My monitor went bad last week, but at the time of failure, I didn't know if it was my monitor or video card. So, I took my monitor to geek squad because it was the only computer place open at the time. The plan was to have them hook up the monitor to their signal.....if it worked at Best Buy, my video card was toast, and if it was the monitor, it would have the same fault there that I had at home....

After very clearly explaining the plan to the girl (and informing her that if the monitor was bad, I would be buying a new one from them that day), she informed me there would be a $60 dollar diagnostic fee. Yes...to hook it up to a DVI cable running off one of their systems. $60. After I had a brief chat with the GS manager and explained how hooking it up to a computer should not count as a payable "diagnostic," she went ahead and hooked it up gratis. I watched her the entire time and realized that she didn't correctly hook the thing up (I could tell from some of the indicator lights on the monitor). She brought it back and informed me it was a bad monitor, to which I had to insist that she hook it up again, correctly this time. She refused, and again I had to explain to the manager how I knew that she hadn't correctly hooked it up. He did it for her, and voila, things went as they should have and I knew for certain it was a bad monitor.

If GS is employing workers who literally don't know how to hook up a monitor, god help the person going there with a real problem......

Getting your computer fixed at Best Buy seems like getting a gourmet meal at McDonalds... You want a personal and unique experience, but you get a mass-producing corporation.

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This explains my relationship with Jesus Christ to the T. When I go door to door, I bring my Bible and a box of whip-its.

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> Such a cold cloud of gas can actually work as a quantum computer.

Just dont do what I did, I went to Best Buy and bought the Nvidia Quantum Computing card, which comes with a can of Rubidium, but then we all huffed the Rubidium because you get to meet Jesus for about 10 minutes.

> Such a cold cloud of gas can actually work as a quantum computer.

Just dont do what I did, I went to Best Buy and bought the Nvidia Quantum Computing card, which comes with a can of Rubidium, but then we all huffed the Rubidium because you get to meet Jesus for about 10 minutes.

So the message here is work at Best Buy and you might be the next Jay Z or Madonna?

Last time I was in Best Buy I was falsely accused of shoplifting. What really pissed me off is I sensed that the security officer had decided I was a shoplifter long before I checked out. I'll never buy anything at Best Buy again, and if I can help it, never at their canadian sister company Future Shop either (who seem to hire only pathological liars from India as long-term employees).

Why wasn't he wearing his blue Best Buy polo and khakis?
come on people, he doesn't work for puma - represent!
know wot um sayin?

Ohhh nooo, I know I've never been mistreated by a best buy employee and couldn't get proper service even when I tried to escalate *rolls eyes*.

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I made a conscious decision back in the year 2000 never to play MMOs because I would just get addicted and waste my life. I'm pretty familiar with WOW through cultural osmosis, listening to PC gaming podcasts, etc. Looking back on my use of the last 10 years (I defy you to find anyone who has wasted their life/potential as thoroughly as I have), I may as well be a level 80 guild leader camped out at Best Buy for the expansion apck.

Of course you can respond. I don't want a concession I haven't earned.

The failure of Circuit City (or any of the others on your list) has had no meaningful impact on reducing corporate abuse. Circuit City was replace by Best Buy, which treats its employees worse than its predecessor. So in this case, 'wallet democracy' has actually made things worse.

This is because "wallet democracy" isn't based on intelligence, wisdom, morality or any kind of desire for social justice, it's based on convenient location, ad campaigns, low prices and blue light specials. These out-of-whack priorities have no real chance at achieving anything positive, and usually end up doing the opposite, by empowering the worst offenders, like Wal*Mart. I've not shopped in a Wal*Mart in over a decade, but still they thrive, despite my furious wallet. I guess the people have spoken, and working class dignity is an inferior candidate to low low prices.

'State's Rights' is another favorite corporate think tank meme, for the simple and obvious reason that corporations would rather face small enemies than large ones. Corporations have vast resources that they can use to bribe desperate states, to pit states against each other, and to punish states that don't toe the line, among other things.

I don't see local politicians being any less susceptible to lobbying; or local voters being any less susceptible to expensive ad campaigns, in fact, small town folk might be more suceptible to the glitz and glamor of corporate favor than their seasoned national counterparts. A few of the larger metropolitan areas might be organized enough to make a stand, but I can't see it realistically living up to your expectations.

Beyond all that, do you ever use the local control you already have?

-Have you ever attended a city council meeting?
-Do you research your local candidates in any depth?
-Do you know the names of local politicians, state senators, state congressmen, local judges and/or city council members?

Anyway, I like the old Clinton quote that goes something like 'there is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what is right with America'. For better or for worse, our country is 'our' country, and as long as it remains our country, we have the ability to change it. It's easy to feel down about our country, because we are getting our asses kicked by a very small, but wealthy and powerful segment of our population. If enough of us can figure this out, and are mad enough to do something about it, we win. It's a big if.

(hahaha, nice dick joke)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-rucker/wal-mart-cvs-best-buy-dit_b_261424.html

Seems some more are bailing, including Wal-Mart, CVS, Best Buy.

From the linked site:
"We’ve been wondering how long it would take Microsoft to kick things up a notch with its responses to Apple’s I’m a Mac smear series. Times are tough these days and it looks like Microsoft is finally starting to target cost with its latest TV ad. Titled Windows Laptop Hunters, the spot features a young woman named Lauren tasked with finding a laptop that meets her requirements — “speed, a comfortable keyboard and a 17-inch screen” — for under $1,000. If she finds one, be it a Mac or a PC, Microsoft will buy it for her. You know as well as we do that the only way anyone is scoring a new Mac laptop with a 17-inch for under $1,000 is armed robbery, so you can imagine how the commercial plays out. Forgetting the fact that the Best Buy she was shopping in apparently doesn’t charge a sales tax, Lauren ends up with an HP Pavilion for $699.99; a price even the most modest MacBook can’t come close to touching. The model she walked with features a 2.1GHz AMD Turion X2 with 4GB of DDR2 RAM, 320GB hard drive, DVD-RW drive and of course a 1440×900 17-inch display — definitely a solid system.

No, we haven’t quite stooped to the level of a local politician’s attack campaign quite yet, but it’s good to see Microsoft finally showing a little spunk with its response ads. Considering the times, we imagine there are plenty more value-centric ads from Redmond on the way; at least, we hope there are. Hit the jump to watch the full commercial."

>> ^Norsuelefantti:
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really? youtube video region blocked...odd