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Best Buy Gamer Club shut down
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Nothing like having 32 sales people ask if you need help finding anything as you browse what still passes for their movie section.
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Yeah, not happy to see this. I honestly did most of my game shopping through them, especially when I bought special editions.
Guess I need to get a few more games I really want and then once it ends, just either wait for a sale or buy it from Amazon.
Guess I need to get a few more games I really want and then once it ends, just either wait for a sale or buy it from Amazon.
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Hopefully Amazon won't take their Prime discount on pre-orders away now.
Best Buy is a terrible place to shop. Anytime I want something from there I'll just order it online and wait a few days to get it.
Best Buy is a terrible place to shop. Anytime I want something from there I'll just order it online and wait a few days to get it.
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Wow, that's just nuts. I remember buying a scanner years ago and being asked if I wanted to purchase installation. I must've gave the clerk the most WTF look since they ended the conversation immediately.
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But will they still install my Wii game for just $12?
my god what a flashback, Geek Squad
I was a teenager, desktop computer wasn't working, took it into Geek Squad, they had it for like a week, came back and guy was like, “Yeahhhhh I turned it on and it wasn't working, not sure what to do...”And then I had to pay 80 bucks, which was like the flat fee for taking anything there.
It was a valuable lesson about the world, con men and corporations though.
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They've also stopped allowing purchases of PSN, eshop, etc credit when using a BB gift card for payment. Revamping their gaming department policies is going to cost them customers. I think they're shifting to only focus on high margin items anyway... become just a TV/appliance/mobile store.
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Their movie selection has become shit. I used to find all kinds of rare 70s/80s sci-fi, action,horror, and cyberpunk stuff.....Now you're lucky if you can find anything other than new releases.
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I'm honestly surprised they stuck around this long after Circuit Shitty went away. I used to love shopping at brick and mortar stores. But now it's just a huge freaking hassle.
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Honestly, I don't go to Best buy unless I have to. It's overpriced, underwhelming selection of items, and sometimes shoddy quality. The few vinyl records I've purchased from them were slightly warped due to storage, which I promptly returned.
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Does any chain store have a large selection of movies? Tower Records is the only chain I really miss, I used to find all kinds of interesting shit there, both music and movies. For years, Best Buy was my main source of buying movies though. As long as I'm buying from a chain and not a local business I'd rather just use Amazon. Click, click, two days later it shows up in my mail room.
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I give the Prime discount until the end of the year at most. Amazon's policies are all around creating a de facto monopoly. With the competition removed, there is no reason for them to provide the discount.
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Geek Squad is pretty bad. Their hiring standards are loose and they don't pay enough to attract any decent talent. The perfect recipe for suck.
But they are pretty good at setting up your Playstation. They're on point about that.
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Yeah, from what a friend of mine who was formerly a supervisor there told me they don't actually hire techs, they just hire that 18 year old kid that "knows computers." Anyone with real knowledge leaves pretty quickly for better jobs.
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Tower Records was great for books and CDs also.
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If you consider regional chains like Amoeba Records or Rasputin Music and others small record stores chain stores then yes.
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I've tried to go to Best Buy to grab a game. Their videogame section is a derelict wasteland. Half the stuff is shovelware. Then theyhave download codes spread everywhere. Rarely any AAA games.
I just wanted Mario Kart 8 in a pinch. Did not happen at BB.
I just wanted Mario Kart 8 in a pinch. Did not happen at BB.
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Very true. Wasn't too long ago they acted like they gave a shit about selling games, had new stuff and it was easy to buy. Now they have hardly anything on the shelves, supposedly keep everything up front, but it's impossible to tell what's in stock since there's no correlation to the display cases or anything like that. Last couple times I meant to buy a game there they couldn't find what they supposedly had in stock. Haven't bothered since.