Geek Squad Charging $130 To Hookup PS3
Best Buy and it’s Geek Squad are milking the tech illiterate shoppers out of $130 just to hook up a Playstation 3.
Geeks Squad’s awesome PS3 service includes:
* Setup and configure gaming console
* Installations of the latest firmware updates
* Setup and configure local user accounts with parental controls
* Setup and configuration of one online account (only 1?)
Are you serious Best Buy? You are charging $130 to setup a PS3? If you don’t know how to hookup and press a couple of buttons to setup and upgrade a PS3, then you shouldn’t own a PS3.
September 25, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Business & Law, Playstation | 6 Comments
September 27th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
They can’t be serious! I wonder how many people feel the need to use this extortionate service.
December 1st, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Instore game console setup is 30 or 40, can’t remember.
130 may be steep but you are paying for someone to come to your house. Mainly affluent people enjoy this type of luxury. If 130 seems too steep to you, then don’t buy the service because you cannot afford / don’t need / w/e
Whens the last time you went “200 for a bottle of wine!!??” “600 for steak???” “ARE YOU SERIOUS?”
Those type of things are designed for more affluent people. Same for this.
December 1st, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Kinda like “Why would anybody pay $30 for an oil change when you can just do it yourself?”
Because you don’t want to get your hands dirty / bend over / do it yourself. You have enough money to pay someone to do it for you despite you perfectly being capable of doing it.
Same goes for this inhome services. It is a bit expensive (subjective) , but those who can afford it without second thought pay for it so they don’t have to :
* Setup and configure gaming console
* Installations of the latest firmware updates
* Setup and configure local user accounts with parental controls
* Setup and configuration of one online account
December 1st, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Remember that this “service stuff” is nearly 90% profit margin for Best Buy,, and the remaining 10% is staff wages for these ‘services’. This is what lets them compete with (ie, kill off) every other “small box store” electronics competitor in your local area. So you get your loss leaders and your black friday door-crashers, and your 5% markup on many core items, because they have services like this, and Monster Cables with 70% profit margin, to help them fatten up their bottom line, and pay the rent on their enormous stores.
Warren
December 1st, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Amir, that is a bad analogy. I change my oil myself, and I end up paying $22 for oil and filter anyways, so I would only have to spend an extra $8 to have someone else do it. Best buy is charging $130 for 15 minutes of work, while getting an oil change is only $8 for 15 minutes of work.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:12 am
Dear Amir,
thanks for the great analogies.
I am a multi-trillioniare. I purchased a PS3 from BEST BUY last week and was offered this service. I immediately remembered I had a couple hundred dollar bills that I use for floor mats in my Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. So I can to my car and picked up some cash. Then I paid $130 to have them come to my mansion and perform this service. I could have done it myself, but I didn’t want one of the capacitors to break, leaking fluid all over my “hand model” like hands. I purchased the complete Friends (Blu ray) series and watched it on my new ps3, while eating $500 steak and drinking $2000 wine. Because we super rich folks like purchasing from Best Buy….The Wal-Mart of electronic stores.
-Sincerely, “Affluent” people from all over the world