Deja Vu: Geek Squad Gives Elderly Couple’s Hard Drive to Flea Market

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For some reason, we never really pieced it together when we posted about Best Buy's gremlin-like pilfering of a reader hard drive chock full of personal information, but we've previously reported on Best Buy's practice of selling these reclaimed hard drives.

For some reason, we never really pieced it together when we posted about Best Buy’s gremlin-like pilfering of a reader hard drive chock full of personal information, but we’ve previously reported on Best Buy’s practice of selling these reclaimed hard drives.

But reading’s hard and posts are forgettable. So seeing as how this video is now doing the rounds at Digg, enjoy again for the first time the story of an elderly couple who trusted the Geek Squad to repair their computer, only to get a call from a good samaritan who bought their hard drive at a flea market.

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