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 enough

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 -

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 to

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Stewart
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 wiseass

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 disk

WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Gruss Gott
Best Buy Sells You A Box Of Bathroom Tiles Instead Of Hard Drive, Won't Issue Refund Quote Hey Guys, I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from BestBuy.com and arranged for a store pickup so I could speed up my normal Saturday errands. I got the confirmation sheet and

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2007 13:47 To: CF-Community Subject: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! Best Buy Sells You A Box Of Bathroom Tiles Instead Of Hard Drive, Won't Issue Refund Quote Hey Guys, I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from BestBuy.com

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 this

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 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 doesn't stand

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 their $300. American Express doesn't

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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

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. Best Buy will have to sue

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 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 Adam Churvis
: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:47 AM To: CF-Community Subject: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! Best Buy Sells You A Box Of Bathroom Tiles Instead Of Hard Drive, Won't Issue Refund Quote Hey Guys, I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from

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. On 10/30

Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Crow T. Robot
, 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 Subject: Re: WOW! Best Buy Sucks! +1

RE: WOW! Best Buy Sucks!

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
[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 when the customer is wrong

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

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