I was in my local Best Buy today (The 13th) and right as I waled in to the right hand side their was a tabel with about 100+ copies of HL2 ready for sale. I picked one up to see if they were real or just demo box's. To my suprise they where real. I asked a worker when did they get put out and they said this moring. I guess no one care's about relase dates any more. Yes I got a copy. But just the wait till the 16th will be killer.
The Best Buy store 263 is located in Columbia MD. Just in case any of you that live near buy would like to get your hand's on a copy a little bit early.
I worked for Best Buy for about 3 years, and left rufley a year ago. When I left I was the Digital Imaging Manager, and I know the SOP (Stander Operationg Procedure) of the store like the back of my hand. I think the the reporter / AG has some things wrong.
*Best Buy does not handel rebates. There are many companys that do rabetes for any company who wants to have a rebate on their items. Companys like Young America. Their job is rebates, that is all they do.
*Best Buy has a very strong "Open Item" rule. They even have tags to put on every item that is open box. They have to be updated every 2 weeks. And every item gets a tag when it goes back to the floor form Customer Service.
*In the case of Electronics like PS2's, the tech's have to check them out before they go on the floor. If the item dose not work, it goes to DEVO (Back To The Vender) ir Juck Out(if the vender will not take it back).
*The return policy is 30 Day on all items but 15 days on computers, digital camras and camcorders and are subejct to a 15% resocking fee if the item is open. (The item is then discounted a minimum of 10% and sold on the floor as a Open Item)
*You can not return open Music or Software, you may exchange.
BTW: Sony is DEVO, so when a PS2 is broken they just send it back to sony at no cost to them
I think some of the clames of the pepole are just pepole that dont READ. Their are phone numbers to call for help the store can not pull up that info (all the new privicy act's realy make it hard to get infomation about customers). And with the problem of not being able to return a product like a PS2 in less then 30 days, their should be no problem. And if their is call BBI, the HQ and they sould be able to solve the issue very fast. or just go to another Best Buy, you can return them anyware.
The Best Buy I worked at was buy the book. We never had a issue that lasted more than a few minuts along as the customer was calm.
is when my ATM at my local branch crashed with my card inside and came back on with and flashed the Windows XP logo, folowed of course with the windows chime. That is the day I knew that my money was not safe.
I dont trust XP at home, i realy dont trust it my money!!!
Just because I was interested I ran a tracert on that ip, and I looks like a computer running off of a Comcast line. Can you say TOS violation?
Hehe, Comcast is probably, if they haven't already shut off his line.;)
I use my cable for my landline and it work great. I have a little white box that sits behind my TV that plugs in to my phone jack. Works just like a regular line and cost half the price of the bells. And my cable company cuts me a deal; I get digital cable, phone, and cable Internet for $90 dollars a month. I love having 1 bill and a small one at that!!
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I was in my local Best Buy today (The 13th) and right as I waled in to the right hand side their was a tabel with about 100+ copies of HL2 ready for sale. I picked one up to see if they were real or just demo box's. To my suprise they where real. I asked a worker when did they get put out and they said this moring. I guess no one care's about relase dates any more. Yes I got a copy. But just the wait till the 16th will be killer.
The Best Buy store 263 is located in Columbia MD. Just in case any of you that live near buy would like to get your hand's on a copy a little bit early.
Happy Fraging!!!
But how many FPS will it get in Doom 3??
I worked for Best Buy for about 3 years, and left rufley a year ago. When I left I was the Digital Imaging Manager, and I know the SOP (Stander Operationg Procedure) of the store like the back of my hand. I think the the reporter / AG has some things wrong.
*Best Buy does not handel rebates. There are many companys that do rabetes for any company who wants to have a rebate on their items. Companys like Young America. Their job is rebates, that is all they do.
*Best Buy has a very strong "Open Item" rule. They even have tags to put on every item that is open box. They have to be updated every 2 weeks. And every item gets a tag when it goes back to the floor form Customer Service.
*In the case of Electronics like PS2's, the tech's have to check them out before they go on the floor. If the item dose not work, it goes to DEVO (Back To The Vender) ir Juck Out(if the vender will not take it back).
*The return policy is 30 Day on all items but 15 days on computers, digital camras and camcorders and are subejct to a 15% resocking fee if the item is open. (The item is then discounted a minimum of 10% and sold on the floor as a Open Item)
*You can not return open Music or Software, you may exchange.
BTW: Sony is DEVO, so when a PS2 is broken they just send it back to sony at no cost to them
I think some of the clames of the pepole are just pepole that dont READ. Their are phone numbers to call for help the store can not pull up that info (all the new privicy act's realy make it hard to get infomation about customers). And with the problem of not being able to return a product like a PS2 in less then 30 days, their should be no problem. And if their is call BBI, the HQ and they sould be able to solve the issue very fast. or just go to another Best Buy, you can return them anyware.
The Best Buy I worked at was buy the book. We never had a issue that lasted more than a few minuts along as the customer was calm.
Suger works better then Viniger!!!
is when my ATM at my local branch crashed with my card inside and came back on with and flashed the Windows XP logo, folowed of course with the windows chime. That is the day I knew that my money was not safe.
I dont trust XP at home, i realy dont trust it my money!!!
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/index .html
Just because I was interested I ran a tracert on that ip, and I looks like a computer running off of a Comcast line. Can you say TOS violation? Hehe, Comcast is probably, if they haven't already shut off his line. ;)
I use my cable for my landline and it work great. I have a little white box that sits behind my TV that plugs in to my phone jack. Works just like a regular line and cost half the price of the bells. And my cable company cuts me a deal; I get digital cable, phone, and cable Internet for $90 dollars a month. I love having 1 bill and a small one at that!!