In general, I got tired of shopping at Best Buy, CompUSA and all those other big electronics stores. Now that there is a Best Buy that just opened by my house, I can go there and look over the things I want to buy and then order them from NewEgg. Case in point:

I am a fan of the show Lost, but $120 dollars is way too much for a season's worth of episodes, even if they're Blu-Ray. I wasn't even tempted to buy this. I got on my cell phone and surfed to Amazon to see how much it was there. Actually, let me backtrack. I went into Best Buy to try to find Lost on Blu-Ray. I end up getting helped by a kid who takes me to a shelf where the standard DVD's are. Since we don't see it there, he tells me THAT HE DOESN'T THINK IT EXISTS and leaves to go help another customer.

Now I don't believe him and I'm sure that I saw it online. I surf to Amazon on my phone to prove to myself that it does exist. And that's when I see it for sale for $59.99, the Blu-Ray version.

So I search Best Buy in another area and eventually I find it. The picture up above for $120 is what I found. I then take it back to the kid who claimed it didn't exist. He had actually looked in the computer for it for me and since he didn't find it, that's what made him say they didn't make it in Blu-Ray.

So I took the case to him and showed him that indeed it did exist and indeed it was in his store. The kid wasn't really phased by any of this. I guess he was accustomed to being proved wrong. It's a really bad sign when you go into a store, regardless of how new it is and having employees who don't know where stuff is. And when they can't find it they claim it doesn't exist.

I can understand that this is a new store, but that's still no excuse. Ignorace is a willful lack of knowledge. If you're going to put on a blue shirt with a logo, you should know your products and where they are. Needless to say, this little escapade didn't do much to inspire me to buy here.

Now I had recently bought an ipod Touch from Sam's Club. I needed a plastic protection screen for it. Best Buy was the closest place to my house. And I had a coupon in the mail for $10 bucks. Why not. It's after Christmas now. There shouldn't be much of a crowd.

Out of curiosity, I looked for Lost again. I found it here.

If I had bought it before Christmas, I would have lost $50. In addition, it's still cheaper to buy it on Amazon.

I got my plastic sleeves and I left. The other coupons in the Best Buy flier were for shit.

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