consumerist.com - 11/3/2008
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I've read some bad Best Buy stories in my time here at The Consumerist, but this one really takes the asshole cake. To sell its special HDTV calibration service, this Best Buy in NC set up two identical model HDTVs, both showing ESPN. As seen in the picture tipster Robert took, the ...
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How Best Buy Sells Its Pricey HDTV Calibration Service: Deception [Best Buy]
Gizmodo —
... When pressed further, he admitted that they even made the standard def picture look even crappier by stretching it out. Really, really abhorrent. Home Entertainment mag has a great guide on how to shop for an HDTV at a big box store to make sure you don't get screwed when looking for a killer deal amidst the smoldering ashes of the financiapocalypse. You can also check out how the pros evaluate HDTVs, so you know what to look for in a set's picture. [Consumerist] ...
Best Buy scams HDTV customers into paying for calibration with stretched-out standard def feed
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... charitably call them "idiots" — and I sometimes wonder when the U.N. is going to confiscate Antarctica from the King Penguins and gift it back to them as their Holy Land. But this still makes my blood boil.
How can Best Buy possibly think this is going to fly? If it really took $300 to make your expensive new television not look like smegma-smeared pixel ass, you wouldn't be worrying about calibration... you'd be worrying about filing a class-action lawsuit.
Best Buy uses tricks to sell calibration services [Consumerist]
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