Douglas M
October 30, 2025
I went to Best Buy looking for a new OLED monitor and wasn’t sure what to get. Daniel was incredibly helpful, he showed me all the options, explained the pros and cons, and went over the price ranges in detail. He really knew his stuff and made the whole process easy. I’ll definitely keep coming back to this Best Buy!
I really wish I could leave a zero star review. I went to the Best Buy today in Crystal Lake and purchased a Xbox game pass gift card for PC. The cashier that was there could not seem to be any more annoyed that I was there and checking out. The cashier did not ask for my account information or anything like that and just checked me out and didn’t even look at me. I left and went home to redeem my gift card and upon redemption I received an error message saying “this code is not active please contact merchant to activate this code”. I then called the phone number that was provided for the store and got stuck with an AI assistant who could not answer my question and I had to ask to talk to a worker in store like 5 times before I was able to talk to a actual person. I was then placed on hold for 10 minutes. Someone from customer service answered but not anyone from the store I was trying to contact. Because the cashier did not take down any of my account information the customer service worker was not able to access any purchase information. I was also told that no information on my receipt could be used to access purchase information. The gentleman on the phone then said I have to go into the store and they can decide what they want to do like refund the purchase, exchange the card, or that they could say there nothing they can do. Pretty safe to say my experience was very disappointing both in store and over the phone.
Response from Best Buy
October 30, 2025
Hi, John,
We appreciate you taking the time to share your review with us regarding your recent purchase. We have been alerted to some digital redemption codes experiencing difficulty with being redeemed.
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No way to contact the store, transfers to some foreign customer service who said I can't speak to the store directly. They never look that busy when I get there, just saying.
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