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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by axaxs on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:33AM (#17566633)
Best Buy used to have extremely shady practices, and to some extent still does. They used to have lower prices online, and higher in store, and IIRC not match their own website, nor online competitors. As I understand it, this has changed, their policy looks sane now. Last time I walked in to purchase a laptop, the only ones available had a small packet taped to them of 'upgrades' or antivirus or whatever that cost a ton. I had to track down an employee who had to get a ladder to find the same model with no such attachment.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by emodendroket on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:51AM (#17566819)
They gave me a free antivirus product I never installed with my laptop.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by axaxs on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:58AM (#17566881)
to be honest, I don't remember what it was now. If I remember right it was some slip of paper that indicated Geek Squad had optimized it and put antivirus on it. IIRC it was around $100 extra. And it wasn't clearly indicated, I didn't even notice or find out until checkout.