{"id":113,"date":"2005-02-19T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-19T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T12:47:29","slug":"ipod-photo-best-buy-and-sweet-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/02\/19\/ipod-photo-best-buy-and-sweet-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Photo, Best Buy, and Sweet Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone keeping up with my stupid Best Buy saga, things have finally been resolved in favor of the good guy (that would be me).  Let me first say that I appreciate comments, suggestions, and well wishes from those of you that have posted.  I am sure I would have continued to fight the good fight, but just knowing that pretty much everyone thinks that I am in the right, and Best Buy is out to screw us over made the fight worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I took my new iPod Photo along with all my old iPod stuff (box, manual, cables, head phones, etc) back to the store as soon as it opened.  I found the first service person I could find, told the lady the abbreviated version of this sad, sad, tale, and then I demanded that I be given all the parts for the iPod Photo or I should be given a new iPod 40GB 4G.  Either way the store was going to take back all my original stuff.  I was damned determined to get the situation sorted out right then and there.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the lady had to get the story manager, who happened to be the same lady (well, not really a lady; rhymes with switch) that \u201chelped\u201d me the night before.  I figured it was going to get ugly.  <\/p>\n<p>In the end, I won.  I did have to go through a ridiculously stupid process of exchanging out item for item.  My original box for the new iPod Photo box; my original headphones for the new iPod Photo headphones.  On so on and so forth.  It was really unbelievable ? the manager actually made (not really; more like show) me put the iPod Photo in the iPod Photo Dock to make sure that it actually fit.  She was really being a true bitch.  There I said it; sorry, I was trying to refrain.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line ? Best Buy sucks, Best Buy customer service sucks, Best Buy Service Plans suck, Best Buy store managers suck, but perseverance pays off.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a shinny new iPod Photo 40GB 4G.  Nice stuff, that color display and pretty album pictures and longer batter life.  Yea me!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone keeping up with my stupid Best Buy saga, things have finally been resolved in favor of the good guy (that would be me). Let me first say that I appreciate comments, suggestions, and well wishes from those of you that have posted. 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