yup, that pretty much describes best buy to a 'T'. i have a couple of friends that work their and they say that they spend most of their time on the floor trying to evade customers. did you ever notice that there's always like 50 people on the floor and they've all broken up into groups of 3 and 4. it's funny to see a whole group move to avoid eye contact with you.


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Thats odd... majority of the reps at my local Best Buy are usually overly-anxious, commission-seeking, misinfo-spewing attention whores. Especially in the car audio department. But it is a high volume store. On the other hand, going to Circuit City is like going to play a big game of tag. As soon as you walk in, someone might as well scream "not it!" and everyone in a red shirt disperses. I think the stock room is the "base" 😁

They all watch too much "Star Trek" and they know what happens to the guys in the red shirts who get seen first... 🤣

Best Buy sales reps are not paid commission.

Thanks for playing.

Well, they sure act like it. I couldn't tie my shoe without looking up to see a blue shirt standing over me 🙄

I used to visit Best Buy to purchase gift cards for my employees to give away as prizes and such. When I was there I woudl usually stroll over to the TV section to look at the latest Big Screen, etc. There was a guy there who seemed knoweldgable enough but he constantly disparaged product he didn't like and dressed like a complete scrub.

Many of the reps there were similar to this, some knowledge but very poor sales skills. Without commission many of them had no incentive to perform better.

Actually...that might not be entirely true.

Chris - Lafayette, Indiana
Former Employee

Thing is, we WERE on comission. FOR OUR JOBS. If our performance waned on the sale of fluff items like $60 ink cartridges, $300 service plans, $35 USB cables etc. it would show up in "the numbers." Then we would have our supervisors and management breathing down our necks.

The funniest thing of all? Management gets BONUSES based upon these numbers. THATS JUST COMISSION FOR MANIPULATING YOUR SUBORDINATES INTO SELLING CRAP! So management gets rewarded for good performance, and people like me got a nice pat on the back for getting them more money.

Bonuses are not sales commission for hitting the numbers at Best Buy, as ...
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Go to sleep man.

Either way, they still are not PAID commission.

Commission does refer to something very specific after all - and bonuses going to your manager don't count! It's pretty standard everywhere for managers to get a bonus if they hit their numbers.

I used to work as a restaurant manager - and the managers for that company would get a bonus if they hit their 'target' numbers. I would strongly encourage my employees to stay on task so that we would indeed reach our target.

I wouldn't say that my employees were being paid on commission though! They didn't see a penny of that - they were paid hourly and made the same regardless of whether the managers got bonuses or not.

Semantically speaking, they are the same in this case, despite being used in a differnt syntax.

Commision -
a fee paid to an agent or employee for transacting a piece of business or performing a service; especially : a percentage of the money received from a total paid to the agent responsible for the business.

Bonus -
something in addition to what is expected or strictly due: as a : money or an equivalent given in addition to an employee's usual compensation.

If Best Buy were to actually pay "bonuses" by virtue of the definition, this would be regardless of whether or not "the numbers" were met.

In this case, Best Buy pays a "bonus" only when "the numbers" are met, which would fall under the definition of commission.

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OOOOOOOOk.

The sales reps still do not get any additional compensation in addition to their hourly wages. They don't even get doggie biscuits, which could also be additional compensation, semantically speaking.