Best buy no longer seems interested in selling me useful things I want, but instead, hooking their talons into those purchases and loading it down with as much margin at my expense they can manage.
You say that as if it's some recent development. I had high school friends that worked there over 15 years ago and that was pretty much their main purpose as a salesman.
Even their refurbs are getting sent back. I just set up to send in my refurb yesterday. (paid $169 last week!)
However, it looks like they're sending me a brand new one to replace it. Instead of being shipped from Warehouse like the refurb, it's showing shipped from Amazon.
Or the cable/internet provider will come out with their own streaming service. Such as Comcast Streampix announced a couple days ago, for only $5 per month.
Of course it's not available if you just have the internet plan...so add $15-20 to that...
Though if you're like me, you figured out that it's cheaper to have both TV and internet than just internet if you need useable speeds. Because their base internet plan with no TV is something stupid like 5Mbps(on a good day). To upgrade the 5Mbps plan to 20Mbps costs MORE than just switching to the TV/Internet plan, which comes with the 20Mbps plan.
How would this have anything to do with this reported recent improvement in reliability? Car makers have been doing this since the 60's, if not longer. Dodge Dart/Plymouth Barracuda. Ford LTD/Mercury Marquis. There's hundreds of examples.
Or an even better solution, check the name of the drug prescribed to you with the label on the container before taking it! My doctor has ALWAYS said, "I'm prescribing this for you, take X amount per day." I check the note he gives me and I check the bottle when I pick it up. I even check to make sure the pills inside match the description given in the documentation. If people are involved, mistakes WILL be made. The pharmacist reading it off the computer can misread it, accidentally grab the wrong bottle, put the wrong dose on the label, etc... Even the doctor could accidentally type/click something wrong! No solution will be 100% error free.
Not that I don't fully support a technological solution, but personal responsibility has to come into play when you're doing something that affects your health.
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Best buy no longer seems interested in selling me useful things I want, but instead, hooking their talons into those purchases and loading it down with as much margin at my expense they can manage.
You say that as if it's some recent development. I had high school friends that worked there over 15 years ago and that was pretty much their main purpose as a salesman.
However, it looks like they're sending me a brand new one to replace it. Instead of being shipped from Warehouse like the refurb, it's showing shipped from Amazon.
Not sure how I could tell once I got it though...
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When you comment using the words Fox News, fair, and balanced in a sentence, it's automatically modded 5, Funny.
That's why I only drink Boone's Farm with my store brand fish sticks.
IOW, Microsoft doesn't want its own company money to be supporting Apple and other competitors.
But the memo doesn't mention anything about other competitors, just Apple.
So apparently it's fine to show up to work with a Sansa MP3 player, Blackberry Playbook, and an Android smartphone.
At least it wasn't some Canadian guy trying to sing reggae music.
Only if they can mistake it for Lupus early on in the show.
Better to shut your mouth and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
Even with these automated carts, I'll still get the one that pulls to the left and sounds like a hyena got caught in the wheel.
What terrorist would talk in plain text on social networks about serious stuff?
The kind the DHS wants us to believe actually exist.
Or the cable/internet provider will come out with their own streaming service. Such as Comcast Streampix announced a couple days ago, for only $5 per month.
Of course it's not available if you just have the internet plan...so add $15-20 to that...
Though if you're like me, you figured out that it's cheaper to have both TV and internet than just internet if you need useable speeds. Because their base internet plan with no TV is something stupid like 5Mbps(on a good day). To upgrade the 5Mbps plan to 20Mbps costs MORE than just switching to the TV/Internet plan, which comes with the 20Mbps plan.
They'll get their money one way or another.
It's only humorous til it happens to you.
How would this have anything to do with this reported recent improvement in reliability? Car makers have been doing this since the 60's, if not longer. Dodge Dart/Plymouth Barracuda. Ford LTD/Mercury Marquis. There's hundreds of examples.
If Disney was to renew their Mickey Mouse copyright this year, it would cost them $19,342,813,113,834,066,795,298,816.
Or an even better solution, check the name of the drug prescribed to you with the label on the container before taking it! My doctor has ALWAYS said, "I'm prescribing this for you, take X amount per day." I check the note he gives me and I check the bottle when I pick it up. I even check to make sure the pills inside match the description given in the documentation. If people are involved, mistakes WILL be made. The pharmacist reading it off the computer can misread it, accidentally grab the wrong bottle, put the wrong dose on the label, etc... Even the doctor could accidentally type/click something wrong! No solution will be 100% error free.
Not that I don't fully support a technological solution, but personal responsibility has to come into play when you're doing something that affects your health.
And a bathtub tried to eat his friend's baby.
Pretty much like steeling your virginity.
How do you mentally prepare your virginity?
Reversing the order of that analogy would be more appropriate here.
They're already receiving glowing reviews.
I don't know, but this joke sure is...
But thanks for freaking out, it was entertaining.
It is easy to promise that later presidents or governments will do something, then do nothing
We are so screwed.
Notice how it's the EXACT same thing going on with our financial problems. Kicking the can down the road is easy til the can ends up filled with lead.
We are so screwed.
I feel your pain bro.
You can only get these at one place, the HP ebay store, with a two purchase limit. Happy shopping.