The Geek Squad do wear clip-ons (I suspect it has to do with a stereotypical nerd motif, short-sleeved white shirts, black clip on tie, calls to mind crewcuts, horn-rimmed glasses, and pocket protectors a la Reveng of the Nerds].)
A friend of mine is/was a Geek Squad tech. Mostly he's snide and more than a bit insulting to customers, and he gets a Best-Buy flash drive that looks like a stripped-down version of a "Techie Toolz" CD. I know my buddy can fix most stuff, he's an even better hardware tech then I (and I have a "real" computer job!)
However, I know several of his co-workers as well, and those guys couldn't even figure out how to take a processor off of a mobo, let alone hack anything more than a hairball.
Well, due to the law of advertising (if it gets a glance, your money was well-spent,) it really doesn't MATTER that you didn't buy the magazine.. I mean, if you leaf through it for 20 seconds, thats like, a 5% chance you'll see my ad, if I was a company who put an ad in that magazine.
Think billboards, people rarely look at them for more than a couple seconds, and they still are somewhat effective. Since most people never buy from newsstands in the U.S. you have to realise that the thumbed-up copies are generating ad revenue too..!
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The Geek Squad do wear clip-ons (I suspect it has to do with a stereotypical nerd motif, short-sleeved white shirts, black clip on tie, calls to mind crewcuts, horn-rimmed glasses, and pocket protectors a la Reveng of the Nerds].) A friend of mine is/was a Geek Squad tech. Mostly he's snide and more than a bit insulting to customers, and he gets a Best-Buy flash drive that looks like a stripped-down version of a "Techie Toolz" CD. I know my buddy can fix most stuff, he's an even better hardware tech then I (and I have a "real" computer job!) However, I know several of his co-workers as well, and those guys couldn't even figure out how to take a processor off of a mobo, let alone hack anything more than a hairball.
Well, due to the law of advertising (if it gets a glance, your money was well-spent,) it really doesn't MATTER that you didn't buy the magazine.. I mean, if you leaf through it for 20 seconds, thats like, a 5% chance you'll see my ad, if I was a company who put an ad in that magazine. Think billboards, people rarely look at them for more than a couple seconds, and they still are somewhat effective. Since most people never buy from newsstands in the U.S. you have to realise that the thumbed-up copies are generating ad revenue too..!