{"id":714495,"date":"2010-04-12T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:13:42","slug":"worst-company-in-america-best-buy-vs-cash4gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714495","title":{"rendered":"Worst Company In America: Best Buy VS Cash4Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/header_final-thumb-652x136-38534.png?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Well folks, it&#8217;s the battle of the recent investigations! We took a look at Best Buy&#8217;s Geek Squad Optimization service and found that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/consumerist-investigation-best-buy-optimization-is-a-big-stupid-annoying-waste-of-money.html\">a big stupid annoying waste of money<\/a> &#8212; and Cash4Gold&#8230; well&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/09\/the-article-cash4gold-doesnt-want-you-to-read.html\">take a look for yourself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tell us, which company causes you to have the bigger meltdown?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3044022.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/3044022\/\">Which Company Is Worse?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">poll<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nThis is a post in our Worst Company In America 2010 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. Keep track of all the goings on at consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america. <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/behold-the-2010-worst-company-in-america-bracket.html\">Print the bracket, here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks, it&#8217;s the battle of the recent investigations! We took a look at Best Buy&#8217;s Geek Squad Optimization service and found that it was a big stupid annoying waste of money &#8212; and Cash4Gold&#8230; well&#8230;.take a look for yourself. Tell us, which company causes you to have the bigger meltdown? Which Company Is Worse?poll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZS7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816136,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714495\/revisions\/816136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}