# Best Buy Ambush **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073 "2006-05-17T04:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/1 "2006-05-17T04:21:20Z")
Apologies in advance if someone already posted about this…tried using the search function on the 'boards and it didn’t work. Anyway… I just find this to be sheer genius: [http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission\_view.php?mission\_id=57](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57) Hadn’t heard of this group before, but I like their style. In their latest “mission,” they had eighty of their members dress up in royal blue polos, khakis, and black shoes and belts. Pretty much the uniform of the Best Buy employee, minus the yellow Best Buy logo on the shirt. They then all descended upon a Best Buy store in New York, entering at fifteen second intervals. Anyway, the link explains the rest…wish I’d been there to participate…again, sheer genius. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/2 "2006-05-17T04:41:07Z")
I’ve seen this before, but the Best Buy thing is new to me. I can’t remember exactly what they did that I saw…something about astronauts and pirates and other characters having a rock-paper-scissors competition in Central Park. They have some really funny ideas. I’d like to participate sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/3 "2006-05-17T04:54:32Z")
Superb. Thanks, Lockseer. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/4 "2006-05-17T05:05:17Z")
I saw these guys on Attack of the Show one day. This stuff all looks fun… This BB link is now making the rounds at work, though. That’s funny as. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/5 "2006-05-17T05:09:16Z")
In the '60s, this sort of gathering was called a “Happening” Most were not as organized, but still fun. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/6 "2006-05-17T05:27:12Z")
I love it. Much laughs were had reading that / watching the videos. Gracias. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/7 "2006-05-17T05:29:34Z")
I’ve just read the “No pants 2k6” mission briefing (lol)… I cannot believe that the NYPD wasted the time and energy to try and arrest these people, for just riding around in their underpants. If I voted in NY, I’d be livid! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/8 "2006-05-17T16:46:17Z")
I heard about this group on an NPR program. Some of their stuff sounded interesting, some sounded a bit mean. Here are the three missions they discussed on the show: [The Moebius](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=30) [Best Gig Ever](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=42) ([Response from the band](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=43)) [Ted’s Birthday](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=34) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/9 "2006-05-17T17:01:22Z")
I’ve been in chain stores like Best Buy once or twice accidentally wearing their store uniform. And I’ve been asked for help by clueless shoppers even when I wasn’t wearing their uniform. But the funniest thing about the Best Buy event was the store employee yelling out, “Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!” (And you have to admit that using the demo cameras to film the event was pretty clever.) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/10 "2006-05-17T17:14:41Z")
Eh. Disrupting business is genius? ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/11 "2006-05-17T17:19:05Z")
[QUOTE=UncleBeer] Eh. Disrupting business is genius? [/QUOTE] EXACTLY. DOWN WITH THE CAPITALIST SWINE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/12 "2006-05-17T17:23:12Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] I heard about this group on an NPR program. Some of their stuff sounded interesting, some sounded a bit mean. Here are the three missions they discussed on the show: [The Moebius](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=30) [Best Gig Ever](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=42) ([Response from the band](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=43)) [Ted’s Birthday](http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=34) [/QUOTE] You may want to read [their reaction](http://www.improveverywhere.com/news_comments.php?news_id=28) to the NPR show. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/13 "2006-05-17T17:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=UncleBeer] Eh. Disrupting business is genius? [/QUOTE] At BestBuy? Yes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/14 "2006-05-17T17:44:15Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] At BestBuy? Yes. 😉 [/QUOTE] Exactly. Especially since business wasn’t “disrupted” until the management freaked out. Hell, sounds like a lot of the Agents, when they couldn’t help, were directing customers to actual employees who could. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/15 "2006-05-17T18:14:53Z")
Bull. Having 80 people in a store who have no intention of actually buying anything is certainly disruptive. They’re in the way of legitmate shoppers and consuming staff time that would be better used (from the store owner’s viewpoint, anyway) serving potential buyers. > [@](#): > > Hell, sounds like a lot of the Agents, when they couldn’t help, were directing customers to actual employees who could. It also sounds like a lot of them were just talking trash. Telling the actual shoppers untruths about products and services. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/16 "2006-05-17T18:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=UncleBeer] Telling the actual shoppers untruths about products and services. [/QUOTE] And that differs from what “real” employees do, how? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/17 "2006-05-17T18:23:16Z")
[QUOTE=UncleBeer] It also sounds like a lot of them were just talking trash. Telling the actual shoppers untruths about products and services. [/QUOTE] Hmm…much like a normal employee. I wonder if they can collect wages now… ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/18 "2006-05-17T18:46:03Z")
Those ‘agents’ are a bunch of smug pricks with too much time on their hands. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/19 "2006-05-17T18:54:16Z")
[QUOTE=LionelHutz405] Those ‘agents’ are a bunch of smug pricks with too much time on their hands. [/QUOTE] And that differs from “real” employees, how? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073/20 "2006-05-17T18:59:16Z")
I like the people who, as they were leaving, were asking where the nearest Blockbuster was. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-ambush/357073.md?page=2)