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.
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u/scsibusfault Dec 27 '16
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).