How Best Buy Scams Noobs...

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[DigitalProphet]

"As an adult, I don't really play League Of Legends."

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[RiggityWRECKED]

Geek Squad Manager: "Do you have any experience building computers with properly-sourced components?"
Interviewee: "I factory reset a Macbook once."
Manager: "YOU'RE FUCKING HIRED!"

[RandarTheBarbarian]

My favorite part about working for best buy at the time was during my interview I was talking about my prior experience in PC repair and the assistant manager said something to the effect of "we aren't really concerned with how much you know, we can teach you that, we need to know if you can sell" and then during "class" they proceeded to "teach" me a bunch of incorrect information. Over a few years there I usually was #1 for sales in the store, despite not being nearly as pushy about extended warranties, credit cards, and services. As it turns out when you know stuff about the products it can be very easy to demonstrate to people why an upgrade is worth it, or what they might have issues with, where they can save on the machine without impacting the user experience and allocate more budget to more useful (and profitable) accessories. Yet all management cared about is how many times you beat them over the head to get a credit card application or geek squad protection.

[jacobolive]

Dawid walks through the door of the best buy to pick up the computer

*Best Buy employee* "oh fuck, that's the guy that does tech stuff"

[malkmusRules]

Years ago, my sister and I went to Best Buy to buy a TV. At the time, it was just short of $2000 which, to be fair, was a good price relative to the competition at the time. But then the inevitable pitch to pay $300 to make sure the colour is accurate was made. My sister said, "So you're telling me you're selling a $2000 television that does not have proper colour?" They ended all upselling attempts instantly.

[tek_lynx]

26 years later still waiting for my mail in rebate for the Vooodoo Banshee I bought at Best Buy.

[travisihs]

I use to work for the Best Buy distribution center. It was known at the warehouse that peoople at the store will lie to you about not having products to get you to buy something more expensive. The thing my supervisor told me to do was to look up to see if have it at the warhouse, print it out, and when they tried lying to you about it, pull out the paper and say "the system says you have this product" and if they kept lying to you about it, walk away.

[marksuper]

Story time: About 15 years ago, I was at Best Buy to grab a KVM switch. I had one in my hands and a geek squad kid walked up and asked me if I needed help. I said " yes, I have 2 computers and only 1 monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Is there any way I can get something like a switch that will let me just switch between machines instead of unhooking everything each time?"
The guy thought and thought and thought and then asked a blue shirt who said "nah, that sounds like a specialty part. You would need to go to a place like Microcenter for that. "
So I said "okay" and I put the KVM switch that I was holding back on the shelf and went to Microcenter.

That was the best advice that I ever got from Best Buy.

[Erdie]

"Doom Maternal" I love auto generated subtitles!

Also, when I got married and we set everything up joint, my wife had a monthly subscription to Geek Squad for a laptop she no longer owned. ...And so did both her mother and father 👍 It's no wonder they try to rope people in with subscriptions, it's got to be a massive source of passive income with near zero cost.

[LordHonkInc]

"Hey, I've got $30, what can I get at your restaurant for that?" - "Oh, I would definitely recommend the Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top. That'll be $180, thank you. Oh, and would you like to leave a gratuity? For your information, we don't accept values under 25% I'm afraid."

[ericjenks]

That spider just wants to be your new web developer

[adiirfan]

damn, in my local biggest computer shop, they will build your pc for free if you buy most of the part from them, even when you bring some of your own part, and it only took like 30 minute or an hour of waiting

[plsdont]

a minute and half in, "has 1400 to spend", "ok you're gonna want a 30 series gpu and an i5 11" LMFAO done

[tyrannicpuppy]

This was full of the best bits of Anna/Dawid videos. The soft off-screen chuckling at Dawid before he's even dropped the joke. The ever-popular analogies. The fun sass at both the company trying to fleece Dawid (or in this case Anna) and the great commentary on the games themselves. Videos like this are the stuff that hooked me to this channel for life. You two are just so much fun and yet still informative when it matters too. A great combination.

[AnnaDoes]

The fact that some guy behind me had to remind me (and the Best Buy employee) that I’d need a cpu cooler was mad.

The whole experience was wild and took really long. But we made it. They just milked me hard.

[TheLeagueObservers]

I'm going to give props to the guy who changed the BIOS settings. I don't expect most GeekSquad people to really touch that let alone anyone from BestBuy willing to touch that. Regardless of protocol - I appreciate them looking out. Even if it may not be setting you might care for, it's a nice "Hey, I appreciate you thinking about that."

[wupgzhr]

0:14 I like how you can hear his wife laughing in the background. Any woman who can laugh at you for crap like that and still somehow respect you.... they're a keeper. XD

[dutch-nature-history-bydrone]

I watch your channel because i like everything about, the fact that you just stay normal and dont even realize how funny you are combined with the real cool and original but sometimes ridiculously funny content makes me a real fan of this channel.

[beam]

Why is it that when Best Buy does it they get away with it but if I do it I can go to jail? It makes no sense. These big companies need to held accountable

[Kelekona_]

Dawid admitting strange personal info to random people in the parking lot. Ah good times.