He writes:
Today I went to Best Buy just to check it out. I haven't been to a Best Buy in a few years. After much looking around, I've seen better buys actually. While browsing the Wii Games, I saw Mario Party 8 with a "geek squad professional installation" sticker on it. I asked a few associates how much a professional installation would cost without much luck. I eventually asked Geek Squad. They said that the sticker was there in error. Either way, it's a funny picture to start a Monday.
Hey, mistakes happen. Such as going to Best Buy and not expecting the Geek Squad to pitch you — intentionally or not — ludicrous, unnecessary services.
]]>What you need to do is put a little index card taped to the top of your Wii, that reads "FLIP THE DISC AROUND"
That will remind you to flip it the opposite way!
Problem solved! This one is on the house.
]]>While working for firedog, I always felt terribly bad at charging people $30 for installing ram, so I would simply tell customers how easy it was and how to do it. On more than one occasion and even after I explained how simple it was, people would insist I do it for them, happily paying the $30.
]]>Well, if you want to dive into the murky waters of homebrew it most certainly is possible to install the game onto the Wii (or at least an SD card or external hard drive hooked up to said Wii). I doubt any Geek Squad agent can do it, though.
]]>It's the bart simpson bonestorm legacy, cat-fish?
The only thing that bothers me about geek squad is that they drive those stupid beetles and call employees "agents". Their expertise isn't good but the kind of people who need their services are the kind of people who can't do it themselves and are too cheap to actually hire someone to do it...you get what you pay for.
]]>I CAN clean my own house, but if I decide to hire someone else to do it I have to pay them. Charging to install memory is no different.
]]>What's sad is that with the number of "optimized" products they sell at a price hike, this didn't even surprise me.
]]>Considering I always seem to put gamediscs in my Wii the wrong way (i.e. the label facing the wrong direction), this might be a beneficial service for me.
]]>@Radi0logy: God forbid--I have a niece and nephew who I have played this game with--the colors, the noises, the randomness, the button-mashing!!!!!
]]>I've seen that sticker on lots of different console games at Best Buy.. I ignore them because I figure they're just reusing boxes.
]]>Retail stores usually have a very limited supply of Magnetic lock boxes and some of them have those annoying stickers that become a mess when you try to remove them
so this is just basically a re-used magnetic box that was previously used for computer parts (mainly Memory as stated above, or various computer software)
Thanks for the laugh!
]]>BestBuy is a pretty big company. If you need to satisfy your self-righteous bitching-quota, at least bitch about the real issues instead of them reusing a plastic case.
]]>At least after he installs it, you'll have someone to play it with.
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