Retail Shenanigans

It's being sold from Phoenix, AZ.  This is not a prime place to keep film reels.  Film stock like that needs to be stored in a cool, dry environment.  I suspect this was stuck in someone's attic for the past half century or so.  It's probably unwatchable.  Interesting item, though.

Doomsday PhantomKnight

You know those cable-company salesmen that are always lurking around Best Buy? I always see them a mile away and tell them “Sorry. Not interested.” before they even approach me. Well, today, one of them gave me shit for not indulging them. I get you’re trying to earn commission (or whatever) but who the fuck goes to Best Buy to sign up for cable? Why are you even there? And secondly, if you have to be there (for whatever reason) why not just set up a station, like the cellphone people do, and let me approach you. Don’t lurk around the store like a fucking asshole.

But anyway, Dracula, Best Buy is selling a 65-inch Samsung 4K TV for $600. What’s your thoughts/expertise on it? Shit? Worth it? Potential Black Friday scam?

I'm the wrong person to ask.  Anything cheaper than $2000 is probably going to be below my standards (OLED or bust), but normal people will likely see things differently. 

You only buy new TVs every decade or so, you're going to want one that's going to last and isn't going to be obsolete in two years.  Saves you money in the long run.

I've actually never run into any cable reps at a Best Buy before.  I didn't even know that was a thing.  Even so, no salesperson has any business giving customers grief just because they're not interested in what they're pushing.  In the case of a store like Best Buy especially, most of the people who walk through their doors already know what they're looking for.  While I can understand the desperation of cable company reps in the age of cutting the chord, that's no excuse.  They need to get a job in an industry that isn't dying.

I did have a sales rep at a Radio Shack seem particularly outraged at me for having the audacity to not only be one of the few people who didn't own a cell phone, but not want to buy one from him.  I wasn't even in the store.  I was just walking by the store at the mall.  He asked me what I was going to do if my car broke down, as though everyone whose car broke down before the advent of cell phones died on the side of the road or something.

I've never run into a cable salesperson at Best Buy, either.

Nope.

I'd love to be harassed at a mall. Sexually.

We call them 'shopping centres' over here, where words mean things.

So how long before GameStop closes for good?

www.polygon.com/2019/9/11/20860750/gamestop-layoffs-store-closures-sales-earnings-stock-price-quarterly-report

www.polygon.com/2020/1/14/21065964/gamestop-sales-down-holiday-quarter-revenue

gamestop is terrible there is a youtube channel camelot331 which chronicled alot of stuff. I refuse to shop there unless it's a really super last choice.

I think I bought that TV. I bought a Samsung 65RU7100 on sale for $600 last month from Best Buy (after using the $350 credit I had for my 50" going out under the 5 year warranty, it was $250), but also paid for another 5 year warranty, wall mount, and mounting service, so everything came out to about a grand, before applying the credit from my warranty for the last TV.

I freaking love this television in every way a man can love a TV.

I see what you did there, and no.  It's a publicity stunt for the smoothie company, which she is a part owner of.  The only place it's available is Costco stores in LA and San Francisco at the moment.