Worst Buy Free $75

You can trade in any shitty POS laptop running 20 year old Windows for $75.


tradein.bestbuy.com


Bankrupt the fuckers

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Yeah just did this. The guy working there was frustrated so many people were doing trade ins.

I'm sensing angst op

i mean does anyone actually LIKE best buy?

Probably not but I was hoping for a juicy story from op regarding best buy

what did you trade in?

>a few neckbears trade in some old laptops for a few BEST BUY gift cards that are going to be used back in the store can bankrupt a company
Oh and they also check ID and do a fingerprint scan so good luck getting more than 1 trade in. Bring your whole extended family to trade in your shitpads and Best Buy will still be making money.

I like how they're close to me and price match

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An old chromebook. Worth about 50 bucks if I sold on ebay.

Im sure others could fuck best buy more but I'm happy.

>good luck getting more than 1 trade in.

doesn't work for everyone, but you can hop from store to store

Haven't been in one in over a decade. They don't offer anything I can't get online for the same price or cheaper and their aggressive sales associates are annoying as fuck.

Why would he be frustrated?
Is it extra work for him or something?

>spending time to drive hours a day to pawn laptops
>Sup Forums devolving into shitdeals resellers
Or you know, get a job? And jesus christ, shitdeals community is even worse than the linux community.

i have a hard time imagining anything worse than the hardcore linux community

turned in a 6 year old laptop that still booted and only had a crack on the side but thermal throttled like a motherfucker
got 140 dollars for it, turning in a shitty vista laptop tomorrow for another 75 and possibly an xp era laptop for more the next

>the hardcore linux community

Depends on the distro really.

I've got three old laptops.

One is a Gateway with a cracked hinge, which they won't take just because it's not on their list of brands.

Then there's a Lenovo that's about 10 years old. I'm definitely going to trade it in.

Finally there's a Toshiba that's only a few years old, but has some kind of HDD problem and is very slow, even with a fresh Ubuntu install. Will probably trade it in too.

$150 for junk I have laying around? Sign me up.

many stores take laptops that don't show up in the list. just click on the "PC Laptop" pic at the top of the page and it only asks for specs... no model number required

Doesn't matter. If I select "Other brand," it won't take it unless I lie about the specs.

I just browse.. and maybe to play with something I will end up buying for less via Amazon or pricewatch.

I wouldn't give them my finger print for a $75 gift card desu

I never much cared for how they treat me like a Tyrone. I understand loss prevention but every Best Buy I've ever been to treats all their customers like their criminals until proven otherwise.

AppleGoogle already has your fingerprint.

Jokes on you. I unlock my phone with my cock only

I have a shitty old Acer netbook (atom1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, GMA 950) but I can't get it to boot. I've tried two separate hard drives so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Hopefully I can get it running before the 15th, because getting $75 in credit for it would be pretty nice. It would basically be a free hard drive for me.

They tell us we arent on comission so that we don't have to be aggressive salesmen, then turn around and scold us constantly if we arent hitting productivity goals and credit card apps.

I fucking hate working for them. Don't blame (most of) the employees (besides the ones who drank the BB kool-aid)

I tried this earlier today at the the beaumont, ca best buy. This overweight guy ferri looking fuck in a black shirt told me it's only if you want to buy the samsung garbage. "The website makes it confusing." Should I try other BBs? Did the rulers change? Should I fight him over dive bars? Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

*rules

yeah just try another one or even the same best buy if the fatty isn't working. i don't even think you need to mention the promotion if you fill out the form online before you go in. their computer system should make the trade in work $75 at the very last stage when they process it in store.

Glad to hear it's not just a meme, I'll try another one (not trying to stalk a lard ass).

old Dell w. 1.2 GHz Celeron, 1.2 GB RAM, 20 GB PATA HDD

Included the battery, which hasn't held a charge for about 5 years (the main reason it's been collecting dust in the back of a closet). With the AC power attached, booted right up to Win XP Home ... which I had thoroughly cleaned years ago & never used this laptop for anything where it would have any personal or otherwise compromising data.

Free $75 for literally 30 minutes of "find laptop & drive to Best Buy." Even if I have to spend it at Best Buy, I'll find something I need that will be worth that. Shit ... just NOT having to find a way to throw it out at this point would have been worth the gas to drive there and abandon it.

Thanks for the heads-up, anons!

so i got a thinkpad t60 with only 1gb of ram and a 60 something gb hdd. should i upgrade it or turn it in as is?

They scan your fingerprints?

>Oh and they also check ID and do a fingerprint scan
Prove it.

When I traded in my Chromebook they did, Id and thumb print.

What are y'all buying with the $75? There's a 4tb WD external that may or may not have a red drive that I'm looking at, or a pair of bookshelf speakers, polk t15 for $60.

Try it yourself dumbfuck. I ain't gotta prove jack shit to you.

They say it on their tradein faq. Though they do say it depends on the state.

>Chromebook has a damaged display
>white strip down the right side of the monitor
>touchpad doesn't respond
I doubt I can get 75 bucks for this.

going to buy a 650w psu when i trade mine shitop in today

yeah.... to take trade ins like this best buy usually has to register as a pawn shop with your state government. they are doing it to fuck you up if you trade in stolen stuff.

