I don't know if Best Buy still does this but.......
We had to sell subscriptions to magazines (Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, wtc.) and subs. to Netflix/Gamefly for numbers for the store. We had to sell a certain amount every day. Well our store wasn't getting the numbers that we needed and our managers were getting bytched out by the GM. so they decided to make it competitve. Whoever got the most subscriptions during their shift was winning shyt. (Gift cards, a day off, free lunch, etc.) so people started doing dirty shyt to get the numbers for the freebies.
This is how the process works: You tell the person "Oh wow, you're in luck
you get a free 2 month subscription for *whatever* (if it was a man I'd say SI, a woman EW, and if they were buying movies Netflix, buying games, GameFly)with your order today. I just need a credit card to sign you up
" At this point, usually the smart people are like "
What's the catch? Does it renew automatically? Do I have to pay for it?" Then we're supposed to tell them they have to cancel before the 2 month period is over or else you get billed. Then the smart people are like "Nah, I'm good
" The dumb people are like "
Word? I get something free?
here's my card!!
" So those were always easy.
So now here's the fukked up part......since we were having that competition, people were getting the subs. by any means necessary. Some people weren't even telling people that they were getting signed up for subs. They would just scan the subs. then ask for their card like if they were ringing them up. They would have them confirm it and sign it (since most people don't read what they signing anyway), and then act like something went wrong so that they could actually ring them up the right way. Now these people are fukked.....they gonna start getting these subscriptions in the mail and not know how they got it, that they're being billed and how to stop it
We had sooooo many people coming into the store about to shoot that shyt up once they got their first bill from whatever it was that was sold to them.
I never did that shyt tho. I wouldn't want that done to me, so I said fukk it if I win, I win. If not
But I'm not gonna do nobody dirty. I'm just tryna get paid to pay for my school....fukk all this other shyt.