Best Buy pranked...

[calico]

Sorry if this is old, but I have been laughing my *** off reading this.

http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57


I wish I had been in on this.

 

[Yeagermeister]

My wife sent that to me the other day and I was going to post it but forgot. I liked the guy who brought his daughters because it was bring your daughter to work day

 

[ROMOSAPIEN9]

That was some funny stuff man. Thanks for sharing.

 

[TruBlueCowboy]

"Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!"

 

[calico]

"Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!"

Oh, I would have loved to have been in on it.

I love the manager's claim of her civil rights being violated. ROFL.

And the

"Do I come to your house and videotape you?"

"Uh, who lives here?"

That sounds just like the typical crap they would spin to me whenever I had to deal with one of their managers.

 

[bobtheflob]

Haha, that was great. The sad thing was that I bet those agents were better at helping customers than the real employees.

 

[calico]

Haha, that was great. The sad thing was that I bet those agents were better at helping customers than the real employees.

That is the truth. My local Best Buy is horrible. They hire nothing but highschool kids or college girls with huge tats. They know nothing at all. I tried to apply for a job there right out of college and they wanted nothing to do with me because they did not want to have to pay me much at all. Even though I walked circles around their current home theater employees in the interview. But, I guess it is easier for the loser, lifertime managers who have been there since high school to hire their eye candy who know nothing and pay them nothing...only to replace them in less than 24 hours when needed.

About 6 months ago, I was buying some new speakers tower speakers for my home theater system and I did everything I could to avoid their idiotic questions. But, they did not have the speakers down on the floor...only up at the VERY top of their shelves.

I looked for a ladder or something but there was none around, so I asked the slob working in hometheater section to get them down.

He looked embarassed and said, "Sorry, I am not qualified to use the stairs. I will find someone who can."

I actually laughed my *** off because I thought he was joking...but he was dead serious. The manager comes over and said the speakers were not in stock. I pointed to the top where the model number takes up half the side of the box and asked "what are those then?"

It took him about 30 mins, but he finally got the speakers down only to harass me about their rip-off warranty plan. Of course, he tossed in all the lies they use to push those.

"These speakers come with ONLY a 3 month warranty and blow out easily."

They actually came with a 5 year warranty-parts and labor.

"We will replace them with new ones in 2 years. Lets say you want to trade them out for new ones or newer model...just bring them in under this plan and we will switch them out."

That is their biggest lie. They will not do this at all. Their managers will tell you that it is not in the warranty when you try to do it, and if you try to tell them that a salesperson told you that, they tell you that you must have "miss heard."

Don't even get me started on their little magazine scam they have when you check out and how they will illegally run your credit card to meet their sales numbers.

Anyway, I am done complaining for now.

 

[Yeagermeister]

That is the truth. My local Best Buy is horrible. They hire nothing but highschool kids or college girls with huge tats. They know nothing at all. I tried to apply for a job there right out of college and they wanted nothing to do with me because they did not want to have to pay me much at all. Even though I walked circles around their current home theater employees in the interview. But, I guess it is easier for the loser, lifertime managers who have been there since high school to hire their eye candy who know nothing and pay them nothing...only to replace them in less than 24 hours when needed.

About 6 months ago, I was buying some new speakers tower speakers for my home theater system and I did everything I could to avoid their idiotic questions. But, they did not have the speakers down on the floor...only up at the VERY top of their shelves.

I looked for a ladder or something but there was none around, so I asked the slob working in hometheater section to get them down.

He looked embarassed and said, "Sorry, I am not qualified to use the stairs. I will find someone who can."

I actually laughed my *** off because I thought he was joking...but he was dead serious. The manager comes over and said the speakers were not in stock. I pointed to the top where the model number takes up half the side of the box and asked "what are those then?"

It took him about 30 mins, but he finally got the speakers down only to harass me about their rip-off warranty plan. Of course, he tossed in all the lies they use to push those.

"These speakers come with ONLY a 3 month warranty and blow out easily."

They actually came with a 5 year warranty-parts and labor.

"We will replace them with new ones in 2 years. Lets say you want to trade them out for new ones or newer model...just bring them in under this plan and we will switch them out."

That is their biggest lie. They will not do this at all. Their managers will tell you that it is not in the warranty when you try to do it, and if you try to tell them that a salesperson told you that, they tell you that you must have "miss heard."

Don't even get me started on their little magazine scam they have when you check out and how they will illegally run your credit card to meet their sales numbers.

