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Electronics and Appliances Recycling at Best Buy
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Posted on 12/11/2018 7:10:14 AM PST by Leaning Right

Recycling made easy.

As the nation's largest retail recycler of used electronics and appliances, we're doing our part to responsibly reduce e-waste. We’ll take all kinds of used tech*, regardless of where you bought it, how old it is or who made it.

(Excerpt) Read more at bestbuy.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bestbuy; recycling
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To: sheana

Most Tech sales staff are taught to say “yes” when they don’t know something
“Will this run dual monitors?”
“Yes”

A friend has asked me to set up his office. I told him what to buy and he said “I don’t want to order it. I want to go to the store and walk out with it”. I told him “You don’t have a choice anymore. Computer stores are a thing of the past”. He thought we could just walk into a Gateway store and buy some desktops.


21 posted on 12/11/2018 8:13:27 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Buy regularly from BB and Lowes.

Your comments do not represent the real world.


22 posted on 12/11/2018 8:14:53 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Fresh Wind

They’re good at snagging personal info off your old stuff. Best to use it for target practice and toss it in the garbage.


23 posted on 12/11/2018 8:17:11 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Professional

I shop BB but online I use Newegg and Crutchfield.


24 posted on 12/11/2018 8:17:44 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Leaning Right
I also will never set foot in a BestBuy every again. About 10 years ago, they opened a store in the area. It was Christmas time, and the only thing the wife asked for a small radio/CD player for her desk at work. When I entered the store, there were about a dozen “associates” roaming around the store, each one trying their best to look busy without actually helping anyone. In addition, every stereo and TV was blasting at full volume as if in competition with each other.

I found the item I was looking for and proceeded to the front of the store to check out. There were 15 people in line ahead of me, and only 2 of the 8 registers were open. I waited (impatiently) for 25 minutes just to pay for my purchase. Then, with only 1 person in line ahead of me, one of the two cashiers decided it was time for her break, closed down her register, and just walked off.

When I finally got to the register, paid for my purchase and started for the door, the Manager, (some 20 something Millennial, who was standing at the exit, checking receipts) made the mistake in asking me about my shopping experience.

Needless to say, I let him have it with both barrels. I informed him that this was the most poorly managed store I have ever had the displeasure of stepping foot in. The stereos and TVs needed the volume turned way down and at least half of the “associates” needed to be taken off the floor and put on registers, because they weren’t doing any good on the floor anyway. I then informed him, that instead of him standing at the exit, checking receipts, he should be managing his employees. Finally, I said I would never step foot in this store or any BestBuy ever again, and that I would be making a full report to the corporate office online.

He looked like he was about ready to bust out crying any minute, so I exited the store and true to my word, have never stepped foot in any BestBuy since then.

25 posted on 12/11/2018 8:29:38 AM PST by cuz_it_aint_their_money (That's what I do, I drink and I know things. - Tyrion Lannister)
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To: Leaning Right

Best thing you can do with a CRT is put a bullet though the glass, tear off the serial number and put it in a dump.

As for Worst Buy, they gave precious little in the stores. Their song is “Oh, but we can SHIP IT YOU YOU (and charge shipping). Problem after ot’s Shipped? Don’t take it back to the store. You have to SHIP IT to an authorized factory service center—and pay for shipping.

I had a Worst Buy manager try to sell this as a benefit—they have hundreds of thousands of items online and they can SHIP IT TO YOU! It’s the wave of the future!! I asked him “and when everything is sold online and SHIPPED TO YOU, what earthly purpose would they have for a store manager?

He realized what wil happen to his job. He had no words. I left.
My parting shot was “Don’t worry about your final check—they’ll SHIP IT TO YOU.”


26 posted on 12/11/2018 8:29:56 AM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Fresh Wind
Do research before you dump

The research is complete.

You have old unused and perhaps unusable electronics headed for the landfill when someone offers to take it off your hands and keep it out of the landfill.

If someone takes what you dispose of and sell it for $1,000 you are not out a single cent.

Recycle.org is another way.

27 posted on 12/11/2018 8:37:37 AM PST by MosesKnows
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To: bgill

“They’re good at snagging personal info off your old stuff. Best to use it for target practice and toss it in the garbage.”

small sledge hammers work wonders on old hard drives ...though what i really prefer is to disassemble them and extract the super-strong magnets in them, and THEN sledge hammer the remains ...


28 posted on 12/11/2018 8:42:59 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Fresh Wind

and some worth only a small amount ... we have a local outfit that pays by the pound for circuit boards and other clean electronic components because they resell this stuff to mills that extract out the valuable metals in the solder, wires, heat sinks, etc. ... i end up with lots of obsolete electronics from customers and just for fun, i extract the electronics, toss the plastic, and save up boxes of the boards in my barn, which i periodically sell to the recycler ...


29 posted on 12/11/2018 8:48:00 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: TexasGator

That is an asinine comment. It is real world. It has happened to me as described.

Google customer service complaints for Best Buy.


30 posted on 12/11/2018 9:01:07 AM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Professional

Micro Center

You could try it out.


31 posted on 12/11/2018 9:15:26 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Leaning Right

I threw a bunch of my old electronics into a box, then put a for sale classified in Craig’s list for the box and two old TV’s for $10. Sold the next day, guy offered $5, we settled on 7.


32 posted on 12/11/2018 9:36:26 AM PST by SirFishalot
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

So your one experience represents the real world while my multiple experiences do not? What an asinine comment!


33 posted on 12/11/2018 10:13:44 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

Mine either. Best Buy is one of my favorite stores.


34 posted on 12/11/2018 10:20:25 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: TexasGator

Well, I actually, kind of knew it. That’s why I pressed him so hard on the full refund.


35 posted on 12/12/2018 5:16:57 AM PST by sheana
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