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Best Buy does not fire employee behind iPhone 4, EVO 4G spoof ads
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article published on 8 July, 2010
Last week, Best Buy employee Brian Maupin was suspended for posting viral videos spoofing iPhone 4 and HTC EVO 4G zealots.
The iPhone video is so popular it has topped 3.4 million views.
Best Buy suspended Maupin while they investigated the situation, although neither video directly names or even implies the retail giant. Maupin went as far as to say that he expected to be fired completely ... [ read the full article ]
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10. July 2010 @ 02:41 |
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The thing about Best Buy.....
It rarely is!
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10. July 2010 @ 03:47 |
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Originally posted by bstringer:
The thing about Best Buy.....
It rarely is!
Sometimes they have a special promotion on a new PS3 or 360 game, so that one game is cheaper than amazon...but that is a rare occasion.
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10. July 2010 @ 07:25 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by Estuansis:
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Wtf, doesn't he even know enough to google the subject(s) first? ROFL. Putting a poot together is 101! Crikey, it's even in the mobo manual!
Sadly, no he doesn't know enough to Google. He claims to be a genius computer wizz but he also thinks changing out your CPU is ultra advanced stuff and is nervous to do it...
LOL...that is the geeksquad I know. It seems like their goal is to make computer repair so expensive and problematic that you are better off just buying a new system. Oh, and just in case they do fix it, they will try to sell you on Norton antivirus in order to make sure you come back real soon.
Hoho... I guess that makes me an uber ultra advanced pooter genius... not likely. :)
Seriously, I seem to be meeting a number of geezers with wildly over-inflated opinions of their mental capacity. I mean, there's nothing wrong to admitting you don't know something... how else are you meant to learn?
NORTON!!!... eeewuuarrrh! And people actually pay for it!
Hey, how about that Kapersky update that deleted major system files in win7? ~ laugh.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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10. July 2010 @ 09:23 |
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Originally posted by chanulus:
Originally posted by hikaricor:
Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
It IS NOT A F*#$ING FREE SPEECH issue. That's ONLY when THE GOVERNMENT tries to limit your communication. Unless, maybe, you're a conspiracy theory nutjob who thinks BEST BUY runs the government.
You're an idiot.
agreed
Again, ignorance seems to reign supreme! Oh well, hardly unexpected!
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10. July 2010 @ 17:17 |
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So what is the reason that they offered him his job back? Is it niceness?
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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10. July 2010 @ 20:03 |
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Originally posted by Jemborg:
@xnonsuchx
So what is the reason that they offered him his job back? Is it niceness?
Could be...only THEY know for sure why, unlike everyone else who thinks their preferred speculation = the truth.
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11. July 2010 @ 12:11 |
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Originally posted by dEwMe:
I'd be suprised if he stays there long. With the publicity they didn't have a lot of choice but I doubt he is going to find things back to normal when he returns either...
Yea, I agree with you. If this investigation did NOT have the publicity, they would've fired his ass for sure, or at least find an excuse to fire him later on, which I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't doing that now.
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11. July 2010 @ 12:13 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by bstringer:
The thing about Best Buy.....
It rarely is!
Sometimes they have a special promotion on a new PS3 or 360 game, so that one game is cheaper than amazon...but that is a rare occasion.
Yeah, occasionally is the key word. Their price are still absurdly high for most products they have there.
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11. July 2010 @ 13:51 |
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The videos were hilarious! And you know this dude would have been toast is Best Buy wasn't afraid of a few million shoppers being pissed and buying their phones at Radio Shack instead ROFL
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21. December 2010 @ 01:49 |
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In my experience, "Best Buy" rarely is!
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