If for some reason you thought Best Buy Buy Back – a trade-in program in which you pay Best Buy up front for the guarantee that they’ll buy back your gear for a pittance down the line – was a profitable way to get rid of your old gadgets, let Digital Trends disabuse you. They ran the numbers and found that you’re potentially losing hundreds by selling your gadgets to the retailers instead of flipping them online. [DigitalTrends]
A seemingly legitimate $US1,199 Motorola Xoom now sits on the Best Buy web site, ready for pre-order. What happened to the already steep $US800? It would seem the hill has become a mountain for this initially well-received tablet.
It’s no guarantee, but Best Buy’s inventory system has new MacBook Pros in stock on March 11 for $US1200. The date lines up with Apple’s yearly refresh cycle, give or take. But will these have a new design? [9to5Mac]
Yesterday we’d heard that the Motorola Xoom tablet was swinging into town on February 17, for around $US800. According to a leaked Best Buy system screenshot, it’s going to be more like $US700. [DroidAttic via DroidLife]
