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There is no service at Best Buy

I went into Best Buy (there is only one in Tallahassee) to buy a deep cleaning vacuum (with the water tanks and detergent). I viewed their selection and made my choice. Right now I have an injured foot with a big bandage on one toe so I'm wearing flip flops. The box with the vacuum is big and heavy. To get it to the register, I take a step with my good foot, I drag the box, and then I drag my bad foot. I make my way to the front like this -- step, drag, drag. I go past an aisle with two store employees, I go past the manager's office, I finally make it to the register. No one asked to help me. I figured once I got to the register (the person working the register wasn't busy and watched me approach), that she would ask me if I needed help out to my car after I paid for the items. Wrong! It didn't seem to bother her one bit the difficulties I was having with the merchandise. I continued dragging the box to the front door. I figured one of the other employees working the other registers would notice me and send for help. Wrong again! I made it to the outside. A customer coming up to the store asked if I needed help. I figured that since I had made it that far, that I could make it the rest of the way.  I politely declined and attempted to continue. The customer repeated his query even more earnestly, "Are you sure you wouldn't like some help?" I finally agreed that yes, I really could use some help. He suggested we swap burdens. He carried my items while I carried his much smaller bag all the way out to my vehicle. I thanked him profusely and repeatedly and said how kind he was to help. I couldn't believe that no employee in the Best Buy offered to help carry the heavy item I was purchasing. I would have thought that at the very least they would have been worried about the liability if I fell while trying to get the merchandise to the front of the stop. I am very disappointed in Best Buy.

Comments

 

mike said:

That's surprising. Actually I was at Best Buy yesterday myself to take back a broken DVD set and they were very helpful. I bought my girlfriend the Smallville Season 2 set on our monthly anniversary (yes we still celebrate anniversaries each month). When we opened it up, we found the DVDs had slipped out of the casing during shipping and been smashed against the case, causing deep scratches along it. The episodes would randomly skip whole chapters. So I brought them back to Best Buy.

They exchanged it for free and even let me open it in store to make sure the new case was in working order. We opened 3 cases before we found one that wasn't destroyed. We realized they had changed the design of the boxes midway through season 2 probably for that very reason.

I was impressed with the friendliness and helpfulness of the customer service rep, but then again that is her full time job. I can't really say anything on behalf of the other employees who are only required to help people find products. I'm quite surprised that none of them offered to help when you were obviously having trouble. I'm glad someone outside finally came to your aid though.

May 29, 2008 3:32 PM
 

Blogette said:

I was surprised, too. I've had good service there in the past. One thing I really enjoyed in the past was ordering on the web and then picking it up in the store.

May 30, 2008 11:49 AM

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