Best Buy selling $50 gift card... for $55
Monday, December 31, 2007 at 4:36 AM
Tags: Best Buy, Fun Stuff, Sirius
Here's a quickie for a little pre-New Year levity: Best Buy has a $50 Sirius gift card up for sale on their website for... $55.
The boys over at Consumerist talked to a Best Buy rep, who said Sirius charges the retailer an extra $5 for the $50 gift card. Yet a little research shows that other gift cards seem to match up to their given price.
So I'd say it's just a typo. But a funny one at that.
[Consumerist]
Thanks realwx!
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Mel gives the extra $5 to Howard, 'Tell em fred.
Posted by: teeheejimmy | December 31, 2007 8:39 AM
Wow an anti Stern comment gets thrown into a non Howard/O&A thread.
I guess the O&A fans will claim that Anonymous Coward is on vacation. :)
Posted by: another thought | December 31, 2007 9:00 AM
I guess they need to pay off that $500,000,000. That means they only need 100,000,000 people to buy one.
Posted by: Frank the Frowner | December 31, 2007 10:15 AM
Yeah, it's funny....but also ironic considering that Sirius is tanking today and this stupid merger is draaaaaaaaaaaging on. What happened to all the MERGER IS IMMINENT news that came out a few weeks ago? It's like TOTALLY dried up. Argggggh. Sorry...just venting. I really thought we'd have some good news before Christmas...and then nada. No New Year surprise either. Now theres talk of this dragging on into the spring? The longer this takes, the more the big money loses interest. My fear is that they will finally announce the merger down the road, and nobody will care. The stock will just sit there. Its frustrating because Cramer and others were predicting just a few weeks ago that it'd pop to $6 once the merger went thru. Grrrrrrrr.
Posted by: regan | December 31, 2007 11:37 AM
They have now corrected their 'typo' mistake. SKU item 8678834
Posted by: No named Coward | December 31, 2007 3:12 PM