Effective from today until December 31st, Best Buy will be offering a fairly impressive holiday promotion for Apple’s iPhone. As well as discounted prices, they are offering hands on customer service while trying to sell as many iPhones as possible leading up to the holidays.
Best Buy will be selling the iPhone for a solid $10 discount. The 8GB version will run $189.99, and the 16GB version will be sold for $289.99. Additionally, big blue is offering something they’re calling “Walk-out-Working Service.” Apparently, this includes help with setting up your email account, transfering contacts and general advice helping customers learn how to use their iPhones. Also, if you have a Best Buy rewards account, you will get double the points for this purchase.
A few points Best Buy wants to make:
• Widest selection of smart phones: Customers can compare all similar products, for example, Best Buy is the only retailer that has the top smart phones including the Samsung Instinct, the Blackberry Bold and Storm.
• Geek Squad support: Best Buy will have customers configured, installed, charged and ready to use their iPhones when they leave the store.
• Highly-Trained Blue Shirts: Best Buy sales associates are the best trained wireless experts across multiple carriers, handsets and accessories.
The iPhone will begin selling at Walmart by the end of the year, and our sources have explained that AT&T is pushing for as many distribution channels as possible, such as Costco, Sam’s Club, Target and effectively Radioshack.
Best Buy happened to be Apple’s first foray into big box retail with the iPhone. Both companies previously had a fruitful partnership with Best Buy clearing out sections for Apple’s products in its stores. The discounted price that Best Buy is offering their iPhone takes a chunk out of their bottom line revenue from the device. Even though the iPhone is an incredibly hot-ticket item, Best Buy is banking on the fact that people will buy more than just the iPhone. The attractive price-tag is just another way to get consumers into the store.
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13 Comments to “Best Buy Offers Significant iPhone Holiday Promotion Until Dec 31st”
This is great. We knew the $99 thing was never happening, but $10 is definitely a nice sum of money. 5% off of the entire iPhone’s price. I’m not complaining.
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The attractive price-tag is just another way to get consumers into the store.
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oh please, $10 is nothing. now if they did a free $50 itunes store card for buying apps and stuff, that would be significant. and their big ‘walk out’ service. you can get that at any Apple store already. from day one even. Best Buy acts like they are doing something special but they aren’t. letting someone walk out without knowing the phone is working would be an epic fail in customer service. think about it. I upgrade my phone and it’s non functioning until I get home an hour later. I plug it in and it’s a dud phone. I have to go all the way back to get a new phone. either to Best Buy or to an Apple store where they will make me wait to talk to a tech blah blah. I go to the Apple store and they plugged it into itunes right in front of me, helped me set up my email etc. and that was even when there were huge lines. they didn’t shirk on it so they could send me off and make more money
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I’m not complaining.
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Oh big blue… You make me feel so at home
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Boy Genius Report claims they got this info from an ATT source. Did you guys?
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CORRECTION: I meant they say a Best Buy source.
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@GoldenRule: Yes, we did. The information actually came through late last night, but we had to verify it.
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Aviv, maybe you should say you got it from one of your source inside Best Buy then? So that it comes from somewhere?
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The source is a colleague who works in Best Buy’s mobile division. I don’t think we need to sensationalize simple news by saying that we got it from an “inside source.” Especially since the source is at Best Buy, and anyone with $20 can go into a store and hand a teenage kid a couple of bucks for some “information.”
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I think it’s been proven they have colleagues with credible information. $10 off at Best Buy for the holidays is not incredibly sensitive information. Best Buy WANTS people to know this. BGR saying that one of their “ninjas” got it is just hype.
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Paul, BGR definitely has credible sources. There are a lot of people that work at Best Buy and they probably aren’t too scared to share information. The “ninja” thing is just how they write to avoid completely dry-reads.
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$!0 is a bigger discount then we’ll probably see anywhere else. ATT has $50 off refurb iPhones, but that’s pretty much it.
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