As I was walking around Best Buy today, I noticed something getting more and more familiar. The employees using big technical terms to get unsuspecting buyers to buy crap they really don’t need. Case in point, I was walking near the TV section and the sales person was holding on to some gold plated monster cables (I think they were monster, not totally sure, but they were expensive). He then proceeded to tell the family that if they did not buy those then the huge tv they just bought would not get the proper HD signal and they would not see the channels in HD. I just sort of laughed to my self as he went on to explain why they needed this expensive gold plated cables, and how they were so much better than the cables that came with the tv. He kept going by saying, since you are paying for the installation and $500 calibration for the TV in your house, why would you want to use crappy $2 cables to have to pay to have the TV recalibrated all the time. (Like a cable is some how going to change the settings on the tv to show a crappy picture.)
The next one was near the camera isle. The guy was trying to push the biggest and most expensive SD cards onto the customers who looked to be buying a little point and shoot camera. The card was probably 1/3 the cost of the camera they were getting. He then started walking them around to get all the “accessories” they would need to use the camera.
The best one was back to the first guy, who after talking about the cables for a while, then went over to the proper cleaning of their new TV. He told them they had to buy “their” special cleaning fluid as normal household cleaning items would severely damage the new tv they were buying. He told them not to use anything with alcohol in it (which I bet the stuff he was selling them did). When I was walking away he was telling them they could use water on the screen to clean it.
I would like to go in there some day and just play stupid and see what all they would tell me I needed for what ever I was buying.
