Best Buy To Start Selling Green Vehicles

Wall Street Journal:

Best Buy Co., best known as a vendor of giant televisions, is veering in a new direction: selling green vehicles.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[demimckingwoodtx]

Wow! what an innovative idea, I can't wait for the first car being showcased in the TV section of the store.

[obamanomics]

It's not a car it's nothing more than an overpriced moped.

[fairdebate]

Wow...I will take none....I just sold all my best buy stock

[westreal]

Bravo Best Buy. This will definitely put pressure on the auto industry especially if Best Buy is successful with this.

[obamanomics]

A 12k dollar moped? Brilliant, they will make some money off that***snicker****.

[frantaylor]

Will they come with the same 40% markup that they apply to everything else they sell?

I call them "Desperate Buy" because I only go there when there is no time to buy something on the Internet for a proper price.

[blooddoc]

Ditto. If Best Buy's selling it, you can bet you'll be paying top dollar for it.

[Ponderus]

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[Deaninphilly]

And like most things unless on sale it will be overpriced at Best Buy. I always get a chuckle out of not only the people looking at computers at Best Buy but also listening to the sales people talk to the customers. Neither has a clue and the customer usually ends up paying a whole lot more for less if they would have just done some research.

The people buying the HDMI cables just throw me into hysterics of laughter. Paying $50 and up for a cable you could have gotten online for about $15.00.

[LittlePurpleUSA]

Hell, my cable company gave it to me for free.

[PJX]

Would you like an extended warranty with that?

[WongChin]

A $12,000 scooter that gives only 45 miles on a charge? It 's got to be a poorly-conceived stunt or foolishly risky venture.

[ptfcNassoc]

These scooters and segways are for people living cities. As you read in the article they are testing these out first in a few states, CA, OR, and WA. So thats LA, San Fran, Portland, and Seattle. These scooters are definitely not going to ever be in all best buys.

[StephBr]

Am I alone to get really tired of the "green" label?
These vehicles are not green, they are plug-ins, electric and come in all colors.
I am building an electric vanagon, a white one...

[totalliberal]

Will the Geek Squad come to your home to fix it. They don't look like bikers.

[pissedmichael]

I'm all for going green but this is just plain silly. $11,995 for what amounts to a scooter? In this economy? This only discourages the public from embracing green transportation. At this price, it's a simple indulgence, an extravagance. The people who can afford this will buy it as a novelty, get bored with it, and store it in the garage with all the exercise equipment-­-gathering dust. Sorry, I just don't see this as viable or even good marketing. The only place I can see this mode of transportation effective is maybe a college town, or even a senior community (not too senior). It just does not sound like something I'd want to ride in the general nightmare of giant SUV's and other gas hogs that we call traffic today. I'm not saying the product is necessarily bad, it's just not going to effect a change in how we think about transportation and the environment. That's not going to happen until people give up their Harley's and Suzuki's--not to mention all the other transports we feel we just have to have to feel better about our place in the world. Attitude needs a significant adjustment before this will have a chance--and a huge reduction in price.

[ptfcNassoc]

Excellent point. Green technology is to expensive right now and it's hard for the average person to be all about it when they can't afford it. When you are stuggling and just trying to make it, put some food on the table and see another day its hard to contribute to the "health" of the Earth when Green technology is not affordable. Stimulus package = R&D = cost reduction. Still waiting.

[AlaninElkGrove]

Best Buy: where America goes to buy "plug-ins"...

[PDXTransplant]

Why so they won't have any in stock when you go to buy one? I despise that store.

[RichInSeattle]

So Best Buy has people who work there that are horribly stupid, and now they want to sell cars? Really? Seriously? They have a hard time getting a video game rung up at the front counter.

I love what Best Buys sells, I hate the people who work there that sell the stuff.