# We overcharge you And videotape your kids showering - geek squad **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958 "2007-04-13T15:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/21 "2007-04-14T09:12:05Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I think it says some disturbing things about Best Buy if they’re hiring computer techs so incompetent that they apparently can’t hack their way into a porn site. [/QUOTE] Maybe he needed content for his existing site… IF so Please God let it be hosted on a Best Buy owned machine ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/22 "2007-04-14T09:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] To a computer geek, that’s what girls are **for** : watching naked on a video screen. [/QUOTE] Well since doing what I do puts me firmly in the computer geek camp I must disagree. Girls are for fucking within an inch of their sanity and building monster quad core computers for, even if they only use them for MySpace. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/23 "2007-04-14T14:04:51Z")
[QUOTE=drachillix] May he slice his thumbs on the replacement backplates of countless cases. [/QUOTE] Man that’s just mean. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/24 "2007-04-14T15:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Smart girl for taking the memory chip, however I would have just taken the phone. [/QUOTE] I think leaving the phone behind for the squad geek was the best part - he returned later begging for the chip. The prosecution has to be a slam dunk. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/25 "2007-04-14T15:57:05Z")
I agree that the guy was a jerk, but I really like Best Buy. Everyone always trashes them and I love them…they never harass me for a service fee, have excellent prices on DVDs, and they’re all really nice over there. Plus I always thought the Geek Squad was cool. That was a really asshole thing to do on the guy’s part of course. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/26 "2007-04-14T16:17:58Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I agree that the guy was a jerk, but I really like Best Buy. Everyone always trashes them and I love them..they never harass me for a service fee, have excellent prices on DVDs, and they’re all really nice over there. Plus I always thought the Geek Squad was cool. [/quote] Unfortunately your experience is the exeption. In addition, from my angle, they engage in some very shady practices WRT their computer repair work. Things like claiming a warranty replacement of a hard drive does not include reloading windows (incurring another $89 dollar charge), want your pictures, thats another $69 for recovering files. Pretty soon, they spent another 30 min on your machine and racked up what I would have charged to replace the drive, reload windows, and retrieve their files with no warranty involved. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/27 "2007-04-14T16:57:05Z")
As someone who performs repair services in people’s homes and is often left alone in a home or left with a changer full of coins and bills, I ask that you let me join your class action [del]iron maiden[/del] suit. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/28 "2007-04-14T17:05:22Z")
Then would [this](http://www.aaa.biz/sycskits/campaigns/retail/GeekSquad/GSFullPgAd.pdf) be considered false advertising? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/29 "2007-04-14T22:42:56Z")
From the first story linked to, I learn that there is a criminal charge of “annoying or molesting a child under 18.” :eek: If I can be charged for annoying a child under 18… 😉 What does that actually mean? Either “annoying” or “molesting” must be being used in a special sense here. I hope! -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/30 "2007-04-15T01:55:55Z")
[QUOTE=drachillix] Well since doing what I do puts me firmly in the computer geek camp I must disagree. Girls are for fucking within an inch of their sanity and building monster quad core computers for, even if they only use them for MySpace. [/QUOTE] How YOU doin’? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/31 "2007-04-15T04:15:05Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] How YOU doin’? [/QUOTE] How do you prefer your RAID, Striped or Mirrored? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/32 "2007-04-15T05:38:46Z")
[QUOTE=drachillix] How do you prefer your RAID, Striped or Mirrored? 😃 [/QUOTE] If it’s horizontally striped, it’ll make the RAID look fat. [sup]To continue a slight hijack from earlier in the thread: I’ve always unplugged the power supply and used a grounding wrist strap… youse guys saying I’ve been too paranoid?[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/33 "2007-04-17T14:55:50Z")
Wait, I’m confused. Why was he charged with the whole “annoying a minor” thing? He videotaped the 22-year-old sister (who you can see in **drachillix** ’s second link) showering, not the 13-year-old, right? And on a side note, how stupid do you have to be to set your cell phone on somebody’s bathroom counter to record them showering, AND record yourself doing it?! And then try to bargain your way out of trouble by offering a discount on computer services? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/34 "2007-04-17T14:59:14Z")
[QUOTE=chorpler] Wait, I’m confused. Why was he charged with the whole “annoying a minor” thing? He videotaped the 22-year-old sister (who you can see in **drachillix** ’s second link) showering, not the 13-year-old, right? [/quote] The phone disappeared from the bathroom and turned up in the 13 y/o’s bedroom. > [@](#): > > And on a side note, how stupid do you have to be to set your cell phone on somebody’s bathroom counter to record them showering, AND record yourself doing it?! And then try to bargain your way out of trouble by offering a discount on computer services? I don’t know who the quote is from but the saying was… The prisons are full of people who didn’t bribe enough. It’s a favorite quote of **Cyn** ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/35 "2007-04-17T21:01:25Z")
[QUOTE=drachillix] The phone disappeared from the bathroom and turned up in the 13 y/o’s bedroom. [/QUOTE] Oh, OK, I see that now. I originally thought that _she_ had taken it into her room as part of their “What the hell?” reaction after finding it in the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958/36 "2007-04-17T21:18:01Z")
It’s funny how this type of activity used to pass as comedy in films like _Revenge of the Nerds_ or _Porkys_ and they played it off as college guys just messing around doing what college guys do. They never alluded to the “you get caught your going to jail” part. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-overcharge-you-and-videotape-your-kids-showering-geek-squad/399958.md?page=1)