THIS is why you don't buy a Computer from Best Buy 

You won't reply to this comment with your most embarrassing moment. No balls.

8:15 "1TB isn't necessary for gaming" Tell that to my steam library

I work at Best Buy in computers and I feel personally attacked.

i work at best buy. there are bad salesmen but there are good ones too. none of the salesmen get commission, so usually when they recommend they recommend something its because they believe in that product. but yeah there are some salesmen that dont know what theyre talking about

your buying used pc parts like crack on the street

"the IO shield, better knows as a BRACE" Remembering TheVerge PC build video hahaha

omg i was at best buy and i witnessed a grandma getting her grandson a gaming pc and the employee kept smacking the computer and kept saying top of the line and good graphics i was dead i felt bad though

"The IO shield. Better known as the brace..." I died

This one Best Buy employee recommended me a $200 gaming motherboard for my budget office build

Looking at the title knowing damn well I’m buying a pc on Best Buy

CS GO CAN LITERALLY RUN ON A TACO, WHY DO PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME WHEN DISPLAYING PERFORMANCE *edit* csgo min requirements Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ASUS P5Q Motherboard 2GB DDR2 AMD (ATI) HD 2600 XT 256MB Graphics Card Windows 7 Pro

I didnt know that there was such a big underground market for computer parts I might stop selling weed and amphetamines and get in on this.

No ssd slot? Nothing flex tape can't fix

"1tb isn't necessary for a gaming pc" Laughs in Call of Duty*

I will say as a best buy employee in the computer department we are way more knowledgeable then how you made it seem in this video. I agree there are some employees that don't know as much about the products here. I might just be lucky and have amazing co workers but almost all of us are pc gamers and have built our own PCs. As far as the computer in the video I couldn't agree more the parts used are very cheep but there are much better options than the HP.

Bought a computer from Best Buy then saw this video LMAOOOOO

Intel fanboys: "OMG HOW DARE YOU COMPARE RYZEN 5 2600 TO AN I7 REEEEEEEEE"

I’m watching this on a computer I bought in Best Buy.

Yeah well I bought a trash one pre built for my first pc and I’m just waiting for tech source to give me a setup makeover.

"Don't buy a PC from Best Buy. Buy parts from my Amazon affiliate links."

I had too experience this myself. I worked my ass off all summer so I could get a pc from Best Buy. But when I came to pick it up they said “we shipped the wrong one”. So they decided to overnight it. But I wouldn’t get it until two weeks later. So we decided to go with that option and overnight it. So later that day I saw a the same pc for cheaper and it would be at my house by the Friday of the same week. And we bought it and canceled the Order from Best Buy. And we got the pc and I enjoyed it. But I looked at the box and realized. This is the same box and at the Best Buy. That they said wasn’t mine. Then Best Buy said I had the pc and disputed the dispute that my mom put. And we had to fight the charge for a month. That was the last time I ever bought from Best Buy.

**Run gooder** I think my life is completed.

Kristofer, as a Best Buy employee, I can tell you we don’t make money on our computers. We sell them at cost, and they expect us as sales reps to attach things to make us money. Our employee discount is 5% above cost, but on computers and name brands we get no discount because there is no profit to take from. I agree completely with your analysis of the types of parts the manufacturers use, and I tell my customers the same things. I encourage them to purchase components instead, and make sure to pricematch with the cheapest price I can find. While I love your videos and I’m happy to support this channel, I think that if you’re going to focus a video or an idea around a specific retailer or business, you should ask someone like me, or find a reliable source from the business itself rather than making assumptions standing on the outside. I don’t mean this as a tear down, simply a suggestion for a better approach in the future.

DID HE JUST SAY GOODER!?!?!?! 2:45

“Oh me. I use Microsoft Edge...” “Bleghhhh!...”

Bruh I went to Best Buy one day and the worker suggested that exact pc when I said I only played like 3 games 💀💀

1:28 ftw! lol. As a former Best Buy (specifically Geek Squad) employee....i hated the clueless PC department employees. Though there were some good ones. My store was above average, especially us Geek Squad guys. Some of the best technicians i know (BitcoinLouie and Homebrewedhero were my fellow coworkers as well). Every store varies but man...some stores were baaaaaad. edit: oooh dat HardwareUnboxed music. Also, congrats on getting that GPU working ;)

You see... I’m from New York where you get scammed for toaster parts when you tried to get a graphics card.

