Best Buy: Only $1700 For This Awesome Broken Computer

By April 14, 2008

Reader Scott says:

I was wandering around Best Buy yesterday here in Missouri when we came across this. Essentially, the back of this “open box” tagged computer was completely broken off. I realize that this may indeed be the nature of “open box” product, but seriously… 1700 dollars for a computer with this kind of blatant damage?

You’ll also notice that it is marked neither damaged or missing parts…

Well, Scott it seems that Best Buy doesn’t carry this model Sony anymore, so we can’t compare the price to see what kind of a discount this sort of damage warrants.

Newegg, however, is charging $40 more for an undamaged version. Seems worth it to us, but what do we know. At least they’re not charging more this time.

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  1. gkendric says:
    April 16, 2008 at 12:01 am

    I have had nothing but bad luck with Best Buy and with their restocking fee on almost anything you purchase you are better off going to Office Depot or Amazon.com. Most likely they would have charged you a restocking fee on this one also considering it your fault. Best Buy’s customer no-service is horrible and although I initially liked browsing the store now I just avoid them.

  2. ParanoidArtemus says:
    July 20, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    Open box only means it was on display. Considering the computer was over 1800 they did mark off 10 percent from it.

    So the end result is, it’s not broken and it is marked down.

    So there is nothing wrong with it.

    Interesting non story.

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