Best Buy - Manipulating Consumers

Posted by Administrator on Nov 26, 2005

Check out this news story about Best Buy: KOIN.com: Local News, Weather, Sports, Entertainment and Health

The way I see it is at a minimum Best Buy advertised a product and price that they did not intend on making available just to bring customers into the store. I find this incredibly un-ethical. I have always thought of Best Buy as a good store to visit. They have never needed these types of tactics to bring me into their stores. Why now? At best, it frustrates me enough to not boycott them, but rather shop at competitors first and them as a last resort.

Gadget Spy » Gadgets » Most Pointless USB Gadgets

Posted by Administrator on Nov 26, 2005

This is a great list. Where do they come up with this crap? USB slippers! Gadget Spy » Gadgets » Most Pointless USB Gadgets.

I would really like to see a follow-up article identifying how many purchases have been made this year of each of these products.

Microsoft Xbox 360 Shortages

Posted by Administrator on Nov 26, 2005

This is a good article by Gamespot about the Xbox 360 inventories. Microsoft “aware” of 360 shortages - News at GameSpot.

Is it possible that Microsoft that Microsoft wanted to run out of product very quickly. Sometimes it is a good idea to have incredibly high demand that can be accentuated by low supply. Or, perhaps Microsoft has not fully put the device into production in anticipation of some or many of the problems being discovered in the market place.

Google Click-to-Call. Good Idea?

Posted by Administrator on Nov 25, 2005

Google continues to improve their Google Click-to-Call advertising services. Is it an improvement? Do web customers really want to talk to the advertiser?

I think it could be a good additional option when purchasing or checking out Google advertisers. I definately support the fact that the customer does not pay anything for this service. Google claims to be coving 100% of the cost; however, I wonder how much Google is indirectly charging advertisers.

Funny Picture 8: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Administrator on Nov 22, 2005