"This video is unavailable on this device" Sorry?

As you stated, the greatest concern with buying used hardware is the dice roll. That's why I have always been reluctant. However, with regard to Best Buy, for the general PC user that doesn't know how to build, the units are fine. They just need to keep Geek Squad protection. Now when it comes to folks like us that are "Build Veterans;" never - we know the difference.

I found your channel like a month ago and it inspired me to build my own pc and I got it for cheap and it runs games amazingly

Spends extra $30 on RGB fans. Spends no extra $30 for new power supply instead.

I had no knowledge about computers like five years ago and they said a computer could "run any game"after I figured out how computers run there wasn't even a graphics card in it

I just bought a pc from Best Buy with a 3070 and the guy we that helped us knew his stuff very well

4:46 "Im assuming you've built computers before? "Yeah, Ive built some before" "Some" xD

The best buy near me has younger workers that actually know what they are doing

“IO Shield, better known as the brace” lmao

Oh come one. Do you understand how retail works? Do you ever go out to eat? fast food, dinning in? Markup. Same concept. Also, you ran into a bad employee or someone new, or he just knew you weren't serious by the way you immediately came off as. They do exist everywhere. I used to work at Best Buy, I wasn't fat, I wasn't trashy looking, and I had pride in my job. Instead of being condescending, greet in a friendly and cooperative way, that makes all the difference. Asking computer spec knowledge to try to school me right off the bat was absolutely the most annoying thing a knowledgeable customer can do. I even had a 20 year old immediately trying that some tactic you did looking like he was audio recording me too, and answered every question, even told me things he didn't even know about hardware and things I thought were generally basic things an intelligent tech person would know. He put his phone away halfway through. The processor type is generally on the tag, the price? On the tag. RAM on the tag. There are 1,000s of tags in that department. You're like an English teacher with the expectation that you should be able to recite ever Shakespeare play or force someone to give an unprepared presentation and can't use a slideshow. Nothing more annoying..... Check this out. If you were polite, nice, and friendly, I had the ability to give discounts on other necessary parts and software like Office, Photoshop, monitors, memory, etc. I'd just say "the tag was wrong" for them. I would love to help out someone that worked with me and not want to challenge a stranger's knowledge. It's not about the hardware knowledge of every single computer. I sold on getting to know you first. Narrow down the store first, then go from there. Work with the employees, not against them. Trust me, I know markup. Actual computers bought by Best Buy by the vendors aren't making Best Buy the Gross margin. The actual hardware pieces you are buying are actually more marked up. I used to get a discount on the markup. Hardware was discounted like the graphics cards, but we got nothing off for computers. When you buy the entire setup, you are paying for the finished good which skips the WIP step. Even though it is cheaper to build, a lot of people actually value time over the effort so they pay for the raw materials and WIP they don't need to worry about. The only reason I decided to build my own computer is because of my budget savvy hobby willingness to devote time for saving. So you are actually using your time and giving a company a better gross margin in return.

16:23 can’t stop looking at the monitor

AT the start I thought he want to say "This Video is sponsored by Bestbuy" lol

250gb is not enough for a streaming and gaming pc. You'd have to be braindead or a runescape streamer to think so. Anyone that plays more than 5 games will definitely need minimum 500gb and 1tb is usually the preferred minimum. Im personally getting a 1tb ssd and a 5tb hd.

I like the fact that nobody talks about the fact that Gandalf is on the left monitor at 16:21

Funny story the place where i went to i actually treated me amazing, they knew what they were talking about and i got a great deal

During Black Friday 2018 I built a Ryzen 5 2600 and GTX 1070 for around 925 dollars. I'm pretty sure that was a good deal.

This makes me very happy. I’m just building my first pc now, and I bought everything new and it costs about 800, and I had the exact same graphics card and ryzen 3600 and the same amount of ram, so i feel like I did it right. Even though he got the used stuff for less, I’m happy to know I bought the right parts and they’re generally good deals even new.

