Apple brand. Putting Apple products in a warehouse shrine to consumerism would make the products seem cheap.

eMacs are cheap, and a $999 iBook is cheap too. My local costco had a $30k car for sale on display at the front. They have better quality products than target or walmart. At the least, Costco should stock iPods.

 

[Mr. G4]

Originally posted by e-coli
That would severely undermine the Apple brand. Putting Apple products in a warehouse shrine to consumerism would make the products seem cheap.

That will never happen.

Actually, they used to sell iMac (Ctr), and haven't seen them ever since. I think it's because of Apple pricing policy, where they forced everyone to sell at the same price.

 

[iJon]

Originally posted by Mr. G4
Actually, they used to sell iMac (Ctr), and haven't seen them ever since. I think it's because of Apple pricing policy, where they forced everyone to sell at the same price.

not its because best buy didnt want to carry all of apples imac colors.

iJon

 

[bcsimac]

I won't hold my breathe!

I won't hold my breathe, but I do hope it works out. Apple does need the exposure. However, the wrong exposure is bad; and Apple does not need that. Apple needs positive exposure and positive sales......not negative exposure and negative sales. Just because Apple supplies a sales person doesn't mean that sales person knows a darn thing about Macs. I know...I have trained an Apple supplied sales employee back in 2001 when Apple decided to supply sales staff to CompUSA. I had to train somebody who literally had never used a Mac until Apple gave him an iBook when he went to Cupertino for his introductory training. The guy was totally clueless, but he did want to learn so I will give him that much credit. He wanted to learn...thats more than I can say out of the average pc sales guy who ususally says Macs suck or Apple sucks or Steve Jobs is a big head or whatever word you wanted to use. The point is don't think for a second that because Apple supplied a sales person that the person is trained and qualified because he may not be. Lucky for Apple, they got free training for the guy they supplied to the CompUSA store I worked at because I trained him myself.

 

[Ikash]

there should be a rule where no bestbuy employee can tough the apple comptuers cuz they don't know much as it is anyways let alone another sys. specially those Micro$oft terrorist who would try to mess the macs up

 

[brandon_deal]

i wonder

i wnoder why they wont carry the 17" powerbook?

 

[iJon]

Re: i wonder

Originally posted by brandon_deal
i wnoder why they wont carry the 17" powerbook?

read some of my posts above, i explain it there. but basically its like the powermac. its a pro machine and lots of potential high software could walk about the door with this laptop and apple doesnt like big retail chains blowing that. its always been like this.

iJon

 

[PyroTurtle]

hmmm, computers to the masses, could of sworn i've never head that from an apple computer empolyee...oh, wait, they coined the term? interesting...

 

[Centris 650]

Originally posted by mtuTopHat
Does anyone have an expected date on this? I hope it's soon!
Do you think that employees of Best Buy can get discounts?
Did anyone else check the Best Buy web-site and see that it's temporarily unavailable?

My question exactly! Anyone have any idea of when? I'll buy my G5 this winter at the Apple store in Atlanta but my next iBook (I've got a 466 right now) will probably come from Best Buy...if they are still selling them. The Atlanta AS is 4 hours away and BB is only 30 minutes. Plus my relatives like to give me BB gift cards for my birthday and Christmas. I could get an iBook fairly cheap.