Best fuckin' Buy doesn't know shit about movies

[movieguy1021]

I guess this is pretty minor, but it's been pissing me off ever since I heard it...

I listen to the radio a good amount, and a commercial they often play is for Best Buy. The jackass announcer says "You can pick out something cool for yourself like Ray and a chick flick for her like I Heart Huckabees."

Did they say that Ray was more manly than I Heart Huckabees? I wouldn't consider either movie either gender, but Huckabees was definitely not a chick flick.

Next, they're probably going to do something like "Get Fat Albert for yourself and a chick flick like Ladder 49 for her."

[moose1132]

Yeah that's pretty fucked up. Who ever wrote the advertisment probably never saw either movie and just assumed because I Heart Huckabees had "Heart" in it, that it was a chick flick.

[Weapon X]

I don't listen to the ads. I just shop there 'cause I save money on new releases...Anime too.

[Sigur509]

I dont go to Best Buy for adivce on what movie to get for a Firday night. I'm not expecting them (employes) to have a large I.Q of Fellini movies.

[mshulman5]

When I go to Best Buy I end up answering more questions about movies for customers then the employees.

[bluesbrother965]

The only major problem for me with the Best Buy dvd selection is that they don't carry criterion dvds (although I did get Do the Right Thing for twenty bucks there). Other than that, they've got good prices and a pretty good selection, so I think they're alright. I never hear the commercials, so those don't bother me either.

[CyclicNightmare]

Originally posted by mshulman5
When I go to Best Buy I end up answering more questions about movies for customers then the employees.
That's awesome of you. I almost always want to say something but I decide that some stranger probably doesn't give two shits about what I have to say. Maybe I will next time. Cool.

[bigred760]

I go to Best Buy to buy movies I already know about. The only thing I ask the employees is where a damn DVD is, not anything specific about the movie. I do my homework before I buy it (I usually watch the movie first for starters).

Commercials are crap. Half the time they B.S.ing their product. Just look at Blockbuster - they say no more late fees, but they still charge something afterwards. They just don't call it a "late fee," they call it something else. It's all crap.

[Sigur509]

I hate asking about a Criterion DVD.

"What a Criterion?"

Then again, I go there for their prices.

They need a goddamn foreign selection.

[Allie]

Ridiculous.

I hate asking about a Criterion DVD.

Ain't it the truth. I almost feel rude or stuck-up for asking about anything not 100% mainstream.

[outsyder]

I agree. Went to Best Buy tonight.


I asked: "Do you guys have any copies of the Seven Samurai?"

And then they stare at me like I'm speaking in Swahili.

Then I ask "You know, Criterion?"

Some retard manager begins to "Yeahhhhhh . . . . " but it's pretty obvious he has no fucking clue of what he's talking about.


You'd think basic film knowledge would be A REQUIREMENT to work in the Best Buy DVD dept., but NOOOOOO.:rolleyes:

[MacReady]

Originally posted by outsyder
I agree. Went to Best Buy tonight.


I asked: "Do you guys have any copies of the Seven Samurai?"

And then they stare at me like I'm speaking in Swahili.

Then I ask "You know, Criterion?"

Some retard manager begins to "Yeahhhhhh . . . . " but it's pretty obvious he has no fucking clue of what he's talking about.


You'd think basic film knowledge would be A REQUIREMENT to work in the Best Buy DVD dept., but NOOOOOO.:rolleyes:

Have you set your sites on Kurosawa already?

[outsyder]

Originally posted by MacReady
Have you set your sites on Kurosawa already?

I've already seen it, if that's what you mean, but I just haven't been looking for it until now.


I think the only Criterion I've ever seen there was for Do The Right Thing.

[Joshmo]

Isnt it like totally bizarre that you can never seem to come across an employee working the dvd section at a Best Buy who knows about movies other than the newest release? Or for that matter, one who works the TV or dvd player section! The same with the majority of those who work at HV or BB video stores. What exactly do those people do or like in their lives if their work is dealing with movies but know nothing about them?

Or is it t relfective of the majority of the younger generation...if it aint the newest, hottest, hippest and latest....they dont care to learn anything?....

[The Postmaster General]

That's hillarious.

It reminds me of when K-Mart had an ad for Public Enemy's Yo! Bumrush The Show!

