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Best Buy selling Apple Products [Updated]

Saturday July 26, 2003 10:40 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
More reports indicate that previous rumors of Apple sales at Best Buy will materialize soon.



BestBuy will utilize fulltime Apple Reps to provide sales support for Apple items. The current plan is to deploy this plan to a select number of Best Buys, so not every store will carry the Apple products initially.



While the official launch date remains in August, some stores may start to sell Apple items as early as Monday.



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Initial stores to carry Apple's Product line are focused in California and Illinois, with scattered stores in other states (AZ, VA, NY, MD, MN).



Products to be carried include the eMac, iMac (15" and 17"), PowerMac (G4), iBook (12"), PowerBook (12" and 15"), iPod, as well as selection of accompanying accessories and software titles.



Again, some stores may start selling Apple products as early as this week.

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MacGuy283
112 months ago
I was at Best Buy today and I saw one of the employees looking at an apple product guide and I asked him if they are gonna be carrying them and he said yup. They are going to start getting them in on monday but dosent go on the ad till later in the month. He said its in the chicagoland area only and only a few stores will be selling them for 3 months and they will see what happens then. Hopefully they have 0% for a year or something on them.
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applemacdude
112 months ago
Cool, maybe Bestbuy will lower prices on the mac? Or maybe not. I hope that they arnt like compusa. tommorow ima go to the bestbuy and ask if they are going to carry apples products...
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Powerbook G5
112 months ago
I remember Best Buy and Sears both used to sell iMacs when they first came out, whatever happened to that? Is this any different?
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arn
112 months ago

Originally posted by applemacdude
Cool, maybe Bestbuy will lower prices on the mac? Or maybe not. I hope that they arnt like compusa. tommorow ima go to the bestbuy and ask if they are going to carry apples products...


Apple has pretty strict Minimum prices requirements of resellers. So, I don't think you're going to be seeing lower retail prices.

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pourhadi
112 months ago
Cool, I live in the Chicagoland area and there is a Best Buy 3 minutes from my house.
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e-coli
112 months ago

Originally posted by pourhadi
Cool, I live in the Chicagoland area and there is a Best Buy 3 minutes from my house.


Unlikely that the Chicagoland Best Buys will get Apple products first, seeing as there's two Apple stores, a Microcenter, and numerous CompUSA locations that sell Apple merchandise.
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P-Worm
112 months ago
I wonder if my Best Buy will get them. The cosest Apple store to me is about a 6 hour drive. :eek:

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simX
112 months ago

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
I remember Best Buy and Sears both used to sell iMacs when they first came out, whatever happened to that? Is this any different?


Well, Apple let Best Buy manage the selling of Apple's products, which was a disaster. Even CompUSA managed to sell the iMac like hotcakes, but Best Buy managed to not make it sell well at all. Initially, they panicked and slashed the price to $999 for the original iMac, even though they weren't supposed to go the MSRP of $1299. Needless to say, it didn't work that well.

Here's to hoping that the CompUSA store within a store idea works out for Best Buy, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Powerbook G5
112 months ago
I hope it works better than CompUSA...when I go to the Apple section at the CompUSA in Jacksonville it basically goes as follows: "Uh...where is the Apple tech? I have a question" "Umm...I don't know, he should be there" "I've been waiting for him for 35 minutes, he's been paged 3 times, do you know where he could be?" "Uh...I don't know, what do you need? "I need help with a question on using this printer with OS X" "Um...I don't know...you should really ask the Apple tech guy that, he'd know" "I know, that's why I have been waiting for 40 minutes for him" "Oh...we'll page him then..."
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MacGuy283
112 months ago
The best buy i went to is in the chicagoland area, dont wanna say the city would feel bad if anyone got in trouble, but its near an apple store and he said that they would be getting them in.
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