Anyway, I am done complaining for now.

I'm shocked you actually found someone to help you. If you don't need anything they are all over you but as soon as you need help it's a ghost town. I know where everything I need is and I'm usually in and out in 15 mins max.

 

[cowboyfan4life_mark]

That is the truth. My local Best Buy is horrible. They hire nothing but highschool kids or college girls with huge tats. They know nothing at all. I tried to apply for a job there right out of college and they wanted nothing to do with me because they did not want to have to pay me much at all. Even though I walked circles around their current home theater employees in the interview. But, I guess it is easier for the loser, lifertime managers who have been there since high school to hire their eye candy who know nothing and pay them nothing...only to replace them in less than 24 hours when needed.

About 6 months ago, I was buying some new speakers tower speakers for my home theater system and I did everything I could to avoid their idiotic questions. But, they did not have the speakers down on the floor...only up at the VERY top of their shelves.

I looked for a ladder or something but there was none around, so I asked the slob working in hometheater section to get them down.

He looked embarassed and said, "Sorry, I am not qualified to use the stairs. I will find someone who can."

I actually laughed my *** off because I thought he was joking...but he was dead serious. The manager comes over and said the speakers were not in stock. I pointed to the top where the model number takes up half the side of the box and asked "what are those then?"

It took him about 30 mins, but he finally got the speakers down only to harass me about their rip-off warranty plan. Of course, he tossed in all the lies they use to push those.

"These speakers come with ONLY a 3 month warranty and blow out easily."

They actually came with a 5 year warranty-parts and labor.

"We will replace them with new ones in 2 years. Lets say you want to trade them out for new ones or newer model...just bring them in under this plan and we will switch them out."

That is their biggest lie. They will not do this at all. Their managers will tell you that it is not in the warranty when you try to do it, and if you try to tell them that a salesperson told you that, they tell you that you must have "miss heard."

Don't even get me started on their little magazine scam they have when you check out and how they will illegally run your credit card to meet their sales numbers.

Anyway, I am done complaining for now.

Ya know Calico, this story reminded me of something that I thought that you would get a kick out of.

A few years back, our Sales Manager was interviewing an applicant. He asked if he had any sales experience to which the kid said yes. When asked to elaborate, the kid said that he has worked for, well lets say a very well known home improvement store, and that they had a 15 foot rule. When asked what was a 15 foot rule, the kid said that they were trained that if a customer got within 15 feet of you, you had to ask, "May I help you?". Bruce slams his hand down on the desk and exclaims, "That's the reason!!". The kid said, "Pardon me?". Bruce said, "thats why that when I need help and get to close, they turn and run the other way!!"

Just thought that you would like the story.

 

[bobtheflob]

I have two stories about the horribleness of Best Buy. A few years ago, my grandfather wanted to buy a laptop. He had asked my father and me for advice and we'd told him that Toshiba was good (I have one that I like and they had a good deal going at the time). He went to Best Buy and the employee was trying to push an HP on him. When my grandfather said he was looking for a Toshiba, the guy said that they were the same company so there was no difference between an HP and a Toshiba. Luckily my grandfather was suspicious and didn't buy anything then.

The second story involves a friend of mine. He went there to buy Doom 3 when it came out. An employee there told him that because of the high level of graphics, he would need and LCD monitor because a regular one wasn't compatible with it. My friend said no then bought the game elsewhere.

I've never had anything like that happen to me, but I did get regularly ignored there so I haven't been in years.

 

[calico]

I have two stories about the horribleness of Best Buy. A few years ago, my grandfather wanted to buy a laptop. He had asked my father and me for advice and we'd told him that Toshiba was good (I have one that I like and they had a good deal going at the time). He went to Best Buy and the employee was trying to push an HP on him. When my grandfather said he was looking for a Toshiba, the guy said that they were the same company so there was no difference between an HP and a Toshiba. Luckily my grandfather was suspicious and didn't buy anything then.

The second story involves a friend of mine. He went there to buy Doom 3 when it came out. An employee there told him that because of the high level of graphics, he would need and LCD monitor because a regular one wasn't compatible with it. My friend said no then bought the game elsewhere.

I've never had anything like that happen to me, but I did get regularly ignored there so I haven't been in years.

Uugghh...I just got back from Best Buy where I got some DVDs.

They were training the new cashiers so it took extra long. But I did notice something strange. All the cashiers were 16-17 year old blonde girls with developed breasts...and all the yellow shirts were very HANDS ON with the training.