Last week Best Buy contacted us to tell us we had exceeded their API capacity (we get prices from their API) and as a result they would have to increase the capacity of the product feed we use for ShopSavvy.  They even tweeted the news here.  Yesterday they received  more than 5.3 million calls to the API.  Best Buy is a great partner and to repay their support we thought it might be fun to arrange for a bunch of ShopSavvy users to show up at Best Buy for a ‘Scan Mob’ this evening.  Sort of like a Flash Mob, Scan Mob participants were asked to show up at a predetermined time and location and begin scanning the barcode of everything in sight.

The Scan Mob participants scanned hundreds of items finding opportunities for savings (Best Buy prices matches online retailer prices such as Amazon) as well as finding that Best Buy had great deals on lots of the products they wanted to buy.  My parents even showed up and saved quite a bit on Jawbone Bluetooth headsets.  Buy the end of the ‘Scan Mob’ a manager finally came up to us and asked what we were doing.  Rylan showed him ShopSavvy and the manager explained there was NO video allowed.  Rylan explained that ShopSavvy was not using video.  The manager then explained to him that there were no pictures allowed.  Rylan explained that ShopSavvy was not taking a photo.  I mentioned that ShopSavvy was a partner of Best Buy and he let us continue wrecking havoc on the store (just kidding).  I wanted to thank the Best Buy team at store #58 as well as the API team – you guys are awesome partners and a big reason ShopSavvy is such a success.  Thanks a lot!  Here is a video from this evening: