[ale] Not so evil empire

Dylan Northrup docx at io.com
Wed Jul 15 11:29:04 EDT 2009


Or have a serious attitude.  I've offered my advice many times to customers
in Best Buy (even in contradiction to what a sales associate has said) and
not once have I had an issue.  Perhaps it's because I don't call them
dweebs, but it could be something else entirely.

A long time ago, (15.07.09), in a galaxy far, far away, J. D. wrote:

:=If you get ejected from a best buy, you must be a geek.
:=
:=On 7/15/09, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
:=> Jim Moore wrote:
:=>> This was a timely post in that yesterday went looking at Best Buy for a
:=>> new cable modem.  Have been using a Linksys which keeps losing the
:=>> connection.  Oh well the thing's more than five years old and was a hand
:=>> me down from my brother in law.
:=>
:=> I won't darken the doors of Best Buy.  Do a google search on "best buy"
:=> "bait and switch".
:=>
:=> Also, I was once asked to leave because I gave advice contrary to a
:=> salesperson to a prospective customer.  The customer actually had asked
:=> my opinion as we had been discussing computers before the sales dweeb
:=> showed up.

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"Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's
 really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'


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