Best Buy and other Big Box Stores – Just say “No”
Maybe I need to start a series for “Just Say No”.
I have long beat the drum to avoid buying computers at Best Buy and other Big Box stores. Sure it’s cheap, but most times you get what you pay for.
Latest incident is a client who, a couple of year ago – before meeting me, bought a garbage laptop from Best Buy. It was nothing but trouble from day one.
This laptop would overheat and lock up. Best Buy was unable to fix.
Finally, it was junk, so it was set aside. For whatever reason, the client dug through receipts and found that he had, after all, purchased an extended warranty. (Remember, junk like this usually carries the tail light guarantee of 90 days to 1 year.) Naturally, after you purchase the extended warranty, it’s no longer cheap!
So Best Buy offered this client anything off of the shelf for $750 or less (first clue as to quality). He picked a nice looking Sony Vaio laptop loaded with Vista Home Premium. Great. this is for the office network, not home entertainment. Neither of the “Home” versions of Vista are able to join a Windows domain.
My advice? Ebay. Take the money and buy a decent laptop. Learn how here.
