Best Buy touts their Price Match Guarantee any time you visit their store to just look around. So we thought we’d put it to the test to see how it really works and if they really do match competitor prices.

To save money on Internet bills, we set out to buy a cable modem (to avoid paying that pesky “modem rental fee.”) So like any other normal person we went online to compare prices. Best Buy had the Netgear Ethernet DOCSIS 3.0 High Speed Cable Modem for $59.99 (and it was available for pickup in our local store the same day), while Wal-Mart had the same model for only $52.50 (but you could only have it shipped and it wouldn’t arrive for at least a week).

Who wants to wait AND pay more money? Not us, so we checked out the Best Buy Price Match Guarantee and found out all we had to do was call to request a price match or print the Wal-Mart price and bring it in store. Best Buy’s rules say the item must be the same model and color and it must be in stock at the competitor’s store (or online). Check and check.

We opted to call Best Buy to request the price match, pay online and have it ready for store pickup the same day. This beats wasting printing paper then trying to find the exact model in store only to wait in line to pay…ugh, how archaic.




The process was very easy and the associate was super friendly. There was some waiting as she looked up the item on the Wal-Mart website and made sure it was in stock, but that would have happened in store anyway. She was also able to process the payment, schedule a free in-store pickup and apply our My Best Buy Rewards card (just by looking up our phone number.)

Overall, price matching at Best Buy was extremely painless and we recommend using it as a way to save money at Best Buy. It does’t hurt to compare prices and only takes one or two extra steps to get some real savings at Best Buy.

Want more ways to save money at Best Buy? Check out our post, 6 Ways to Save Money at Best Buy.