Best Buy not a Best Bet

A good friend and I were at my favorite place to shop yesterday and it is best buy. I personally have had continuous bad experiences with management and employees since i started shopping there but i never let it bother me.

i find a lot of humor when i go into the computer department and here the employees talk to the customers, because i don’t know who is worse. the very ignorant computer user or the employee full of s**T.

one thing that is very obvious to me is that they are all salesman even though they say continuously that they are not commissioned they are led to sell you there service plan with everything they sell, they ask 2-3 times no matter what.

well yesterday my friend and I went to go buy a cheap celeron computer, yes it was a celeron but it was less then $400 with a printer and monitor and it is just for internet and word processing. anyways i described it yesterday by saying, “it didn’t take this long to buy my car”. we waited an over an hour to get 3 boxes, and it wasn’t busy at all and they had 4 employees in that dept..

so after they brought the boxes down another young lady rung us up and there was a usb cable on the bill,

“we didn’t want that cable”

“oh, okay but you know that printer wont work without it?”(chick)

“yeah, but I have a box of them at home.” my friend said lightly and he was serious about the box.

“that is shady how that got there though”

Really shady because it came straight from the guy who got the package for us and we intended not to buy anything else.

then the stare, this star…she had no eyelids, her face pailed white then she stumbled,

“i don’t appreciate how you assume i put that in your cart intentionally” she said so coldly that i froze

and to ease the tension my friend said “don’t worry about it it wasn’t directed at you”

it might seem like a strange conversation but it really cant be described in words like it should be.

then she tells us that his credit card is not valid because he never signed the back of it. i don’t understand the tension that they have to be able to get that upset.

About the Author, Dan Cameron:

I'm the owner and solution engineer at Sprout Venture, a web solutions company that specializes in web development including WordPress.

I started my first blog in 2003 and transitioned to WordPress in 2004. Since moving to WordPress I've written a few plugins and themes for public consumption. Lately I'm busy engineering/building/coding and have only been able to share a few code snippets.

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