{"id":117,"date":"2011-11-27T21:52:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/?p=117"},"modified":"2011-11-27T21:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:52:32","slug":"my-experience-at-best-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/2011\/11\/my-experience-at-best-buy.html","title":{"rendered":"My Experience at Best Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to Best Buy at Santana Row (in San Jose) to pick up a game I bought online. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t expect it to be a learning experience, but it was. \u00a0I learned that I should not shop at Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few numbers from the experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time of arrival at Best Buy &#8211;<strong> 8:30 pm Sunday<\/strong>, November 23rd<\/li>\n<li>Amount of money spent at Best Buy &#8211; <strong>$8.65<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time spent browsing in the store &#8211; <strong>20 minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of people in line when I got in the &#8220;Store Pick up&#8221; line &#8211; <strong>2 (not counting myself)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of people who cut in line while I was waiting &#8211;<strong> 1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Number of people at the counter serving people &#8211;<strong> 1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time it took for me to get to the front of the line &#8211; <strong>30 minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time it took for me to give the girl my name, and for her to find my item &#8211; <strong>approximately 2 minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Time of departure from Best Buy &#8211; <strong>9:25 pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I waited in line for 30 minutes so I could get my $8 game, and I will not be going back. \u00a0Best Buy got a little bit of money from me and alienated me as a customer.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to the fact that I spent about $100 on Steam this week <em>during which <\/em>I was visiting with my family for Thanksgiving. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have to wait in line, got what I as a customer consider some great deals, and was left feeling very happy.<\/p>\n<p>My experience with Amazon this week was much like Steam. \u00a0Great buys and I&#8217;m happy about the whole experience.<\/p>\n<p>Man I love the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to Best Buy at Santana Row (in San Jose) to pick up a game I bought online. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t expect it to be a learning experience, but it was. \u00a0I learned that I should not shop at Best Buy. Just a few numbers from the experience: Time of arrival at Best Buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-gaming","category-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lukerymarz.com\/ratingpending\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}