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I don’t want geeks coming into my home, so no thank you!
Right of the bat $199 / year sounds Completely Out of Line when contrasted to $119 (or less) for Amazon Prime. Based upon having a REAL Best Buy less than 2 miles from our home and 14 years of dealing with them had this $200 (rounded UP a dollar x 14 years) have COST me $2,800 cash I would have received TOPS… $200-ish in benefits the ONE time that my “then new to me” TomTom turned toes-up.
Amazon on the other hand automatically provides Thousands of Hours of streaming TV, their own Amazon Exclusive Original content and a ROTATING list of Changing TV season shows included in their Reduced or Free shipping program.
I expect this particular Best Buy BONUS program is Dead On Arrival. I think my LAST purchase at this VERY CLEAN, VERY CONVENIENT, Brick and Mortar store was well over a year ago and the GROSS purchase was under $20