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I’m continually baffled by retailers that waste their money (and our time) with impossibly useless product finders. This one from BestBuy is one of the worst ones I’ve come across in a long time.

There is just so much wrong with it that I can’t bear to waste even more of my time writing about it. If you feel like wasting some of yours, check it out for yourself.

Otherwise I think the image above says it all.

Just imagine if BestBuy created an easy to use tool that asked human questions and gave meaningful results. Think of what that could do for their brand.

Then again, considering the BestBuy in-store experience, maybe this tool real is on brand.

3 Comments
prackin 11 February 10  at  11:01 PM

And so timely!

Mark 12 February 10  at  09:41 PM

Tools like this are designed to quiescently direct the user to more expensive products, which results in higher revenue for the company.  True techies don’t use this malarkey to shop for gear anyway.

David DeCheser 13 February 10  at  09:24 AM

That’s the thing. These types of things are typically created to help the technically challenged. This thing doesn’t make sense to anyone, period.

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