@jmitw wrote:

@sail2sunset wrote:

Your comments are Easy to say. Not easy to do. I have been carpet-bombing for weeks. You are fortunate that I am spreading the word now to fellow shoppers. Be grateful and don't give such an easy reply from your distant armchair. The company selling this shop was reputable - just they have made a huge faux pas this time and I am paying the heavy price. Keep the messaging going so other shoppers resist the temptation to apply for this shop. I will work out the issue. It's a nuisance and totally unnecessary if the company had planned the return in a more creditable way.

IF YOU ARE JUST GOING TO ATTACK US FOR REPLYING THAN DON'T POST ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH.

The fact is anytime your credit is run to extend any type of credit to you...it hurts your credit rating...for that purpose alone..I will not so any shops that will affect my credit rating even if they go perfectly and everything is paid and reimbursed.

@Lorrie68 wrote:

I did this shop which would have been fairly easy if it didn't take 45 minutes to return the phone. I don't deal with Best Buy since I had to pull teeth to receive a refund. I'm sure they had something to do with not allowing you out of the contract.

@SoCalMama wrote:

@jmitw wrote:

@sail2sunset wrote:

Your comments are Easy to say. Not easy to do. I have been carpet-bombing for weeks. You are fortunate that I am spreading the word now to fellow shoppers. Be grateful and don't give such an easy reply from your distant armchair. The company selling this shop was reputable - just they have made a huge faux pas this time and I am paying the heavy price. Keep the messaging going so other shoppers resist the temptation to apply for this shop. I will work out the issue. It's a nuisance and totally unnecessary if the company had planned the return in a more creditable way.

IF YOU ARE JUST GOING TO ATTACK US FOR REPLYING THAN DON'T POST ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH.

The fact is anytime your credit is run to extend any type of credit to you...it hurts your credit rating...for that purpose alone..I will not so any shops that will affect my credit rating even if they go perfectly and everything is paid and reimbursed.

I find that posts like this one are less than helpful and discourage people from posting. I wish I knew everything. Must be nice.

FWIW my credit score is 830 this month.

I appreciate OP making this post. I hope that it warned more than a few people. Feel free to bash me. I could care less.

@squireparty wrote:

@Lorrie68 wrote:

I did this shop which would have been fairly easy if it didn't take 45 minutes to return the phone. I don't deal with Best Buy since I had to pull teeth to receive a refund. I'm sure they had something to do with not allowing you out of the contract.

I've had an unpleasant experience with Best Buy in the past and now tend to avoid them like a plague except for the days I can get walk-in points to walk into a Best Buy store on Shopkick.....at least they are good for something this way. I don't blame anyone else for being wary of them, not at all.

@jmitw wrote:

@SoCalMama wrote:

@jmitw wrote:

@sail2sunset wrote:

Your comments are Easy to say. Not easy to do. I have been carpet-bombing for weeks. You are fortunate that I am spreading the word now to fellow shoppers. Be grateful and don't give such an easy reply from your distant armchair. The company selling this shop was reputable - just they have made a huge faux pas this time and I am paying the heavy price. Keep the messaging going so other shoppers resist the temptation to apply for this shop. I will work out the issue. It's a nuisance and totally unnecessary if the company had planned the return in a more creditable way.

IF YOU ARE JUST GOING TO ATTACK US FOR REPLYING THAN DON'T POST ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH.

The fact is anytime your credit is run to extend any type of credit to you...it hurts your credit rating...for that purpose alone..I will not so any shops that will affect my credit rating even if they go perfectly and everything is paid and reimbursed.

I find that posts like this one are less than helpful and discourage people from posting. I wish I knew everything. Must be nice.

FWIW my credit score is 830 this month.

I appreciate OP making this post. I hope that it warned more than a few people. Feel free to bash me. I could care less.

COMMENTS LIKE THIS FROM THE OP:
"Be grateful and don't give such an easy reply from your distant armchair. "

ARE LESS THAN HELPFUL AND DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@bgriffin wrote:

You mean couldn't.

@jmitw wrote:

I couldn't get my SK points until I reported them to BBB.....I specifically asked if they knew how to do it...they said yes...took my number....and then no points....and I had bought a laptop....many people have had the problem with Best Buy not crediting SK points...and SK is always unethical and unprofessional about it..essentially they just tell you to go away.

@pyrofuego wrote:

For what it's worth to those who use Shopkick, their program seems to have changed a bit. They've just doubled the number of participating locations in my area, and I'm finding that I'm able to pick up kicks from the parking lot at most locations now. I actually wasn't able to get them inside a Walmart yesterday because I was pinging off a tower about 3 miles away, but I opened the app in my car and was credited. Not going to lie, it was kind of nice to be able to drive through the Costco parking lot and get the bonus today without having to deal with the crowds.

@sail2sunset wrote:

Your comments are Easy to say. Not easy to do. I have been carpet-bombing for weeks. You are fortunate that I am spreading the word now to fellow shoppers. Be grateful and don't give such an easy reply from your distant armchair. The company selling this shop was reputable - just they have made a huge faux pas this time and I am paying the heavy price. Keep the messaging going so other shoppers resist the temptation to apply for this shop. I will work out the issue. It's a nuisance and totally unnecessary if the company had planned the return in a more creditable way.

@kethry24 wrote:

I usually get at least $500-750 value (sometimes more) out of each hard pull on my credit, but I am a miles junkie. When I saw this shop all I could see was losing at least $450 worth of value for a hard pull on my credit (and a lot of hassle.)

@myst4au wrote:

I am rather confused because Shopkick does not use GPS, WiFi or cell phone signals, it determines your presence inside a store by having the phone listen for "a highly accurate inaudible audio signal that is unique to each store that can be detected by smartphone". You can also get "kicks" for making purchases after you have been detected in the store. Also confusing is that I can't find any mention of Costco or Walmart on the Shopkick website, or in the Wikipedia article about Shopkick. there are items sold at Costco and Walmart, the barcodes of which you can scan for kicks, but I don't think that you can get kicks for just going inside a Costco or a Walmart. Maybe I am missing out on something?

@jilummer wrote:

@kethry24 wrote:

I usually get at least $500-750 value (sometimes more) out of each hard pull on my credit, but I am a miles junkie. When I saw this shop all I could see was losing at least $450 worth of value for a hard pull on my credit (and a lot of hassle.)

That's interesting to me. My score is 758. How do you get value from hard pulls?

@myst4au wrote:

If you return the phone within two days as required, they credit your account. The points you earned on your credit card get reversed. You are getting a hard credit hit for nothing other than the shop fee (which I saw earlier today is now up to $100 and still very few takers, in some states, none at all).

@kethry24 wrote:

Correct. I am not doing the shop because I get much more value out of a credit pull (by using that pull for other things) than the amount of this shop fee.