Spoof photo - maybe

photoshopped - I will kill anyone who says 'photoshopped'

BUT I bet there are people out there who will have trouble putting a disc into a game machine or anything else that has a CD tray slottable or not. It is the same with mobile phones, ask your parents or older colleagues what functions they use on them and it will be phone calls and SMS..... not a jot more even though it probably costs as much as a low end laptop. Same with CDs, lots of 'young' people assume that it is obvious what to do with the disc but it often isn't for older people who didn't grow up with all this tech. I'd love to see what the average 18 year old would do if I asked him to record a vinyl record onto cassette, using a home stereo circa 1982, for me.... probably F**k it up big time

If you pay for installation, are they going to try to upsell you on the extended warranty? 'Cause, like, I can see all kinds of mischief possibilities arising from *that.*

"They are nuts! They have fabricated this... FICTION to keep themselves afloat! They know NOTHING!"

To paraphrase the insane Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame...

The whole "warranty" thing: yeah to those that worship their equipment it may not be a great deal for them. but when something DOES break(i.e. you drop your laptop) you'd be glad you had the "Performance Service Plan"

The REALLY sad thing: There are morons who would actually PAY FOR THIS! The same idiots who use the Geek Squad and think they are getting a professional. Fireslog will install your GPS too! hahahahahaha Morons abound!

Best buy stores receive resupply for things like those stickers about once every 8-12 weeks. max. kinda hard to tear them off those cases as well. It's not so much a laziness thing, they're almost asking us not to take them off. management cares about sales, we really don't, but w/e.

As for putting those games in those cases and people who don't like it: tough. seriously, every single best buy regardless of neighborhood has at least 2-3 thousand dollars of shrink (see: theft) per day/week. Even these games when they ARE in the cases... We've caught people with duct tape lined large purses smuggling out the sensor-boxed games ten or so at a time. It's a shame, but being a big retailer means you're a target of theft, and you kind of have to have them in those cases.

I would rather buy an unopened game that's in a plastic anti-theft case than an opened dvd sleeve that someone has taken the game disk out and done who knows what with it and/or any registration info it comes with (see:EB Games).

Can we get some of those on batteries while we're at it?

Place disk on retractable cup holder. That sort of thing.

I agree with you wellfleet. I used to be a CIA Senior until I was promoted to supervisor in another department.

Most people think that just because they can do some of the services that we offer, everyone can.

In this case, of course Geek Squad doesn't offer a service to install games. We reuse those cases for multiple items including RAM, which was probably what that was used for.

@ComradePhate:

Haha, I sent in basically bought RAM in a case like this a month or two ago. PC RAM totally would in those cases, so it's just obvious what happened. The Internet is just populated by very stupid people.

Hilarious.

@wellfleet: Is this guy serious? You think you have to install video games on consoles?... and you work at Best Buy? Gofigure.

@scottyboy218:
You don't think we realize this?
The point is how incredibly stupid Best Buy is for making this mistake. How hard would it have been to order one of your minimum wage workers to peel the stickers off your old shells so the company doesn't look like they have no idea how a video game console works?

@scottyboy218: See I used to work at Best Buy. I used to put the games in those cases before they went out on the floor. You know what? if one had that sticker on it, I'd put it something relevent in it, not use it for games.
Silly post, but also lazy employees.

@ mobbo - Would you like a Percocet? I have an extra...

The fact is that it makes no sense to sell an installation for this product, and every time a low-level employee or customer notices it, and is then ignored by a manager when it is pointed out to be corrected, just reinforces all over again these sad stereotypes of Best Buy.

If they were all that... they'd see how silly it looked and fix the problem! It's a no brainer.

The reason a person goes to Geek Squad is because they don't understand what went (or what they did) wrong.

If the posts and comments of this site were all to be qualified by your "one rotten apple doesn't spoil the bunch" rule, there would be hardly nothing here at all. I think the readers are bright enough to recognize truly isolated incidents. And, frankly, the criticism of Geek Squad is corroborated by the many articles (lest us not forget the file stealing scandal, which was company-wide).

Clearly you are intelligent. And obviously Best Buy is not staffed by morons. But that's just the point. The Geek Squad problems are newsworthy and troubling because the employees are intelligent -- and, thus, should know better. Similarly, this post is funny because a presumably literate person placed these stickers on these game packages without recognizing the senselessness. It's such a simple matter, that the error is hard to dismiss without a chuckle.

I was once a Sprint CSR, and I think we all know how much THOSE are hated. I know I wasn't a horrible person that caused troubles for my customers, but that doesn't negate the fact that many of my coworkers fit the stereotype.