The announcer goes "And by Public Enemy: Yo, bum! Rush the show!"

[Jimbo513]

Bestbuy doesn't know shit about anything else they sell either. Bestbuy is a perfect example of a FUCKING EVIL CORPORATION! All they do is build store after store and cram them full of crap so that they can charge less and make money. I have never, EVER, dealt with a Bestbuy employee that knew anything. The last time I shopped there I threw an item down on the floor at a salesmen's feet and walked out because I asked a question and he flat out told me the wrong answer.

Fuck BestBuy.

[thedudeman69]

When I go to Best Buy, I just browse on my own, and if I get lost, I ask a question. That is the only time I ask a question, if I can't find anything that I want.

[ChemicalRomance]

I honestly don't care.

Their prices own no matter what :D

[Jimbo513]

Their prices own no matter what

They do have good prices on some stuff, but other stuff is way overpriced. When I bought my GPS unit, BestBuy was selling it for $999. I got it brand new from amazon.com for $750 with a $100 mail in rebate. Their TV's, mainly plasma and LCD, usually run $500+ more than what you could get them for from an online dealer.

BestBuy is where lazy, dumb people shop for consumer electronics. Write that down.

[The Postmaster General]

Next thing you'll tell us is that the people working in the "Auto Care" section of Wal-Mart don't know much about cars.

Or that the people in the fish section at Petsmart don't know much about marine life.

Or that the hostess at Olive Garden doesn't know how to make homemade pasta.

Or that the guy running the corner Citgo doesn't know much about oil importing.



Wow! The world is indeed a strange place!

[Jimbo513]

Next thing you'll tell us is that the people working in the "Auto Care" section of Wal-Mart don't know much about cars.

Or that the people in the fish section at Petsmart don't know much about marine life.

Or that the hostess at Olive Garden doesn't know how to make homemade pasta.

Or that the guy running the corner Citgo doesn't know much about oil importing.

There's a big difference between those places and BestBuy. Except for Petsmart, yes I would expect someone that works at a pet store to know a thing or 2 about pets. Wal-Mart though, it's more of a general store so I can forgive them.

I worked at a Hobby Store when I was in college. We sold shit like RC cars, planes, telescopes, etc. I knew nothing about this stuff when I started working there. You know what? I took an interest and learned about the products I was trying to sell. Why? Because I am not a lazy bastard and have a strong work ethic.

It doesn't matter what you do in life. If you are the President, put forth the effort and be a good President. If you shovel shit, be the best damn shit shovelor you can be. If you work at BestBuy, learn about the stuff you are selling.

[movieguy1021]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
Next thing you'll tell us is that the people working in the "Auto Care" section of Wal-Mart don't know much about cars.

Or that the people in the fish section at Petsmart don't know much about marine life.

Or that the hostess at Olive Garden doesn't know how to make homemade pasta.

Or that the guy running the corner Citgo doesn't know much about oil importing.



Wow! The world is indeed a strange place!

But obviously radio commercials aren't spur of the moment things. They should have more of a work ethic to go to a list of recent DVD releases and pick out random movies, which are "guy" movies and which are chick flicks. If you go up to someone in the store and they don't know what a Criterion is, that's acceptable, but a few people in the store need to know.

Also, your analogies are wrong. That's like saying the chefs at Olive Garden don't know how to make pasta, not the hostesses.

[Badbird]

I've always seen Criterion DVDs at Best Buy. That's where I got The Rock. The store's out here have a gajillion copies of Criterion discs. Life of Brian, Chasing Amy, pretty much any new release up until there stock sells out. But you can't blame Best Buy for not stocking them: Blame Criterion for not printing them.

And I was just thinking, if you guys are so hard core about movies anyway, why do you need to ask for help? Don't you know what section to go to? Drama, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, etc.?

Now if it's not on the shelf, well then, yeah, good luck with that. You wouldn't believe the arms I had to twist to get a copy of freaking Wyatt Earp the week it came out. You just gotta pester the jackass until he gets on the computer and looks it up the right way.

My favorite canned response is "Oh, we had that a while ago, but we're all sold out." -or- "It must be out of print."

"It's brand new dipshit, it can't be sold out/out of print."

"Oh, well this is a different one. We don't have that one."

