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Best Buy Promoting Beats By Forcing Staff To Wear Them

post #1 of 8
11/23/11 at 8:47pm
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I'm not sure if this is a nationwide thing, but I walked into my local Best Buy last weekend to see if I could test out the Klipsch Image One (it was beaten up and not even burnt in anyways when I got there), and to my horror I found the entire staff of the store wearing Beats around their necks. Brainwashing at its finest.

 

Is this a nationwide thing?

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post #2 of 8
11/23/11 at 8:49pm

Another Beats bashing thread. **** is getting old. Stuff like this happens all the time for other brands so I don't know why you're singling out Beats.

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post #3 of 8
11/23/11 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by ssrock64 View Post

I'm not sure if this is a nationwide thing, but I walked into my local Best Buy last weekend to see if I could test out the Klipsch Image One (it was beaten up and not even burnt in anyways when I got there), and to my horror I found the entire staff of the store wearing Beats around their necks. Brainwashing at its finest.

 

Is this a nationwide thing?



That's pretty creepy, no matter what headphone is being promoted.

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post #4 of 8
11/23/11 at 10:49pm

Hehe, i saw this a few months ago, but only one girl was wearing them and i was wondering "why are you wearing headphones aren't you supposed to be working and ringing us up?"...

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post #5 of 8
11/23/11 at 10:58pm

so did someone pay best buy under the table to make their staffs wear them so they can have a psychological effect on people who come in? i haven't been to best buy for about 2 years, and i don't plan to step in again out of curosity just to see if they are wearing beats.

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post #6 of 8
11/23/11 at 11:08pm

I don't think anyone had to pay um, stores do all the research to design things to sell n such, like knowing people like to walk to the left when they enter a store and then put the hottest/priciest items on the left side....

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post #7 of 8
11/23/11 at 11:23pm

How is this different from any other advertising tactic? It's like placing a decal on a Formula One car.

 

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post #8 of 8
11/24/11 at 12:23am
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Originally Posted by doco View Post
so did someone pay best buy under the table to make their staffs wear them so they can have a psychological effect on people who come in? i haven't been to best buy for about 2 years, and i don't plan to step in again out of curosity just to see if they are wearing beats.

One or more of the following should be true

Bestbuy will have a huge markup on the Beats headphones.

Dr. Dre will give Bestbuy money for advertising Beats.
Dr Dre may have agreements with all Beats retailers that they can not sell below a certain price.

Dr Dre will give Beats retail sellers a kickback for every headphone they sell.

 

 

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