"Best Buy Opens First 24-Hour Store" [RetailWire]
(Photo: Ben+Sam)
@dfens42: Do you accept.. cash?! CHA CHING!!
]]>The Halloween store here is in the old haunted Wal-Mart that has been abandoned since they colonized the new SUPER Wal-Mart.
]]>@Kimaroo - No Stars Upon Thars:
I know, I'll play the "May I help you?" riff!
]]>I bought my first receiver, CD player and speakers from the Union Square Circuit City Best Buy. I still have the receiver and speakers.
]]>Look closely at that picture above folks. What you're witnessing is the last vestige of the human population that is computer illiterate. The rest of us will be at home, under the covers, warm and sleeping. At least I will be.
]]>@StanTheManDean: ...and higher prices!
]]>@Omir The Storyteller: I agree. Being a life-long musician, buying an instrument is not something I take lightly, but for kids and teenagers that "think" that they may want to play an instrument? The price is right at Best Buy and if they quit, which most do, it's not a great loss to the pocketbook.
]]>@catastrophegirl: How do you post pictures?
]]>@rorschachex: Wow,,,you mean to tell me that you can tell the difference? LOL.
]]>Best Buy doesn't over charge people. People over pay at Best Buy. Best Buy is only doing what every business in America tries to do. That is charge as much as people are willing to pay for goods and services.
If you do your research you'll see that Best Buy often has better prices than many online retailers. Yesterday I bought the new Transformers movie on Blu ray for $21.99, in my area that came to $23.11 with tax. I looked at 3 different websites that offer "discount" prices and they were all higher. On Amazon I could have saved 12 cents but that hardly seemed worth it since I would have to wait at least 2-3 days for it to arrive.
]]>Went in there the other day, had nothing that I needed for my costume, bastards.
]]>Hopefully sales people can take advantage of decision compromised drunk 3am shoppers by selling all kinds of warranty's and spare parts they don't need.
]]>I also don't get the overcharge thing. With the exception of individual computer parts -- internal drives, memory, etc, which they do ream you for -- the prices I've paid at Best Buy are usually within a few dollars of any other local store or Amazon.
]]>What I *really* need is a 24-hour Super Staples with cheap, imported bass saxophones.
]]>It's better than working the graveyard at the 7-11, but not by much.
]]>@catastrophegirl: Compass on the dashboard? I thought only the blue-hairs did that.
]]>@nstonep: Nah, other than real estate I live cheaper (and better!) in NYC than I do in suburbia.
]]>@catastrophegirl: We have one of these too! Cept it's the old "big red plug" style circuit city.
Don't make the zombies angry.. they'll steal your computer and give it to FireDog.
]]>@nstonep: Stairway.. DENIED!
]]>@GitEmSteveDave_NodsHisHeadLikeYeah: I was unfortunate enough to be trapped into watching that movie once. Blasted airplanes and their trappingness.
]]>@proskills: The best buy in Dublin CA has over 100 Guitars from 80 bucks to over a couple grand, drums and just about any other instrument imaginable. It's a new thing they are trying out. Dublin CA doesn't have much along the lines of a music store so they are probably trying to pick areas that they can fill that void. If you are in a non music section Best Buy store all you will get is 3 of the crapiest guitars ever made. Surprisingly in the one near me the people in the Music Department actually know their stuff. Too bad the rest of the store is dense.
]]>@eirrom:
Well truth be told there has been a few times I needed ram at 2 in the morning......still wouldn't help I live out in the farmlands of Illinios. There is a 24hr Wal*Fart, but they neither stock nor know what ram is.
]]>Definitely a downgrade.
]]>Personally I wouldn't buy any musical instrument Best Buy sells. Nothing against Best Buy (on that front anyway) but in general musical instruments that get sold in non-musical instrument stores, e.g. clarinets and violins you buy at Staples, are cheap imports that aren't particularly well made and questionable when you consider little things like intonation and keeping in tune. (I bought my first banjo at a Musicland and it almost put me off playing forever, it was that bad.)
]]>No wonder Retail stores have restrictive return policies, it is idiots like you.
]]>Ahhhaha just read that one.
]]>My favorite thing would be to find free internet on the one computer they didn't block, and try to check prices to see how much more money the things were at other stores, B&H, J&R, and Best Buy. And also of course check newegg etc. Now I guess you can do that on any smartphone... which I don't have.
]]>The Circuit City building here intown also became a Halloween store, at least for the next 2 weeks or so.
It is nice that the building gets used for about a month once a year. I don't really see a problem with that.
]]>I think Walmart has more musical instruments than our local BB.
]]>Great place to try before you buy.
]]>it's the former petersburg VA circuit city in use as a spirit hallowe'en seasonal store.
it's like zombie circuit city...
here's before spirit halloween - i love the creative signage on the conversion
[please ignore the odd composite image of the compass on my car dashboard being reflected into the pic]
]]>I think I'll go torment a couple of blue shirts by asking them to compare the differences between open-wrap and closed-wrap bass trombones, or 4/4 vs. 5/4 sized tubas.
Probably will be a short conversation.
]]>For the record: It's common knowledge that if you play stairway to heaven in public in a guitar shop you get smacked the f*** up and/or lose your life.
]]>Great, now I want to watch Drumline.
]]>Hehhehh.
]]>I love it.
"I think Best Buy has it."
"Which Best Buy?"
"Circuit City Best Buy."