This week’s Best Buy ad had a weird Avatar: The Last Airbender sale printed:
There’s a picture for the Complete Book 1 Collection (that just means Season 1), but the text says it’s for “Volume 3, 5 Episodes” (I’m guessing Book 2). The sale price of $10.99 would also imply the latter, since the Complete Book 1 is regularly price at $52.99 and the single volume retails for $14.99. But the picture says the whole season, so I go to Best Buy in Sunnyvale to give it a shot (and reading the forums, I’m hearing it’s about 50/50 on getting it for that price).
I head over to Best Buy with Eubin, who’s having dinner with me afterwards. I grab an ad from the ad stand and look for the Avatar set. I find it, and there aren’t any signs about ad mistakes, so it should be okay. I head over to the register, where two guys are standing: one large white guy (looks like a mix of jock and stoner) and smaller (Indian, I think) teenage looking type. White guy rings it up for me, and it doesn’t come up as $10.99. I show him the ad and point out that I have what is pictured in the ad. He says the text underneath is for a specific volume. I tell him the ad still has this pictured, and I think at this point, he’s beginning to have this air around him that makes it seems like he’s bent on making sure I don’t get my way. He goes over to media section to check it out. Indian kid goes to next register, since a customer has appeared behind me.
White guy comes back and says the picture is wrong, and I can’t have it for that price because it’s not what’s on sale. I insist it’s what’s in the picture, and he still sternly refuses. So I ask to see a manager. He’s like, fine or sure or something. He calls for a manager over the intercom thingy, which apparently doesn’t come on until the phone is hung up. Eubin, being the friendly person that he is, comments on how neat that is to the guy, who kind of gives him a terse, unfriendly grunt of “that’s how it works” (sounds worse when he said it), which also rang off jerk-alarms in my head.
This perky girl walks over, and she’s like, “What do you need?” White guy says, “I don’t need you, I need somebody else.” The girl is confused, so she asks why. At first, he doesn’t say anything and tries to shrug her off, looking off in the distance for another manager, but she keeps asking what the manager request is for. He mumbles something about a price discrepancy, like he’s trying to tell her without me knowing even though I’m standing right in front of him. She’s even more confused with this, because she can deal with pricing issues. She asks to see what the issue is, and he says I’m trying to get this DVD set for $40 cheaper. Note, he’s emphasizing not that the ad is fishy, but emphasizing that I’m trying to get a $40 discount, like I’m doing something wrong. She takes a look at the ad, and he shows her the picture, saying it’s not the right picture. She says, “If it’s in the ad, we have to give it to her.” She even heads towards the register to do this, but he physically gets in her way to prevent her. He says they need to go talk to “his boss” or whatever, so they run off towards the media section. I see them meet up with another guy in a blue shirt, and they have this little huddle discussing it.
Now, I’m really pissed at this point, because it’s pretty obvious that this guy is putting out effort to make sure I don’t get this price mistake/picture mistake, whatever it is. Seriously, why does he care?
After standing there for a bit, the two come back (without his “boss” I was looking to speak to) and say I can’t have it. The guy’s like “My boss says you can’t have it.” The girl shows me the ad and says, “So, it was explained to me that we go by the text, not the picture.” I give her this “that’s total bullshit” look, and she kind of keeps looking at the ad, and I get the impression she’s not too sure of her answer either. I go, “But it’s advertised.” And the guy goes “It’s wrong, my boss says you can’t have it.” And he keeps saying “my boss blah blah blah”… whatever happened to letting me speak to his manager? He almost has a niener-niener tone, like “My dad says I’m right, so there.” Except more injected with young male pissed-off-ess. Anyways, they ask me if I want to buy Volume 3 and I give a really pissy “no thanks.” and leave. As I walk off, I hear the Indian kid talking about the mistake to the customer he’s working with (I can’t tell if the customer is trying to get Book 1 too or actually getting the single volume).
I can’t describe the tone very well of the guy, but he was a dickwad. Eubin was there, but maybe he can describe it better. The girl was totally going to give it to me at first, too. The thing is, even if she didn’t, I probably would have been less pissed with the whole ordeal if she had dealt with me. The entire time she was talking to me, even at the end when she said I couldn’t have it, she was absolutely friendly and courteous. I’m seriously considering writing a letter to Best Buy corporate just because of this obnoxious guy. If anybody goes to the Sunnyvale Best Buy and deals with Joseph (I’m assuming that’s his name because it was embroidered on his shirt), please give him the hardest time possible.
I probably shouldn’t complain too much, seeing how I’m pretty consistently a “devil customer”. In fact, last night, bestbuy.com had a price mistake on their website for DragonBall Z Season 2 for $8.99 (paid a couple bucks more to get it shipped, but probably should have done store pickup), which I was able to get a copy of. But my issue isn’t not getting the deal, it’s dealing with that asshole, so whatever.
Bleh, I was supposed to go to sleep early, but it’s already late because I was posting this crap. I’ve been working on the StarCraft campaign the last couple days until 12 or 1, and then I spend another hour or two surfing internet or playing Puzzle Quest. I need to stop, because I’m getting really tired at work. Eubin watched me play a game against the computer. I got owned, but he gave me a lot of good tips. Hopefully, I’ll improve.
I forgot where I saw this (had to be either joystiq or kotaku), but here’s a compilation of some of the dancing that appears on WoW next to the source the dance from. Even if you don’t play WoW, it’s pretty interesting:
I remember seeing the Tunak Tunak Tun video in college. Man, Indian people are funny.
That french girl in the video has some pretty hot moves, too.
New thing I learned today: Albertsons supermarkets don’t sell 1 cent stamps.
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