[bluesbrother965]

Originally posted by Badbird
I've always seen Criterion DVDs at Best Buy. That's where I got The Rock. The store's out here have a gajillion copies of Criterion discs. Life of Brian, Chasing Amy, pretty much any new release up until there stock sells out. But you can't blame Best Buy for not stocking them: Blame Criterion for not printing them.


The Rock, Life of Brian, and Chasing Amy are all popular, American movies (except for Life of Brian, but it is in English). The majority of Criterion movies are foreign, and the only foreign one I've ever seen there is The Rules of the Game, and I go there a lot. I don't think it's Criterion's fault for not printing them, every other dvd store I go to usually has plenty of Criterion dvds, even Barnes and Noble and Borders (basically the worst place on earth to buy dvds).

[electriclite]

Originally posted by bluesbrother965
The only major problem for me with the Best Buy dvd selection is that they don't carry criterion dvds (although I did get Do the Right Thing for twenty bucks there). Other than that, they've got good prices and a pretty good selection, so I think they're alright. I never hear the commercials, so those don't bother me either.


Actually I found the drool worthy new Criterion edition of My Own Private Idaho at the one a couple blocks from my college. I would have LOVED to have bought it but, $28 just wasn't in my budget for the week.

[Tayzlor]

Originally posted by bluesbrother965
Borders (basically the worst place on earth to buy dvds).

Borders has to be the best place to purchase DVDs, aside from online obviously. They have the stuff that sells plus the unfortunately obscure to most people films. I regret not knabbing My Dinner With Andre there upon seeing it priced higher on Amazon. It has a phenomenal Foreign section as well, at about the size of their Comedy section.

As for Best Buy, I don't care whether they think Pulp Fiction is the zenith in a century of film or the early Ingmar Bergman films are much better than the later. Not because I prefer to browse and look at each title, but because they're not expected nor required to know jack shit about film. I'm not going to hold it against them. That radio ad is pretty shite though.

At Best Buy I've seen a decent number of Criterions there. Just the new releases, but it's all good. I bought Scenes from a Marriage there, which had, perplexingly a much larger quantity than The Silence of the Lambs and The Shawshank Redemption around it. That's also where I bought Seven Samurai.

[Scarface98.9]

Your Best Buy not having extremely obscure Criterion dvds or having dimwit employees doesn't mean it is the same for all Best Buys. I worked there during the holiday season (which was pretty fun on the non-8 hour days) and most of the people there I worked with knew their shit, and were very knowledgeable for their department. Only times I was visibly stumped were with the really weird, obscure choices, so having loved my BB experience, I feel the need to defend. And when a place is willing to hire an asshole like me, there has to be some brainpower in the management

[TrippingBalls]

I'm gonna have to side with Scarface and stick up for Best Buy, seeing as I work there part-time. The people I work with are friendly, funny, and cool to be around with. Even on busy days it's a very relaxed and laid-back working environment. (Or it could be that I work morning hours during the week before my afternoon college classes and since I work in the warehouse we pretty much don't do shit but do a little pricing on slow week-days).

Best Buy is the only place I go to to shop for movies. So far I haven't found anyone to beat some of their movie deals. Who here doesn't like the package deals where you get two popular movies for the price of one? I got Almost Famous and American Beauty for $20, Shaun of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead for $20, and all three Die Hard movies in one package for $20. Not to mention I get employee discounts on everything in the store so I get at least $3 off every movie I buy from there. (Best discounts go to the Car-Fi department, we get everything there for at least half off).

[Beeblebrox]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
Next thing you'll tell us is that the people working in the "Auto Care" section of Wal-Mart don't know much about cars.

Yes, but when was the last time Wal-mart had a customer ARRESTED for paying with legitimate legal tender?

PUT YOURSELF in Mike Bolesta's place. On the morning of Feb. 20, he buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher's car. He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills, which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta's idea of payment, and his little comic protest, too.

For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.

Finds himself, in front of a store full of customers at the Best Buy on York Road in Lutherville, locked into handcuffs and leg irons.

Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in Cockeysville, where he's handcuffed to a pole for three hours while the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.

Have a nice day, Mike.

"Humiliating," the 57-year old Bolesta was saying now. "I am 6 feet 5 inches tall, and I felt like 8 inches high. To be handcuffed, to have all those people looking on, to be cuffed to a pole -- and to know you haven't done anything wrong. And me, with a brother, Joe, who spent 33 years on the city police force. It was humiliating."

