Why best buy sucks?

[quest51210 10+ year member]

seen the same crap when i was at CC, its no different. they all have their losers and do-gooders.

there is a local shop, 210 Customs i worked with those guys at Custom Sounds which is another shop that installs high end systems including pro sports players. anyways back to 210 Customs, some of their work is all show and behing all the glass and beauty panels it is a stinking mess.

I worked at circuit city, a Few times ive had people come in saying " i had my remote start put in at best buy" and its not working, ive looked under the dash to find, the problem, and ive seen the biggest mess of remote start wires, they were everywhere, and the worst part is they were all T taped.
now circuit citys policy is, to solder every connection made

we didnt have any checklists to use.

People make mistakes, for instance, this kid was drilling through a firewall to run a power cable, and he drilled from the inside out, and drilled a hole right in the brake booster, i myself have accidently burned a headliner with my solder gun while i was doing an overhead..

but yes ive seen best buy do some crappy stuff like running power cables through the fenders through the door jams, ive seen them wire nuts on head units, ive seen em run the power for those illuminated boxes to the sub terminals ( big no no)

 

[2001f150 10+ year member]

I work at a Best Buy in Oklahoma City, and just like several of the people have said there are definantly hit and miss installers. As far as the bay in my store my shop senior has been doing installs for 16 years. However the shop 5 miles away in the other Best Buy does some of the shotiest work i've ever seen. As far as the product goes yes we are definantly way higher in price. However we sell to the people who don't care about buying sundown or FI they just want something small that gives a little bass. And as far as people coming in trying to talk us down by "knowing-it-all" 9 times out of 10 they end up lying trying to prove us wrong. So as someone said if your looking to get something installed ask around. I know our shop takes pictures of almost every install and we put them on a digital picture frame. Plus find out if they are required to be MECP certified. At our store if you are not certified in three months you go to floor sales.