bestbuyscam.blogspot.com— Here is a person's experience with Best Buy. Just another example of how this company attempts to screw you every chance they get.
Jan 17, 2007View in Crawl 4
Best Buy's fine by me...they always send me coupons for like $25 and other junk. I think I've probably spent close to $20,000 over the last 2 years there and never had a single issue.Before you ask, it's very easy to spend that kind of money...think multiple HDTVs, receivers, expensive speakers...TOO EASY.
I'm really ticked.. I've written this huge update for my blog and for some reason I can't log into the freakin account. I'm posting my message here as I'm starting to get really frustrated with blogspot. Wow! This story came within the Top 3 today on Digg.com. I guess this story only goes to show the number of people who have also had poor experiences with Best Buy stores.After my last posting I had really thought that this issue had been lay to rest and I would be finished with it but that doesn't seem to be the case. I will explain once I clarify one key point.Up until now I haven't seen much consequence of making my blog any longer with this detail, but seeing as how some management at Best Buy seem to have a problem with this I shall go ahead and clear this issue up. See, my roommate and myself have collectively saved money to purchase this TV from Best Buy. Because I work a 8-5 job I was not available to go into the store during the day to make the actual transaction. Therefore my roommate, Jorge, went earlier in the day and purchased the unit. The store scheduled delivery for later that day and by the time it came, I had arrived home from work. So I didn't actually get involved until the time in which Jorge and I actually drove to the Best Buy store to attempt to pick up the stand.As we all know from reading the blog, this is where our transaction went from smooth to very bumpy. This is the point at which management refused to provide any assistance, started to argue with me as well as threatening to throw me out of the store for my comments regarding the legality of the transaction. Also Marc's snide and condesending comments were directed towards me. So, while my name is not on the actual sales invoice (Jorge's is) I am just as much involved in this transaction as he. So, when the letter was written (which is also the same letter that appears first on the blog) it was written in Jorge's name. And the whole reason this occured is because the TV and paperwork were in his name. This way Best Buy has a way to track the name on the letter back to the purchaser of the unit. I will gladly admit, I wrote the letter as well as sending it out and creating the blogs. But I did have Jorge look over it and approve of it before it was sent. Ok, so now that explains the difference between the name Jorge and the name Adam.Now, lets get into what occured today now that we have got this all straightened out.So today Jorge was supposed to get the stand from the warehouse. He was supposed to visit the local store and speak with the GM to pick up a voucher to provide to the warehouse personnel. Easy enough, right?Well Jorge contacted me later in the day and was extremely distressed. Apparently he arrived at Best Buy and met Mr. Byers as well as several other management staff at the Customer Service island. According to Jorge, he felt as immediately he had to be on the defensive regarding this transaction. Appraently Mr. Byers immediately started inquriring about the blogs and letters. From the story I received, once they started talking about the previous night several other management staff who were also standing around in the Customer Service area (See, it is a common event for people at this Best Buy to just stand around - see reference in previous blog and comment) started to gang up on him. Jorge said he felt "snow-balled" from the moment he walked in the store. Apparently he was advised that Best Buy legal department was looking into my blog for slander. And apparently Mr. Byers directed casual legal comments towards Jorge that "false impersonation was a Federal offence". Jorge left the store quite distressed and worried over this conversation. Well, I encourage and in fact, have left both a verbal message and voice mail message requesting to speak with Mr. Byers regarding these statements but yet to no avail he has not called. Had I been there when those comments were made I would have laughed!See, false impersonation is not actually a "Federal Offence" as was so graciously stated. Actually False Impersonation (according to West's Encyclopedia of American Law) is stated as: "The crime of false impersonation is defined by federal statutes and by state statutes that differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Therefore, Mr. Byers statement would have been entirely incorrect. Furthermore, if we examine the Colorado statute for this law we will see that according to Section 18-5-113(1), C.R.S. states:
puffycJan 18, 2007
Yes, retail stores often call the police on me for no reason whatsoever. I wonder why?
surfingJan 18, 2007
Costco for the win!
donkeyshineJan 18, 2007
Does this make anyone else think about Chappelle's "Pop copy training video" skit:<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUjzBHbg2XU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUjzBHbg2XU</a>And if your customer asks to speak to the manager, tell them "Guess what. I am the MANAGER!"
