Best Buy



Best Buy is an American consumer electronics retailer, and the largest of its kind. Its Charlottesville location is where Chris has spent much of his tugboat money on games, PSN cards, and other PS3 accessories. On 22 September 2010, Clyde Cash leaked a zip file loaded with Chris's Best Buy invoices. Much like his sex store purchases, Chris appears to prefer buying things which involve a discount or promotion.

List of documented purchases
The grand total price of these documented items is $1,448.70 (GB£928; Can$1,468; €1,120). $501.19 of this was spent on PSN cards, $59.97 on Nintendo Points, and $62.93 on Netflix gift cards. The invoices show that Chris spent around $776 at Best Buy during 2009, although around $200 of this is unaccounted for - and he may have spent more as it is not known when he opened his Rewards account. Chris has saved $75 of your tax dollars through discounts, which does little to redeem his largely frivolous spending habits. Chris spent a total of $656.85 at BestBuy in 2010.

There is a record for what appears to be a canceled transaction on 9 February 2010, for a $19.99 Nintendo Wii 2,000 Points Card. It's possible that Chris's credit card was declined on this occasion, and the fact he didn't purchase anything from Best Buy for nearly a month after would indicate that this was the case.

Chris rips off Best Buy
In his e-mails with Jackie, Chris talks about working a scam that's long been popular among unscrupulous gamers: buy a game at a discount (in this case a $20 copy of Borderlands at Toys R Us) and return it to a different chain store that has yet to discount the game (in this case Best Buy, which gave Chris $40 and change in store credit for the return). Although this may seem smart by Chris's standards, he immediately spent the trade-in credit and $3 in cash on more games, DVDs, and PSN trinkets.

Gas Chris wasted driving to Best Buy
Below are some rough calculations about how much gas Chris has wasted with his trips to Best Buy. The actual amount spent is likely more, as he may drive there regularly to browse or kick da HEXBox without spending any money. While Chris has previously mentioned that his mother pays for his gas, it doesn't change the fact that money was spent on gas that was ultimately wasted by Chris.

Chris's dealings with Best Buy support
Included in the leaked documents were the contents of a support email Chris sent to Best Buy, regarding a "10 Dollar Certificate" which had been redeemed without his consent. While Chris got a pretty standard response to his email, we once again get a glimpse of what happens when you come between a manchild and his free money.

Christian, I apologize for the confusion. Your account is set up to automatically issue a certificate when you account reaches 250 points so it issued a $10 certificate automatically on Sunday. There is a 3-5 wait before the certificates can be printed so they will be ready on Friday.

Sorry for the inconvenience

Thank you for contacting Best Buy Reward Zone Have a good day@undefined

Attempted shoplifting
On 29 March 2014, a report surfaced on the CWCki Forums saying that earlier that month Chris has been spotted trying to steal merchandise from Best Buy. The next day Chris denied the truthfulness of the report, but Kim confirmed that the attempted shoplifting had indeed occurred.

Ban
After Chris was caught attempting to shoplift video games, he was banned from the store.

According to Chris, he was formally notified that he was banned a few days after he got out of jail for pepper-spraying an employee at GameStop, around 28 December 2014.

He stated in a November 2015 video that he believed he was banned as part of a conspiracy masterminded by the Yellow-Shirted Foe, who he thought was working at both GameStop and Best Buy.

In the same video, he enacted an embargo against the company, telling his audience not to shop there. Chris dropped the embargo on 1 February 2016, stating that "I have ended my embargos on GameStop, Best Buy and Simon Malls, because nothing has come at all from that." However, that post was the precursor to one begging his audience to buy him a PS4 from a place such as GameStop or Best Buy, showing that he had only retracted his embargo because he thought he might get something out of it.

In October 2016, Chris resumed the embargo, after a contract he wrote and took to the Best Buy management failed to get his ban repealed.

Links

 * Charlottesville Best Buy website