consumerist.com— "Yea, we put the wrong adapter back in. We put the wrong adapter in two other computers and one, we forgot to put an AC adapter in at all. So I'm not surprised."
Aug 30, 2008View in Crawl 4
I think I can beat that one. Back in the day when a 9600 baud modem had just been available for 3-4 months I went down to the local chain computer store and got one to replace my 2400 baud one. It may have been CompUSA but it's been so long ago I don't remember, but the salesman told me that they couldn't be held responsible if I harmed my computer by installing the modem unless they did it. Needless to say, I cracked open the case myself and swapped them out, so it's not like that kind of thing is new.Christ, it's not like you can install a modem backwards or something in a card slot unless you're *really* determined.
That was the standard operating line from Peachtree Accounting software technical support when trying to fix corrupted data. I always wondered why it wouldn't work the first or second time and what was so special about the third run.Of course the program was written in BASIC, which had apparently been compiled. That never inspired great confidence either, but at least I wasn't the bookkeeper using it.
This is a load of crap. Everyone knows Best Buy sucks, and their Geek Squad is a joke, but "Mike" who works in "IT" paid BB to install $200 worth of anti virus? What anti virus cost that much to start with; what "IT" guy would ever pay someone else to install it on their personal computer and wouldn't have their own preferred brand or if this is a work computer they would install whatever brand his company provides at no cost to "Mike". And come on, you can't tell if that's the correct plug that came with the laptop? And what's with the melted crayon or paint on the plug? Is this for dramatic effect like someone bled to death over a bad plug or was the plug made from play-doh? There's nothing about this story that's true, I agree with an earlier post that this looks like an Onion news story.
singingsoxAug 31, 2008
Well, that's what he gets for not being able to install anti-virus software by himself. I hate people who don't know even the basics about computers.
Closed AccountAug 31, 2008
I think I can beat that one. Back in the day when a 9600 baud modem had just been available for 3-4 months I went down to the local chain computer store and got one to replace my 2400 baud one. It may have been CompUSA but it's been so long ago I don't remember, but the salesman told me that they couldn't be held responsible if I harmed my computer by installing the modem unless they did it. Needless to say, I cracked open the case myself and swapped them out, so it's not like that kind of thing is new.Christ, it's not like you can install a modem backwards or something in a card slot unless you're *really* determined.
Closed AccountAug 31, 2008
That was the standard operating line from Peachtree Accounting software technical support when trying to fix corrupted data. I always wondered why it wouldn't work the first or second time and what was so special about the third run.Of course the program was written in BASIC, which had apparently been compiled. That never inspired great confidence either, but at least I wasn't the bookkeeper using it.
moondawgie67Aug 31, 2008
This is a load of crap. Everyone knows Best Buy sucks, and their Geek Squad is a joke, but "Mike" who works in "IT" paid BB to install $200 worth of anti virus? What anti virus cost that much to start with; what "IT" guy would ever pay someone else to install it on their personal computer and wouldn't have their own preferred brand or if this is a work computer they would install whatever brand his company provides at no cost to "Mike". And come on, you can't tell if that's the correct plug that came with the laptop? And what's with the melted crayon or paint on the plug? Is this for dramatic effect like someone bled to death over a bad plug or was the plug made from play-doh? There's nothing about this story that's true, I agree with an earlier post that this looks like an Onion news story.
jimv1983Sep 1, 2008
I buy stuff from best buy all the time but I refuse to buy any product or service from Geek Squad and I advice everyone I know to do the same.
gamben0Sep 1, 2008
Title sucks. Best buy gives rich idiot wrong AC adapter-- would be more accurate.
mhmdkhamisOct 30, 2008
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