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December 28, 2005

Best Buy

Shit’s not happening around here thanks to Best Buy. Ok, Best Buy, and Frida who decided that chewing through the A/C adapter was a surefire way to gain respect among the other cats. Sure, this could have been thwarted months ago, when the laptop just started shutting off on it’s own, but somehow we missed the damage she was doing. So, Thursday I forced Jeri to enter the doors of Best Buy, and we headed towards the laptop accessory aisle. I started looking at the different adapters, when Jeri grabbed the pre-pubescent Best Buy clerk, Mike. Mike asked what kind of laptop we had, and then grabbed an adapter, and said with great confidence, “this is all you need”. I took his confidence to mean, hey Best Buy is finally hiring people who know their shit…Of course upon arriving home, demolishing the plastic casing to get the adapter out, I find that indeed Best Buy still hires idiots and no, this adapter is anything But what we need.

Friday, I call Best Buy, explain the dilemma and am told by yet another brilliant Best Buy employee, “I don’t know why he had you buy that, it’s not compatible”. Do you one that is? I asked. “Um…lemme check….no.” I start to ask if he could point me in the right direction, when he recommended that I visit the Best Buy website, and order a replacement part. I headed over to the Best Buy site, just to see how much they were going to gouge me for (the first wrong adapter was $125). It seems that Best Buy wasn’t going to be any clearer with their website. I could spend either $93.00, or I could spend $173.00. What’s the difference between the two? Best Buy didn’t make that clear.

I found the adapter I needed at BBTech for $29.99.

Fuck you Best Buy.

Contrived by Joshua at December 28, 2005 09:59 AM