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Best Buy Reviews Summary

The company's reputation is marred by significant customer dissatisfaction, particularly regarding installation services, product returns, and customer support. Many reviews highlight issues with rushed installations and poor communication, leading to repeated service calls. Customers frequently encounter difficulties with returns and refunds, often citing long wait times and inadequate support from customer service representatives. While the company offers a wide selection of products and some positive experiences with online orders, the overarching sentiment suggests a need for substantial improvements in service reliability and customer care to enhance overall customer satisfaction.

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service
327
value
285
shipping
213
returns
200
quality
248

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New Jersey
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Some very expensive services plus my computer messed up again. Didn't do a good job fixing my pc.

Date of experience: February 27, 2014
New York
7 reviews
26 helpful votes
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I think bestbuy's site is very good. You get all the stuff in the stores and much more. Price's are competitive and the service is great. I bought a laptop once and a week later they had a sale 200$ off the same laptop. I went in tho the store and they gave me the 200$ back. Cash. I was very impressed.

Date of experience: February 24, 2014
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If I could rate this as 0 stars, I would. WORST customer service EVER. All we needed was a print out of a receipt, as we bought the laptop on line, big mistake.
Samsung kindly offered us a 1 time fix, even though the wty had expired, but do you think Best Buy would help us out and just print and email us the receipt?
NO, I called many times, each time I either got cut off or left on hold! SUPER frustrating. Finally gave up, absolutely do NOT shop on their on line site, or in the store anymore. My $$ will be spent anywhere else!

Date of experience: February 15, 2014
North Carolina
4 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Good deals on some electronics and I like the geeksquad insurance.

Date of experience: February 6, 2014
NL
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I love my wall speakers
February 4, 2014

I love my wall speakers. I am so glad I finally replace the old one I had and it looks so great in my hall. Most of all I can put stuff in and set the timer and don’t have to worry when will it be done nor do I need to check it every minute. Thanks Best Buy PCS.

Date of experience: February 4, 2014
New York
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I can't believe there are negative comments about Best Buy. Im a customer for over 2 years now and honestly its the best online store I have ever encountered. Prompt service and assistance made me going back to this site.

Date of experience: January 28, 2014
Kenya
4 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Best Buy has good electronics and some good deals but it pales next to visiting the store in person. Physically, you will be able to find better deals like on products which were floor models or returned. The prices are competitive to Amazon these days so it's worth checking out for the technophile.

Date of experience: January 20, 2014
Florida
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Use to be one of my favorite places to purchase electronics etc. I purchased a laptop there and also bought the extended warranty. The lap top stopped working and i had to bring it to them 3 times. Each time they attempted to fix something else. In the end they said it was the motherboard. At this point the warranty was nearly up and they wanted to attempt to fix it a 4th time. I told them this is crazy since the time I bought the laptop I have been going back and forth to geek squad and each time I got it back it was scratched up more and more. In the end my warranty was up and they would not do anything about the crappy laptop. I ended buying a new one else where. DO NOT TRUST THEIR WARRANTY on laptops. I am much happier with Tiger Direct.

Date of experience: January 17, 2014
Wisconsin
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Good products, Can be a little pricey though. I would search amazon first

Date of experience: January 13, 2014
Colorado
4 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Amazing experience today unexpectedly finding a Surface 2 Type Keyboard in stock in a store nearby. I made my purchase online and received a notification that my order was available for pick-up within an hour of placing my order.

Date of experience: January 6, 2014
G T.
New Mexico
11 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Not impressed with the customer service when I needed a question answered....I just gave up and drove to store, even then customer service was not great...

Date of experience: December 24, 2013
Texas
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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The store is just loads of fun. The Gadgets, tv, games. A great place to purchase all electronics for the man cave

Date of experience: December 16, 2013
Indiana
30 reviews
126 helpful votes
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BestBuy.com is terrible company to deal with... you are better off using NewEgg.com or TigerDirect.com!

Date of experience: December 7, 2013
Florida
9 reviews
90 helpful votes
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I was looking for a affordable laptop, so I tried bestbuy.com WOW! What a great experience I ordered the laptop online and picked it up at my local BEST BUY! Great service all around!

Date of experience: December 6, 2013
New York
7 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I love that i can finance stuff on my best buy card interest free! We were able to get things for our new home when we were really tight on cash, and pay it off easily later!

Date of experience: September 24, 2013
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Beware that if you order through BESTBUY.com, the products may be sold by third parties. It is a HUGE hassle to return or exchange anything you order online. I made one order (total of 8 items) and realized some were not what I expected. I need to return 4 items, but have to contact 4 different sellers to take care of it. What a waste of time?! I also have to pay to ship them back too! I'm furious that the store will not take back items sold on THEIR website.

Date of experience: September 15, 2013
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE return policy!
September 2, 2013

TERRIBLE return policy! Only 15 days to return/exchange then too bad if you don't like the product. I purchased a $200 Sony CX220 video camera, got too busy to down load in 15 days (!) and when I did download, I didn't like the quality and the time it took to create a DVD. Their trade in "option" offered a $16 (!) trade in value that I would have to mail in the item, wait weeks, and they would mail me a gift card to their store! I will NOT purchase at Best Buy again. Terrible customer service, terrible policies.

Date of experience: September 1, 2013
Utah
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I loved the offers and the refurbished products with them. Will continue to buy.

Date of experience: August 20, 2013
Thailand
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Bestbuy is good website and there are some great deals every Sunday. The deal is even better if you can buy and pay No US Sales Tax. Please check return policy/warranty carefully. Any defective products, you can return or exchange by due date, if is pass the warranty date, it can be very difficult. Customer service can be helpful if you are lucky to deal with good customer service, it can be difficult, if you can deal with the bad one. Overall is positive experience most of time.

Date of experience: August 10, 2013
Indiana
4 reviews
8 helpful votes
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It is very good place to buy electronic stuff. Some time, price is cheaper than amazon (include tax). Also support paypal, we don't have to restore our payment information agan.
However, Bestbuy has some issue such as slower restore hut selling product, it will reduce customer's interise on product and website, customer able to buy same product at amazon with 3 more clicks and similar price, if that item which is they wanted is out of stock,.

Date of experience: July 6, 2013