Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs

Ed Albro, PC World writes "At PC World, we've got a story today on salespeople at Best Buy and Circuit City pushing consumers to pay the stores' technicians to create recovery discs for their new laptops. Recovery discs are important to have, of course, but the fact is that they're easy to make yourself. Or you can get them from the manufacturer of your PC, often for half of what Best Buy and Circuit City charge you. The salespeople often tell you that you can buy from the manufacturer — but they claim you'll pay twice as much as the stores charge."

Comments

Say it ain't so

[Orange Crush]

Best Buy and Circuit City are pressuring customers to buy overpriced add ons they don't need? Hogwash!

What?!

[Scutter]

A salesperson lying to a customer?! That's unpossible!

I love checking out

[pclminion]

Every time I check out of one of these places -- which is not often at all -- I'm invariably offered some kind of extended warranty. When I initially refuse, the cashier usually says something like "You'd really be wise to buy it, these things break all the time."

I respond, "So what you're saying is, this product is a piece of shit and I shouldn't buy it. Check." The look on the cashier's face is always priceless. For a big-ticket item, it's also great to see the sales associate foaming at the mouth because the dumbshit cashier just tanked a sale.

And yeah, I walk right out without buying it. Half the time I never intended to anyway. Hours of amusement, kids!

Get a Universal Recovery Disk

[guruevi]

I have one of those 'Universal Recovery Disks', it helps against spyware, virusses, malware or just plain broken hardware and you can still save your data:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download