April 30, 2009 at 17:53Beautifully packed brick for $ 2164 instead of ... MacBook Pro
It seems that the crisis has affected large American electronics retail chains, but not in the sense in which you thought. No, their sales have not fallen to a critical level; they have a different kind of crisis. On various American sites, messages began to appear that buyers, having come home, increasingly began to find bricks and stones in boxes instead of electronics! First, a message appeared about a teenager who, instead of the Nintendo DS, received a couple of stones wrapped in Chinese newspapers for his birthday. After some bickering, one of the Wal-Mart stores nevertheless behaved correctly and returned the money ($ 138), and also presented a $ 20 card in compensation.
But the Best Buy client in the same case did not wait for compensation.
Someone Ryan from Texas bought a brick on the Best Buy network instead of a MacBook Pro. Arriving home and having printed the package, he found a usual building stone of red color.
The buyer immediately returned to the store and found a manager. However, she did not want to delve into the details of the incident and advised to solve the problem with the manufacturer himself.
As a result, Ryan paid $ 2164 for a brand new package (and, of course, a brick). It is strange that he did not even guess to look at his purchase directly in the store.
However, there are frequent attempts to deceive retail chains by customers. And vice versa. According to a knowledgeable commentator on the Consumerist website, there are packaging machines in the Best Buy utility rooms, so theoretically nothing prevents store employees from packing products as many times as necessary. And, for example, put a brick instead of a MacBook Pro.
But the Best Buy client in the same case did not wait for compensation.
Someone Ryan from Texas bought a brick on the Best Buy network instead of a MacBook Pro. Arriving home and having printed the package, he found a usual building stone of red color.
The buyer immediately returned to the store and found a manager. However, she did not want to delve into the details of the incident and advised to solve the problem with the manufacturer himself.
As a result, Ryan paid $ 2164 for a brand new package (and, of course, a brick). It is strange that he did not even guess to look at his purchase directly in the store.
However, there are frequent attempts to deceive retail chains by customers. And vice versa. According to a knowledgeable commentator on the Consumerist website, there are packaging machines in the Best Buy utility rooms, so theoretically nothing prevents store employees from packing products as many times as necessary. And, for example, put a brick instead of a MacBook Pro.