Best Buy + Sprint Hero = FAIL
Ok so as everyone knows I am anxiously awaiting this darn HTC Hero Android Phone from Sprint.
This has taken much planing on my part to be rid of my Tour (at decent price) and living with the Curve until the Hero arrived.
So I had my battle plan, sold the Tour and was Pre-Order #1 at my Best Buy to arrive on Oct 11.
I figured that I was cool with a MSRP of $429 (Sold the Tour I paid $200 @ $325 so this was ok) SWEET
Well there was a rumor Best Buy will be offering the Hero to Reward Zone members on Oct 9th so BONUS!
Best Buy has yet to send any notification of this to anyone, most their associates included…
I went to my Best Buy today and was told this is not true, and since I had not got a call not to expect my Android on Sunday.
Obviously I was a little hot so I went to another Best Buy…
Here the girl was really nice, pulled up their intranet and found all the documentation, yes the phone will be there on Friday for Reward Zone members, and has a MSRP of $599.99
$599.99! WTF?
So I pointed out the phone was clearly a MSRP of $429.99 as referenced on the Sprint site however she informed me they will not price match it, it’s just too low.
Now what bothers me most about this whole deal is Sprint/Best Buy are launching this new phone with little or no fanfare, the only people clamoring for it are geeks like me who have all this rumor on the internet. It’s not working.
Guys get your ducks in a row! More rumors flying today the MSRP is $429.99 – $100 MIR (even without a contract) to make it $329. Others say the $329 – MIR - Contract = $79.
So anyway I guess I will throw a complete hissy fit in Best Buy on Friday and try and get my phone for the MSRP of $429.99 using my pre-order, thats all I want.
If I don’t get my way I will just wait till everyone else has the damn thing starting next week.
What really don’t make any sense is they have found a way to kill all the benefit of the pre-sale, nobody knows about it and those who do can’t take advantage of it because they early adopted another phone in the last 2 years.
Why have a pre-sale and a pre-release of a phone, don’t promote it and then add almost $200 to the MSRP?
I want the phone but for $200 I can wait till Monday.
Who knows there is yet ANOTHER rumor you can get it on the Sprint website starting Oct 8th, so if thats correct you can order it at 11PM Central on the 7th, overnight it into your hands Friday morning anyway.
We will see….
