Dishonest Nerds?
I saw a video in tech class today about how some computer techs from places like geek squad try to rip you off and steal your information.
IE they had a computer with a RAM issue, and like 6 out of 10 geeks said it was a mobo / hdd issue...one said the cost was 2k dollars and he needed to copy the whole hard drive to his comp. Others went digging though private files for unknown reasons.
The geek squad guy spent 9 minutes trying to diagnoes the problem "he said mobo" and 2 hours tring to sell the person a computer from bestbuy.com.
Is this really that common of a practice?
IE they had a computer with a RAM issue, and like 6 out of 10 geeks said it was a mobo / hdd issue...one said the cost was 2k dollars and he needed to copy the whole hard drive to his comp. Others went digging though private files for unknown reasons.
The geek squad guy spent 9 minutes trying to diagnoes the problem "he said mobo" and 2 hours tring to sell the person a computer from bestbuy.com.
Is this really that common of a practice?
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That being said, any poorly managed individual department could easily get out of control regarding privacy, honesty, etc... and that is not limited to places like Geek Squad & FireDog, but includes even "mom and pop" shops.
Any group of people can run afoul of its goals, but GS is a community of geeks, just like IC. It has its own forums, tip boards, etcetera.
Do Internet searches and you'll find several forums where BB present and former Geek Squad members discuss the issue.
It's just like car repair shops - mainly honest people but a number of nasties in the mix.
I doubt it's just geeks that do it.. Others that do this type of thing is plumbers, mechanics. etc.
Just have to be careful I guess.
I've never heard of that happening at a garage. :P
Ripoff, dishonest figure, abuse, dumb, confused, bad car driver, or something
that I cant write due to the forum rules ....
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