I have never returned opened software to CompUSA, but I returned two modems I could not get to work and they gave me credit. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [brluglist] New Best Buy store
> > There have been similar complaints with CompUSA. I'm inclined to treat > all such chain stores as places where I have to know what I'm getting and > that it will work before I buy. If I'm not sure, I ask at my local clone shop. > I do enough business and refer folks afraid to open their computers that > they are happy to exchange information. > > Each Sunday the paper has ads for a number of stores in the area. There > are some good deals for those patient enough to wait. Got tired of my old > slow CD-RW drive, and a few weeks ago Office Depot had a neat rebate > deal on Yamaha's new 24x10x40 model. Had to download and apply updates > to all the software, but now it works well. I may switch burning software, but > that is a matter of personal taste. See the drive now at the regular price, > about twice my net when the rebate check comes. > > I wouldn't expect them to know about compatibility with a new os. Almost > any big company that has been around for years has rigid policies. Even > Home Depot, which grew rapidly on a core vision of giving the local folks > the authority they needed to make decisions on the spot in favor of keeping > customers happy is showing signs of age, and, may I say, senility. > > You probably know that XP shipped with many major incompatibilities and > few, if any warnings. Your guess why is as good as mine, probably better. > > Seems to me applications conflicting with one another is a consequence of > Windows design decisions, letting dll files be dropped all over the system. > In Linux, as in VMS, we tend to keep all the stuff for an application in > its own > directory. It's probably too late to fix that, but......I own Microsoft stock. > > Choppy > > At 03:49 PM 2/28/02 -0600, you wrote: > >We will soon have a Best Buy store here in BR. In anticipation read this: > >Best Buy: Worst Policy > >Scribbled by Benjamin Metzler > > > >Two months ago, I upgraded to Windows XP. My virus scanner would not work > >with this OS, so I decided to upgrade it, too. I went to my local Best Buy > >to pick up a copy of McAfee Antivirus software. After I bought it, I > >attempted in install it on my computer. I discovered that McAfee was > >preventing another application I had running on my system from working. > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
