Here is my Story:
08/28/2014 : Purchased appliances for $5322 with an offer of 10% back in rewards if I sign-up for Besy Buy credit card. I haven't received it yet rather I am going through a nightmare of my best buy support desk calls who doesn't know what they are doing or who do not have any power to resolve the problem. I strongly believe that Best Buy is purposefully doing this since some people may give after few tries. I know many of my friends went trhough this (if that was known to me earlier I would never made the decision to buy from best buy). At this point I spent numerous hours speaking to best buy support personnels and still do not know what is happening with my rewards.
Started following up on the rewards points from 09/15 onwards by contacting mybest buy support. There was no one who could clearly address or solve my problem. Following are the responses that I get on all the calls that I made to Best Buy:
1. We don't handle your case as you are an elite calss memeber. We will transfer you to that department. (I don't feel I am an elite class member. Infact I don't care the class. What I do care is prompt resolution of customer service requests.)
2. Every time I was transferred to a minimum of 4 departments and ended up telling my stories to each one of them. This is happening even today (10/18) and finally the person on the phone told me she can connect me to some one who can solve my issue and disconnected the call.
3. Your case is open and will take 7-10 business days (just because I am ELITE CLASS MEMBER!!!)to close (this is the same answer I get every time sinc I called first time on 09/15).
Bottomline:
I need to get my $532 rewards with out any delay.
No more phone calls to help desk (it was useless and a waste of time)
Never ever get cheated by the Best Buy offer of x% back in rewards. They take us through this bad experience everytime. it is not just with me ....I know my close friend who purchased almost the same time as me also went through this. May thats how best buy is making money........by cheating on giving fraud offers to customers...
Next Steps if not resolved:
1. Report to Better Business Bureau
2. File a complaint with FTC
3. Seek legal help