Sam Club Jawbone BIG JAMBOX $169.98 HOT DEAL

Worked for me at the second BB on the way home today!

First BB (Alderwood, WA): Grabbed a red Big Jambox and headed for the checkout. Asked whether BB price matches Sams Club and got a resounding "yes!" Ok, off to a good start. Started out by showing the page with the price of $168.99, and then tapped over to the info tab on their mobile site to reveal, in the first sentence, that the product in their catalog is a Big Jambox. The nit ended up being that the Jambox I was requesting was red, instead of black at the link, and that a manager needed to review. Long story short (too late?), the manager told me that I would need to purchase a black Jambox and show a Sams Club card, and unfortunately Black was out of stock and I'm not a Sams Club member. Walked out with nothing, but fortunately the entire ordeal took less than 10 minutes.

Second BB (Northgate/Seattle, WA): Headed straight over and grabbed another red Big Jambox and made a bee line for the checkout. This time, nothing but success: same method of showing the price and then tapping over to the info tab. The cashier tried to find the model number on the box to match it to the website, but wasn't able to find anything besides the serial number and just put the PM through. Noteworthy is that he wasn't able to find Sams Club in their competitor PM list, but instead selected Walmart, and I was never asked to present a club card. The cashier did note that normally the products would need to be the same color, but since they were the same price he would put the PM through. Hooray!

For what it's worth, after rocking out on this thing for half of a day using 3 or 4 different BT devices I can report that this baby was probably worth the $300 asking price. Very, very slick and heavily YMMV deal, though the success rate seems pretty high. I'm sort-of a minimalist and really hate big and intrusive things, especially in my electronic devices. Probably one of my better purchases of 2012.

Thanks OP! +TU +REP