What we have here, besides humiliation, is a sense of caution resulting in screw-ups all around.

"When I bought the stereo player," Bolesta explains, "the technician said it'd fit perfectly into my son's dashboard. But it didn't. So they called back and said they had another model that would fit perfectly, and it was cheaper. We got a $67 refund, which was fine. As long as it fit, that's all.

"So we go back and pay for it, and they tell us to go around front with our receipt and pick up the difference in the cost. I ask about installation charges. They said, 'No installation charge, because of the mix-up. Our mistake, no charge.' Swell.

"But then, the next day, I get a call at home. They're telling me, 'If you don't come in and pay the installation fee, we're calling the police.' Jeez, where did we go from them admitting a mistake to suddenly calling the police? So I say, 'Fine, I'll be in tomorrow.' But, overnight, I'm starting to steam a little. It's not the money -- it's the threat. So I thought, I'll count out a few $2 bills."

He has lots and lots of them.

With his Capital City Student Tours, he arranges class trips for school kids around the country traveling to large East Coast cities, including Baltimore. He's been doing this for the last 18 years. He makes all the arrangements: hotels, meals, entertainment. And it's part of his schtick that, when Bolesta hands out meal money to students, he does it in $2 bills, which he picks up from his regular bank, Sun Trust.

"The kids don't see that many $2 bills, so they think this is the greatest thing in the world," Bolesta says. "They don't want to spend 'em. They want to save 'em. I've been doing this since I started the company. So I'm thinking, 'I'll stage my little comic protest. I'll pay the $114 with $2 bills.'"

At Best Buy, they may have perceived the protest -- but did not sense the comic aspect of 57 $2 bills.

"I'm just here to pay the bill," Bolesta says he told a cashier. "She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she took the money. Like she's doing me a favor."

He remembers the cashier marking each bill with a pen. Then other store personnel began to gather, a few of them asking, "Are these real?"

"Of course they are," Bolesta said. "They're legal tender."

A Best Buy manager refused comment last week. But, according to a Baltimore County police arrest report, suspicions were roused when an employee noticed some smearing of ink. So the cops were called in. One officer noticed the bills ran in sequential order.

"I told them, 'I'm a tour operator. I've got thousands of these bills. I get them from my bank. You got a problem, call the bank,'" Bolesta says. "I'm sitting there in a chair. The store's full of people watching this. All of a sudden, he's standing me up and handcuffing me behind my back, telling me, 'We have to do this until we get it straightened out.'

"Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'"

Bolesta was then taken to the county police lockup in Cockeysville, where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret Service was called in.

"At this point," he says, "I'm a mass murderer."

Finally, Secret Service agent Leigh Turner arrived, examined the bills and said they were legitimate, adding, according to the police report, "Sometimes ink on money can smear."

This will be important news to all concerned.

[the money quote:]

For Baltimore County police, said spokesman Bill Toohey, "It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world."

The other day, one of Bolesta's sons needed a few bucks. Bolesta pulled out his wallet and "whipped out a couple of $2 bills. But my son turned away. He said he doesn't want 'em any more."

He's seen where such money can lead.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/...al-local-columnists&ctrack=1&cset=true

[outsyder]

That guy should should sue the shit out of them.

[bluesbrother965]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
Borders has to be the best place to purchase DVDs, aside from online obviously. They have the stuff that sells plus the unfortunately obscure to most people films. I regret not knabbing My Dinner With Andre there upon seeing it priced higher on Amazon. It has a phenomenal Foreign section as well, at about the size of their Comedy section.


I know they have good selection, but their prices blow. I'd rather get my dvd's online or someplace else where they've got the selection AND better prices. As for Best Buy, I like shopping there, just not for criterions.

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by movieguy1021
But obviously radio commercials aren't spur of the moment things. They should have more of a work ethic to go to a list of recent DVD releases and pick out random movies, which are "guy" movies and which are chick flicks. If you go up to someone in the store and they don't know what a Criterion is, that's acceptable, but a few people in the store need to know.

Also, your analogies are wrong. That's like saying the chefs at Olive Garden don't know how to make pasta, not the hostesses.



Ah shucks, I was just having a go, and went overboard in making my point. No worries about the arguement - you're on the money in what you complain about.

