BestBuy Plays “Bait and Switch Websites”  BestBuy has allegedly
been playing a web-age trick whereby it shows customers inside
the story an internal BestBuy website that has different — and
higher — prices than the external BestBuy site that brought
people into the store.    [via Hartford Courant]  Related posts:
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someone who was on the launch team of in early 2000, I can
certainly say this was never our intent! The company obviously
has a technical glitch to fix, not to speak of a big PR problem
to manage now as well. Who wants to go into a store and have to
hassle about a price you’d previously been given?