Filed under: Portable Audio

So we’re starting to realize how Best Buy is pulling in record profits while the rest of the industry crashes and burns: it’s the little things, you see. For instance, the ubiquitous big box retailer is offering a $50 pre-paid Sirius gift card on its online site for the bargain price of only $55; a $5 markup for a little voucher whose “holiday version” can be purchased three lines below for the normal price — that is, whether it wasn’t somehow sold out online. (How hard is

it to print up a new batch of those things, anyway?) The distraught customer could head to Best Buy’s XM section, where $55 gift cards only cost $55, or he or she could simply go by to rival Circuit City, where not only does the same $50 card actually cost $50, it’s available immediately and not backordered one to two weeks.

[Via Orbitcast]

 

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Orginal post by Evan Blass