My overall point is that I think chain stores suck and have shitty help in general. Not that good people can't get in, I was a Suncoast employee myself, and I can attenst that all but one person in that store knew what they fuck they were talking about. Everyone in that store didn't know shit, except for the one lone movie geek who got picked on all the time, because everyone resented him for actually knowing his shit. Hm. I wonder what ever happened to good Ole. Ernie. I really miss him. Especially kicking his ass while screaming "You damn geek! Make me look stupid in front of a costumer, will ya!?"

:p

(props to One Crazy Summer)

Really though, as Scarface mentioned, it all comes down to the management. It can be hit or miss. I shop Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, but as often as I can I try to pick up used shit, or get stuff online.

And radio commercials are just annoying in general. Well, all except: "We've got McGriddles!"

Beeblebrox' post is just plain scary. I hope that guy sues them for millions and I hope that Best Buy pays him in $2 bills.

[AndrewLargeman]

My Best Buy carries about every Criterion besides Out Of Print titles. That's where i picked up my Kurosawa, Fellini, Ozu, and Bergman titles. Not to mention Life Of Brian, Rushmore, Royal Tennunbaums, The Rock, Armegeddon, Brazil, etc.

[bluesbrother965]

Originally posted by AndrewLargeman
My Best Buy carries about every Criterion besides Out Of Print titles. That's where i picked up my Kurosawa, Fellini, Ozu, and Bergman titles. Not to mention Life Of Brian, Rushmore, Royal Tennunbaums, The Rock, Armegeddon, Brazil, etc.

Well, yours is a lot better than mine, I guess.

[TheDeadWalk]

I would highly recommend not getting upset with the Best Buy salesman if he doesn't know anything about that old black and white Japanese subtitled film that you've been dying to get the Criterion collection of.

[CyclicNightmare]

Originally posted by Jimbo513
Bestbuy doesn't know shit about anything else they sell either. Bestbuy is a perfect example of a FUCKING EVIL CORPORATION! All they do is build store after store and cram them full of crap so that they can charge less and make money. I have never, EVER, dealt with a Bestbuy employee that knew anything. The last time I shopped there I threw an item down on the floor at a salesmen's feet and walked out because I asked a question and he flat out told me the wrong answer.

Fuck BestBuy.
What was the question?

[Country1969]

Originally posted by outsyder
I agree. Went to Best Buy tonight.


I asked: "Do you guys have any copies of the Seven Samurai?"

And then they stare at me like I'm speaking in Swahili.

Then I ask "You know, Criterion?"

Some retard manager begins to "Yeahhhhhh . . . . " but it's pretty obvious he has no fucking clue of what he's talking about.


You'd think basic film knowledge would be A REQUIREMENT to work in the Best Buy DVD dept., but NOOOOOO.:rolleyes:


I know what you mean.
A few years back at C.City, my aunt and uncle wanted a basic surround sound system. They don't like difficult products. With my experience over many years , they asked me to go with them.
This clerk starts talking all this stuff how you need this wire and this cable. Ok, I left it slide. A few more stupid remarks came out of his mouth and now I'm getting mad. Then he said you you can't get fm stations with the receiver. I said yes you can. He said no you cant.
I said I have a RCA theater system. He said they are not the best.
I said Well if they are not the best then how come I receive FM channels.
He didn't know what to say.

He said to my uncle you will need some speaker wire. I turned to him and said no he doesnt I have some at home.

[Joey Blue]

Originally posted by TheDeadWalk
I would highly recommend not getting upset with the Best Buy salesman if he doesn't know anything about that old black and white Japanese subtitled film that you've been dying to get the Criterion collection of.

Seriously, people who work at Best Buy are most likley college kids/high school kids who are just getting money in the pocket. Sure it's good to know about movies, and what not, but about every movie ever made so that they can help the occational kid who comes in asking about some foriegn movie that maybe only 500,000 people in the country your in knows about? That's pretty ridiculous.

Sure it's good to know about movies and what not, but really what do they need to know in the DVD section?

[The Postmaster General]

I agree.

They are retail clerks, not librarians.

