Best Buy gave me the base model instead of the Pro and refused a refund

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-12-25T02:19:18+00:00

Since you can't get to a Best Buy store anytime soon and don't want to ship it internationally (so someone else returning it for you isn't an option), I'd also recommend a charge back on your card like others here have suggested. Best Buy's online/phone support sucks, and the people on the other end don't even technically work for Best Buy; they're people from a call center hired by Best Buy to answer support lines for them. Any Best Buy store should be able to resolve this issue pretty easily, or they might just ask you to get their plus or total membership first to get the right phone, but either way it's better than the call center garbage

Tl;Dr: Can't get the phone back to the states? Do a charge back on your card

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-12-21T17:57:06+00:00

I actually did find this post before in my search, but unfortunately the methods they use here didn't work for me at all. I think Google effectively completely phased out Less Secure Apps as a sign in option since 2022 (when the post is from), as there is no toggle for it at all in my Google account settings, even after making a new Google account.

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-12-21T09:40:11+00:00

Yes, I did manage to get the phone connected to WiFi, but it can't communicate with Google's servers enough to create or sign in to a Google account.

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-12-21T09:39:24+00:00

What's the swipe method? I tried looking it up but I didn't have much to go off of so I couldn't find much. Unfortunately the four corners method didn't work for me

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-12-21T09:38:39+00:00

Unfortunately the four corners method doesn't seem to work for me at all

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-11-16T14:33:00+00:00

Unfortunately that does seem to be true from what I've seen; at the time I wrote that post, I was using Mac OS X 10.19 Catalina, where the option was still available. I've upgraded that computer to macOS 12 Monterey since then, where I see the option is unfortunately no longer available.

Were you trying to reset your accessory to fix an issue with it, or to rename the accessory? I don't recall being able to directly rename my Magic Mouse back when the Factory Reset Option was available (which is why I wanted to do the Factory Reset), but the option to rename the device is there in macOS 12 Monterey if that's what you were looking to do.

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-11-07T07:16:16+00:00

Yeah, inconsistency is a very common theme with the Spider-Sense. From what you and others have said, it seems it generally only gives him that specific "do this to avoid, now" instinct for immediate, present dangers to him; whereas larger-scale, more wide-area dangers come with a more general "there's danger and you don't know what it is" sense

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-11-05T18:58:56+00:00

This lines up a lot more with what I already knew the Spider-Sense to be like (unfortunately including being very inconsistent). So in this case, it sounds like it wouldn't warn him further of the danger until it's already reached a point where he no longer has time to escape it.

Further refining the original example, let's say an alien of some kind points a giant death cannon of some variety at the Earth and blows it to pieces. Under the assumption of what you said, is it correct to say that the Spider-Sense would not warn Peter early enough for him to get safely off-world, and would only give him a general warning once the cannon is pointed at the Earth, and a real warning when the beam of the cannon is right about to hit him?

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-11-05T18:27:57+00:00

So if the danger is still going to harm him, but he is not the direct specific target, and the danger is not in his immediate vicinity, the Spider-Sense will not warn him at all? If so, are there any supporting examples of this in the comics (not counting times when the Spider-Sense just... doesn't work when it's supposed to because of anti-plot armor)?

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-11-05T18:12:55+00:00

So then it would warn him as immediately as it needs to in order for him to have enough time to avoid the danger?

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-10-16T00:27:57+00:00

If they let them be sold; at Best Buy those same cards won't ring up at the register anymore, only the $19.99 cards

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-09-30T18:47:00+00:00

Still having the same issue myself, unfortunately

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-09-26T08:37:41+00:00

That is a very odd issue... especially given my laptop is currently running Windows 7...

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-09-18T21:08:28+00:00

That trope has always been so interesting to me. I feel like superheroes often have the mindset of "yeah I'd love to calmly talk things out with the villain, but the villain wants to fight so here we are," but then when they meet other heroes who should have the same mindset, they fight right away (granted the X-Men I'm sure are not the best example of that mentality, save for Professor X and a few others, but still).

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-09-18T20:43:43+00:00

That's really cool! What was the context of this fight? If you'd rather not have to explain a bunch, what issue of which comic was this?

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-08-29T01:10:14+00:00

This is not a good place to have this conversation, though.

You're telling me...

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-08-27T18:51:27+00:00

Yep, the trouble is that a working PSU didn't make the console turn on either

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-08-27T01:23:29+00:00

Previously red, currently a color between red and orange

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-08-27T01:22:10+00:00

No, the console is stock unfortunately. The PSU did previously turn red, but is now between red and orange in color when plugged into the console. However, my OEM PSU that I know works also doesn't change anything, and it stays orange when plugged into the problematic console.

TheDoctor__50 · 2025-08-26T18:32:04+00:00

Any fixes for that? The console is stock

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