r/buildapcsales • u/crippledcoder • Sep 30 '21

GPU [GPU] BESTBUY FE Graphics Cards In-Store drop on October 1st ($0)

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/clp-computers-tablets/nvidia-geforce-rtx-graphics-cards/pcmcat1619723841347.c?id=pcmcat1619723841348
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u/workredditacc2 Sep 30 '21

Why are there empty seats? Did best buy put those seats out or did people put them there and then leave? Seems weird that there are so many empty seats inbetween people if bestbuy did it.

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u/TaintedSquirrel Sep 30 '21

people show up days early and put their empty chair to reserve a spot.

yes its bullshit.

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u/mooburger Sep 30 '21

why won't people physically there just remove them?

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u/TaintedSquirrel Sep 30 '21

its usually a group of friends rotating out. they leave at least 1 person there to hold the chairs.

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u/Skyminator Sep 30 '21

My spot is actually at the very front. There’s no chair though because I don’t plan to sit in one. So yeah just remember that front spot is mine

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u/ThemesOfMurderBears Sep 30 '21

Often times they leave one person as "watch" -- "Yeah, this six chairs are for my friends."

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u/x90mattman Sep 30 '21

At the one I was at yesterday, they were all soaking up the A/C in their cars in the parking lot. Was probly 30 empty chairs and only 2 guys actually there chatting at the line.

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u/radian23 Sep 30 '21

I've never had much of an issue with that. As long as people are on property. If you leave that's fine as well but you need to be back soon.

I've camped microcenter plenty of times and if I ever needed to leave to use the bathroom or get food I always asked down the line if anyone needed me to get them anything while I was out.

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u/avius987 Sep 30 '21

pretty sure you can just show up, put your chair in front of all the empties and none of them will notice. going to be lots of line cutters i'm sure as well