Best Buy Swindles Customers With $30 PS3 Firmware Update

[hannan4mitch]

If you paid for this, you get the honorary asshat medal for extreme DERPING.
I kid, I kid. But really, it's called pre-purchase researching.
Look into it.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Calumon: Silly! Who'd pay this? XD

Idiots and parents whose knowledge of the PS3 ends at "Its is the black one."

 

[spwatkins]

I'm no friend of Best Buy's selling techniques, but I don't think $30 is a completely unreasonable charge. Sure, it only takes a couple of minutes to update an installed and running PS3, but if they do it at Best Buy they're going to need to:
Unbox the PS3
Attach power, video, and internet
wait for the thing to boot
initiate the update process
wait for update to install
wait for system to reboot
run some kind of test to make sure the update "took"
poss. including inserting a game disk or something
rebox PS3

This could easily take somewhere between 20 and 45 minutes

 

[Rhymenoceros]

OT: It seems stupid but can you blame them. If you could get $30 out of someone for doing nothing, wouldn't you?

If I was ripping someone off for something that they could otherwise get for free? No, but then, I have a conscience.

Fair enough. I, personally, have only a slight conscience.
Although $30 is as high as I would go

 

[Googenstien]

I'm no friend of Best Buy's selling techniques, but I don't think $30 is a completely unreasonable charge. Sure, it only takes a couple of minutes to update an installed and running PS3, but if they do it at Best Buy they're going to need to:
Unbox the PS3
Attach power, video, and internet
wait for the thing to boot
initiate the update process
wait for update to install
wait for system to reboot
run some kind of test to make sure the update "took"
poss. including inserting a game disk or something
rebox PS3

This could easily take somewhere between 20 and 45 minutes

LOL.. this guy must have Best Buy stock

 

[Ghengis John]

*adds Best Buy to boycotted companies list*

Let's see the list is now...

Best Buy
Activision

And...that's it.

My thoughts exactly.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what'd Activision do? I need to know whether to put them on my list, which now reads:

Best Buy
BP
Wal-Mart
Exxon
McDonalds
Nestlé
Dominos
Chik-fil-A

I'm a harsh, harsh costumer.

You should add Pizza Hut to your list. Their "cheese" is largely flame-retardant silicone granules, which when exposed to heat exceeding 400 degrees produce formaldehyde. They use the silicone in lieu of real cheese to make a stretchy product that seems fresh from the oven longer. This isn't just an urban legend however, the source of this information was the dairy industry's quarterly journal, The Milkweed, which is up in arms over Pizza Hut's gall in calling the substance on their pizza "cheese".

Is that a lawsuit I smell? Or did someone order the garlic bread?

On what grounds could you possibly launch a lawsuit? The service is entirely voluntary. They're rats yes, but what they're doing isn't illegal or letigible by any means.

 

[Magnalian]

Is that a lawsuit I smell? Or did someone order the garlic bread?

On what grounds could you possibly launch a lawsuit? The service is entirely voluntary. They're rats yes, but what they're doing isn't illegal or letigible by any means.

Ok then, who had the garlic bread? 'Cause I definitely smell something.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

HAHAHAHA! Holy shit, if the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement wasn't ruining my day, this would be the most epic piece of news I'd heard.

Well then, this is the most epic piece of news you've ever heard!

<a href=http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/near-final-acta-text-arrives-big-failure-for-us.ars>3 CHEERS, THE ACTA IS DEAD!!! (Sort of...)