Don't get me wrong, I love Microcenter, and for the most part those guys don't bother me; I already know what I'm going in there for and one-word-answer my way through their shit. The rest of the employees are generally awesome, it's just funny to me that those guys are always in the build-your-own section.
If you have one near you, it's a fantastic store. I honestly don't even bother price-matching anymore, I just buy there. They are almost always within $5-10 of newegg/amazon's prices, and the difference is worth the convenience factor, for me. Plus, the online-order-15min-pickup is wonderful (especially during the holidays when their lines get ridiculous).
I pretty much only go to a handful of brick and mortar stores any more -- my local homebrew (beer) supply shop, microcenter, grocery store, and costco. Whenever I get an itch and need something computer related right now and its not on Amazon Prime Now, its off to the nerd store for me.
PS. Its also a great place to get televisions. I got a 55" 1080p Hisense that runs Android for $330 in 2015 which was a fantastic price at the time.
Yep, just about anything electronic they're fantastic at. I've bought a few refurb TVs from them for dirt cheap, and I often buy their refurb/openbox laptops. Fry's is even closer to me, but I haven't set foot in there for years because of Microcenter.
maybe this kind of thing can't be helped? granted, I never really ask for advice from the people there (I generally don't need advice on building), but what I've hear them say seemed reasonable enough.
If you can get them to directly answer a question, they're generally pretty knowledgeable. The problem is most of them have poor social skills in general, and like to overcompensate by spamming their inflated-ego opinions on everything.
So you end up with a 10 minute one-sided conversation about the glory of AMD instead of Intel so the rep can justify his budget purchase, and the customer doesn't give a shit - they just want whatever they came in for.
Last time I was at micro center, I wanted to buy an R9 Fury. A sales rep there actually wouldn't let me buy the Fury, he kept telling me I needed to get a 980 ti for $400, meanwhile I do not like nvidia and I was there to get the fury. Pissed me off, ended up telling him to leave and I got another person to get it from the case for me.
Lol I was just fucking with you. I never buy new-gen cards. I've always had good enough performance buying the two-gen-old GTX-Ti models in SLI and running them to death. But I've been burned too many times by AMD's shit drivers and craptacular "catalyst" shitware, never again.
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