http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/ Engadget Comments for Geek Squad visa application approved, Best Buy opening stores in UK http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?storycode=3146413]]>Oct 21st 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/cpw_bestbuy_retail/]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
oh, snap. just realized there's a conversion, but you get the point. Cheap electronic accessories for employees. ]]>Oct 21st 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/But you Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it.]]>Oct 21st 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
I apologize in advance. It's a shame that we export this crap. Best Buy sucks.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/

on the other hand, dont ask for advice, more than likely they are kids from high school or possibly college kids who think they know more than you do....]]>Oct 21st 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Think Currys, only bigger.

Best Buy is, if memory serves, the world's largest laptop retailer and Samsung's single biggest customer.
Their buying power is incomparable, which will hopefully mean better prices than we currently see over here.

Also, from what American friends have told me, they have a really good 3 year protection plan/insurance that allows you to get the full value of the item back if it breaks down towards the end and there's no like-for-like replacement available, or something like that.
I for one hope they retain that service.]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
The point about poorly-educated salespeople is well-taken, too. None of the people on the floor know much more than what's on the box. I stumped most of them asking about the jack panel -- VGA inputs and analog / digital outputs on the models I was researching. They answered most of my questions with that unsure question-y tone, like they were asking me the answer. Most of the Geek Squad techs working on computers are simply trained on a few minor issues, and run a diagnosis disc. And that will cost you about $350 (not sure of the exchange rate - so sorry for US currency). Plus the "set-up" fee for computers -- where they go through and remove some of the shovelware and start your virus-protection for you. Don't fall for that one.

Nothing against the people working at BB -- they're just people working jobs. It's the business practices that leave something to be desired.
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You're right ... it is a very accommodating policy for accidental breakage. Unfortunately, I know a few people who treat it like a repurchase policy. They've bought things like Sony PSP's ... keep them for 2-3 years, then break them and take them back just to get a new one -- to extend the life of their purchase. That's partially the reason BB's prices are high on most product. It's also why the insurance is so expensive, and why they try to push it on every single piece of equipment they sell. If someone is buying a product like a TV, monitor, PC, etc... things that are set up and left in place ... I just can't see the insurance as being worthwhile. If they're stolen or destroyed in a fire, they're covered by homeowners' insurance. Best Buy is banking on the idea that you'll pay for the insurance and then never use it -- and if that weren't true, they wouldn't offer it. They'd lose their shirts taking $250 to replace a $1599 TV set.

And to clarify about the $350 for computer repair ... that fee is to "reset" the PC, not just diagnose it. But the "reset" is nothing more than wiping the hard drive, and reloading it with the programs that shipped from the factory. You lose all your data.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
I want it to come to Birmingham too! That way I can just walk in after all the locals have gotten all they can carry before the flatfoots arrive.]]>Oct 21st 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
reminds me of this...
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/september/dixons

Except...actually it's then go buy it at amazon or ebuyer.]]>Oct 21st 2009 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
That's your problem, everyone knows that snail mail sucks... ;)]]>Oct 21st 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/These plans have been common knowledge for months now.

Had the recession not hit as hard as it has, the first stores would already be open.]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 23rd 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
Fixed that for you.]]>Oct 21st 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
Amazon US or UK FTW.

Sometimes, when you want to "touch" before you buy, it can be a useful place to go.]]>Oct 21st 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 23rd 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/
geek squad have already been over here for a year or two. They operate out of carphone warehouse stores, of whom best buy half-own the retail operation.

@Zane, they drive Smart ForTwos over here.]]>Oct 21st 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/geek-squad-visa-application-approved-best-buy-opening-stores-in/Oct 21st 2009 8:04AM