Best Buy=Worst Buy

I have been wanting a digital camera FOREVER! I have owed myself for getting a 4.o gpa 3 years ago. Since then I have graduated and still no camera.....well I finally did it. I ordered one! It has been such a process. I have been so poor and indecisive that this purchase has been just ridiculous.

I decided to get a camera like my mothers. My father has done hours of research online--with SLOW dial-up; and decided that the HP R627 was the one for my mom. I tested it out over Thanksgiving and liked it. I decided to purchase one of those. So a few weeks later I was ready to make the purchase. My father called and told me not to get the R627 but to get the R967. It was a wonderful 10.0 megapixel camera with all sorts of features and Best Buy had them on sale online! I was excited. I went to the city library because I did not have internet service at my home. It took forever to order the camera and memory card and download appropriate mail-in rebates. Finally I was done and ready to leave the library.

I get home and look up the phone number to my credit card company to call them and let them know I made a purchase and since I have a PO Box and Best Buy only accepted physical addresses I had to call and tell them I did make the purchase and to let the charge go through. They did. Then 2 days later I get an email saying my personal info could not be verified and my order was canceled. I was so upset. I called Best Buy and talked to a lady who I could barely understand because her accent was so thick. She told me that my credit card co. had declined the purchase. So I called the credit card co. again. They told me they did let it go through. So I call back to Best Buy and sit on hold for 35 min. This time I can understand the person so much better--he still had an accent. He told me that they had canceled the order before the credit card co had approved it. I asked why and he did not know. Now it had been 43 minutes. I am irritated and frustrated that I cannot get the camera. I was told the only way I could order it again was to go online. I could not order it over the phone like the little messages told me to while I was on hold. ARRGGGHH!

So I decide to order my camera again. I go online and the camera is now $50 more. I am even more ticked off and decide to email Best Buy. I was denied the opportunity to match the sale price and told I was out of luck! The bubble that held my digital camera burst, spilling the camera onto the floor where it broke in 1,000 pieces. I was so sad.

I decided to go to the website my father had purchased his camera from. Beachcamera.com. It is a wonderful place. I ended up ordering another camera that I am going to like better that the one at Worst Buy! I should have the camera on Dec 20th. My bubble has fixed itself and it is even more wonderful than the original! So I guess I should thank Worst Buy for denying my money and forcing me to spend it elsewhere!