[happy_killmore]

If these moron kids need money they should work in a fucking gas station like I did and do retard work while younger movie schmoes (like I) can take their place and the world will rest in perfect harmony.

oh, and that whole $2 bill story..that place would seriously have a lawsuit and some random acts of vandalism to worry about when Id get through with those pieces of shit (makes ya glad almost that we canadians have a two dollar coin)

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by happy_killmore
If these moron kids need money they should work in a fucking gas station like I did and do retard work while younger movie schmoes (like I) can take their place and the world will rest in perfect harmony.


Watch what you call "retard work" there, buddy. As far as I'm concerned, anything not requiring an associates or higher is menial, and no different than working at a gas station.

And I don't know about Canada, but in the States you have to be 18 or older to work in a gas station because of beer laws, and pretty much all gas stations sell beer.

This rant started about poor advertising, which is something I can agree with. But I think you guys are fucking whacked for expecting the same service you'd get at a public library at a retail chain with bright blue and yellow color schemes. Personally, I think going into a store to buy something, and having no clue what you want or no clue about things that interested you is FAR more messed up than some guy at Best Buy not being able to give you a disertation on Fellinni.

What happened to just bitching about chain stores sucking? Call me old school, I guess. :rolleyes:

[Damone]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
But I think you guys are fucking whacked for expecting the same service you'd get at a public library at a retail chain with bright blue and yellow color schemes. Personally, I think going into a store to buy something, and having no clue what you want or no clue about things that interested you is FAR more messed up than some guy at Best Buy not being able to give you a disertation on Fellinni.


Couldn't agree more.

If only hard core movie fans worked in the DVD section you know some would feel "obligated" to give you their opinion about whatever movie you're reading the back cover for whether you want it or not.

And while Jack Black's role of Barry in High Fidelity may have been funny, retail store employees who are really like that aren't.

[happy_killmore]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
Watch what you call "retard work" there, buddy. As far as I'm concerned, anything not requiring an associates or higher is menial, and no different than working at a gas station.


I would agree, thats why jobs are called "jobs" and not careers. If you've worked in a gas station, you cannot honestly say that it is better than working around movies all day, especially when you get the most retarded schedule including 3 days shifts followed by a morning then a graveyard shift :mad:


And I don't know about Canada, but in the States you have to be 18 or older to work in a gas station because of beer laws, and pretty much all gas stations sell beer.

Here they say you have to be 18 because of tobacco but my friend's younger brother, since 16, has been working in a gas station so I dont think many people here give a shit. We don't sell any alcohol though (would have made my shifts alot funner if we did, I'll tell ya that)

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by happy_killmore
I would agree, thats why jobs are called "jobs" and not careers. If you've worked in a gas station, you cannot honestly say that it is better than working around movies all day, especially when you get the most retarded schedule including 3 days shifts followed by a morning then a graveyard shift :mad:


Disagree with the job/career differental -- no problem with holding a degree and skipping fields, working years at a time, building a pension, only to cash it out for traveling purposes and then looking for the next gig when you run dry. (If it would only work that easily damnit!!!)

But I hear what you are saying now. I don't just think it's gas stations, though. It seems like pretty much all 24 hour retail places have messed up scheduling. You are right that to us it would be a better job, but I know mofos who would rather hang out at night looking at nudie mags and messing with late-night customers than work at Best Buy. Personally, i couldn't deal with the robberies, which seems inevitable. In Tampa they had practically closed down every single 24 hour gas station, grocery, drug store, and shop. All there was was The Wal Mart, which wouldn't make much sense for some freak to try and rob. I have known of people rolling out of there with TVs and in one instance one of those motorized riding carts (only to get caught half way down the road)

Anyway, too much anecdotal stuff here, I'm getting adrift and falling off track. A have to get a grip on this kind of thing, but I suppose originally the use of "retard" confused me like it did those first few days of grade school when I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let me ride the short bus. Those things looked so dang cool at the time, but when I look back it seems that I was just being a dreamer.

I don't get the fascination with Best Buy. They aren't "the shit" as far as I'm concerned, and I just don't get why anyone would care about that fucking place. Sure, sometimes they have good deals, but sometimes they also have really crappy deals! Simpsons at one point was I think $60, and some of the game prices are a joke. All of their computer gear is jokingly overpriced, and not once have I ever been like, "Wow! That really is the Best Buy." And the crap service I get is just sort of the period at the end of the whole crapfest that is Best Buy. Haha. I like saying it like that better.

