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> Best Buy to hand out 10M USD in gift cards to HD DVD purchasers
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post Mar 19 2008, 06:58 PM
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Best Buy to hand out 10M USD in gift cards to HD DVD purchasers
Posted by XanTium | March 19 12:58 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
From tgdaily.com:
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Best Buy today said that it will be sending out $50 gift cards to apparently more than 200,000 of its U.S. customers who purchased HD DVD players and Xbox 360 HD DVD units before February 23 of this year.

Best Buy is the latest company in line that wants to ease your pain (and quickly transition to Blu-ray), in case your high-def bets were placed on HD DVD. In prepared statement, the company's president and chief operating officer, Brian Dunn, said that "the DVD format war has divided our customers in a way we haven't seen since Betamax took on VHS more than 20 years ago."

In case you are wondering why Saturday, February 23 is the cut-off date: It is the end of the week, in which Toshiba announced to cancel HD DVD (February 19).
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Full Story: tgdaily.com

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post Mar 19 2008, 07:58 PM
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Nice! This will give me enough money to buy Rock Band and some Microsoft points.
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post Mar 19 2008, 08:25 PM
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What's this, good customer service from Best Buy? Really? Wonder if those card will be shipping on April 1st. tongue.gif
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post Mar 19 2008, 08:55 PM
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sounds like a great way to write off 10M on the taxes as the format is dead and sales will suffer from it in the end. Try to clear out the inventory as fast as possible and move on.
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post Mar 19 2008, 08:56 PM
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blink.gif Will we have to show our reciepts or will they only give out those coupons to anyone who registered their HD DVD player? dry.gif Because i didnt register it. Thanks in advance
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post Mar 19 2008, 09:36 PM
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It is nice that they are doing something for those that purchased HD DVD. They could have offered nothing. Now which new game am I going to buy?
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post Mar 19 2008, 10:01 PM
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Wait, wait, wait.

I purchased my HD DVD addon from Best Buy about 14 months ago. But I don't think BB has my address in their computer. So will they still send me a coupon via my address tied to my credit card?

That'd be sweet. biggrin.gif
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post Mar 19 2008, 11:18 PM
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It probably is based off the best buy rewards program if I had to guess. I know they have my address from that. I got 300 bucks from reward points when I got my plasma tv. That was the only reason I even signed up for it lol. We will see what happens.
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post Mar 20 2008, 03:42 AM
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its cool they are doing this. they certainly dont have to. i just dont get why the hd dvds are still in the $25-$30 range when hd dvd is just about dead... doesnt make sense to me. still.. my gf bought my 360 hd dvd player add on thing, so im glad shes getting the $50 to a store that she'll most likely shop at for me!

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post Mar 20 2008, 03:48 AM
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Futureshop (which is owned by bestbuy) was giving (or still is) 100 dollars on credit for a blue ray player.
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post Mar 20 2008, 08:39 AM
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Great news for me as well. That $135.67 purchase just keeps getting better and better.
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post Mar 20 2008, 02:52 PM
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How about a rebate from MS since I purchased my HD-DVD addon for 360 on eBay 6 months ago.

Anyone else going along with this?

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post Mar 20 2008, 03:24 PM
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I just started a HD-DVD addon petition for the 360. If anyone is interested in signing it, the link is:

http://www.petitiononline.com/xhydex/petition.html
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post Mar 20 2008, 11:41 PM
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HD-DVD is dead and yet it is STILL better than Blu-ray. tongue.gif
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post Mar 21 2008, 02:47 PM
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QUOTE(xhydex @ Mar 20 2008, 03:28 PM) *

How about a rebate from MS since I purchased my HD-DVD addon for 360 on eBay 6 months ago.

Anyone else going along with this?
I hope this is a joke.
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