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Old 11-08-2004, 08:54 PM   #15 (permalink)
VitaminH
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I think I'm a devil. Pretty much the only thing I buy at Best Buy is DVDs, with maybe one PS2 game a year or so. I'd say at least 85-90% of the DVDs I buy are sale items when they've got 2 for $15 or $20, or 3 for $25 and so on. If I want a new release I'm buying it the first week when its usualyl about $15 before it jumps up to $20. Often I wait out the few months for it to go on sale.

I'm sorry, I am a poor college student on a fixed budget and I can't afford to throw money at you.

I gotta say, I don't like the feeling I am being profiled when I walk in the store, but I suppose I always am, this is just a more structured way of doing it. Personally I don't want attention from sales associates because, and no offense to any BB emplyoees but at the 2 stores I frequent most are out in rural areas, so maybe thats the reason, but lots of the associates don't know what they are talking about, and they talk down to me, when I DO know what I am talking about.

Prime example: my friends girlfriend needed a ethernet hub for her dorm room. Her university said "you need a hub, we reccomend these brands and models:" I knew she needed a hub. I took her to BB to get one. I'd found a good deal for her on the website and she went off to get it while I wandered in the dvds. She came back visibly frustrated and with nothing, told me the guy talked to her like she was an idiot and paid no attention to what she had to say and tried to sell her their most expensive router. I flew over there and demanded to speak to the douche but he was "gone" so I never got the satisfaction of telling him how wrong he was and where he could stick his router. All in a polite manner of course

/end pointless story.

In conclusion, BB can shove their profiling up their ass, I'm still only buying movies on sale, and you know what? I guarentee they're still making money on me and if it's not enough, tough.
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