Best Buy's Anti-Sales Trick People Into Overpaying for Computers

**karamazovmm** · May 24, 2010, 09:46 AM

just take a reading in this piece from gizmodo, might be worthy for those of you who are US

http://gizmodo.com/5546203/best-buys...=Google+Reader

**Top-Tier-Tech** · May 24, 2010, 10:08 AM

Best Buy tries to rip off their customers any way they can. Lying is their specialty. Most of their employees are idiots to boot. The only people I know who talk about good experiences with BB are tech noobs.

**Douchebag** · May 24, 2010, 10:22 AM

newegg FTW

**mrmouth** · May 24, 2010, 11:07 AM

The only thing I would ever consider buying at a big box electronics store is a TV, and DVD blanks when they are on sale. They negotiate on TV's, and that is useful. But I'm just amazed that people are so ignorant about the power they have as consumers. With the internet, there are no excuses.

**Taiji** · May 24, 2010, 11:20 AM

Sounds like the US equivalent of the UK's PCWorld/Dixons/Currys (same company... yeah, hows that for a lying start)

**Simetrical** · May 24, 2010, 11:50 AM

Anyone who buys a computer from a company like Best Buy is getting horribly ripped off to begin with. So this is no big revelation. It's like when I needed a SATA data cable fast and so I tried going to the local RadioShack. They wanted to charge me $10.89 for a SATA cable, no joke. I walked out and bought five of them from Newegg for $10.44, counting shipping, and got them in two days.

**Darkpriest667** · May 24, 2010, 02:20 PM

LOL anyone that has any tech reputation at all wouldnt dream of even walking into a best buy.

**mrmouth** · May 24, 2010, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by Simetrical

tried going to the local RadioShack.

Radioshack is nice for the odd bit. Like when I needed to reterminate a headset. But I dont understand how they can justify their prices, either. I was shopping a Headphone extension cable, and they want $15. I can get something better at Monoprice for $1.90...

And that reminds me of the whole Circuit City debacle, where they were telling people they needed $100 Monster HDMI cables to take advantage of their 120Hz HDTV. It was a blatant money grab. And a $4 cable from MP would have worked the same, if not better.

**karamazovmm** · May 24, 2010, 03:08 PM

I would since I use more laptops nowadays, and so I would see the built quality, heating problems....

**Top-Tier-Tech** · May 24, 2010, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Mr MM

I would since I use more laptops nowadays, and so I would see the built quality, heating problems....

Indeed, alternately you could just go in there and ask them really hard questions, see how many times they tell you to talk to someone else, and correct them when they give you bad information.

**Phier** · May 24, 2010, 04:29 PM

I personally liked how the best buy 'website' in store would look identical to the real one but would have the prices higher than the real website.

I did once buy a laptop at best buy (1999), and I still recall the sales dweeb acting like I was a complete moron for not taking their screen replacement service plan.

**karamazovmm** · May 24, 2010, 04:50 PM

yes that geek squad thing? horrible.

**Space Wolves** · May 24, 2010, 04:52 PM

Geek fail. Friend sends in their computer so they can fix the heating and air flow issue. Reward? an additional 2 fans, awkwardly placed, even then the glue used to hold it was spewing out, which promptly melted as the weeks went, and did some bad things to his computer.

Thank god i can be proud that i can build myself my own computer at half the cost!

**ShADoW** · May 24, 2010, 08:50 PM

So, now that I know BB isn't really a place to shop, where would you recommend for electronics?

**Top-Tier-Tech** · May 24, 2010, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by ShADoW

So, now that I know BB isn't really a place to shop, where would you recommend for electronics?

Internet

Newegg or NCIX in Canada.

**tco** · May 24, 2010, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by ChaobSiroc

Internet

Newegg or NCIX in Canada.

Simply the best sites out there for buying electronics.

Also I bought my computer I have now from there, also it was a Dell. Twas the prefect storm of

ness until I fixed it up.

**So Much Fire** · May 24, 2010, 09:52 PM

They're not the only retailer that does it. The cool thing about my local Best Buy is there's an incredibly hyperactive Asian kid in the camera section and it's worth going there for a chat

**craziii** · May 25, 2010, 12:52 AM

err who looks at weekly ads? comparison shopping is the way to go? so I found a good deal at BB, but I am not gonna buy it cause it is BB? does that make sense to you guys? BB got some nice laptops these days, very competitive in price and specs.

**karamazovmm** · May 25, 2010, 02:43 AM

The only laptop that I know that BB got it right is the asus g series. and those are fracked by horrible screens, in BB you go to see in person what you're going to buy in another store.