I went to bestbuy to purchase Sony Vaio laptop in 2003. It was quite high-end machine, $2000 + $300 (or $350) for Performance Service Plan. Plus, I was going to buy 15inch Sony LCD monitor for about more than $300. Since I was spending close to $3000 w/o even bugging anyone w/ questions (I went into the store and just ask for the laptop and monitor), I thought they would be happy to sell several expensive stuffs. Nope, they won't sell it to me unless I sign up for the stupid 6 months free trial AOL dial up service. and I already told them about 3 times that I have Road Runner Broadband service which gives me around 5mbps at that time (it's 7mbps now). I don't need any stinking dial up. I don't even have a landline. The guy kept pushing me for a AOL service for about 5 minutes.(reason: it's free, just call at the end of the 6 months to cancel.) I kept saying NO. And the Best Buy guy was pissed (at least that was my impression), and left me alone for more than 10 minutes. (I already completed all the paperwork to purchase the laptop.) After about 10 minutes, I torn apart the paperwork and left the store, promised to myself that I won't go BestBuy ever.
I see why he was trying so hard to have me sign up for the AOL. For the stupid free CD...
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I went to bestbuy to purchase Sony Vaio laptop in 2003. It was quite high-end machine, $2000 + $300 (or $350) for Performance Service Plan. Plus, I was going to buy 15inch Sony LCD monitor for about more than $300.
Since I was spending close to $3000 w/o even bugging anyone w/ questions (I went into the store and just ask for the laptop and monitor), I thought they would be happy to sell several expensive stuffs.
Nope, they won't sell it to me unless I sign up for the stupid 6 months free trial AOL dial up service. and I already told them about 3 times that I have Road Runner Broadband service which gives me around 5mbps at that time (it's 7mbps now). I don't need any stinking dial up. I don't even have a landline. The guy kept pushing me for a AOL service for about 5 minutes.(reason: it's free, just call at the end of the 6 months to cancel.)
I kept saying NO. And the Best Buy guy was pissed (at least that was my impression), and left me alone for more than 10 minutes. (I already completed all the paperwork to purchase the laptop.)
After about 10 minutes, I torn apart the paperwork and left the store, promised to myself that I won't go BestBuy ever.
I see why he was trying so hard to have me sign up for the AOL. For the stupid free CD...