RUMOR: Best Buy To Sell Macs?

twister

twister

Howdy
I have a friend who works for Best Buy and she said that they might be loosing their partnership with Microsoft. She said they just partnered with the Geek Squad and that Best Buy wants to start selling Macs. It's just a rumor but i thought i'd pass it on.

Twister
 
This would make a fair amount of sense. Best Buy used to sell Macs but quit with the 5 flavor iMacs, saying that Apple insisted resellers display all variants, and BB didn't want to devote that shelf space. Now the iMac is down to 2 variants (apperance wise) and would not take up space (interesting, since that's a design plus for the end user as well). I think it would be great if it were to happen, as BB generally has done right by me. I think also getting the iPod into BB would be more beneficial than getting it into Target. Less stores, but the customers are more likely to be looking for such a product.

All that said, I have no facts to verify that what you say is true. But it wouldn't surprise me.

-Rob
 
That would be great!

Since I simply do NOT trust Fry's Electronics (outpost.com) and the Apple Stores are a bit out of my area (if you can call 2 Apple stores in a 10 mile radius, and a 3rd a few miles more <grin>), Both Fry's and BestBuy are down the street from me, half a mile and a mile respectively. :)

I won't have a reason to go to Fry's anymore! Sweet! :D
 
I don't think Best Buy wants to go there again. They didn't make much money from macs and supporting macs was a pain in the arse for their minimum wage techs.

Apple has their retail stores now and selling Macs at Sears and Circuit City flopped.

I wish things were different though. It seems people don't want to buy big ticket items from those places unless they are tvs or home entertainment theaters. The hey day of computer selling in retail has vanished.

Sony, HP and Compaq are the only ones left in the retail chain of any significance and their offerings at places like CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City etc have slowly been narrowed down to maybe an aisle or two in dekstops and about an aisle in laptops.

People who buy PCs now would much rather go to Dell directly or get a Wal-Mart PC for $199-$599

If you are right though and Apple does begin selling macs there, it may not be good in the long run as best buy doesn't maintain their demo machines. They are horrible about making sure they are left running in good condition... plus i've never heard of a retail chain WANTING to sell macs, it has always been the other way around. Except for maybe Microcenter or those weird West Coast computer chains.

Note: My Best Buy remark about demo machines does not reflect my preference to Best Buy over other place. I have spent many a paycheck there on small to big ticket items :D
 
It would seem that BestBuy is indeed selling Macs again. Seems to be an online only setup, at least for now.

Go to BestBuy.com and do a search on "G5"…
 
I just went to best buy over the weekend and saw a mac stand right when i walked in. It was in the front, near the cell phones and cameras.

Not much selection, just 1 power mac G4 (quick silver) with a 22" display.

It was grabbing a lot of attention, and I saw a customer wheeling one away on a cart -- lucky dude.

BTW, it was the best in milpitas (McCarthy Ranch)
 
Hmmm.. I see that we can search and find them, but where do we browse to, to find the Macs and Apple displays?
 
I thought everyone knew?
They've ben selling Macs for a few months now at the actual store! All Macs! :)
At least they have here in Burbank, CA.
 
at the panther pary (at CompUSA) one of the guys there was saying that BB couldn't "have a party too" because they were still on probation or something (thay can only sell them, and don't get the big fancy promotions)
 
I played Unreal Tournament on a G5 or something in Classic mode at Best Buy, back when I was shopping around for my Tungsten E (okay, a couple weeks ago this was). And I've seen iPods at several places, like Circuit City.
 
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