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Best Buy Forgets It Sold Laptop, Won't Take Customer's Money

By Chris Walters on March 24, 2009 7:01 PM 133 Comments

—>The Best Buy where Toni bought a laptop earlier this month has no record of the sale, and it won't collect the funds that have already been released from her account. This sounds like a fun problem to have—$1500 extra dollars, free laptop, woo hoo!—but it's actually pretty annoying. Toni doesn't want this phantom $1500 messing up her balance indefinitely, and she doesn't want to feel like she's stolen a laptop. More »