apathy
Reader Michael went to
Best Buy to pick up a hard drive that he saw on sale. The website said that the item was in stock, but when he got to the store there were none on the shelf. The employee he questioned said that the item was out of stock but explained that the website was slow to update. So Michael went home, ordered it for in store pick up and... can you guess what happened next?
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comcast
UPDATE: We're bad at Spanish. See below. We came across a Twitter user who, while browsing Comcast's internet
prices,
discovered that the Spanish-language version of the site offers reduced speeds at the same prices as the higher speeds seen on the English version of the site. What the hell?
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online shopping
Reader Jeff is confused. He wants to purchase a laptop from Walmart. Upon Perusing his website from home, he saw a nice Acer Netbook for under $300. Of course, upon walking into the store, he was confronted with a slightly higher price. Luckily, he talked to the nice customer service representative and quickly price matched the in store item to the online price and Jeff walked out a happy customer.
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circuit city
Look unto ye, electronic consumers, and gaze upon your ruined world. The abyss swallows yet another false god, with CircuitCity.com stumbling, "Updating", and finally closing all within the last twenty-four hours. Visit
the website yourself for proof, as well as a full explanation of what is going on with all those wonderful product service plans you purchased.
silly
We love
Walmart's website. We really do. Here's a nice lamp that you can't buy. At all. Deal with it.
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j crew
J. Crew has a problem with their
website. Whatever the problem is, it isn't small. Meet Per, a J. Crew customer who tried to order some polo shirts and not only did he get the wrong shirts, the bill came with a shipping charge of $9,208.50. Per would like to return these shirts and not pay $9,208.50 in shipping, but he can't manage to log on to J. Crew's website.
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best buy
Have you ever found a deal at Best Buy's website only to travel to the store and find that the "sale" is over? Did the Best Buy employee show you "proof" on their "website"? It now seems that there are really TWO websites, and they're identical except for the prices. Here's the deal:
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