best buy circuit city LOL

[Lingerfelt 10+ year member]

Lingerfelt do you actually own a vette?

No, why? And I wasn't flaming you, I was just shocked that a Best Buy / Circuit City employee would mention x max to a seemingly uninformed customer.

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

no i was wondering the hp and tq ratings are all over the place on them everyone says something else i was wondering if you indeed owned one if you ever had it on a dyno and had the stats.. just wondering.

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

and this is just plain ****ING INSANE http://www.lingenfelter.com/Lingenfelter2006ZO6TTBGB.htm

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

lawl? what does that mean

 

[Lingerfelt 10+ year member]

and this is just plain ****ING INSANE http://www.lingenfelter.com/Lingenfelter2006ZO6TTBGB.htm

That Corvette is in Michigan //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif, a member of my car forum actually took the official photographs for Lingenfelter. The guy who owns it also owns a VERY impressive collection. I can send you a link if you're interested in checking it out.

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

oooh lol?

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

Very Interested Very Interested!!!!

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

my old man just raced a porsche caymen and a z06 vette at the RACETRACK and he ran a 10.02 and the porsche ran a respectable 12.4 and the z06 ran a 10.7.

 

[ebrunn 10+ year member]

When I have to go into Best Buy, I usually just skim through the car audio section to look at the declining quality of Alpine products that they sell. Usually don't talk to the people working in it.

 

[alpinetypeR 10+ year member]

I am going to be honest, i dont know much about speakers, i know a small amount. SO heres my story
I went to best buy to f*** with the car audio employees, to see if i could keep up with them. I asked a few questions, quickly realized that i know about 100x what they know, put together. Supposedly a 10 gauge wire is enough for two small amps, and fuses just "get in the way and dont have a purpose so why bother they just throw you off"

Almost thought they were kidding

Then i went to circuit city. This ones a real rip. I went to the car audio section. I said, hey i have 800 dollars can you give me a good subwoofer setup... So the guy was like.. sure here we go. First thing he grabs is a capacitor. A rockford fosgate .5 farad for 120 dollars. He goes "now i dont care what anybody says your system will never sound right without this here capacitor its good to 5000 watts fosgate is incredible the digital display allows for much more than non digital" Then he gets stinger 4 gauge wire, the distro block all that jazz, then he brings me over to the subs. "The xplods will outperform most other subs, they have a great blend of harmonic code and a great x max" and some "amazing" xplod amp... i was like hold all this stuff for me and throw whatever else you think i need in ill be back//

Im just letting you know that if I can have fun with best buy and circuit city employees, their has to be something wrong. Im quite ashamed of them.

\since when does CC sell RFgate???

 

[nittanylion64 10+ year member]

Well..... you picked a good time of year to investigate the knowledge of any employee retail- Right now the stores need warm bodies, not necessarily those with the most amount of product knowledge. This goes for any retail store right now. Also, I know my store is in podunk USA and the kids here are just not into car audio--yet. They are still coming in for Sat Radio for their tractors and combines. The pool of knowledgeable associates is limited. Just as BMX said come to my store and quiz me as well. I am older than all of my coworkers and installing is a second job, but I have more product knowledge and more install experience than them. It seems to me that by being involved in car audio for a longer time I have more appreciation for how far this hobby has come and will take more time with the customer to make sure they have all that they need.

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

alpine type r i saw RF amps, and i could swear subs as well but i know i saw amps.

 

[alxmlr789 10+ year member]

I feel bad when i sell people a grand worth of sony shit. I really do, but thats what they know, I will reccomend Alpine over all that shit.

Most people dont even want to spend over 500 bucks on subs, this is what they consider "a system"

If I could, i would tell most of them to not buy best buy audio stuff, but if I did, i would be fired //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[kingkong101 10+ year member]

AHHH i meant kicker sorry lmfao no really im not lying i meant kicker i swear wow im an idiot

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

they don't pay enough to get knowledgeable employees, so unless they hire someone who's really into it as a hobby, you're not going to get a lot of help. But the people they hire know how to push the stuff they sell to the average uninformed shopper, so it works.

The few times I've had to go in and look for something for an install or whatever I just mind my own business and if a salesman gets pushy I tell them I buy my stuff on the internet and they leave me alone. NO need to bust anyone's chops as they're just doing what they get paid to do...