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Why you shouldn't go to Best Buy stores (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47760122

TranscriptA post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @dramypsyd@ohai.social saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 50 minutes ago

Things that didn't happen for $1000, Alex.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I have to be in an unusually confrontational mood to pull shit like this, but three or four times now when I've been bombarded by sales floor hawks, I motioned my hand at them like a Jedi mind trick and said "Adblock." mid-sentence in their pitch.

No eye contact, never stopped walking. So far it's got a 100% success rate in stopping the pitch instantly.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Now that is a masterful sterile technique. You must teach us more of your ways.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 8 hours ago

Yo Ive got to try this, I usually just start adhd thought paralysis and awkward my way through it 😭

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 8 hours ago

just gonna drop this here https://consumerrights.wiki/Best_Buy

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 42 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oh god, I worked there 5 full years (over a decade ago now). They absolutely push you to hock that stupid card. They won't outright say you have to, but they'll sure make sure you feel it if you aren't. When I did sales it was constant metrics of how many cards you got out. They didn't even care of purchases were on the cards. I was literally told it was better for a spouse to get a second card than it was for a purchase to be put on an existing card.

When I switched to be a repair agent at geek squad where I had no time in front of customers I was still given shit daily for not getting cards. I asked how, how and when am I supposed to pitch cards? "Well, when you tell them their computer is broken". I was like 95% of the time it's covered by a warranty or something already purchased if it reaches me, and on the off chance it's not, they're going to just buy a new one more than likely. Then a salesman will get the credit. Zero awareness of how that side of the business worked.

It was awful. Literally told that I should offer that card with APRs higher than 24% to people who were trying to save money and not spend a lot "so they can have their dreams" or so "their son or daughter can have that dream college laptop". I had people ask me for it who I know shouldn't have taken out a credit card and who did anyway. It made me sick.

Best buy gets a kickback from Citi (at least at the time it was Citi) for every application.

[–] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

When I switched to be a repair agent at geek squad where I had no time in front of customers I was still given shit daily for not getting cards.

When I worked at CompUSA, everyone had sales and card metrics. Including the warehouse crew. Who were virtually never on the floor during operating hours. They were often called out during store meetings, and the manager didn't like their "excuse" of always being in the back.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 11 hours ago

Ah CompUSA, that takes me back. God I completely empathize with this. I don't know how many times I thought "I am a service provider, the service you sell, without me those services you sell are worthless. That is literally the value prop" Not everyone needs to be sales

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 32 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Receipts are mostly printed on thermal paper that contains toxic chemicals. Not sure about the testosterone thing but receipts aren't the best for you.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Most stuff that's not designed to be ingested is bad if it is ingested but there's this one simple trick to avoid any problem. Don't ingest it

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

It's ok to play with mercury, just don't ingest it.

[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 hours ago

it's true, but the amount of BPA one picks up from handling receipts, even as a cashier for years like I was, is negligible. Much less than people pick up from other sources, and not enough to disrupt hormones. I'm not worried about it.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 26 points 18 hours ago

Another possibility is that he thought that the doctor was attractive, and he was hoping to get her contact info so he could stalk her.

Source: I worked in food service for eleven years, and there were some really creepy dudes.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Their people don't know shit, full stop. I once tried to go there because radio shack had gone out of business and i wanted to make a convenience purchase. I asked some dude if they had an infrared repeater because i had a hidden media cabinet. Not only did the guy argue whether that kind of product existed at all, but assured me that a repeater couldn't exist because the signals from a remote are encoded. After banging my head on a wall briefly, i just went home and ordered one from the Internet. Almost all retail is a waste of time now.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Almost all retail is a waste of time now.

I tried to go shoe shopping last week. I went into a shoe store and was dismayed that I couldn’t find what materials any of the shoes were made from. Until now, I’d always seen a tag somewhere on every shoe that would say something like, “All man made materials,” or “Leather upper.” But this time, nothing I saw had any indication of what they were made of… and that troubled me.

So after meticulously studying a shoe, reading everything written on it, I asked an employee about it. I wanted her to see if the box (which wasn’t on the display) had more information.

Instead she took the shoe, pulled up the same label I just read (which only indicated where the shoe had been made), and lazily read the tag back to me before handing it back.

I responded, “Yes, I know,” and held back from saying what I REALLY wanted to say, which was, “Yes, I know how to read.”

Utterly useless. She claimed there was no other information even on the box (without going to look.) I put the shoe back and left, resolved to just buy something online.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

I used to work in the housewares, "as seen on TV", and Assembly Furniture departments. Shit, for the minimum wage I was making, I knew what knives were worth it, what kind to use for what, what pressboard furniture would hold up to a house full of kids and what was just for show, and that everything in "as seen..." was a scam.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Where is this 15% discount? I have the card and don’t get that.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

This post is super fake because no card gives you 15% back. That’s insane.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Probably the first purchase.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No, no first punches gives you 15% back. Complete lie.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Would’ve taken less time than commenting to go to bestbuy.com to see that indeed first purchase is currently giving 15% back.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Right? They completely neutered the rewardzone/my best buy points system. It used to be worth something. Now my amex gives me way better points and I'm not locked into one store either.

[–] BeBopaLula@piefed.ca 5 points 17 hours ago

Man I go so much stuff back in the day. I would give my member number to my clients and said use it when they buy. Worked for years. Never went back after they stopped doing point system.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think the rewards are in best buy points, which is something I guess but not 15% cash back

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Rewards points are 5%, not 15%.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

This isn't me shilling the card, but I guess it's 15% off on your first purchase or day of having the card? That being said, the rewards are best buy points so that does limit things.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/misc/financing-rewards/pcmcat102500050032.c?id=pcmcat102500050032

15% back in rewards: *Offer valid 6/2/25–7/6/25. Get 2.5 points per $1 spent (5% back in rewards) on qualifying Best Buy purchases when you choose Standard Credit with your My Best Buy® Credit Card. If you apply and are approved for a new My Best Buy Credit Card, your first day of purchases on the Credit Card using Standard Credit within the first 14 days of account opening will get an additional 5 bonus points (an additional 10% back in rewards, for a total of 15%).

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 10 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Hoping OP doesn't mean shopping online at Best Buy xD. Saw a recent thread where someone ordered online and BB used Doordash for delivery? Then the DoorDash dude just up and took the package home. Buyer reported that the package never arrived and instead of doing well, anything, Best Buy said, "Shows as delivered, take it up with Law Enforcement."

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 5 points 12 hours ago

Sounds like a chargeback situation to me. And making sure never to do business with BestBuy again.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I know next to nothing about how this all works, but I would assume you go through DoorDash to get everything sorted in this situation, not Best Buys.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

No way.

In that situation, you didn't hire door dash, Best Buy did. You paid Best Buy for a product. If they used a delivery service that stole your product, then Best Buy didn't deliver what you paid for. Best Buy would have a brief, reasonable opportunity to do the right thing, then it would be a charge back.

[–] dramypsyd@ohai.social 1 points 18 hours ago

@Talaraine @bamboo Oh definitely not! That’s awful!