Me: *bought a gaming pc from Best Buy like 1 month ago* Also Me: *saw the title and kinda feel nervous*

i used to work for geeksquad, and when a sales rep would send over clients to ask about the computer they wanted to buy and its just 45 minutes of me telling thme that everything the rep told them is a lie, now im an independent pc repair consultant. i do not miss that place

To be fair, I bought a i7 8700k, 16gb of ram, 500gb 2tb ssd hdd, gtx 1060 6gb Pc from Best Buy for 1300$ cad, and if you know anything about building a pc in Canada 1300$ is a very good price

Great Value, but....... There is a bigger difference between the i7 8700 and Ryzen 2600 than you are acknowledging

As a Staples employee who works in tech sales, I want to explain a few things to you from an inside perspective. First I want to address price, you said that was not a knock on HP, and you blame Best Buy for pricing it. From my time working at Staples, I know that we sell our computers at very nearly the same price manufacturers sell them to us at, this is why we hound you for additional items. A PC purchased by itself is considered a failure, and if you have a sales manager like I do, that means getting yelled at and belittled (I am not playing pity, I really don't care if a 40 year old man who can only hold down a retail job doesn't respect me, the feeling is mutual), and we are expected to sell $250 worth of product to compensate this "loss" in profit. I believe that this is the same story at Best Buy, since their computers are for the most part the same price as ours. The other issue you had was with the information, or lack there of that the employee had to provide you with the computer, there are a few reasons I see for this. First of all, the employee likely wasn't very interested in tech, and just applied for whatever job he could get. I know that is no excuse, but it is very likely the case. More importantly, the store, again, this is from my Staples experience, not Best Buy, but at Staples, I am NOT trained on the products I'm expected to sell. I heard through the grape vine external resources I can use to learn, and I do research several things on my own out of enthusiasm, but that research is in spectres and omens, not the pavilians we sell. Pretty much everything I learn at work is from that slip of paper, and if I ask my boss what I need to know, he says "either look at the info tag or pull out your phone and google it" which is extremely professional behavior at work I'm sure you can imagine, pull out your phone and google it lol. I do have one advantage over Best Buy however, that info tag lists the specific processor model. It does not however tell you anything about the motherboard, anything more than the amount of ram, anything about the model of hard drive, but it's probably a WD blue. We know the generation and specific model of processor and that's about it. You also didn't say anything about it, but it seemed suspect that the employee just listed a name brand that's popular without any real thought. This could be either because, again, poor training, or it could be that he's pressured to pus that specific product. So in short, blame the store for poorly training the employee, but don't blame the store for pricing the computer.

My brother spent 1,500 dollars on a pc in best buy. The CPU fan, ram, and cpu, and basically everything in the computer wasn't good accept the graphics card. When we checked how much it would have cost him to build a pc with a better cpu, better graphics card, better cpu fan, and basically everything better, it ended up costing us 300 dollars less. When we tried to return the pc, they just didn't let us.

Do you count your gas/mileage when you pick up your parts? Thats a cost too.

I actually got an amazing pre built Black Friday deal at Best Buy, rtx 2070 i7 8700 1tb ssd 2 tb hard drive all for 1 grand

Overall I enjoy your content, but I have to band together with my fellow BBY employees here. My department is extremely knowledgeable and can hang with the best of them. May have just been for the sake of the video, but its quite upsetting too see you portray us in the way you did. Of course, out of 100's of stores, there are bad eggs but to make a video titled 'THIS is why you don't buy a Computer from Best Buy' because of your supposed singular experience with us is whack.

I just realized all his fans are intake. He should flip around the ones on top and in the back.

I physically don’t have local deals my man you’re so lucky ❤️🔥keep up the good work

5:37 Did u leak his adress?

I physically recoiled in laughter when you said, “Better known as, a brace.”

Bestbuy can sometimes have decent deals. Microcenter always has decent deals tho:)

I doubt anyone will see this but if you want an insanely good pc, go on Micro center and you can get a Ryzen 7 2700 and Gigabyte B350 For $240 with a cpu cooler and you can get an RX 580 red dragon for $170 both brand new. Hope this helps for those of you trying to build a budget PC.

