[Elecraft] Kudos to Best Buy (yes, I know, this is very OT)

[Pete Smith]

Too true, Wes.  My local Best Buy is a new store, and the place looks 
like a store on the way out - most items only one or two, many out of 
stock, grumpy staff, etc.  To read their return policy, you have to 
hunker down at the service desk and read a fine-print placard posted at 
waist height.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 7/8/2011 11:54 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> After losing my wife, best friend and traveling partner earlier in the year I've been looking to something to occupy my time.  (Ham radio isn't getting it done)  I decided to rekindle an old interest in photography. So I did a lot of online comparisons of DSLRs and narrowed the choice to a couple of options.
>
> I went to my local Best Buy about a month ago to do a hands-on comparison.  This is difficult because they have so much anti-theft crap hanging on them you can't even assess the weight.  I was there twice and both times the clerks were so surly and unhelpful that I left POed both times.
>
> Since then I've spent about three kilobucks with Amazon.  No fuss, no tax and with Prime shipping, I order today, it's here tomorrow, and if I don't like it they take it back with no more hassle than driving to the UPS store.
>
> Wes
>
> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, John Ragle<tpcj1r03 at crocker.com>  wrote:
> I have the ff 2 comments about our local "Best Buy" in Hadley, MA
>
> (a) They are very well stocked with a wide variety of items, and
>
> (b) I refuse to shop at a store such as the Best Buy in Hadley,MA that
> insists on searching one's possessions when one leaves the store.
>
> I do 95% of this sort of my shopping on the internet. The local Radio
> Shacks (2) supply solder, common ICs, transistors, etc.
>
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