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Ikea used to be my nemesis. They hate me. If I call them to see if something is in stock, they tell me it is when it isn’t so that they can get me on camera walking in happy and leaving sad. If Ikea were a guy standing across the street from me, I would stare at him angrily until such time as he walked away.

But now, NOW(!) Best Buy is my nemesis. They have quite possibly the absolute worst customer service by phone. It doesn’t matter which store you call, chances are you’re gonna be disappointed you did. Either you’ll get hung up on, never connected, get shoddy service from an actual human, or when you push buttons to go through the menu, the system will just ignore you. If you’re smart, you’ll call and just hang up right away. You get the same result, but you’ll save yourself the frustration of actually trying to accomplish something with the call.

If I ever get a chance to fight Best Buy, I’m going to poke it in the eye.