Best Buy has always been for the desperate 'NEED IT NOW' person, at least for the people who were computer literate.
Even when I worked there in 1999 briefly I only bought the stuff that got returned and had a super low 'open box' price... everything else was gotten from the more grungy hardware shops you find down dark alleyways.
Except for cables, employees got them at invoice and that was like $5 dollars for a $20+ cable :P
Which reminds me, we were pushed hard to make sure customers bought all the accessories we could because the computers themselves were little profit and the cables, mouse pads, whatever all had ridiculous markup.
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Best Buy has always been for the desperate 'NEED IT NOW' person, at least for the people who were computer literate. Even when I worked there in 1999 briefly I only bought the stuff that got returned and had a super low 'open box' price... everything else was gotten from the more grungy hardware shops you find down dark alleyways. Except for cables, employees got them at invoice and that was like $5 dollars for a $20+ cable :P Which reminds me, we were pushed hard to make sure customers bought all the accessories we could because the computers themselves were little profit and the cables, mouse pads, whatever all had ridiculous markup.