Best buy no longer seems interested in selling me useful things I want, but instead, hooking their talons into those purchases and loading it down with as much margin at my expense they can manage.
You say that as if it's some recent development. I had high school friends that worked there over 15 years ago and that was pretty much their main purpose as a salesman.
However, it looks like they're sending me a brand new one to replace it. Instead of being shipped from Warehouse like the refurb, it's showing shipped from Amazon.
Not sure how I could tell once I got it though...
-pirates
IOW, Microsoft doesn't want its own company money to be supporting Apple and other competitors.
But the memo doesn't mention anything about other competitors, just Apple.
So apparently it's fine to show up to work with a Sansa MP3 player, Blackberry Playbook, and an Android smartphone.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.