Even though we in the tech circle pan Geek Squad fairly frequently, they do produce some useful entertainment from time to time. Mind you, this “entertainment” often comes at the expense of some poor saps sanity. But I digress. Today’s Geek Squad face palm of the day comes from Consumerist reader “Taylor”. After a two week wait with no end in sight, Taylor ventured to Geek Squad’s website and entered his service number. Little did he...

In the age of technology quickly creeping into every aspect of our lives, we sit at a unique dividing line where the older generation is coming to a point where they have to quickly learn technology (as opposed to people born within the last 15-20 years which have more or less “grown up” with modern technology). Because of this learning and generation gap, there are groups of people who “get it” and those who don’t. Technology help groups...

Following up from our earlier post, if you thought the $1/CD for Geek Squad’s new archiving/ripping service was bad, Moon Dog Digital one ups…or more literally seven ups Geek Squad. Don’t exactly understand what I mean? It’s pretty simple. MDD goes above and beyond and charges $7/CD — 700% more than Geek Squad. See for yourself at this estimate page. Did you just purchase a new CD and would like to take part in MDD’s services? ...

Time to c-e-l-e-b-r-a-t-e. Those of you who love gadgetry and electronics but are having a small problem figuring out how to rip all of those CD’s you have now have a new friend in the Geek Squad. Ok, in reality, if you can’t rip a CD, you probably are damn near close to being illiterate too. The only people I can think of that are unable to do such a basic task as ripping CD’s and transferring to a mobile device are those that are either of senior...

Growing up a gadget nerd I would always get excited when going into the local Best Buy as it was the only place around my house that I could go and get hands on time with all of the latest electronics and gadgets. It was a place I could esacpe and easily spend several hours in. My easily entertained self was in a digital heaven. At that time, I always dreamed of working at Best Buy or some other electronics store as to feed my need for these greater than analog devices. ...