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suddenly remembering the time i went to a best buy to have them install some RAM in my laptop (i'd never cracked open a laptop before and was convinced i'd break it. it was my brand new laptop for uni.)

it was like, $40 for them to install it? something like that. asked them to do it, handed over my laptop, and the guy tries to charge like. $140 or something crazy like that.

tries to tell me the fee is for the "diagnostics" they run after installation.

demanded my laptop back and left.

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i was so incredulous honestly. $40 was already steep for something i could've done myself, but then they tried to pull the diagnostics thing...

"we have to make sure everything is working correctly" and threw a bunch of other bs at me.

mate, you just slap it in the slot and turn it on. what diagnostics are there to even run. winkey + pause break???

pretty sure they were hoping i knew nothing about computers.

anyway, hello new friends! hope your life has been scam free lately! 😂

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@terrasalix Lol I feel this, when I asked my dad to buy my laptop they wanted to install a shitton of bloat and charge for it and charge for *security updates* (Norton, Parental locks and other shit of the sort), for context the laptop has 16gb of ram and it was constantly pegged at 56% usage on idle because all of that. Gotta love tech shops ^^

@Chloe ugh, i hate all that antivirus and other bloat they're always pushing. never once in my life used any antivirus. just isn't necessary. 90% of the time i hear about antivirus it's because someone is trying to install a game and their antivirus keeps deleting it.

i also bought my phone from best buy and they slowly managed to take the price up like $200 from what was listed for random shit like "activation fee" or whatever else. would've just been cheaper to buy it online. lesson learned.

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@terrasalix at this point I don't even bother with stores anymore, I prefer buying online and waiting longer than having to pay 300+ fees for things I don't want/need

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