Let’s face it, when you want to walk into a store and pick-up some gadget goodness, Best Buy makes it easy. They have stores everywhere, and their inventories are usually vast. As such, they will be where many Moms and Dads turn to grab back-to-school supplies for their kids. Whether it is heading off to a Universty or returning to High School, the amount of gadgetry kids need can be overwhelming for some parents.
Best Buy is taking a neat approach to this by setting up some online chats on their recently launched AskABlueShirt.com website. These chats are designed to give those who are boggled by the selection of plastic things with blinking lights available for purchase a little guidance in making purchases prior to the upcoming school year. The Q&A will cover a wide array of gadgetry from laptops, digital cameras, cell phones, portable media players, PDAs, and the software that accompanies them.
This probably isn’t for many of the geeky folk who frequent this blog, but you may want to pass it on to those people who will end up bombarding you with purchase-advice questions. Why not let them bug a Blue Shirt instead (hey, Kirk used to do it to Red Shirts).
The chats scheduled are:
Sunday August 27th from 8 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Tuesday August 29th from 9 - 9:30 p.m. ET
Thursday August 31st from 1 - 1:30 p.m. ET
I’ll log into that chat and ask them why all their store associates are flaming jerks. The only thing I’ll buy at Best Buy are small ticket items like CDs, DVDs, games, etc and that’s ONLY if I can’t get them somewhere else. For everything else, there’s Circuit City. I do all I can to ward people away from Best Buy, especially the Dartmouth store. Did I mention they’re flaming jerks?
Yes, but we’re shills now.
I don’t have a problem with them, but I usually go there with a purpose. So, I know what I want to buy before I get there. And, they aren’t bad stores for grabbing items like Televisions.
I haven’t been to the Dartmouth store, but I know how a couple bad experiences with sales associates can turn you off. Luckily, I have nothing but good experiences with the store I frequent (Dedham, MA).
The Dartmouth one was full of dickheads when I lived there, I can only imagine its probably gotten worse.
Also. I figure circuit city deserves another couple years of me avoiding them in exchange for trying to foist that divx shit on us.
I also (being a semi-geeky male) know exactly what I want when I head in, I research every purchase beforehand ad nauseum. It’s just dealing with incompetence and attitude that kills me, and it seems like Best Buy is the king of that. From being told “no, we have no more of that PC in stock” without checking the inventory computer (and me pointing to the boxes upon boxes of that model up in overstock), to being forced to wait in line for almost an hour at their PC repair desk just because I wanted to buy a USB audio device that was behind the counter (that worked like ass, BTW) and get a smirking store manager who was too busy with his personal conversation to come over when I asked to speak with him….
I’d better stop now. I’m starting to sound like Carl
I think they should have called it ‘Ask A Redshirt’, in homage to Star Trek. Then, when they were dicks, you could drop them in a hole or something to fight futilely for their lives.
Baah baah baah baba baah baba Baah baah….
Its tough to write that theme music from when Kirk and Spock fought on Vulcan