They just re-used a box that normally has memory in it.

Actually, they just come to your house and put the disc in the slot for $25.

@wolfkingen: Exactly. The plastic "keeper" box is used for many products. Not a particularly funny way to start the day, either.

@Saboth: They'll come back and take it out for another $25.

@wolfkingen: So they'll charge you to install memory as well?

Look, I am tired of all these "Best Buy" services haters out there. It is extremely important for Geek Squad employees to THOROUGHLY test and implement this "Mario Party 8" software on this "Wii" platform. Some of us out here are not "tech savvy" and the Geek Squad guy tells me there might be some hidden incompatibility that I may not have seen on my "Wii" platform, even though it has been plugged in an functioning for almost a year. What if the disc were scratched? What if the disc was replaced with porn? How would I know what to do unless I had a trained Geek Squad service professional there to help me through the process.

At least after he installs it, you'll have someone to play it with.

I hear the rhythmic slapping of an anti-bestbuy/geeksquad beat-off beginning.

BestBuy is a pretty big company. If you need to satisfy your self-righteous bitching-quota, at least bitch about the real issues instead of them reusing a plastic case.

@rewind: LOL! Win. Thanks for making my morning a little brighter. :D

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: Have you played Mario Party 8? No one is playing that game.

@rewind:

Thanks for the laugh!

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: I need a job being paid to play Wii games with people. My friends never want to play. God I wish Nintendo just allowed free internet play, but that conflicts with the Wii's idea of "bringing people together" I suppose. Wii/we means standing next to each other smacking each other in the face and breaking my TV apparently.

@Morte: Yup, they'll crack open your head right there, pop it in, and send you off to post op!

@wolfkingen: That is correct

Retail stores usually have a very limited supply of Magnetic lock boxes and some of them have those annoying stickers that become a mess when you try to remove them
so this is just basically a re-used magnetic box that was previously used for computer parts (mainly Memory as stated above, or various computer software)

I've seen that sticker on lots of different console games at Best Buy.. I ignore them because I figure they're just reusing boxes.

Wanted to confirm what others have posted. If your Best Buy has recently had an influx of shoplifting in a particular area (say, Wii Games), they'll shuck EVERYTHING. If they don't have enough empty ones for all their games, they'll use them from everywhere. That one, as others have suggested, used to hold computer memory or something similar. They probably figured "Well, the memory is behind Geek Squad so we can just empty those cases and use them for the Wii Games. Nobody will care that it has that sticker on it", not knowing that someone would quickly post it to Consumerist :)

@Radi0logy: God forbid--I have a niece and nephew who I have played this game with--the colors, the noises, the randomness, the button-mashing!!!!!

@halcyondays: If I have to do this three times, is it considered a lemon?

OH WOW. Thats nice of them. Now instead of opening the box, taking the cd out of the box, and putting said cd in my wii, I can pay best buy 50$ to do it while I make some coffee. Too good to be true!!!

There is no SKU that BB could ring up to even do this service if it was really offered. So all you folks either need to be perfect in your daily lives (lest someone post a photo to consumerist) or need to put your tin foil hats on.

@Saboth: You know this could be a service wherein geeksquad installs the homebrew channel and a usb hard drive and loader onto your wii and than install the game onto the aforementioned hard drive, what a kick ass service!

Considering I always seem to put gamediscs in my Wii the wrong way (i.e. the label facing the wrong direction), this might be a beneficial service for me.

What's sad is that with the number of "optimized" products they sell at a price hike, this didn't even surprise me.

@Morte: Why shouldn't they? Yes, it's obscenely easy. But if you don't know how to do it yourself, don't care to learn, or just plain don't want to, why should you expect someone to do it for you for free?

I CAN clean my own house, but if I decide to hire someone else to do it I have to pay them. Charging to install memory is no different.

@Morte: RAM. Actually...a lot of people don't do that. Consumerist fail.

Generally speaking...video games are in inventory control lock boxes (as with ram, etc.) so if you try to walk out with it, it'll beep. The value games and special edition stuff isn't; I believe they use the spiders (the deal that wraps around the box with 4 cords and has a plastic retainer in the front) for the special editions and stuff that generally doesn't fit in a rectangular plastic box (ie hard drives).

It's the bart simpson bonestorm legacy, cat-fish?

The only thing that bothers me about geek squad is that they drive those stupid beetles and call employees "agents". Their expertise isn't good but the kind of people who need their services are the kind of people who can't do it themselves and are too cheap to actually hire someone to do it...you get what you pay for.

That's just a keeper box that at one point had some memory in it and someone working there decided not to take the time to go find another out of the warehouse.

@ryno365: It's almost worth it some days to get that infernal shrink wrap off the games...

Well, if you want to dive into the murky waters of homebrew it most certainly is possible to install the game onto the Wii (or at least an SD card or external hard drive hooked up to said Wii). I doubt any Geek Squad agent can do it, though.

The comments on here get rather annoying. Some people need computer services, despite how easy they may be for you. Afterall, how many people get their lawn cut because they are too lazy or don't have the time? Anyone can push a mower around.

While working for firedog, I always felt terribly bad at charging people $30 for installing ram, so I would simply tell customers how easy it was and how to do it. On more than one occasion and even after I explained how simple it was, people would insist I do it for them, happily paying the $30.

@ptkdude:

What you need to do is put a little index card taped to the top of your Wii, that reads "FLIP THE DISC AROUND"

That will remind you to flip it the opposite way!

Problem solved! This one is on the house.