Target must be pissed. The company approaches the holidays with new gift cards that have a built-in 1.2-megapixel digital camera and what does its competitor, Best Buy, do? Best Buy tries a different route with gift cards that have speakers built in to them.

While not nearly as cool as Target’s concept, Best Buy has gotten this far by offering bullshit services like pairing your Bluetooth headset with your phone for $10 bucks. Being able to plug your gift card into your iPod right before you clear the $50 credit at the cash register seems pointless to me. Let’s see if Best Buy follows the way of Circuit City.

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The holiday season is upon us and pretty soon, Black Friday is going to roll around. Why not convince your loved one to go wait overnight in a line for a deal on an MSI Wind? The ultra-hackable netbook is now on sale at Best Buy for just $350 and the specs are updated quite nicely. You’ll score a whopping 120GB hard drive and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, as well as WiFi and a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera. 1GB of RAM tops it off. The 3-cell battery kind of sucks, but you can easily buy a bigger, longer battery for about $100.

It’s awesome that you can walk into a Best Buy and purchase a netbook, finally. Too bad it’s Best Buy.

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The AP is reporting that Apple has cut a deal with Best Buy to make the big box electronics retailer the first independent iPhone retailer. 970 Best Buy locations with an additional 16 Best Buy Mobile chains will carry Apple’s holy phone.

Currently, it doesn’t look like the pricing or deal with AT&T will change anytime soon. This will just be another location you can pick up accessories or grab a phone from if your local Apple store still has a line. Personally, I think that getting your iPhone from Best Buy will just result in a bigger headache over time. Between the worthless employees to the shoddy product, the odds are stacked against you.

Just remember not to spend $10 getting your headset set up for you.

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I’m vocal about how much I hate Best Buy usually. The company tends to price gouge and offer terrible customer service. And Geek Squad? Don’t even get me started. Soon, it is going to find itself doing a long-overdue restructuring that will help it retain customers instead of losing them. In the meantime, check this out:

For $9.99, Best Buy will help you pair your Bluetooth headset with your phone. This includes testing, pairing and a little finger-flicking. Clearly the company is preying on the uninformed consumer who needs to abide by California’s new hands-free calling law. I can only imagine what would happen to the poor SOB who has a phone without Bluetooth. The sales pitches wouldn’t even be the start of it all…

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