Closed AccountJan 18, 2007
Marc Barela's (jerk geek squad employee) myspace page: <a class="user" href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=68715095">http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=68715095</a>
mobilehavocJan 18, 2007
Best Buy's fine by me...they always send me coupons for like $25 and other junk. I think I've probably spent close to $20,000 over the last 2 years there and never had a single issue.Before you ask, it's very easy to spend that kind of money...think multiple HDTVs, receivers, expensive speakers...TOO EASY.
Closed AccountJan 19, 2007Submitter
I'm really ticked.. I've written this huge update for my blog and for some reason I can't log into the freakin account. I'm posting my message here as I'm starting to get really frustrated with blogspot. Wow! This story came within the Top 3 today on Digg.com. I guess this story only goes to show the number of people who have also had poor experiences with Best Buy stores.After my last posting I had really thought that this issue had been lay to rest and I would be finished with it but that doesn't seem to be the case. I will explain once I clarify one key point.Up until now I haven't seen much consequence of making my blog any longer with this detail, but seeing as how some management at Best Buy seem to have a problem with this I shall go ahead and clear this issue up. See, my roommate and myself have collectively saved money to purchase this TV from Best Buy. Because I work a 8-5 job I was not available to go into the store during the day to make the actual transaction. Therefore my roommate, Jorge, went earlier in the day and purchased the unit. The store scheduled delivery for later that day and by the time it came, I had arrived home from work. So I didn't actually get involved until the time in which Jorge and I actually drove to the Best Buy store to attempt to pick up the stand.As we all know from reading the blog, this is where our transaction went from smooth to very bumpy. This is the point at which management refused to provide any assistance, started to argue with me as well as threatening to throw me out of the store for my comments regarding the legality of the transaction. Also Marc's snide and condesending comments were directed towards me. So, while my name is not on the actual sales invoice (Jorge's is) I am just as much involved in this transaction as he. So, when the letter was written (which is also the same letter that appears first on the blog) it was written in Jorge's name. And the whole reason this occured is because the TV and paperwork were in his name. This way Best Buy has a way to track the name on the letter back to the purchaser of the unit. I will gladly admit, I wrote the letter as well as sending it out and creating the blogs. But I did have Jorge look over it and approve of it before it was sent. Ok, so now that explains the difference between the name Jorge and the name Adam.Now, lets get into what occured today now that we have got this all straightened out.So today Jorge was supposed to get the stand from the warehouse. He was supposed to visit the local store and speak with the GM to pick up a voucher to provide to the warehouse personnel. Easy enough, right?Well Jorge contacted me later in the day and was extremely distressed. Apparently he arrived at Best Buy and met Mr. Byers as well as several other management staff at the Customer Service island. According to Jorge, he felt as immediately he had to be on the defensive regarding this transaction. Appraently Mr. Byers immediately started inquriring about the blogs and letters. From the story I received, once they started talking about the previous night several other management staff who were also standing around in the Customer Service area (See, it is a common event for people at this Best Buy to just stand around - see reference in previous blog and comment) started to gang up on him. Jorge said he felt "snow-balled" from the moment he walked in the store. Apparently he was advised that Best Buy legal department was looking into my blog for slander. And apparently Mr. Byers directed casual legal comments towards Jorge that "false impersonation was a Federal offence". Jorge left the store quite distressed and worried over this conversation. Well, I encourage and in fact, have left both a verbal message and voice mail message requesting to speak with Mr. Byers regarding these statements but yet to no avail he has not called. Had I been there when those comments were made I would have laughed!See, false impersonation is not actually a "Federal Offence" as was so graciously stated. Actually False Impersonation (according to West's Encyclopedia of American Law) is stated as: "The crime of false impersonation is defined by federal statutes and by state statutes that differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Therefore, Mr. Byers statement would have been entirely incorrect. Furthermore, if we examine the Colorado statute for this law we will see that according to Section 18-5-113(1), C.R.S. states:
yellowjktJan 21, 2007
nicely done sir. +dugg for the use of peon.