Summary
Best Buy warned that Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada could raise prices on consumer electronics, as 60% of Best Buy’s inventory comes from China.
Trump plans to impose a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and a 60% tariff on Chinese goods to boost domestic manufacturing.
Retailers like Best Buy and industry groups like the Consumer Technology Association are preparing for supply chain disruptions by importing goods early or sourcing alternatives to avoid higher consumer prices.
Best Buy still has customers?
It’s unironically a really good place to buy consumer electronics, both online and in person. They’re still holding on, they’ve crawled out of the hole they put themselves in a decade ago.
Not sure about elsewhere but in Canada they’re also an online marketplace for sellers like Amazon.
I mean yea.
I wouldn’t trust a phone bought on Amazon.
Buying on official manufacturers website take a few days to arrive.
If someone, say broke their phone, they might need their new phone immediately.
Also, shipping stuff can get stolen in transit, or on the doorsteps.
You have points with the others, but why would you not trust a phone bought on Amazon? People are constantly buying phones from them. I’ve never heard any major “don’t buy a phone from Amazon” warning before.
Amazon combines inventory from every seller.
So if theres a third party selling a “Galaxy S24” and theres one thats “Sold By Amazon.com”
Both of these would be combined and stored in the same place.
When someones buys an “Galaxy S24” the amazon workers are just gonna pick one from the pile, you might end up getting one sold by the third party, who could be lying about the phone’s condition.
Edit: I mean you can search “Amazon Inventory Co-mingling” and see what I mean
I haven’t searched about commingling in years now, but when I did, they had stopped doing it years before. Did they restart? Seems like an old wives tale at this point.
In general, phones are tamper-sealed to ensure you’re buying a new phone. So this really doesn’t make sense to me.
Phones may have tamper-seals, but are not impossible to fake. There are already a lot o f fake sd cards in the same sealed package as a real sd card.
And if you get a phone with no tamper-seals or broken seals, then you’d have to contact amazon and hope they believe you. And unlike cheap items where they just willy nilly and refund you, they pay extra attention to expensive items since most return fraud happens with expensive items. If you get unlucky and they don’t believe you, you’re fucked. The amazon customer service is overworked and they aren’t gonna listen to your story again. And you can charge-back, but then you are banned from amazon.
If you buy from bestbuy in store, you can see the box is sealed, and bestbuy have almost 0% chance of fake seals, since its harder to even get a fake item in their supply chain. Also, Best Buy customer service in their stores generally are less overworked and have more downtime, so they are more willing to listen to your story. Customer service irl are more forgiving since they have to be face to face, so theres also a psychological factor that play in to your higher likelihood of getting an item returned.
“New” was never mentioned.
True, but you don’t go to Best Buy to buy a used phone since they don’t sell used phones, so I think that talking about buying a new phone on Amazon vs. a new phone at Best Buy is the fair comparison here.
The condition of the phone was mentioned, so yes. That’s… kinda the whole and only point here.
Cool.
Amazon silently resells used and returned products that are sometimes resold without any inspection. If you’re buying something expensive it’s better to go to the original manufacturer.
I have never bought a phone from them, but every time I have had an issue with a product I have bought from Amazon, I either can return it for a refund or they refund me and I don’t even have to return it.
I mean fuck Amazon for any number of reasons, but this is just not an issue I have heard about a lot of people having with phones bought from Amazon.
Knock off electronics are a thing on Amazon.
And it’s unlikely that you will know that it’s counterfeit before your return window expires.
https://lifehacker.com/money/how-to-avoid-counterfeit-products-on-amazon
Would you automatically trust an SD card from Amazon?
I trust it as long as it’s a Samsung and their verification app passes. They have a Windows app that checks an SD card and authenticates that it’s a legit Samsung one.
I don’t even know what that means. If it was in its original packaging? Sure. Why wouldn’t I? Are they secretly repackaging virus-filled SD cards in like-new sealed plastic clamshells?
Go on youtube and search “Fake SD Card”
The packaging is near identical.
You have too much faith in society. There are scammers and fraudsters everywhere not just politics, but even in commerce.
Because the packaging and design on the card aren’t that hard to fake convincingly and amazon doesn’t care where the stock comes from it all goes in the bin so to speak. So if some really good fakes get in the shuffle you could get unlucky.
It’s my go-to since I’ve stopped supporting Amazon
Their open box products are good value. Sometimes the product is still in perfect condition in its original packaging, but because a customer returned it, you can get it for 10% or 15% cheaper.
I still go to Best Buy for stuff sometimes!
my last cheap unlocked phone came from there.
a neighbor just bought one of their laptop specials this week. she hadn’t bought anything from bestbuy since her last one, though… in 2015.
That’s probably when I bought my laptop there lol I picked up my TV there last year as they carried an Insignia “dumb” TV.
Yup they price match online competitors too.
their brand Insignia is pretty good actually
Its nice if you need something immediately. Thats about the only time I buy from them, and o price match.
It functions as a good showroom to try the shit you can buy cheaper online
In my experience, their prices are the same as online stores, and in the case where their prices are higher, they price match.