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Best Buy is great when you need something right now. Like when a hard drive in your RAID dies and you need a hard drive right fucking now.
Buy yeah. I've only gone maybe once in the last five years.
Fortunately we have a Microcenter to solve the "shit I can't wait for". And this is in Best Buy's back yard.
Unfortunately, Microcenter has yet to enter the Pacific Northwest, so I can't go to one. The nearest one is in southern California, fourteen hours away.
Are you sure? I remember reading about one near Seattle shutting down around 10 years ago.
I'm sure. I even checked their site before I posted.
I was thinking of Fry's
The last of those shut down about three days before I decided to give them a call and ask what their GPU inventory looked like. I was really disappointed.
They never have anything in stock. I've honestly never had luck with things like that
Lol last time I went to best buy for that they were out of stock despite their website saying otherwise.
I think the only thing I've bought from them in the last decade were some external hard drives, which I shucked and threw in my NAS
Had the same thing happen with a keyboard. My work one stopped working, was going to buy the basic wireless one on the website. “We are out, but we do have these $200+ dollar gaming RGB keyboards”
Yeah, can’t expense that. Thanks.
I don't know, man. I recently had a drive die on me and I was able to order it online from my local Walmart, drive over there and park my car, text them and have them bring it out to the car for me. I didn't have to deal with Best Buy or any obnoxious salespeople and I'm guessing I paid a similar premium for not shopping around online instead.