Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-11-01 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>Lol, we've all been there, I used to work in an electronics retailer over >here part time when I was a teen, got this kind of thing all the time, balls >if I'm going to sit there and take being shouted at by an irate customer for >£6 an hour. Sadly, I've often found that it's only once I start t

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-11-01 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Ah, looks like Amex did refund the guy's purchase. Almost make me want to run out and get an Amex card myself: http://tinyurl.com/ytleeq ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - dow

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Doom
In the pictures, they were tightly wrapped and wedged in with the standard plastic thingies that hold the hdd and keep it from rattling. --BenD Dana wrote: > wouldn't they rattle then? > > On 10/30/07, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> if you look at the picture, there were just enoug

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-31 Thread Dana
wouldn't they rattle then? On 10/30/07, Crow T. Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if you look at the picture, there were just enough tiles to make it about > the same weight as a HD. > > On 10/30/07, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Stewart
/in/sstwebworks Boycott Sys-Con http://www.sstwebworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/Boycotting-SysCon -Original Message- From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:20 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! Heh. Back when I was a young

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Munn
I don't know. Internal theft is a HUGE problem for retailers, doubly so for electronics retailers like BestBuy. They keep all the really expensive stuff, like laptops, memory, and CPUs, locked in storage- to protect it from employees as much as from customers. Hard disks are expensive enough for so

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> But, the customer is always right! No, the customer is never wrong. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
w T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2007 16:20 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! Heh. Back when I was a young wiseass and was working in the retail industry, I had an irate woman yell "The customer is always right!" at me. I responded with "Except w

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Crow T. Robot
rgument that she was wrong, dammit. On 10/30/07, Robert Rawlins wrote: > > But, the customer is always right! > > -Original Message- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 October 2007 15:10 > To: CF-Community &

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
But, the customer is always right! -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2007 15:10 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! +1 On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Crow T. Robot wrote: > I with Rick here. Seems VERY fishy. > &

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Adam Churvis
Fill out a police report, and get a case number and a copy of the report. Once you have a case number, fill out an affidavit with every detail of the event and have it notarized at your bank, then fax it to both your credit card company, the merchant, and the manufacturer. Explain in your cover l

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Gruss Gott
> Gel wrote: > Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard disk should be. > It just doesn't sound like a very plausible story. > First I would wonder if that store has any tiles similar. Could be that an employee pulled the drive and then put some tiles in there. The weight doesn't

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Crow T. Robot
if you look at the picture, there were just enough tiles to make it about the same weight as a HD. On 10/30/07, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard disk should be. > It just doesn't sound like a very plausible story. > > ~

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
+1 On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Crow T. Robot wrote: > I with Rick here. Seems VERY fishy. > > On 10/30/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I've told American Express to stop payment >> >> That's all that's required. >> >> Bes

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Vivec
Ceramic tiles would be significantly heavier than a hard disk should be. It just doesn't sound like a very plausible story. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Adkins, Randy
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:50 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've told American Express to stop payment That's all that's required. Best Buy will have to sue him to get th

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Crow T. Robot
I with Rick here. Seems VERY fishy. On 10/30/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've told American Express to stop payment > > That's all that's required. > > Best Buy will have to sue him to get their $300. > > American Express

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Peterson, Chris
Yea, it does come across as sounding like a scam Chris Peterson Gainey IT Adobe Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:50 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! On 10/30/07

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Root
On 10/30/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've told American Express to stop payment That's all that's required. Best Buy will have to sue him to get their $300. American Express doesn't stand for its customers getting ripped off. Personally, though, I have a hard time believing th

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
"I hope to get the local news media involved seeing how it's getting close to the holiday shopping season and they love to get horror stories like this out on the air." I'd be going down that route as well, considering that it seems their going to support their managers decision, you might just ha