3rd Party: "Too late now, mofo. Give me a big screen, a dvd player, a bar code scanner gun, and a Britney Spears CD

Amusing.

Well, Rob, I'm sorry to hear about what happened. Was the box shrink wrapped? I've seen this form of hardware piracy before... but like 6 years ago (guess this) when Computer City was still around. Buy new video card, drop crappy card in the box, get a friend to shrink wrap it, return it. This sounds more likely this is happening in-store.

About the salesmen thing... I enjoy ignoring them too. One day I was testing a VCD I wrote on their DVD players and no one ever came over.. even half way through watching an episode of the Simpsons. I usually research beforehand... and on a recend digital camera purchase, strolled into a local CompUSA to handle the camera, then I bought it cheap online.