I really didn't start out wanting to get a whole new computer. Originally, my thoughts were to get a nicer monitor...maybe spend a couple of hundred bucks at the most. So off I mosey to Best Buy after I eyeballed their ad both on paper and online.
I walk in to the store that was blasting out some crappy music through their speakers and I'm asked by an annoying blue shirt every couple of minutes if "I need any help".
No...I'm just looking and comparing a few monitors right now so I send them away, but they just stand right there beside me making me nervous, like they expect me to slip a monitor in my pants and walk out the store or something. Eventually, they do go off to pester some other customer and I have time to think and decide what I wish to buy. After a while, I come to a decision.
Nobody in sight. I wave my credit card in the air in the hopes of attracting the attention of somebody who wishes to take my money. Nothing. There is even a lull of silence while somebody is switching out one CD of incomprehensible rap crap for another.
I break up a gang of clerks trying to hit on some young girl and point to what I've decided to purchase.
"Oh...we're out of that"
"It was in your ad that came out today."
"Yeah, but we don't have anymore of them."
"Hookay how about this one", I said, pointing to what was my second choice...a bit more in price but one I was willing to settle for.
"Uhhhhh.....no more of those either."
I kind of rolled my eyes and said "just which of all these monitors you have displayed here do you actually have for sale?".
He then proceeded to show me a fine selection of 3 crappy monitors that I had no interest in buying. He did offer to sell me the display models....no discount....no warranty. No thanks.
Long story short; I went elsewhere to look for a monitor. I discovered that I could just get a whole new computer for not much more than I would pay for a high quality monitor. I started considering that my old computer was beginning to show signs of breaking down and decided to just take the plunge.
I wouldn't go back to Best Buy if they were giving out cookies and back rubs. I have a nice new computer to play with and didn't have to wade through all the bullshit to get it.
Though....I am stuck with Vista now.
3 comments:
Thats why best buy is out of bussiness. It kinda sucks cause i liked that store
One of my goals in life is to avoid Best Buy whenever possible.
Too many "bad times"
T
mo_inoh....I would like to like the store too, but they are so into bait and switch sales tactics that I find it difficult to trust them.
Terry...I sure haven't got any fond memories from the times I've shopped there.
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