Similar to Best Buy’s ill-fated Geek Squad (just search for Geek Squad on digg and you’ll see what I mean), Circuit City has Firedog, although Firedog won’t charge you $415 to replace a hard drive. Getting to the point, Circuit City held a “firedog Across America” contest this past winter to donate money to America’s firefighters.
Now they need to select the $100k grand prize winning firehouse. If you can spare a few seconds, head over there and vote for the firehouse you think deserves to win the most. Regardless if that firehouse wins or not, they will receive $1 from your vote. They have also setup a YouTube page where you can learn more about the 10 finalists. Maybe one day, one of these firehouses will be saving your Mac after your eBay-purchased UPS explodes. Don’t feel bad if the finalist you voted for doesn’t win, they still receive $20k for much-needed equipment.
Voting wraps up on May 13th with the winner announced the week of May 14th.
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Man 415$ to replace a hard drive that wasn’t broke? Geek squad is bs…
Agh! Cannot escape the kitties!
Personally, I think it is better to know a hard-drive-replacer rather than calling up a nameless, faceless company
I can assure you Geek Squad is certainly not ill-fated. Do you really know how many people could care less how much it costs to get their computer fixed as long as it is up and running again? You can read as many stories on Digg as you like, but it doesn’t change the fact that the people keep pouring through the doors wanting their computer upgraded or fixed or whatever the case may be, and they aren’t too terribly concerned as to how much money it’s going to cost them. Also people just don’t want to waste the time searching how to fix something when they can just take it to the store and get it fixed without worrying about it themselves.
@Roguefoxx, just because people don’t care how much it will cost to fix their computer, does that make it okay to charge exorbitant amounts for menial labor?