>$250 minimum for many Mac
>Bring in a broken Mac that can't stay on longer than 5 min with gutted parts
>Violin, you have $250

>Only in America

WHY

what shitty 3rd world do you live in?

the place where children get paid 5 cents an hour to disassemble "recycled" laptops

issa poo

Ends on the 15th, hurry up.

plenty of time

Got turned away because no battery so now the craptop is back to collecting dust

My bestbuy is saying i have to buy the samshit at the same time to get $75. Is it over?

I work at a best buy. Ask me anything.

What's this about

>Too dumb to read the only 3 requirements

Ya you don't deserve $75

>yes goy turn in your secure and unbackdoored computers to us, have a shekel

Where do you work?

Why do you keep shilling this dumb shit? This is either an awful Best Buy shilling initiative or something else, equally as unwelcome. Go away.

>1.2 GB RAM
how?

>1.2 GHz processor
>1.2 GB RAM
>1.2 TB HDD
>1.2 Gb/s Ethernet
>1.2 Graphics cards
>1.2 kilowatt power supply
>1.2 decimeter fan

really makes you think

I have 3 macbooks I grabbed out of en electronic recycling bin. everything but the HDD works. How much will I get for it?

tell best buy you removed the hard drives for security

>actually remove the hard drives

some stores dont even check that it boots to the OS, some do. you can probably get around this by having it boot to a very small USB flash drive

Must be 512+512+256

move to mobile user and be a glorious pajeet. My monthly salary is like 1500 to sit around for three quarters of the day to sit around and post on here. Our targets are pathetically easy to hit as well

Kek. Looks like I can get $99 for my Thinkpad with a failing GPU, 0 RAM, and a crappy ~50GB SSD. Thanks OP.

>Bankrupt them

I went in and asked them what they do and they said it turns into Samsung inventory since they pay for the promotion. I'm sure they just scrap all of them

>They sell them to Africans and Muhammadans for $150

god bless them

Lel I am so gonna do this

I have a shit laptop with a fucking atom processor that's worth maybe 50 bux

>Yeah just did this. The guy working there was frustrated so many people were doing trade ins.

Fuck 'em. They tell the workers they don't make any money off computer sales, but if that were true they should just stop selling them.

I wish they did desktops. I got like 6 booting PCs I have no use for.

and only 2 laptops.

Make live Linux cd, turn it on in parking lot and then open the lid and show them it works

What I did to save my hd

it says I get $9 for my macbook? What am I doing wrong?

how much would i get for an inspiron 1545 computer. works but battery is dead need to be plugged in or else it turns itself off

Does it have to boot into an OS or is BIOS fine?

why are they doing this?

first gamestop with their trade in bullshit, now this?

I swear there is something else going on.

i traded in an old sony vaio and a thinkpad t60

immediately traded the cards for an amazon gift card so I wouldn't have to pay tax

Gov buying all older machines from before top level hardware backdoors.

Recycling the batteries -> $$$
Recycling the screens -> $$$
Gold -> ¢¢¢

I have an antique HP laptop from like 2002. Think they'd take it? It turns on.

I believe you have your solution then...

Best Buy R&D recently discovered cold fusion. With unlimited free energy at their disposal, they're now amassing trillions of dated CPUs which, when combined, will form the most powerful computational network on the planet.

Global temperatures are expected to spike to 75 degrees celsius within hours of the system going online.

>worthless people trading in classic hardware for a measly $75
>motherfucking Thinkpad T22
>a Compaq Armada from the days when Compaq actually made good computers

fools, this is what you become when you don't use your old hardware to run old video games

Old PC games just work better on modern PCs. Playing DOS games on DOSBox is a million times less frustrating than playing them on an actual DOS machine and, unlike console emulation, there's no issues with "authenticity" or latency. You can even hook up a damn CRT monitor if you want to get really retro.

If you get a $75 gift card at Best Buy, chances are you'll probably buy something more than $75. Even if you yourself only spend $5 or $10, some asshole is going to see this as a credit on a Macbook or TV and spend $1,500. A lot of people doing this are going to be older people using this as an opportunity to make money on a Dell 2006 laptop and let some smart young person talk them into spending a lot of money for a machine solely meant for getting on Facebook. Between that and being able to actually recover parts from a laptop or sell them to some company, Best Buy is going to shit their pants with money.

You're forgetting that this is a 75$ gift card AND a 75$ coupon for a Samsung Notebook 9 Pro (that costs 1100$). A lot of people are going to try to double their money and buy it.

Sorry guys I had a short break. AMA

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I really want to get surveys to stores that force employees to ask to sign up for stupid shit then complain about being asked for that stupid shit every time I shop.

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>Does it have to boot into an OS or is BIOS fine?

yep they should. lots of people turning in XP/98/95 machines

depends on the store/employee. some won't even turn it on. As another poster noted, to be safe, you could load a linux CD into it and have it boot from the CD-rom so the employee sees some sort of operating system

ex best buy employee here ama

Prove it.

I've had an ancient P4 dell under my bed for years now, but I threw away the charger and can't prove it works. JUST

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Anime a shit?

>already attained nearly $600 in gift cards from scouring craigslist and clearing my own shit

Gonna get that new 4K+HDR TV in no time!

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I have a Dell from 2002 and an HP from 2007. The only reason I still have them is because I think in 30 years it'll be funny to still have them, like an old TV set from the 60s.

Maybe I should install Windows and make $150. But what the fuck would I buy from BestBuy? Video games? DVDs?