Setting up a new gaming system is hard people! Hard work I tell ya! Really flippin’ hard! We go out and buy that $300 next-gen gaming system, take it home to simply stare at it, and then beat the living piss out of it with a leg bone from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It sits there idly, looking pretty next to your TV setup. Trouble is, how the hell do you hook it up and play a game on it? I don’t know? All of these cords and buttons to press? It’s almost like trying to start a flying futuristic car! Do you you? Crap, call up the best Scottish scientist you know of! What? He’s too busy cloning sheep to have sex with? Geek Squad might know.
These white shirted Mormon looking dudes will come over to your house, take $130 dollars out of your cookie jar, setup your PS3, and then rape you in the ass without anal lube, free of charge in front of your kids. Why? Because they can. And they will.
The picture above is kind of blurry, but it states that the Best Buy Geek Squad will come and configure your gaming system, setup parental controls (don’t really need to), install all of the latest firmware updates (automated setup process for 20 minutes), setup local user accounts (takes 5 to 10 minutes) and get you online with a PSN account (takes about 20 minutes). Overall that’s about an hour or so of setup time. We’re looking at European car repair time/money ratio here people. Mechanics that work on Porches don’t get paid that much. Why does some pimply douchebag with a black tie who drives a shitty ass Beetle get $130 of my bones?
I understand that there are people out there that might need this program, but does Best Buy really need to rape their wallet by charging $130 bucks? Come on Best Buy? Are times really that bad for you and your immensely popular corporation to rape innocent consumers? You took down Circuit City for goodness sake! This is how you thank your customers? Wow. Thanks Mormon Squad!
The sad part is to all of this, is that I can totally see my mom being taken advantage of by this evil Best Buy scheme. Hell, she has to call me to get a video chat room going on the PS3. Every. Single. Time. I know she and the rest of my family aren’t as computer savvy as me and my brothers are, so I will have to call her as soon as I stop writing this article to tell them to NOT do this setup crap.
It just hurts me inside to know that Geek Squad is out there taking advantage of other people. Gamers no less. My people. What the Eff Best Buy? Why are you doing this to us?
Oh, plenty of rubes will fall for this. Plenty.
This is REALLY outrageous, even for Best Buy. I’m severely dissapointed.
FOR SHAME Best Buy…….for SHAME!
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Never underestimate the stupidity of Americans and the greedy corporations that prey on their dumb asses.
Why just Americans?
As far as I know, this is only offered in America. I’m an equal opportunity believer is stupidity, though, so if you want to call other countries stupid, just ask
oh snap, you offended a patriot!! everyone run!!
You mean you have to put wires into the tv from what i understood ps3 is so great it would do it itself. whatever
I use to work for Best Buy and I had the hardest time selling these Geek Squad services because I didn’t believe in them at all. Some made sense, but a lot of them are EXTREMELY overpriced. I was suppose to charge 40 bucks to do a car audio consultation. I didn’t do a consultation on every one but if they were at least semi serious about buying I would do that shit for free. I think there Black Tie protection is great on like cameras since it covers accidental, but so many of there services are crap. And they cost a shit ton.
I wonder if someone is dumb enough to buy this service for a PSP.
*GUFFAW!!!*
Wow…. Best Buy has sunk to a new low. I’m sure there are plenty of dumb parents who will buy this thinking they can “protect” their children. What a rip off!!!! I guess since their Geek Squad can’t fix computers they moved on to something much easier.
Here’s my story:
Just before I went to PAX I popped by Best Buy to pick up a Netbook computer for the trip. Because I had no intention of being stuck with Windows Vista Home Basic I also picked up an external CD/DVD burner. Unfortunately the one I was looking at didn’t ID which discs it supported. It didn’t even say if it was a writer or a re-writer, which I thought was odd, HP is usually better about those things.
So there I was, standing in line at the GeekSquad counter waiting for information.
Ahead of me in line was a blonde woman reading the Geek Squad the riot act. She had bought a Wii, she wanted to connect it to the Internet and Best Buy (rightly) told her to buy a wireless router.
What she couldn’t figure out was how to connect the Wii to the router along with her computer and whatever else she wanted to connect and she was MAD. I mean screaming, yelling mad. Mad that she bought the Wii. Mad that Best Buy “talked her into” a wireless router and extremely angry that they now wanted to charge her a fee to set it all up properly.
So I said “Excuse me, maybe I can help. On the Wii screen you need to go into the settings and tell it how to connect to the network. You might also need to connect to the wireless router and set it up for DHCP and assign out IP addresses correctly to the Wii…”
To which her reaction was, and I quote: “I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT!!! I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE TO KNOW THIS STUFF!!!” She then stormed out vowing to return every piece of gear she had purchased.
These are the people this service is targeting. They don’t know, they don’t have the capacity to find out for themselves and they aren’t willing to listen to others. The $130 price tag is a stupidity tax, and in that light is really far less expensive than it probably should be.
Oops. Forgot to say that it was a post by Jordan Lund at GameStooge.
I’m gonna call them and ask will they open the PS3 box for me too?! Let’s see if they’ll take me as serious as this offer.
Isn’t this the most immature and childish review I’ve read.
First, no need to insult anyone’s religion (i.e. Mormons) by bringing them into this. I’m really not sure how Best Buy and the Mormon Church relate, but I’m sure in your twisted mind, they do.
Second, that’s how they make money. So sue them. If people pay for it, people pay for it, who the fuck really cares? If you don’t like it, don’t buy it and tell your whole family not to buy it.
Third, really? Seriously? What kind of half-assed post was this? Really, if BB and GS are so evil and out there to “rape” us what the hell were you doing there?
Oh, and it’s really obvious you’ve never worked retail before.
Wow B/ Chill out. It’s just an opinion piece…… are you one of the big wigs at a retail chain making up these ideas to swindle people out of hard earned money?
Considering that the moron church advocates or at least turns a blind eye to the rape of 14 year old girls who are forced to marry 45 year old men, thta’s how the moron church and best buy relate and yeah, we have every right to insult or otherwise degrade a religion if moronism can be called that. B/ you are just mad because best buy found a way to swindle people better than your precious church did, although telling people that your phony religion is the only way to heaven is a pretty good swindle
Wow this is getting WAYYY off topic. Love the article though