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12 April 2007At least they didn't charge extraBest Buy is being sued by a San Gabriel Valley woman and her mother. It seems that the woman had ordered an in-home repair from Best Buy's Geek Squad unit; when the tech arrived, he was directed to the hardware, while the customer went off to take a shower. When she emerged from her ablutions, she found an unfamiliar cell phone in the bathroom, set to record video. The woman's younger sister came up with the idea of swiping the chip from the phone. They took it to a retailer and had it installed in another phone, where they discovered the recording of the shower scene. According to the suit, the tech tried to get the chip back from her, offering discounted services as an incentive. A couple of things bother me about this:
(Via the Consumerist.) Ok, first of all, my mother would shoot me if I let a strange man in the house and then went to take a shower. My husband would kill me for leaving the man unattended in the house while I showered. And I'm still quite puzzled as to when he had the opportunity to put the phone in the bathroom while she was in the shower. Did she not lock the door? Perhaps the door did not have a lock which brings me back to my first point, my mother would shoot me if I did something like that. Posted by: Heather at 12:18 AM on 13 April 2007 |