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I bought a cheap ASUS laptop. it really sucks.
they designed the space bar so it only works if you press it dead center... |
thanks brain, that helps a ton to know lol
What'd you expect, their keyboards are made where HP keyboards are made. |
Me, at Best Buy, purchasing anew Netgear wi-fi / router thingy.
Employee at checkout: "Would you like to protect your purchase with a 3 year extended protection plan?" Me: "You mean this router which has the words Lifetime Warranty clearly printed on the front of the box in large, brightly-colored letters?" An open letter to retail associates: Dear high-school dropout, while I am sympathetic to the fact that various forces in life have conspired to place you on the port-side of the Bell Curve and deprive you of even the most basic formal education, there are certain fundamental principles central to the "how to not look like a fucking retard" game which you might benefit from familiarizing yourself with. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1076181)
Me, at Best Buy, purchasing anew Netgear wi-fi / router thingy.
Employee at checkout: "Would you like to protect your purchase with a 3 year extended protection plan?" Me: "You mean this router which has the words Lifetime Warranty clearly printed on the front of the box in large, brightly-colored letters?" An open letter to retail associates: Dear high-school dropout, while I am sympathetic to the fact that various forces in life have conspired to place you on the port-side of the Bell Curve and deprive you of even the most basic formal education, there are certain fundamental principles central to the "how to not look like a fucking retard" game which you might benefit from familiarizing yourself with. |
I had a friend who worked at Circuit Shitty who said the same thing. In fact, he added that the bulk of the profits on many of the items they sold were from the warranty sales on those items, rather than the wholesale>retail markup on the items themselves.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game |
I totally get the concept that the sale of extended warranties is a major profit center for big-box stores operating on razor-thin margins in competition against online vendors.
And I totally understand that whether one is compensated on commission or not, there is tremendous pressure placed upon the staff to up-sell the customer on said warranties. I'm simply pointing out the fact that attempting to sell an extended warranty for a product which has the words Lifetime Warranty clearly printed on the front of the box in large, brightly-colored letters seems to me to cross some kind of boundary between being an ordinary retail drone and being an actual drooling moron. This would be like a new-car salesman attempting to sell me the optional Scotchgard interior fabric treatment on a vehicle which, according to the large sign standing next to it in the dealer's showroom, has an interior upholstered in 100% pure teflon. There are some things that you just don't do. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1076181)
Me, at Best Buy, purchasing anew Netgear wi-fi / router thingy.
Employee at checkout: "Would you like to protect your purchase with a 3 year extended protection plan?" Me: "You mean this router which has the words Lifetime Warranty clearly printed on the front of the box in large, brightly-colored letters?" An open letter to retail associates: Dear high-school dropout, while I am sympathetic to the fact that various forces in life have conspired to place you on the port-side of the Bell Curve and deprive you of even the most basic formal education, there are certain fundamental principles central to the "how to not look like a fucking retard" game which you might benefit from familiarizing yourself with. Here, let me translate that to plain English for you: Don't be an idiot. You know who you are. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1076181)
Me, at Best Buy, purchasing anew Netgear wi-fi / router thingy.
Employee at checkout: "Would you like to protect your purchase with a 3 year extended protection plan?" Me: "You mean this router which has the words Lifetime Warranty clearly printed on the front of the box in large, brightly-colored letters?" |
Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack
(Post 1076234)
What if the factory warranty only covers "manufacturer's defects" but the optional extended warranty covers damn near anything, including spilling a large volume of Cuba Libre all over it?
Some of those in-store extended warranties do, in fact, cover damn near every form of stupidity known to man, including dropping the product into an active volcano. I'm tempted to go to a store and buy a brand new expensive iThing (whatever the latest, most expensive thing Apple makes), and, having very carefully screened the fine print, purchase the extended coverage plan for it. A week later, I would then return to the store carrying a 5 gallon bucket filled with hardened concrete and rebar. I would claim to have accidentally dropped the iThing into the concrete and not noticed until after it had hardened. Both the original iThing and the replacement iThing would then be sold on e-Bay, new in the original, unopened packaging, for around 70% of retail cost Instant 40% profit (minus the cost of a bucket of concrete and an extended warranty.) I wonder how many times you can exercise that option before getting blackballed? |
But Joe, that would be dishonest.
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Also hilarious when properly documented.
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I would buy an Ithing in a bucket of concrete as a furniture piece... just saying.
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Could work! Until the warehouse at Best Buy starts filling up. |
Originally Posted by Reverant
(Post 1075750)
Does one have any experience with recent 3D printers?
I may need to get one to prototype stuff. I don't need different colors, a single color will do. Reliability is key, and from what I've been reading, none of the <$3k offerings are any good. Use it to "print" the same exact printer you just bought. Return the original printer for a refund. Profit. |
To bang the co-workers wife, or not to bang the co-workers wife.....That, is the question.
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Originally Posted by 2ndGearRubber
(Post 1076462)
To bang the co-workers wife, or not to bang the co-workers wife.....That, is the question.
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Originally Posted by 2ndGearRubber
(Post 1076462)
To bang the co-workers wife, or not to bang the co-workers wife.....That, is the question.
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"Never dip in the company ink."
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Is co-worker a douche? If yes, bang. Is co-worker a good guy? If Yes, don't bang, but maybe try and give him a heads up if he seems like the kind of guy that can take the news and not be defensive.
Or, and this is 99.999997% of the time the best choice: Stay away, very far away. |
Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
(Post 1076463)
How about be a grown ass man and not, instead of being a douche and doing so. :2cents:
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