Query About Best Buy Professional (ahem...) Installation
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Query About Best Buy Professional (ahem...) Installation
I plan to finally buy a Sony Grand Wega SXDR KDS-50A2000 tomorrow from Best Buy; their "No Interest Until 2010" offer has at last made this expenditure possible. Here's my pickle--like many people here, I think Best Buy employees are the single most useless form of life on the planet; the hydra seems capable of more complex reasoning skills. Should I allow them to perform a "professional" installation when they deliver my new set--can these installers actually be trusted to know what they're doing, unlike their floor-walker brethren--or should I just shoo them away the moment they drop off the set and take on the challenge all by my wittle lonesome?
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Do not let them touch it!!!!
Naw, I mean if its free, sure why not. If they do it wrong, you can go back and fix it. Only thing is, if you have alot of shit, it might just be better to not let them touch and you can just do it right the first time.
Naw, I mean if its free, sure why not. If they do it wrong, you can go back and fix it. Only thing is, if you have alot of shit, it might just be better to not let them touch and you can just do it right the first time.
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lets put it this way, would you like to have $2000 down the drain. The Tv is heavy and putting stud in the wrong spot would result in fallen tv that would a.damage your floor. b. break, andc. damage everything else around it.
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Originally Posted by amd555
lets put it this way, would you like to have $2000 down the drain. The Tv is heavy and putting stud in the wrong spot would result in fallen tv that would a.damage your floor. b. break, andc. damage everything else around it.
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I don't see what they can hurt unless you have a lot of high end equipment you're worried about. The worst thing that could happen is something isn't hooked up quite right and you can either fix it, or complain and make them come back and do it again. I got a new TV recently and if I could have had free installation I'd have taken it, just to make someone else put the damn stand together.
Also, I'd hope their installation employees are better trained and more intelligent than the poorly paid high school kids who work the floor.
Also, I'd hope their installation employees are better trained and more intelligent than the poorly paid high school kids who work the floor.
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Also, I'd hope their installation employees are better trained and more intelligent than the poorly paid high school kids who work the floor.
friend who worked the TV dept and knew practically nothing other than absolute
basics (match color to color on cords type stuff) went out on installations.
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the guys they'll send out are frpm magnolia ht, so they are high-end experts.
He worked in the Magnolia area of the TV dept and was FAR from a high end
expert. I'd hope that they'd send at least one expert out with the crew though.
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They'll probably hook up your HD or Blu-Ray player with an RF modulator
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Well, anyone who might have cared, forget the whole deal. Even with my wife and I having a combined annual income of $75,000 and our only outstanding debt (beyond the standard house and car payment, which are auto-debited every month and are, therefore, never past due) being her approx. $5,000 credit card (which is also auto-debited, thus never late) and a $2,500 student loan in my name that is, admittedly, past due, Best Buy would only give us a $400 credit card. $400! What a joke...and an embarrassment. I feel like this whole week has been a monumental waste of time and energy, not only researching the TV of choice, but the furniture to house it in. I'm so fucking sick of working my fingers to the bone, paying my taxes, playing by all the societal rules and what do I get to show for it? A pity card for $400--the exact same amount Circuit City gave me back in the early '90s when I had nearly zero credit history. If you couldn't tell, I'm pretty pissed and melancholy right now.
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Originally Posted by Filmmaker
Well, anyone who might have cared, forget the whole deal. Even with my wife and I having a combined annual income of $75,000 and our only outstanding debt (beyond the standard house and car payment, which are auto-debited every month and are, therefore, never past due) being her approx. $5,000 credit card (which is also auto-debited, thus never late) and a $2,500 student loan in my name that is, admittedly, past due, Best Buy would only give us a $400 credit card. $400! What a joke...and an embarrassment. I feel like this whole week has been a monumental waste of time and energy, not only researching the TV of choice, but the furniture to house it in. I'm so fucking sick of working my fingers to the bone, paying my taxes, playing by all the societal rules and what do I get to show for it? A pity card for $400--the exact same amount Circuit City gave me back in the early '90s when I had nearly zero credit history. If you couldn't tell, I'm pretty pissed and melancholy right now.
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Originally Posted by Filmmaker
A pity card for $400--the exact same amount Circuit City gave me back in the early '90s when I had nearly zero credit history. If you couldn't tell, I'm pretty pissed and melancholy right now.
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If anyone else is questioning the quality of Best Buy installers, I'll throw in another 2 cents worth.
My buddy bought a new Samsung 50-something inch tv recently. Best Buy delivered it just fine, but hooked up his components incorrectly. All he had was a dvd player, vcr, and a receiver. He had to redo it after they left.
My buddy bought a new Samsung 50-something inch tv recently. Best Buy delivered it just fine, but hooked up his components incorrectly. All he had was a dvd player, vcr, and a receiver. He had to redo it after they left.
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Originally Posted by Filmmaker
Best Buy would only give us a $400 credit card.
Have you reviewed you credit report lately to make sure there's nothing on there that doesn't belong to you?
Last edited by Movie_Man; 01-22-07 at 12:44 PM.
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Or just put your money in the bank until you have enough to pay in cash. Then you get the benefit of a much better tv, and with the way tv prices are dropping you'll probably pay substantially less for it.