This friend of mine bought a CD from that place, and when he got it home realized it was a duplicate with a fake label and sleeve. It was the real CD sticker on an AOL disc.(????) So he takes it back and they wouldn't let him exchange it or refund him or nothing. He had a run-around for quite sometime. I want to say around 3 weeks, but it may have been longer or shorter. And this was all just because they are this friggin' cold company trying to provide real customer service by way of policies. It's just a real pain in the ass, and I don't expect anything from those places except to go in, get what I want, then get the hell out of dodge.

[happy_killmore]

I totally hear that, but what I (and I think most people in this thread) was referring to is when you KNOW what you're looking for, ask someone and they look at you like you're the craziest person in the world. Okay, so you don't know the movie or even what Criterion is but for the love of god man don't you know your own stock?

Back to what you said about guys you know rather looking at porn all night and hassling customers...the one I worked in didn't carry porn (the one goddamn gas station around eh...my luck) and the customers were seriously people out of a Lynch film or something:eek:

[Joey Blue]

Originally posted by happy_killmore
I totally hear that, but what I (and I think most people in this thread) was referring to is when you KNOW what you're looking for, ask someone and they look at you like you're the craziest person in the world. Okay, so you don't know the movie or even what Criterion is but for the love of god man don't you know your own stock?

Back to what you said about guys you know rather looking at porn all night and hassling customers...the one I worked in didn't carry porn (the one goddamn gas station around eh...my luck) and the customers were seriously people out of a Lynch film or something:eek:

I sort of agree about knowing their stock, and not giving a stupid look on their face. Sometimes I hate to ask about something expecially like Wrestling DVD cause most people probably wouldn't know shit. But yea I think they should atleast listen, if they aren't sure ask what genre it is, and than look around. If they can't find it look in the computer. Thats all, easy as that.

I had something like this happen, I went to look for "The Rise and Fall of ECW", and in the Wrestling section they didn't have it, I asked one of the employees, and she pointed to the side were they had about 10 of them on display. Thats all they need to do. I just don't think they need to know EVERYTHING about ANYTHING DVD.

BTW, Happy Killmore... I sorta like the $2 coin, it was sorta easy when I went to Montreal to pay for coat checks, and for small things. I was throwin' them around like they were pennies, and asking to borrow them from my friends like they were quarters. Ahh, Canada on Spring Break.

[B1rd_Po0p]

Okay, some of you know that I'm a huge A-Team fan. I've been waiting over a year for season two to come out on DVD. Well, it came out yesterday! So I head to Best Fucking Buy to buy it... I go to the TV DVD section (which seems to change every time I come in) and the price tag is there but no A-Team...

So I ask some kid about it and without even looking at anything he says "We don't carry that.". I'm like 'listen here you stupid retard, there's a price tag for it right next to season ONE." So he wanders around in a daze trying to find it while I grow increasingly irritated. Finally after about fifteen minutes, I look over and he's helping some other people! So I said "Forget it, I'll head over to Media Play."...

On my way out to my truck, one of the other kids comes chasing after me to let me know he found it. While the other kid was busy playing with his balls or whatever: this kid actually looked for the DVD. So I was happy at last...

[Joey Blue]

Originally posted by B1rd_Po0p
Okay, some of you know that I'm a huge A-Team fan. I've been waiting over a year for season two to come out on DVD. Well, it came out yesterday! So I head to Best Fucking Buy to buy it... I go to the TV DVD section (which seems to change every time I come in) and the price tag is there but no A-Team...

So I ask some kid about it and without even looking at anything he says "We don't carry that.". I'm like 'listen here you stupid retard, there's a price tag for it right next to season ONE." So he wanders around in a daze trying to find it while I grow increasingly irritated. Finally after about fifteen minutes, I look over and he's helping some other people! So I said "Forget it, I'll head over to Media Play."...

On my way out to my truck, one of the other kids comes chasing after me to let me know he found it. While the other kid was busy playing with his balls or whatever: this kid actually looked for the DVD. So I was happy at last...

Yeah that's pretty beat. Sometimes I hate Best Buy with New Releases that aren't so popular. They'll advertise it, but when you go the day it comes out they don't have it or they're out of it. Happened with the Friday the 13th' Box Set, went there the day it came out, but nothing.