Beware of computer sales clerks selling recovery disks
A recovery disk for your computer may be a good thing to have but you don’t need to pay $30 for one. That’s what Computerworld reports some big stores are charging for their own versions of recovery disks that they are pushing when you buy a computer. Actually, you can make your own with the software that comes on most name brand computers or you can buy one from the computer manufacturer for much less than the stores are charging. According to the article:
When Ian Griffith of Queens, New York, purchased an HP notebook from a Circuit City store in Brooklyn earlier this year, the salesperson urged him to have the chain’s in-store Fire Dog technicians create Windows XP recovery discs in case Griffith needed to reinstall the OS.
“I specifically asked if this was something I could do on my own,” Griffith says, and the answer was no. The salesperson, Griffith says, insisted that there were only two ways to obtain such discs: have them made at the store for $30, or buy them from HP for nearly twice as much.
But the clerk’s assertions simply aren’t true. Recovery discs are fairly easy to make yourself. And if you don’t want to take on the responsibility of burning your own, you can buy them from HP for half what Circuit City charges.
The article reports similar experiences at Best Buy.
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