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| MERLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eddie N MIAMI
well i'm not gonna defend Best Buy cause I dont really give a but just want to say that I've always seemed to have problems in Circut City to a point where I stopped going there in the past year.Every time I went to Circut City it felt like I was buying a car.I like going to Best Buy, I've never had a bad experience there,for example I bought my computer there with no probs.I think it all depends on the kind of employees that work there. |
yea i agree with that too. one time i was at a best buy and one employee was following me around like i was gonna steal a bunch of stuff. |
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| Roquer |
| quote: | Originally posted by 3xx3r7
Whoah, go easy on the wording right there. Are you saying that I am a lazy slob? In case you missed it, tranc3 posted all the points.
Therefore, go read over again and STFU before then. :whip: :whip: |
Woah easy on the wording right there. Are you saying that I'm illiterate? All I said is that its a great opportunity for those who are willing to work hard. You quit before you even tried, so how can you know how you would have done? |
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| 3xx3r7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Roquer
Woah easy on the wording right there. Are you saying that I'm illiterate? All I said is that its a great opportunity for those who are willing to work hard. You quit before you even tried, so how can you know how you would have done? |
Willing to work hard and get screwed anally. And I have/had another job. I was looking for replacement.
You only get paid for appointment. You don't get paid for the planning time, that takes much more than one appointment. You don't get paid for meetings, you don't get paid for gas. No benefits whatsoever. In the end you end up selling to your friends, who begin to hate you because of that.
Is that a good opportunity? LMAO. :haha:
P.S. I did not say that you were illiterate. Some people do not read the above posts and say "Oooh, one of my relatives works as a manager, then it must be a good job". Try working for that company and see for yourself. Unless, you are that "motivated" to work your ass off for pennies, even more than fulltime (and it is supposed to be a part time position), I guarantee that you will hate that job. |
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| Roquer |
| quote: | Originally posted by 3xx3r7
Willing to work hard and get screwed anally. And I have/had another job. I was looking for replacement.
You only get paid for appointment. You don't get paid for the planning time, that takes much more than one appointment. You don't get paid for meetings, you don't get paid for gas. No benefits whatsoever. In the end you end up selling to your friends, who begin to hate you because of that.
Is that a good opportunity? LMAO. :haha:
P.S. I did not say that you were illiterate. Some people do not read the above posts and say "Oooh, one of my relatives works as a manager, then it must be a good job". Try working for that company and see for yourself. Unless, you are that "motivated" to work your ass off for pennies, even more than fulltime (and it is supposed to be a part time position), I guarantee that you will hate that job. |
I have worked in direct marketing before, and I know that I suck at it, but I don't deny the fact that it is a great opportunity if you are willing to work at it.
You mentioned that you don't get paid for gas etc, but weren't you self employed? You did know to collect every recipt, because its all tax deductible, right? Also, you are lucky you got paid just for the appointment. Most of these jobs are commision only. Why should they pay you if you don't get a sale? |
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| JINN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
You think that's bad, look up some stuff on Vector Marketing / Cutco Cutlery. Their entire business model is based on screwing their employees. It works something like this:
1) Advertise that you pay anywhere from 10-20 an hour for a job that requires no experience.
2) "Hire" a bunch of high school/college kids. I say "hire" because they bring you on as independent contractors, so you get all the responsibility and none of the employee rights.
3) Make it look as if they're currently swamped, which is why they're looking to hire so many people.
4) Make the interviews look as if they only accept a select few, then invite them back on separate days for group interviews...with different people they didn't meet before.
5) During the group interview, forget the whole interview process. Instead, show them your cutlery. Sell the cutlery to the students.
6) Before work can begin, first you make them sit through a training course on how to sell. At least that's what they say, except it's really just you thinking up all the places and people you could sell to, then thinking up some more, then thinking up even more, then phoning them and setting up appointments. See, they're not really swamped. You're just going to end up selling to the people you know.
7) Before you can go out and market the product, make them buy "sample kits." Don't make it look as if you're cheating them (after all, at that point they're paying YOU to work). Say you're giving them a 50% discount...75% discount...whatever it takes for them to swallow the jacked up price and give the manager some extra money.
8) Mention that instead of paying 10-20 per hour, they pay 10-20 per appointment.
9) Let them find out that appointments rarely take an hour, and oftentimes take longer.
10) Once they've exhausted all their possible leads, get rid of them and advertise for more openings.
It's THE most ed-up business model I've seen, with the exception of sweat-shops and slavery. I personally got up to step 8, minus the training portion, and the paying-the-manager-money-to-work portion. It just seemed so odd that they'd set up their business as such, making you pay for a sample kit, hiring loads of people in one go while renting a ty office, etc... Look it up on the net, there's so much out there on them. |
ROFL
i went in for teir interview thing a week or so ago...OMG i was so digusted in myself for wasting the 4 hours of my life in their office...its the biggest goddamn scam ever |
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| politicsofdancin |
| they haven't screwed me over yet..haha i should not even say this. watch! |
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| jdat |
Oh I've had my number of issues with them!
