Best Buy's Selling what!?!?

[1xmattx1]

since when has best buy been selling motherboards and cpu's? I know it's online only, but still?! Like reallly?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Computers-PCs/Video-Cards-PC-Components/abcat0507000.c?id=abcat0507000

[Wicked Klown]

For awhile now, I remember buying a CPU instore back in 2000.

[Marshmallow64]

Yea they have been doing it for awhile now, nothing new.

[MadMan007]

Not bad if you need something inhand ASAP. Now if only they start doing sick bundles like Fry's :o

[4GHZ_or_bust]

I remember Best Buy trying to sell a P55 mobo that is socket 1366. I wonder what happened to that one. (FYI P55 is socket 1156 only)

[mrgoodkat]

I dont think we should expect much out of BB. Would be smart if they did start competing, but it is BB after all. It might survive, but even the least savvy shoppers are going to take notice sooner or later.

I would drive the hour to CompUSA/Tigerdirect, before I drove the 10 minutes to BB.

[freakdiablo]

I remember Best Buy trying to sell a P55 mobo that is socket 1366. I wonder what happened to that one. (FYI P55 is socket 1156 only)

I'm trying hard to be surprised, but no. Actually had one of their floor salesman (or whatever they're called) try to sell me a gts 250 for $165 just a month or two ago (keep in mind, this was the version with 512mb of ram, which is just over $100 off newegg. Guess the extra few $$$ is worth it though if you need it now if not sooner.) When I explained I already had a 5850 he said the 250 was superior since it used a PCIe slot. You cannot make this up.

[4GHZ_or_bust]

I'm trying hard to be surprised, but no. Actually had one of their floor salesman (or whatever they're called) try to sell me a gts 250 for $165 just a month or two ago (keep in mind, this was the version with 512mb of ram, which is just over $100 off newegg. Guess the extra few $$$ is worth it though if you need it now if not sooner.) When I explained I already had a 5850 he said the 250 was superior since it used a PCIe slot. You cannot make this up.

Hmmm I must put my spankin' new GTX 470 boxes (both of it) in my car and the next time I go to Best Buy I'll hang around their video section like a clueless person. If they offer to help, I'll tell them I want something better than my current card and that I have empty boxes of them.

If they are clueless, they'd try to sell a 3 year old ATi junk because the number is bigger (4000 series > 400 series)

[Albaholic]

I'm trying hard to be surprised, but no. Actually had one of their floor salesman (or whatever they're called) try to sell me a gts 250 for $165 just a month or two ago (keep in mind, this was the version with 512mb of ram, which is just over $100 off newegg. Guess the extra few $$$ is worth it though if you need it now if not sooner.) When I explained I already had a 5850 he said the 250 was superior since it used a PCIe slot. You cannot make this up.


They do that because someone will always fall for it. Odds are, with someone like that, they'll be able to push installation service as well.

[Marshmallow64]

Yea the salespeople there are pretty clueless.

[gear.h34d.2012]

When I explained I already had a 5850 he said the 250 was superior since it used a PCIe slot. You cannot make this up.

Bah! Baha! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[insanemonkey]

Yea the salespeople there are pretty clueless.

Well that is true most of the time. I put a lot of the blame on the customer. Do they really think that the average teenager working at BB knows anything about the product they are selling other then what is on the card. Everything they tell you is spoon fed to them by BB. The sales person is not making that much money to start with and they expect them to be an expert. Its no different then getting advise at walmart. Plus they are told to push the highest margin product whether it are better or not.

[CompuTamer]

I remember i was shopping for a get-me-by HS for my i7 (broke that stupid plasic clip on the stock one) and the guy there said that 65C was WAAAYYYY too hot for an i7, and that he had one running at 4.0 with the stock cooler at 55C? Huh?

Then there was the time that i was recommended a 8400 over a 4850...

[Wicked Klown]

Guess I'm lucky as they don't try to sell me anything or offer to install anything I buy. Guess thats cause I told them once, I could let you install it or beat myself to death with my own arm. After that they left me alone. Altho I do like asking question I know they have no answer for.

[rumbl3]

Yea the salespeople there are pretty clueless.

I was looking for another job a while back lol, After 3 interviews got hired for geek squad part time. I consider myself above average but no master or anything by far of computers.

I will amazed simply amazed i met all the staff i'd be working with and most of them could barely turn a computer on. They have all these protos calls to fix stuff and the only person who needed true computer repair exp. was the head person. I got my repair cert at adult ed. But i was just amazed the type of people they we're hiring into them positions. I didn't last long their because i found myself doing most the work while the morons just bs'ed in the back room of the geek squad thing.

Also guess it's cool but i'll drive the 35 minute ride to microcenter any day of the week, before i'd do the 15 minute ride to best buy to have the hawk me overpriced garbage from a sales person who barely knows what a video card is.

[RJARRRPCGP]

since when has best buy been selling motherboards and cpu's? I know it's online only, but still?! Like reallly?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Computers-PCs/Video-Cards-PC-Components/abcat0507000.c?id=abcat0507000


Not surprised about processors. IIRC, I got a 2004 T'bred 2400+ KIXJB (0415?) at a BestBuy in August, 2004. (in the store, too) (wasn't forced to have it ordered online, hooray)