anybody have any experiences with geeksquad? good? bad? ridiculous?

5/24/2006 12:22:15 AM

all i know is that requirements to work for them are insane

5/24/2006 12:49:10 AM

If you're thinking about purchasing services from them, please look elsewhere. They are the biggest ripoff since Amway.

5/24/2006 1:06:17 AM

i use to work for them

whats up?

5/24/2006 1:31:05 AM

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"all i know is that requirements to work for them are insane "

In greenville you dont need any certs. What do you mean "requirements"?

5/24/2006 2:21:17 AM

is geek squad anything like the IQ Crew?

5/24/2006 2:05:29 PM

best buy will hire any idiot to work for them, I wouldnt trust them

5/24/2006 2:13:08 PM

Whatever you are thinking about having done to your PC someone off TWW would do way cheaper for you. Most of what you pay the geek squad goes to best buy. There are just as more qualified people on here to work on your computer.

5/24/2006 2:26:25 PM

like, i thought they require a technical degree to get a job for them.

5/24/2006 3:25:30 PM

by technical degree, you must mean GED

5/24/2006 3:37:42 PM

yeah I'm pretty sure they don't require much to get hired

and they overcharge like woah

which is a bad combination


if you want professional, reasonably priced tech consulting services pm me

5/24/2006 3:52:06 PM

how much do geek squad pay i wonder.

5/24/2006 5:04:17 PM

When best buy started the geek squad they did so because they had tons of under paid, overqualified techs. (they get a constant stream from layoffs) The conglomerate saw this as a way to make excellent margin on in home services.

5/24/2006 5:43:44 PM

^ Yeah basically it's a way for them to bill their in house techbench people (laid off IT guys and part time college students) as an "expert" tech service. While many of the people who work for geek squad are highly overqualified and fairly knowledgeable, Best Buy requires neither qualification nor knowledge to get a job in the geek squad. Getting "Geek Squad" help doesn't guarantee you skill and service; you're only guaranteed to get someone who isn't paid enough for what they're expected to do.

5/24/2006 5:47:33 PM

^^ and ^

I don't know who fed you those lines of bullshit, but that has nothing to do with why they started the service. Best Buy has never EVER had a glut of overqualified employees in ANY respect. The only store(s) that could claim to even have fairly well qualified employees would be the Apple stores and Dell Kiosk Employees. And they are only up there because those are direct sale companies.

5/24/2006 7:57:50 PM

Since everyone seems to be confused on this point, Best Buy didn't start the Geek Squad, they bought it in 2002.

Funny enough, the founder seems to think the Geek Squad aquired Best Buy...
http://www.robertstephens.com/

5/25/2006 12:19:08 AM

my roomate is the guy in charge up at best buy in cary, he DEF knows what he's doing. But its totally true they overcharge like a motherfucker and it does take awhile b/c alot of people take their computers there.

As for the fact that people don't know what they're doing, its bullshit, if one person can't fix it one of the guys over there can, trust me.

5/25/2006 1:21:18 AM

yeah putting dell kiosk administrator and apple store sales associate really helped me get hired at geeksquad

5/25/2006 2:31:03 AM

waste of $$, just post your problem and see if anyone wants to help for around half their price

5/25/2006 12:48:49 PM

^^^^^

But they still overcharge and underpay.

5/25/2006 1:03:19 PM

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"But they still overcharge and underpay."

Pretty much all successful businesses do.

5/25/2006 1:26:21 PM

Plenty of succesful buisnesses pay their employees far better than bestbuy/geeksquad and do not overcharge their customers when compared to competitors. What would be more correct would be to say:

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"Pretty much all successful retail businesses do."

5/25/2006 2:50:44 PM

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"my roomate is the guy in charge up at best buy in cary, he DEF knows what he's doing. "

I used to work at that one, who's your roommate? Brad?

5/25/2006 4:04:40 PM

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"drunknloaded All American 56288 Posts user info edit post i use to work for them"

that's all I need to hear to never buy service from them

5/25/2006 4:19:01 PM

Now in all fairness, they did replace him with a very skilled and hard working stoner named tim.

5/25/2006 4:40:50 PM