Jamaica Plain Electronics

Great for Gifts

1. Guitar Center

Great for the customer, lousy for the employee!!  selection: top notch service: top notch (they are all comission, after all!) prices: standardized.  a couple of years ago, they went public...

2. Best Buy

Neighborhood: Back Bay

about you.  Best Buy should be a place of electronic joy (as their holiday gift cards put it, "Walking in a techno funderland"), but it's hard to find the thrill when you can't even find what's on your...

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1. Guitar Center

Great for the customer, lousy for the employee!!  selection: top notch service: top notch (they are all comission, after all!) prices: standardized.  a couple of years ago, they went public...

2. You-Do-It…

and have a decent dj and pa equipment selection (which appeals more to me). They also appear to sell a lot of home surveillance equipment.   Best local purveyor of electronic components around, however...

3. Best Buy Landmark…

Neighborhood: Fenway

The selection's okay in that they actually have games with the word "Mario" in them in stock (at this point, no one has Mario Kart, but trying to find Galaxy and Party has been a hassle), and the service, if you...

4. CEX

Neighborhood: Downtown

Buyer beware is right, 95% of the merch is stolen  and 80% of the phones are not reset back to the factory settings. There's a reason why the phone selection isnt as up to date and is overrun...

5. Best Buy

Best Buy has a surprisingly decent selection of small appliances, like breadmakers and stand mixers....

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