Company Profile for Buy.com
Buy.com, Incorporated
| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 (Aliso Viejo, California) |
| Headquarters | Aliso Viejo, California |
| Key People | Neel Grover, CEO/President |
| Products | Retail-Computers, Electronics, Books, Videos, Music, etc. |
Additional Information:
Corporate Headquarters
85 Enterprise Suite 100
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
Customer Service: 1-800-800-0800
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—>CNET has a great article today about sneak attack merchants Webloyalty/Webvertrue/Reservation Rewards. It focuses on the relationship between Buy.com and the company that is suspect enough that the federal government is now interested. More »
—>Reader Andrew was trying to post a question on Best Buy's forums, but he made the horrible, offensive mistake of putting a space between "Best" and "Buy.com." More »
—>A study by the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh states that when comparing getting a flash drive from Buy.com versus a physical retailer, Buy.com ends up being about 30% less damaging to the environment. To reach their conclusion, the researchers compared transportation, packaging, warehousing, and energy usage both by the consumer and the retailer. More »
—>Belkin Business Development Representative Michael Bayard has been caught offering to pay anyone willing to leave perfect reviews of Belkin products on Amazon, Buy.com, and Newegg. Even worse, the highly unethical strategy seems to have worked—almost fifteen pages worth of Belkin products on Amazon have perfect five-star ratings. More »
—>Steven at The Jewish Channel ordered four hard drives from Buy.com, and got them, along with a packaging surprise. The packaging was very excessive. Each hard drive came in its a separate packing box 4591.75 cubic inches larger than the hard drive box it was meant to contain. In addition, that extra dead space was taken up by what amounted to a waterfall of brown packing paper. The containers, measuring 24" x 18" x 11.5" could each have held six of the 10.75" x 7" x 5" boxes. More pix inside. Steven writes: More »
—>A Camera, maybe. Some DVD's? A Six-pack.Sadly, it is none of the above. More »
