 OK, you know I have had lab notes about the Monster Cable Scam. Well, its not Monster's fault, it's Best Buy's fault. Joel Spolsky has posted a blog about the practices at Best Buy and this is sure to draw more attention to this retailer. Joel has a large readership. People should know. That's a good thing. When I go to the Best Buy store I now see the customers there as lemmings and the sales staff as sharks. Joel links to the Consumerist which has more about Best Buy and a very interesting story by an ex-employee you should read before considering doing business with Best Buy.
"...Here is the trick that is used, and that I was taught from a Best Buy manager. When a customer would refuse either AOL, MSN, NetZero, magazine offers, or whatever other D-SUB we had, we'd sign you up anyway..." If enough people know about this and lose trust in them it will certainly have an effect on their sales. In a few years they may be out of business. Maybe Cablevision will buy them like they bought the Wiz. Cablevision is a whole different story, that company knows how to waste money. If I had a few extra dollars I would short Best Buy (BBY) stock just to make it fun.
This is my last update to this lab note. Many people reading this, and many companies, do not understand the importance of this lab note. This lab note, and other blogs and websites, form an interconnected internet entity by the hyper-links and url's. These are all crawled by Google and the other search engines. Search terms such as "Best Buy Review" or "Monster Cable Review" or "Best Buy Scam" will turn up these postings. Think about it. You can have an effect. |