They generally help, but as long as it's a little over a date or something they won't do anything.
I bought this iriver cd/mp3 player july last year .... the remote was busted in the box when I opened it the day after but I had no time I was going overseas .... so I come back a week later and they exchange it for me.
August I go overseas again, the cd player dies on me the same day I arrived.... Fun!.... When I came back beginning of september they refused to replace it because I didn't have the extended warranty ( the best buy scamwarranty ) and they forced me to go through the MFR .... GREAT! :rolleyes:
Well I had to ship it insured & tracked to the mfr ... but I was quite happy when I got a replacement 2 days after the item arrived at the mfr. Iriver rocked; best buy did not.
I also had an issue with a dvd I bought; Incubus - Morning view. Ok incubus sucks, but the album was kind of decent and I figured it was a cheap dvd so why not. Ends up it was a LIVE concert of the album; and not the same thing at all. Nowhere on the box did it indicate LIVE, etc .... so I tried to return it, they refused and said I had to go through the MFR. Yeah right? I'm going to contact sony music and have them refund this for me ?
These were minor things, wouldn't imagine in larger ones.
I just steer away from that store as often as possible.
Go to walmart you'll have much better return options.
Lastly; I work for an electronic parts distributor; I deal with a large number of manufacturers etc.
We sell parts to Best Buy tech service and half the time they request incorrect stuff.
But thankfully they're not as annoying as Rent A Center tech guys ( they have no clue what they're doing ).
I work with basically all the big electronic companies on the market so I could teach a thing or two on what brands are decent. ( I've already gotten in arguments with some sales rep in the stores because they were trying to sell me garbage which they were truly clueless about but I knew good and well it was crap cause I have all the service manuals etc through work ). |
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| CGRumler |
Wow.......
First off, I'd just like to say that I've been a Best Buy employee for about a year and a half now. I work in the "Media" department which is basically the selling of dvd's, cd's, video games, and computer software. (And your occasionaly home phone from time to time)
I've just spent almost the last hour reading different posts from that bestbuysux.org website. After reading a lot of the Anti-BB comments, all I have to say is....
Wow, some customers just have some ty luck.
I read about how customers were misled or how employee customer service was, and I was putting myself in the employee's shoes. I was constantly finding things going, "I would've done THIS instead of what he did...would've done THIS instead of THAT.....yup, would've handled that differently as well."
(Wow, I can tell that this is gonna be the longest post in the TA Forums in my life)
I have to admit....I feel ashamed to be a Best Buy employee right now. Mostly, I feel ashamed to have to be associated with some of the tiest BB employees I have ever heard about. These workers are an absolute joke. Some of the most dishonest and the most rude people I have ever heard of.
With that being said, come to MY BB store in Indiana. Come to MY department. I have great pride in my particular store (and not because we sell a lot, our selling numbers have been sucking as of late) and I ESPECIALLY have greater pride in my department. You won't find any low-life, cheating people in my department. No sir/ma'am. These are THE most professional people that I've had the privilege of working with.
I honestly feel sorry for those customers that have been treated badly by other BB stores. I also regret that they perceive that BB is a bad company, in general, based on just one or two particular stores. |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
My brother took his computer in to best buy for some upgrade or something. He left a computer game in the CD rom drive by mistake, and the ******s stole it.
Then they denied that they did.
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i have a friend who works at Best Buy in the car audio installation dept, and he stole a Gatecrasher CD out of someone's car.
then when i looked up the price and saw that it was a $30 import CD, he felt bad. lol.
and it wasn't even a good CD either. :wtf: |
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| jdat |
CGRUMLER ... I'm sure there's some good people over there no doubt; I just haven't really encountered any of them.
Speaking of the computer dpt ... the guys most of the time are clueless and just want to make the sale for a higher priced item.
and btw I steer away from all these chain stores in general; 3/4s of the staff is trained to SELL SELL SELL ... knowledge is another issue. |
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| Arbiter |
| If you're a moron, and expect someone who is trying to make money off of you to give you genuinely good advice about what you ought to purchase and what you ought NOT to purchase, then you should go to Best Buy because you don't deserve your money. |
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| Flec |
| whoever posted about returning the cd to sony, my dad had the same issue but with a small music store, they did not refund opened CD's , and the cd he wanted to return was a live album of the band Rough Trade. my dad didnt like the sound of them live so he sent it back to sony along with a letter about why he was returning it, sony sent him back a catalogue of all their cds and told him to pick out anything he wanted. he ended up getting a really expensive JT collectors album |
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