TalonMan said:
outlawauron said:
I'm speaking from my own, extensive experience with BB and GCU. I do not get charged until my preorder is being prepared to ship. I do not get charged at time of order for preordering video games. Most recently, I had SMO preordered. I ordered it in January, and wasn't charged until it shipped last week. Unless that policy has changed in the past week or two, that's not how it works...
The checkout process for Amazon and Best Buy do not differ at all for me (although, I purposefully do not use their 1 click order option because I've with enough problems with payment options), both are very simple and easy. Both take less than 5 minutes.
As for dominating the retail market, they still lag behind GameStop who is the most consumer unfriendly out of them all. That's more to do with their volume of stores I guess.
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Maybe it depends on what you use for payment - I use PayPal (another PERK of BestBuy, imo - I prefer to use PayPal, and Amazon does NOT allow you to!!) and the charge is immediate, even for pre-orders...
...but I don't get the long drawn-out process, to cancel that Superchunk is referring it - it's literally about the same number of clicks to cancel an order on Best Buy, as it is to cancel one on Amazon. And the refund is IMMEDIATE (again, I'm using PayPal - so maybe others have a different experience) - two minutes after canceling, I get an email from PayPal that my account has been credited.
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That's something I hadn't considered. I've never used Paypal for Best Buy, and I usually my Amex to cover it. Applying things like Reward Zone certs hasn't affected it either.
