best buy labor rates

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Topic: best buy labor rates

Posted By: i am an idiot
Subject: best buy labor rates
Date Posted: May 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM

A few months our local best buy increased their labor rates. I was just wondering if this was an isolated incident, or if it was company wide. I sold a 200 dollar bluetooth deck to a guy in a Nissan, the total ticket was 400 bucks including labor, kit, harness, and antenna adapter. He said BB wanted 350 just for labor. Just curious.

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Posted By: tommy...
Date Posted: May 15, 2012 at 3:38 PM

If the customer would just say they stopped at Best Buy first, My Margins would be higher. posted_image

Yes, very similar pricing over here, too... (Mid-West) We played this game, alot, during remote start season with the SmartStart and Best Buy pricing. After i would quote, they would tell me "Best Buy is selling it for...?"... After they got the labor quote, we were scheduling the Appointment.

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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: May 16, 2012 at 1:20 AM

Pride apart guys what's their general quality of workmanship like?
I'm interested because of parallels here.
I can always sell against the UK equivalent because I can back up comments about their lousy workmanship with photos etc.

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Posted By: tommy...
Date Posted: May 16, 2012 at 8:48 AM

Best Buy USE to be the Best Techs around. They changed their pay scale. There are still some good guys scattered around. Alot of young faces these days.

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