Favorite RU-vidr ever! I built 2 pc’s because of you

Before I figured out how to build a pc or before I became a, “pc nerd” I actually got the hp omen obelisk. Biggest rip off ever

5:39 leaked the mans address🥴

Good amount of misinformation in this video. Best Buy doesn't just jack up their prices on computers, often times it is based off the manufacturers MSRP, sometimes even cheaper. In the case that another website is cheaper, Best Buy also price matches. Comparing the Omens on Best Buy's website to their exact model on HP's website actually shows that Best Buy had a lower price, and that took less than 5 minutes of looking at their products pages to find that out. So to say it's Best Buy's fault for selling the computer for over $1000 when the same computer is being sold on competing websites for around the same price is is honestly just an uneducated statement. Especially when for the same price, Best Buy carries some pretty decent prebuilt machines from other brands, so really the HP Omen is just a shite computer in general, and not in the fault of one retailer who didn't even make the thing. I understand that the guy working at Best Buy might not have been the most helpful, but there are plenty of other employees who could have helped, so you shouldn't let one bad experience with one person let you flat out say to never buy a machine from Best Buy. That being said though, the PC you built is pretty nice, so good job there. 👍

Pre-built PCs from these manufacturers tend to use the cheapest parts they can find. I had a laptop years ago made by a company that we'll just call "Hell". One day it stopped working so I called asking how much it would be to get a replacement for it. They wanted to charge me $300 for it. I picked up a replacement that was actually better for just about $100. They don't make their money off the PCs and laptops themselves. They make it through extended warranties and the sale of replacement parts after the fact. Never buy a pre-built PC. Source and buy the parts you need and if necessary talk to a friend or somebody you know that might be able to help you put it together. It'll be cheaper and probably run better. Unless the person you're speaking to is Stefan Etienne, the guy that did the Verve $2000 PC build.

That 250GB SSD would be full in 1 hour, and HHD arnt That Expensive either,

Me: that looks really cool Still me: man, I sure love high resolution and frame rate. Also me: grinding legend of the dragoon and ff7 on psp 3000 that I can't go online with.

I wish i knew more about computers... Cause i made the biggest mistake of buying the computer i have right now... it's has a Asus h61m-pro Motherboard i3-3250 processor Stock cooler Integrated graphics card 4 gb of ram 500W Power supply And no SSD I feel so ashamed buying this computer, cause if i knew more i would probably end up with a better one.. but i can't afford one now hopefully in the future i will. And also thank you Kristopher for teaching me a lot about computers i'm really thankful

This is why some stores should stick with what they do best.. Imagine a grocery store selling computer parts or even a computer store selling groceries....

I've been on your channel since 12k subscribers, nice to see you channel growing 😀

He plugged the outtake fan as an intake...

I know im 4 days late and this will probably be buried, but you definitely left that random guys address up at 5:38 and should think about reuploading this video with that blurred out.

"gooder" -KritoferYee 2019

I've had a PC from Best Buy for about 5 months now. Ryzen 5 3600 6 core with a Radeon RX580 8gb. Haven't had a single issue, I bought my son the same exact one I have and he hasn't had any problems either. I have no issue with Best Buy. Games I mostly play are ESO, Sea of Thieves, GTA 5, HALO MCC, and a lot of Steam games.

Bought mine from ibuypower and I was happy wire management was the only issue I had

Why are none of the fans exhausting air? They're all set as intakes! 🤔

That rx580 is going for $800 usd on Amazon right now. Crazy to see this much later

So Much POSITIVE AIRFLOW. Fix your fans man

you know whats funny is best buy wont hire me, when i know more than computers than their entire staff combined.

One of the greatest mysteries of our time; "If someone intends to upload to youtube, why don't they shoot in landscape mode?"

Bust buy computers are good for beginners that know nothing about them or building them. I bought mine for $1100, it runs R6 at 120fps I’ve got 1000 hours of gaming so far and no issues it’s a great little starter pc.

