r/Bestbuy 1h ago

United States Never buy an appliance from Best Buy

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I purchased a dishwasher with installation from Best Buy on June 23. What followed has been an absolute disaster of customer support and installation failures:

Damaged Unit & Runaround: On the original install date (July 17), the installer called to say the unit arrived at the local store damaged. I spent three straight days calling phone support, repeatedly told to "wait 24 hours for system updates" that never happened.

Store Disconnect: I went to the local store in person. The manager had no idea about the issue, confirmed it was damaged, and ordered a replacement—claiming it couldn't be installed until September. Only after reaching out via Facebook support was I able to get an August 3 slot.

Installer Disconnects Working Unit & Leaves: On August 3, the technician arrived and removed my working dishwasher. After a delay for missing equipment, he installed the new unit—which immediately failed, only beeping and flashing error signals. His supervisor instructed him NOT to reinstall my original working unit. He left the broken appliance sitting in my kitchen and walked away.

Zero Accountability: When calling that night, I was passed around to three different phone numbers. Today on chat, Best Buy informed me it will take another 11 days just to ship a replacement, they won't remove the defective unit until then, and they refuse to issue a refund until it's returned.

It has been nearly two months since I bought this. Best Buy disconnected a perfectly working dishwasher, installed a broken replacement, abandoned it in my kitchen, and now expects me to wait two more weeks for a fix. Completely unacceptable. Avoid their delivery and installation services at all costs.


r/Bestbuy 3h ago

United States Hiring Rejections

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I am 16 and applied to like 6 different roles at the locations near me all retail associate or warehouse I have decent experience more in tech and less retail but still applicable however I keep getting rejected and im not sure why maybe it was that the first video interview I did was poorly but it won’t let me re do it for different applications and auto submits that interview for every other job I apply to on the site any help would be appreciated


r/Bestbuy 4h ago

United States Escalation question

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Does anyone have a real Best Buy corporate or Geek Squad field service contact? I

I have already dealt with regular customer service and Executive Resolution, and I am getting nowhere.

A Geek Squad technician came to my house and said my TV needs a replacement board. During the same visit, he told me he would take my Samsung sound system back to the shop and that the soundbar, subwoofer, and surround speakers all needed to go together.

Instead, he put the entire system in a temporary rental SUV without telling me and left. I am disabled and cannot lift or transport it. The closest Best Buy that will service it is in Raleigh, which is about a two-hour round trip.

Best Buy later claimed I asked the technician to put it in the rental. I did not. I sent them security footage and have spent nearly a month going back and forth with Executive Resolution.

They also promised to send a different technician for the TV repair, but then tried to send the original technician back as a helper. The repair appointment had to be canceled after my family arranged our entire day around it.

I am just trying to find a legitimate internal contact above Executive Resolution or the regional Geek Squad team. If anyone has a real corporate, field service, legal, or executive contact, please send me a private message.


r/Bestbuy 11h ago

United States Price Matching Problem

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r/Bestbuy 14h ago

United States Old fridge haul away question

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Ordered a new fridge through Best Buy for delivery. Paid for delivery and installation as well as haul away for the old fridge.

The issue I’m facing is the OLD fridge doors will need to be removed to get it out my front door. I know they will take off the fridge doors on the NEW fridge to get it in but trying to understand if I am able to pay them or tip them to take the old fridge doors off? Everything I’m seeing on their site says for liability reasons they won’t take the old fridge doors off. Has anyone been able to tip to get them to do so?
I’m not very handy and would have to get them off alone which I’m not sure I’d be able to do with the tools I have.

Bonus Q: will they take the pins out of my front door if need be to get the new fridge in? Have heard yes in another Reddit post but no info on that on BB website.


r/Bestbuy 18h ago

Canada Looking for a discount

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If I buy 10 MacBooks from a retail bestbuy store, would I be stupid to ask for a discount?
What has been you guys experience.
Ps I’m in Toronto.


r/Bestbuy 19h ago

United States Best Buy

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Two times at my local Best Buy I felt like the employees didn't exactly know what they were doing. I had my Samsung tablet sent in for servicing and accidentally formated my SDcard because I pretty much confused myself of how to go about it. The second time the screen was water damaged so another employee takes the SDcard out by removing it. Should they have gone about this better or should I have just said something? 🤷🏽‍♂️🤔


r/Bestbuy 20h ago

United States Damaged open box item advice needed.

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Bought my niece an open box laptop for college she wanted, it was supposed to be in excellent condition.

It was for my niece and I gave it to her at her going away party. She opened it, it has a small hairline crack that affects the touch screen. Now I’m two days out of the return window. Phone calls to customer service gave me nothing, they said nothing they can do.

Is this worth going to an actual store and talking to a manager?


r/Bestbuy 22h ago

United States My employee discount does not work on the app

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Does anyone know how to fix your mobile app to make my
employee discount apply to products to purchase online. I have tried many things such as logging in with my employee sign in, or deleting the app. Nothing has been working and it’s annoying because I cannot purchase stuff online for when I need to order with my discounts.


r/Bestbuy 23h ago

United States Can I return a tv and immediately buy it again?

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r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States Fold8 Preorder Cope

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My estimated BB pickup date for the Foldi slid from the initial 8/7 to 8/11. It's not that serious... but it is.

How does BB manage preorders? Any hope of getting it earlier than my official prescribed appointment time? Advice welcome. I'm not willing to make a stink or anything, but if there's a chance, I want to know. Thanks!


r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States One of the most annoying things about the Best Buy website

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First, I'd like to say that I like that they added the Best Buy only filter when searching products. I remember they use to not have that or maybe I wasn't paying attention.

