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I was just at Best Buy in Ballwin, MO, if you live near here, DON'T GO THERE!
I saw an elderly man screwed out of his money, blatantly taken advantage of by the sales associate. The sales associate took down his info and questions which were: I have a computer I bought 10 years ago, it has a pentium 1 and a 10 gb hd and 64 mb ram and its running boggy and slow. Sales associate says, well here let me hook you up with a deal on this 300gb hd (a piece of crap for 349$, internal hd) this will take care of the lack of space, and buy this too (shows customer a 2gb stick of ram) this will speed up your computer! Then you should probably upgrade here to Windows XP (hands over to customer a copy of xp pro 199$). Customer is very grateful and thanks over and over. Then the customer says now will this erase my documents on my computer. The employee responds "Noooo! of course not XP has a file save feature and will port everything to your new hd...
For those who didn't understand... The guy was running a pentium 1, a very slowwww processor, no 2 gbs of ram would have brought that sucker out the of the dust. The hd was a crappy offbrand 300gb for 349$. Besides that the ram he stuck him with was expensive as heck. The guy is going to lose all of his documents, xp can't perform miracles...
I tried to help the guy out but the sales associate kept dragging him off for more expensive stuff and I had to go home I couldn't wait forever to talk to the guy besides the salesperson insisted the guy make the sale right there in the computers area.
Obviously this elderly guy is going to get someone or himself to put all this in his computer and their going to lose all their files. He's probably going to think he has done something wrong and never return the stuff he bought (probably totaling about 600+ dollars) He'll go back and talk to the same sales associate about just purchasing a new computer. The sales associate will probably talk this guy that knows nothing and doesn't do much with computer into upgrading and spending a ton of money on the top of the line computer. He will of course buy it and never realize he has been swindled all for +rep by the bosses for the employee and possibly making a commision on it (not sure if they do commision at best buy). Oh besides that they the employee I've just found out by a friend that works for best buy will recieve higher employee discounts for making the sales.
I was greatly angered by witnessing this, I can't believe it happened and I hope I remember to go to the Better Business Bureau...
I saw an elderly man screwed out of his money, blatantly taken advantage of by the sales associate. The sales associate took down his info and questions which were: I have a computer I bought 10 years ago, it has a pentium 1 and a 10 gb hd and 64 mb ram and its running boggy and slow. Sales associate says, well here let me hook you up with a deal on this 300gb hd (a piece of crap for 349$, internal hd) this will take care of the lack of space, and buy this too (shows customer a 2gb stick of ram) this will speed up your computer! Then you should probably upgrade here to Windows XP (hands over to customer a copy of xp pro 199$). Customer is very grateful and thanks over and over. Then the customer says now will this erase my documents on my computer. The employee responds "Noooo! of course not XP has a file save feature and will port everything to your new hd...
For those who didn't understand... The guy was running a pentium 1, a very slowwww processor, no 2 gbs of ram would have brought that sucker out the of the dust. The hd was a crappy offbrand 300gb for 349$. Besides that the ram he stuck him with was expensive as heck. The guy is going to lose all of his documents, xp can't perform miracles...
I tried to help the guy out but the sales associate kept dragging him off for more expensive stuff and I had to go home I couldn't wait forever to talk to the guy besides the salesperson insisted the guy make the sale right there in the computers area.
Obviously this elderly guy is going to get someone or himself to put all this in his computer and their going to lose all their files. He's probably going to think he has done something wrong and never return the stuff he bought (probably totaling about 600+ dollars) He'll go back and talk to the same sales associate about just purchasing a new computer. The sales associate will probably talk this guy that knows nothing and doesn't do much with computer into upgrading and spending a ton of money on the top of the line computer. He will of course buy it and never realize he has been swindled all for +rep by the bosses for the employee and possibly making a commision on it (not sure if they do commision at best buy). Oh besides that they the employee I've just found out by a friend that works for best buy will recieve higher employee discounts for making the sales.
I was greatly angered by witnessing this, I can't believe it happened and I hope I remember to go to the Better Business Bureau...