To begin with, Futureshop is a misleading name for a store. There are no Tardis's, phasers, tricorders or holoemitters. It's all contemporary technology, and on a serious note, nothing particularly cutting edge either... it's mostly cheap crap that they overcharge for. I suggest they change their name to Contempocrap. Likewise with Best Buy... "Worst Buy" more like. Of course, there's a good chance they'd both loose business. Just as well I'm not in charge... one of my first laws would be that your business must pick a name that accurately and honestly reflects your business. Can you imagine what would happen to the economy?
That said, I particularly dislike these businesses and their ways of talking down to customers and trying to sell them services and support they don't need. Take for example the following pictures for a switch that was purchased from Best Buy:
Most people who purchase switches know what they need to do with them and certainly don't the Geek Squad to charge them $100 to come over to their house to hook it up. If you don't know what a switch is, you probably wouldn't be buying one, and if your were, since you'd already figured out that you needed one, you probably also figured out what to do to connect it. So the label really is pretty pointless.
This label is quite amusing too. Switches are compatible with virtually every operating system. Another pointless waste of ink. I have no idea what they were trying to prove here... maybe that they think they know more that they really do.
As I've learned recently, if you don't know what you're talking about, make it look like you do by raising your voice over everyone else's and waving your arms around... or in packaging, the equivalent would be large orange stickers. At any rate, they've proved to me on numerous occasions that I would never let anyone from Geek Squad into my house.
That said, I particularly dislike these businesses and their ways of talking down to customers and trying to sell them services and support they don't need. Take for example the following pictures for a switch that was purchased from Best Buy:
Most people who purchase switches know what they need to do with them and certainly don't the Geek Squad to charge them $100 to come over to their house to hook it up. If you don't know what a switch is, you probably wouldn't be buying one, and if your were, since you'd already figured out that you needed one, you probably also figured out what to do to connect it. So the label really is pretty pointless.
This label is quite amusing too. Switches are compatible with virtually every operating system. Another pointless waste of ink. I have no idea what they were trying to prove here... maybe that they think they know more that they really do.
As I've learned recently, if you don't know what you're talking about, make it look like you do by raising your voice over everyone else's and waving your arms around... or in packaging, the equivalent would be large orange stickers. At any rate, they've proved to me on numerous occasions that I would never let anyone from Geek Squad into my house.
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