Why you shouldn't go to Best Buy stores
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47760122
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A post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @[email protected] saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.
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https://consumerrights.wiki/Best_Buy -
Where is this 15% discount? I have the card and don’t get that.
This post is super fake because no card gives you 15% back. That’s insane.
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Probably the first purchase.
No, no first punches gives you 15% back. Complete lie.
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It's ok to play with mercury, just don't ingest it.
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I have to be in an unusually confrontational mood to pull shit like this, but three or four times now when I've been bombarded by sales floor hawks, I motioned my hand at them like a Jedi mind trick and said "Adblock." mid-sentence in their pitch.
No eye contact, never stopped walking. So far it's got a 100% success rate in stopping the pitch instantly.
Now that is a masterful sterile technique. You must teach us more of your ways.
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Their people don't know shit, full stop. I once tried to go there because radio shack had gone out of business and i wanted to make a convenience purchase. I asked some dude if they had an infrared repeater because i had a hidden media cabinet. Not only did the guy argue whether that kind of product existed at all, but assured me that a repeater couldn't exist because the signals from a remote are encoded. After banging my head on a wall briefly, i just went home and ordered one from the Internet. Almost all retail is a waste of time now.
Almost all retail is a waste of time now.
I tried to go shoe shopping last week. I went into a shoe store and was dismayed that I couldn’t find what materials any of the shoes were made from. Until now, I’d always seen a tag somewhere on every shoe that would say something like, “All man made materials,” or “Leather upper.” But this time, nothing I saw had any indication of what they were made of… and that troubled me.
So after meticulously studying a shoe, reading everything written on it, I asked an employee about it. I wanted her to see if the box (which wasn’t on the display) had more information.
Instead she took the shoe, pulled up the same label I just read (which only indicated where the shoe had been made), and lazily read the tag back to me before handing it back.
I responded, “Yes, I know,” and held back from saying what I REALLY wanted to say, which was, “Yes, I know how to read.”
Utterly useless. She claimed there was no other information even on the box (without going to look.) I put the shoe back and left, resolved to just buy something online.
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I think the rewards are in best buy points, which is something I guess but not 15% cash back
Rewards points are 5%, not 15%.
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Rewards points are 5%, not 15%.
This isn't me shilling the card, but I guess it's 15% off on your first purchase or day of having the card? That being said, the rewards are best buy points so that does limit things.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/misc/financing-rewards/pcmcat102500050032.c?id=pcmcat102500050032
15% back in rewards:
*Offer valid 6/2/25–7/6/25. Get 2.5 points per $1 spent (5% back in rewards) on qualifying Best Buy purchases when you choose Standard Credit with your My Best Buy
Credit Card. If you apply and are approved for a new My Best Buy Credit Card, your first day of purchases on the Credit Card using Standard Credit within the first 14 days of account opening will get an additional 5 bonus points (an additional 10% back in rewards, for a total of 15%). -
No, no first punches gives you 15% back. Complete lie.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Would’ve taken less time than commenting to go to bestbuy.com to see that indeed first purchase is currently giving 15% back.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47760122
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A post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @[email protected] saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.
:::Things that didn't happen for $1000, Alex.
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Oh god, I worked there 5 full years (over a decade ago now). They absolutely push you to hock that stupid card. They won't outright say you have to, but they'll sure make sure you feel it if you aren't. When I did sales it was constant metrics of how many cards you got out. They didn't even care of purchases were on the cards. I was literally told it was better for a spouse to get a second card than it was for a purchase to be put on an existing card.
When I switched to be a repair agent at geek squad where I had no time in front of customers I was still given shit daily for not getting cards. I asked how, how and when am I supposed to pitch cards? "Well, when you tell them their computer is broken". I was like 95% of the time it's covered by a warranty or something already purchased if it reaches me, and on the off chance it's not, they're going to just buy a new one more than likely. Then a salesman will get the credit. Zero awareness of how that side of the business worked.
It was awful. Literally told that I should offer that card with APRs higher than 24% to people who were trying to save money and not spend a lot "so they can have their dreams" or so "their son or daughter can have that dream college laptop". I had people ask me for it who I know shouldn't have taken out a credit card and who did anyway. It made me sick.
Best buy gets a kickback from Citi (at least at the time it was Citi) for every application.
Its kinda wild that we let retail establishments offer credit cards. Like maybe only dedicated and regulated financial establishments should be allowed to offer financial instruments
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47760122
::: spoiler Transcript
A post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @[email protected] saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.
:::There are too many companies I'm boycotting for legit reasons right now. I don't have the time or energy to boycott more over silly stories.
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Oh god, I worked there 5 full years (over a decade ago now). They absolutely push you to hock that stupid card. They won't outright say you have to, but they'll sure make sure you feel it if you aren't. When I did sales it was constant metrics of how many cards you got out. They didn't even care of purchases were on the cards. I was literally told it was better for a spouse to get a second card than it was for a purchase to be put on an existing card.
When I switched to be a repair agent at geek squad where I had no time in front of customers I was still given shit daily for not getting cards. I asked how, how and when am I supposed to pitch cards? "Well, when you tell them their computer is broken". I was like 95% of the time it's covered by a warranty or something already purchased if it reaches me, and on the off chance it's not, they're going to just buy a new one more than likely. Then a salesman will get the credit. Zero awareness of how that side of the business worked.
It was awful. Literally told that I should offer that card with APRs higher than 24% to people who were trying to save money and not spend a lot "so they can have their dreams" or so "their son or daughter can have that dream college laptop". I had people ask me for it who I know shouldn't have taken out a credit card and who did anyway. It made me sick.
Best buy gets a kickback from Citi (at least at the time it was Citi) for every application.
I had to push that crap for 6 years in a previous job. A lot of our customers were on low incomes (we had to get all this data to fill out their applications), a lot of them in social housing and living off benefits, and we had to push. We had a lot of pressure to get these, and having high anxiety at the time, I let them doormat me into being the one who had to pick up the slack for underperforming colleagues. Some would outright just refuse and the manager would come to me (the same manager who victim blamed me when I was physically assaulted by another manager) and tell me I needed to make up the shortfall. And I would because my anxiety was just too high to start a confrontation.
Ours was with barclaycard, and not only was the commission ridiculously low, they also pretaxed it before we got it. Either that or the company was creaming a bit off for themselves, because it was never a round number in the payslips.
That business deserved to die.
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it's true, but the amount of BPA one picks up from handling receipts, even as a cashier for years like I was, is negligible. Much less than people pick up from other sources, and not enough to disrupt hormones. I'm not worried about it.
Bpa in till roll is banned in the EU.
"Some workers may be more exposed to BPA than the general public (Bousoumah et al., 2021). As an example, BPA was previously used in thermal receipt papers; as a result, cashiers were highly exposed to BPA via skin contact due to frequently handling receipts (Björnsdotter et al., 2017). A restriction introduced under REACH banned the use of BPA in thermal paper in 2020."
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/peoples-exposure-to-bisphenol-a
Luckily we got the rule before we brexited. I asked on the intranet in a previous job if our till roll has BPA, and they told me it doesn't because it's illegal under EU law.