Just remember they aren't talking about you. And congrats on the new job. <3

But from an aesthetic, and more crucially, branding point of view, they're horrible. Video game companies spend a not-insignificant amount of resources to create the package design because, for the same reason that Apple forgoes money from Intel by not participating in the "Intel Inside" sticker program, they clearly see value in how their product is presented in the store. So they should be mildly pissed that a retailer is obscuring the packaging with store branding, branding that's completely unrelated to the product at that.

So it's not so much about Best Buy being stupid, but more about Best Buy not caring about its suppliers.

Oh and yeah its Sunday, lighten up folks geez.

Or, Best Buy really is that dumb.

And also, assuming that everyone that works at Best Buy is stupid because you've had a bad experience is like implying that every commenter here is a moron because every now and then, you run across one that's absolutely retarded.

Not that I'm intimating anything.

OMG! BEST BUY! *runs and gets torch* It's a good ol' fashion Best Buy Bashing Fest! Boy did Christmas come early.

Seriously, for the people who are actually taking this seriously, lighten up. If this adds to your "hate" of Best Buy then I seriously feel sorry for you. Not to mention that I feel sorry for you that you have enough free time and energy in your life to "hate" a corporation with such passion.

Guess someone solved world hunger while I slept last night, huh?

[www.joystiq.com]

=P

I'm getting pretty sick of people saying "Geek Squad is full of stupid people". I very recently left Geek Squad for a higher paying IT Manager position with a large company. While I was at Geek Squad I received multiple professional certifications, repaired THOUSANDS of computers with only a handful of complaints (mostly the customer's fault), and I received priceless experience that I pull from every day to save my current employer tons of money and lost productivity. The co-workers I left behind were young college students just trying to make ends meet doing something they love and they are damn good at what they do. I owe Geek Squad a lot considering the amount of crap I put up with from STUPID customers and their kiddie-porn infested PC's with LimeWire and 8 IE toolbars wondering why they have viruses and spyware. Um... could it be that you always hit "Yes" to every ActiveX control you see?

Please refrain from making blanket statements about a service just because SOME people in the service probably shouldn't be there. I guarantee every office has some idiot or two that should not be there... but wouldn't you be offended if someone called your entire company "a bunch of stupid people"? But how is that the fault of the talented agents? Do they deserve to be called "stupid" too?

Also, I'm getting pretty sick of these posts berating a store for a labelling mistake. This site used to have lots of great posts that solved problems for legitimate wrong-doing... but lately it has just been sensationalist story one after the other.

OMG THEY LABELED THIS WRONG LOL!!! WHAT A BUNCH OF MORONS!! EVERYONE WHO WORKS THERE IS A MENTALLY RETARDED PERSON!!!

Hilarious.

@scottyboy218: It's a Sunday (i.e., slow news day). Heh.

@WhiteRabbit: I want to see someone take them up on their offer and then complain that the "installation" wasn't done correctly. Could you imagine? Lol.

I'm not going to laugh when it's someone who really needs such a service, but when a company has become so laughable not only at their so-obvious lack of attention but their even worse reputation for abusing what should have been a true feature for their business, you really have to wonder what the company management has to think about their employees.

I really can't believe that it is company policy to put game disks in sleeves designed for PC software; even if the jewel cases are the same size. This reeks of lazy, lackadaisical work by the employees and even worse management. It has turned a company that was once lauded for its electronic knowledge into one people tend to ignore unless they can't find what they want anywhere else.

Think South Park WOW episode. :P

Of course I set it up for him for free because we just like our customers, but there probably is some small demand for such a service and since they have the mobile geek squad "service" infrastructure in place its not a bad idea.

@ scottyboy and the flaming carrot: I guess it's fie on you

Call me when BestBuy starts placing "Let Us Open It" stickers on products sold in blister packs.

Plus the fact that they try to sell their warranties up the ass.

I look at it this way (and I'm not defending Best Buy or others for selling them): Those warranties are almost pure profit for those guys. They're optional, and if selling those warranties to a few clueless people means that the rest of the products can be sold for just a little bit less money to the rest of us who don't buy them, then what's the big deal unless you're the sucker who fell for it.

Well this packaging would make sense on PS3 games sadly. Just looks like a company reusing PC software packaging on their games - fascinating stuff.

Damn, i wish i had this when i had my ps1 and NES, who knows, maybe i wouldnt have had to blow so many cartridges or turn the ps over so many time when I could have had a professional install the games

I'd love to see someone actually take them up on that offer, just to be an ass. LOL.

I work at Circuit City and even WE wouldn't be so dumb as to do that...though maybe we're missing out on a huge potential market...hmmmmm...I better go tell my managers!