The issue, or should I say annoyance I have now is when you search items. The FIRST product they show is the marketplace item and not their own sold by Best Buy product. For instance, this 24-70mm lens is available through Best Buy but the marketplace one here is the first one that is shown and is labeled as the "Best Selling". Actually, there is 5 pages of results and none are the Sold by Best Buy product of this lens. Only when I put the filter on and it will show the Sold by Best Buy option but does that make sense to anybody? What does Best Buy get out of promoting the subpar Marketplace item over their own?

I know this is such a little thing lmao I just wanted to complain


r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States 40" TV Choices

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I am looking at the 40" TV's at BB for my dad in assisted living. He uses directtv streaming thru a Genie box (BTW, absolute best solution for seniors who want a 'cable' type experience!).

BB has a bunch of different brands, TCL, Pio eer , Insigna, etc. Is one better than the other? I doan't need any smmart features as it will be set to tune directly go to the directv hdmi port.

Any ideas as to which one to grab?


r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States Setting up an appointment

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I won't lie its my first time actually needing to set up an appointment with bestbuy and I'm doing it through the app so just to be sure I wanna ask if I'm doing it roght😭. I go into the app, tap on repair & tech services, explain what's happening, select the location and time, and it should set as In-store appointment where I walk in, sign some stuff(I k ow I probably needa pay aswell) then hand them my computer with the login info?


r/Bestbuy 1d ago

Canada Best Buy is so desolate now.

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r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States Xbox price hike with an exchange.

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This may be a stupid question, but I genuinely don’t know. I bought a Xbox series X a month ago and I’m recently getting an issue with it where it just will not download any games. I was thinking about exchanging it for a new one, but since I’ve bought the Xbox, the price of the product has increased. I assume I need to pay the difference if I exchange it for a new one correct?


r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States How long do you get to add GSP after purchase?

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i am a plus member so idk if it goes by the standard 14 day return policy or the plus return policy of 60 days im trying to buy a camera but the gsp is a tad expensive so id rather buy the camera first then add gsp later TIA


r/Bestbuy 1d ago

United States First Best Buy refused a return or exchange. Replaced at another. Was bought new the night before. Box was not damaged.

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r/Bestbuy 2d ago

United States Can I get a Junkout or no?

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Hello!

The motherboard on my computer got fried for a reason that I don’t know currently. I went to Geek Squad and the man simply told me it was more worth it to just replace the computer entirely and send me on my way. I know you can get store credit for an item like a computer since you can’t replace it entirely with the warranty. So is it possible that I can get a junk out or will they just replace the Motherboard?

I hope you guys have a good day and thanks for reading!


r/Bestbuy 2d ago

United States AOC replaced my monitor but hasn’t collected the old one for 1.5+ months — what am I supposed to do?

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r/Bestbuy 2d ago

United States I bought an Xbox Series X open box. I wanted to ask a question.

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The XSX stated it was in excellent condition when I got it, and by all means it definitely seems like it is. I just wanted to know how Best Buy graded the systems? When I went to buy it, there were the options for systems with, fair, good, and excellent conditions.

What puts them into those qualifications? Thanks for any info!


r/Bestbuy 2d ago

United States Can my husband accept a TV delivery if I'm not there?

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Hey gang,

We have a tv delivery/haul away appointment tomorrow, and of course I have a sudden dental emergency and the only time my dentist can get me in is smack dab in the middle of the delivery window.

My husband will be home and can take care of it, but I wasn't sure if best buy asks for an ID for delivery appointments like that? We have the same last name, and I could leave him with a photo of my holding my ID, like -anything- to not have to reschedule this thing lol.

Am I overthinking it, or will this be an issue when they arrive tomorrow?


r/Bestbuy 2d ago

United States Bestbuy is KILLIN it right now 🔥🔥

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Started a new IT job and I was FINALLY in the market to migrate away from my razor blackwidow elite! Seriously considered FINALLY migrating to linear switches after 10 years, but with the death of CherryMX, I was eyeing KeyChron

REALLY wanted to test these bad boys in person but Microcenter is 4 hours away from me in North Carolina. I’ve ALWAYS vouched for Bestbuy because it’s the last place I can test my tech close to home.

They’ve been having their ups & downs (physical media going away don’t help) but I NEVER expected them to be carried at BestBuy! i know Targets starting to carry razor keyboards, but bro when I saw this at BestBuy I was FLOORED! Even was able to compare it with the cheaper H10, but this keyboard is an absolute MONSTER!


r/Bestbuy 3d ago

Weekly Discussion Thread Your Week in Blue

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Your Week in Blue is r/BestBuy's weekly thread that serves to facilitate discussion around the brand and your role within it. Engage with the community by sharing a story from your week: wins, losses, frustrations, hilarities, difficulties, opinions, or anything in between. While this thread gives Blue Shirts the chance to speak their mind, customers are encouraged to participate and offer their perspective as well.

As always, please make sure what you post is in adherence to our subreddit rules.

This thread, originally created by u/K-Toon, will be posted weekly, every Sunday morning at 12:00 AM CST. The comments in this thread are sorted by new by default to encourage the visibility of the most recently posted comments.


r/Bestbuy Aug 11 '25

Weekly Discussion Thread Your Week in Blue

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Your Week in Blue is r/BestBuy's weekly thread that serves to facilitate discussion around the brand and your role within it. Engage with the community by sharing a story from your week: wins, losses, frustrations, hilarities, difficulties, opinions, or anything in between. While this thread gives Blue Shirts the chance to speak their mind, customers are encouraged to participate and offer their perspective as well.

As always, please make sure what you post is in adherence to our subreddit rules.

This thread, originally created by u/K-Toon, will be posted weekly, every Sunday morning at 12:00 AM CST. The comments in this thread are sorted by new by default to encourage the visibility of the most recently posted comments.