My parents won’t let me build a pc out of Best Buy, so I have to either buy parts from Best Buy or a prebuilt... Press F

The one i have currently is 2 years old and I bought it pre-built from best buy. I NEVER had a single problem with them. i7-8700k CPU @ 3.70 GHz NVIDIA 1080 Water cooled and it DOES have RGB lights LOL

Is anyone else having an issue where you can’t watch it because apparently it’s not “available” for my iPhone

Lol I sell computers at Best buy and we know our shit.

me who just bought a pc from best buy:

“20 dollars is 20 dollars”

I mean, hardware is hardware. Best Buy is no better or worse than any other store in that regard...they have awesome sales all the time. And you can straight up return anything to the store for a good amount of time (45 days if you're an Elite Plus Member). I always suggest researching the items online before going into the store though because the tags in the store have very minimal info. Plus, you never know if the usual computer department guy is sick for the day and they've got someone from TV's covering him. They don't only sell custom gaming PC's, you know...

before I got my custom built I bought 5 prebuilts none of them worked and had to return all of them.

2 stickums of ramage make smarty thinky box run moar gooder and stuff.

In the beginning his head looks like a bobble head lmao

I actually got an Ibuypower pc that was on sale for Christmas and it works really good and for the parts in it was a deal. Since all parts were new

Do you sell the PCs you build or what do you do with them? Or do you just have about 15 PCs randomly standing in your apartment???

I’m watching this video on an HP Omen Obelisk from Best Buy

Im so happy I built my own PC instead of buying one in BestBuy.

I used all open box/like new second hand parts and paid less than half of what an equivalent prebuilt would have cost. Prebuilts have a few purposes but value is not, and never had been, one of them.

I just tuck my ssd in a dent in the back of my case lmao

My dad feels offended lmaooo

Me sees the video title: uhmmmmmmm Sees they talk about the obliesk: *UUUHHHMMMM*

While you did bring up a lot of valid points about comparison shopping, overly priced items or undertrained staff, there was a lot of important things you overlooked too. #1. (A)$500+ vs (B)$1300. A- used. B- new A- have to know how to install all components properly, without shocking/frying something or damaging in any other way. B- Already installed and theoretically QC checked and tested to be working up to proper conditions. A- If it doesn't work, well.. you're out of luck, and a lot of money. Parts can't be returned. Especially I accidentally damaged. B- 1-5 year warranty from the retailers and/or manufacturer. You can actually return things. You have a brand/seller ppl have heard of and can contact for assistance. Is diy cheaper? Absolutely. But you get nothing but the parts. Buying it pre built though, you get. Peace of mind, it's made and assembled by ppl that do that for a living. (We don't all know how to diy) An operating system, if you diy you have to buy that yourself. That can run you a couple hundred. Which puts you at $750+ not counting the variable charges for assembly time and labor with a pre built. Warranty- $99-$300+. If something craps out in a day or two and you can't fix it? They will. For free. Instead of paying parts and labor a second time. But it's included with prebuilt systems. So that puts you at $850-$1150+ Yes, 1300 is a lot to spend. If you can get the same stuff cheaper. But you're also getting hundreds of dollars worth of labor, time, warranty coverage, and a place to actually return things to. So this isn't a really 1:1 comparison of like $1300 bestbuy vs $500 local shop for the same item. If you added all those factors to your custom built one, that would drive your cost to almost the same exact amount. So you're only getting the luxury of saying you did it yourself. It's like cooking at home vs going out. $10 for ingredients you potentially don't know how to use and will ruin and waste your money, then you have to clean up the mess yourself afterwards. Or $15 for someone to spend their time (instead of yours) to do it properly and serve you. Clean up after you etc. All those extras, peace of mind and paying someone else for their tech expertise and the headache they have to deal with instead of you? Priceless As a footnote, 256gb is enough for gaming and streaming? Maybe if you're playing snake or pong? Look at games like God of war (I know it's PlayStation but still) Assassin's Creed origins or Odyssey. WoW, Smite, SC 2, Diablo 3, Doom etc (the list goes on) A lot of those games are 45gb-100gb+ alone. You can't game or stream for long with 3-5 games. Truthfully I really did enjoy the video and it made me consider making my own the next time. I just do not feel that the $550 vs. $1300 was really a fair comparison considering a lot of the factors you get in that $1300 price tag. Especially for ppl that can't build their own, or afford to start all over if they mess it up somehow or their power supply is shoddy