IIRC it costs $50 for the extra protection plan from Best Buy. It gives you a 2 year warranty with them, and if anything happens to you PS3, just take it back and they give you a new one. It comes with a 1 year warranty from Sony.
So $50 to be able to get a brand new PS3 anytime you want. You decide if its worth it. But like others have said, stay away from the Geek Squad. They are a bunch of scammers. Watch the video and you will see. Best Buy is known for many more scams.
http://www.kptv.com/video/19513766/index.html
gallienb
Geek squad is not known for scamming lol. I even watched that video and even said the first geek squad found the problem on there test pc and charged them nothing. I use to work for Geek squad and that's what I would have done. The other Geek squad I'm assuming have hired a bunch of morons lol. They couldn't figure out the problem so they fell back on what 60-70% of what the problems end up being. So they run a diag. to figure out if it has hardware issues and it also runs virus checks. It must have found hidden viruses the news report's "engineer" didn't find. The Diag. probably showed the hard drive not work since it wasn't plugged in. Not trying to defend the morons at that geek squad just saying most geek squads aren't like that. Also please tell me all the scams they do so i can debunk every one for you. I would say over 50% of the time I never charged anybody anything do to the fact I would fix there problem in 30min or less. If it took any long we had to charge for an hour or more of labor which was only 29.99. Most the quick diag. takes 15mins. and then the customer has the choice for us to fix it or take it home and fix it themselves. So anyways just figured again I would inform the misinformed :)
I guess I'm one of the lucky few who have gotten great service from BB. When I went in there to buy my HDTV, surround sound, and game systems the guys helping me were awesome. They were looking all over the place finding me better deals on their stuff. One guy showed me a tv that was bigger, cheaper, and a better brand than the tv I originally wanted (and it works fantastic still!), another guy saved me $150 off speakers because they had the same kinds sent back because the previous owner couldn't hook them up (they were pretty much new lol), and they even told me NOT to pay for their service to set it all up becasue they could tell I knew what I was doing and they assured me I wouldn't have a problem hooking it all up if I just read the instructions (I had to do that for the speakers only, but he was right). They didn't even push their warranty on me when I told them I'd be fine without it. I went over how much I paid for everything compared to how much I was originally going to pay on Amazon and I saved over $500!
cdav89
I believe you. Ive had good service from them too. It does come down to the individual. This jackass was trying to sell me a $60 HDMI cable.
For the love of god. Stay far away from that "Geek Squad" BS. It's a scam made to take advantage of the "ill informed" to squeeze every last (unnecesarry) penny out of you. If anything happens, "Geek Squad" can't fix it any better or faster than what Sony can do (if at all).
But hey, it's your choice. "There's a sucker born every minute" they say..
Scianix-Black
Have you seen the adds for Geek Squad PS3 installations?
A $100 to plug in the cables and make a PSN account :|
LOL! WOW, are you SERIOUS?!
That is the most absolutely downright ABSURD thing I have heard all month.
Yes its not a problem, its a feature. You can have it so that the HDTV turns on when the PS3 turns on, but Im not sure about the other way around. You need to have a CEC compatible HDMI port. If you dont like it, I think you can turn it off in the HDTV settings or just plug the HDMI in a non-CEC port.
Its not just the Sony Bravias. My Samsung 6 series can do it too. Also, I think it only works with a Slim PS3. Maybe the Fat got this feature through a firmware update. IDK.
I have never had any problems with them...nothing but good experiences But a $130 is not unreasonable if they come out to your house How much do you think any service call to your house is (electrician, etc.) -usually $100 to drive out there plus more per hour -so $130 seems about right
Do you know how easy it is to hook up a PS3? They could have made some pamphlets that had instructions. A 5 year old can hook up a PS3 to a TV, HDMI and composite.
I believe you had good experiences with them but many others have had bad experiences.
Obviously they do. They learn all the skills and tricks to get people into doing unnecessary things. Heres a bunch of secrets revealed about Circuit City by an ex employee. Its even worse than Best Buy.
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