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Best Buy 'Deserves to Die' (Says Slate)
Newser ^ | 09/20/2013 | By Kevin Spak

Posted on 09/20/2013 8:29:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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Someone needs a Wah-mbulance or is this a good point?
1 posted on 09/20/2013 8:29:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
I don't shop at Best Buy.

I shop at Buy More, and take my computer to the Nerd Herd for service.

2 posted on 09/20/2013 8:32:00 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I’d rather see what I’m buying in person and deal with people.

I don’t want to purchase a cyberpig in a poke.

3 posted on 09/20/2013 8:32:02 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Responsibility2nd

Ah, the difference between liberals and conservatives. I don’t like Best Buy either. The staff and products turn over every 6 months or so and so you really can’t get good support for things you buy there. Having said that, if others like Best Buy, more power to them. The Libs at Slate think that because they don’t like something, that it should be gone — they want to dictate what everyone can do.


4 posted on 09/20/2013 8:33:56 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Responsibility2nd
If anything, Best Buy's reps seem out to scam customers. Throughout the store "salesman after salesman was trying to upsell people"
Trying to up-sell a customer is not new and certainly not a scam.
If the author whining Lib doesn't like it, he doesn't have to shop there.
In fact, he might start his own company and sell products the way he wants. (Yeah, he might, but I friggin' doubt it.)
5 posted on 09/20/2013 8:35:42 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Dear Slate: BB’s customers will decide, not some sissy who “writes” for your blog.


6 posted on 09/20/2013 8:35:53 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

These are the same people that think having one government-run store (think G.U.M. in the former Soviet Union), would be a great idea.


7 posted on 09/20/2013 8:36:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Responsibility2nd

SLATE authors are bunch of metrosexual wankers.

I shop at Best Buy because I can see and compare items and ask questions. If they try to up-sell me, good for them. I say “no thank you” and that’s it. If people don’t like it, they won’t shop there - end of story. I think Matthew Yglesias “needs to die.”


8 posted on 09/20/2013 8:37:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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It is scamming if they are falsely claiming benefits for the upsell.


9 posted on 09/20/2013 8:39:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Responsibility2nd
Getting the 3 year service warranties are a must for laptops, but when they require service, all the Geek Squad really is is a trans-shipping point to HP central with a 2 week turn around time if you are lucky.

Where just-in-time counts in today's computer world, and my business depends on it, I buy two computers at a time so that when one goes and is sent out by Best Buy for 10 days to 2 weeks, I just pop the hard drive in the other identical one and keep working.

The comps I purchase usually give out in advance of the 3-yr service plan so I get a brand new one typically a 2.5 years free of charge.

FReegards!


10 posted on 09/20/2013 8:40:28 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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When I was a teenager, I was in the German exchange program and went to Germany, including East Germany. They took us to their showcase department store in East Berlin. It was the most miserable place I ever saw — I remember being shocked that their showcase store was a dump. They took us to lunch at a nice restaurant there. The food was horrible. We got soft ice cream after lunch. The vanilla ice cream I got in my cone had a red tint to it. That is what Slate wants for all of us.


11 posted on 09/20/2013 8:40:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Best Buy? Screw’em! They lied to me for 2 or 3 weeks, then f’ed me on a rebate 12 years ago. Haven’t went there since. I’m surprised anyone does.


12 posted on 09/20/2013 8:41:08 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Agamemnon

That’s why I love the Apple Store, take my Mac in, they repair it there, and I get it back in a matter of days.


13 posted on 09/20/2013 8:42:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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12 years ago, huh? You keep a long grudge there, donthca?

lolol


14 posted on 09/20/2013 8:43:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: PATRIOT1876

this is why people visit stores and buy online.

The markup is toxic. Especially for fungible items.


15 posted on 09/20/2013 8:45:18 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Well said.

Liberals would like it shut down because they simply don’t like it.

Conservatives who don’t like it would rather see the market take care of it and let the chips fall where they may.

I hate liberalism in all of its guises.


16 posted on 09/20/2013 8:45:18 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Responsibility2nd

makes for an informed voter.


17 posted on 09/20/2013 8:45:57 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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I’d like to think I had something to do with CompUSA going belly-up........They screwed me on a computer repair, and I raised holy Hell with them....When I heard they were closing all of their remaining brick-and-mortar stores, I opened a bottle of champagne.


18 posted on 09/20/2013 8:46:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Responsibility2nd; Opinionated Blowhard

Leftists want to destroy successful businesses, in the name of “leveling the playing field”.

Since BB is now successful, they are therefore an eeeeeevil capitalist group and must therefore die.

OTOH, I recall BB caving to the Muslims on PC grounds, so this should insulate them from Leftist attention. Perhaps not...


19 posted on 09/20/2013 8:47:31 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: Slump Tester

Yes...but as a conservative (I assume you are since you post on FR...not always true, but I will accept it for the sake of argument) you exercise your right as a consumer not to shop there.

You won’t shed any tears if they go under, but neither do you want them to go chapter 11 because some consumer advocate or government entity says they should.

Am I right?


20 posted on 09/20/2013 8:49:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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