funny radio shack visit

[zombietycho]

Another fun thing about big-box shopping is a smart sales person, who gets snooty at you. Like we do

I told a guy I wanted a DVD player, he seemed a little shocked, since I already knew what I wanted, but he reluctantly grabbed one from the back, then smugly asked me "What made you choose this one?" all I had to say was: "It's the only DVD player you offer, that plays both DVD audio and Super Audio CD".

It's not like I flexed audio knowledge all over him, but I could tell he was the kind of guy that gets off on making people's decisions look silly, because of all his "experience".

 

[A<aA?]

I remember about 3 years ago, I was 15 I went into a independent hi fi shop, and I knew Sennheiser's were good, but I was curious about the Bose Triport's.

I asked the guy whether he think the Bose are good, he's like 'yeah i think they're brilliant'. I wanted to hear his opinion on the Sennheisers, so I pointed to a pair, he shook them off, didn't even say what he thought, he preferred the Bose.

The shop didn't let you try any of the headphones out so I went with the Bose...but obviously I shoulda gone with my instinct and go for Senn lol. thinking about it though, alot of salesmen care more about money than anything else.

3 or so years on, the Bose are long discarded...and I'm listening to Sennheiser.

 

[JahJahBinks]

The reason is that today with Internet you can do research on your own, people share their experience on the Internet and and there are a lot of places to look for on the Internet. In contrast 40 years ago if you want to buy something, you have to ask your friends but there is a great chance none of your friends ever used it, that's why you trust the salesman, but it does not mean every salesman back then knew what they were saying, just like today.

 

[greenhorn]

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Originally Posted by JahJahBinks 40 years ago

Make this 10

 

[Capital R]

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Originally Posted by Mercuttio When I'm in the Apple store or Best Buy, I actually DO interrupt the sales person to give advice about things I know about. Much of the time (mostly headphone related) I tell them to do their shopping elsewhere. Clerks hate that, but what can they do?

Haha, I do the same thing. The other day I was at Circuit City browsing movies, games, and headphones, when I overheard a salesman trying to sell off a Creative Zen XTra (the giganto metal ones), claiming it was "state of the art, and can't be beat." I couldn't help but laugh and intervene, so I told the customer to go online, compare, and make an educated decision. Needless to say, the sales rep was enraged. Haha, it made for a good laugh.

 

[Cryogenic]

This thread caught my eye, so I figured I would add my two cents.

Ethics indeed do matter. In fact I just got fired from Best Buy last month. They count in that if you want to work for a profit driven company like Best Buy you better put them to the side. I worked in both sales and the warehouse for two and a half years there. In sales I was constantly getting chewed out for not pushing whatever item we needed more margin on for that week. During the holidays one of the managers even made a map that after getting a customer's computer in the basket we had to take the basket with their computer and go up and down every isle to make sure we sold them as much **** as they would take. We also had stupid sell **** pep rallies at 6am on a Saturdays, they were about once a month and almost every week during the holidays. Also it seemed like a cool job at first like others have said but it was by far the worse job I've ever had. I managed to get unemployment, and yesterday I received a letter about an appeal hearing because best buy wants to screw me out of my massive $70 check a week.

 

[Mercuttio]

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Originally Posted by Cryogenic This thread caught my eye, so I figured I would add my two cents. Ethics indeed do matter. In fact I just got fired from Best Buy last month. They count in that if you want to work for a profit driven company like Best Buy you better put them to the side. I worked in both sales and the warehouse for two and a half years there. In sales I was constantly getting chewed out for not pushing whatever item we needed more margin on for that week. During the holidays one of the managers even made a map that after getting a customer's computer in the basket we had to take the basket with their computer and go up and down every isle to make sure we sold them as much **** as they would take. We also had stupid sell **** pep rallies at 6am on a Saturdays, they were about once a month and almost every week during the holidays. Also it seemed like a cool job at first like others have said but it was by far the worse job I've ever had. I managed to get unemployment, and yesterday I received a letter about an appeal hearing because best buy wants to screw me out of my massive $70 check a week.

Hah! You know what, I think they tried that on me once, when I bought a graphics card! The guy was going this weird way to get up to the front register, and went off to the side aisle where the games were. I went directly to the register, and waited. I didn't think anything of it at the time... but maybe that's what was really going on!

 

[t10]

I don't think I ever bought any computer parts at major stores, but when it comes to electronics, I am one of those people who researches info on the item I am interested for a week. By the time I am at the store ready to buy, I could probably write a 40 page technical paper on the item, and obviously any contact with the sales folk is a fun expirience.

 

[Mercuttio]

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Originally Posted by t10 I don't think I ever bought any computer parts at major stores, but when it comes to electronics, I am one of those people who researches info on the item I am interested for a week. By the time I am at the store ready to buy, I could probably write a 40 page technical paper on the item, and obviously any contact with the sales folk is a fun expirience.

Ditto. I could probably build a small replica of the item by the time I need to make the purchase. Graphics cards are the only parts I've bought at Best Buy, mostly because I only needed a 6800 GT by BFG... they're a carrier. Everything else, it's Newegg all the way.

 

[granodemostasa]

head-fi and other places have made me immune to best buy. back in the day whenever i went to circut city or best buy i would love to go around and check out everything in the store, now days i only think: wow, this stuff is overpriced junk. back in the day, during my photogrpahy hobby, i used to work in the camera department of a local big box retailer. i would only sell people stuff if they were committed to buying from my store; i had no incentive to sell them anything and i was overwhelmed just doing photolab to really care. if i got a chance i would tell them where to get it for cheap or what they should really buy-and if asked for my opinion i would just tell them that they should go elsewhere for good photographs. i quit after that summer, seeing that my job was 450 miles from my school.

 

[jimmyjames8]

This thread reminds me of 2 of my pet sayings: 1) If a person was any good at what they were doing, they would be doing something else (for more money) 2) 99% of the buying public, i.e. consumers don't have a F#@king clue about anything much less about what they came to buy.

I have a local audio dealer that now just about hates me because he can't sell me anything. And what I mean by sell is that he can't BS me into believing anything he has to sell sounds better than what I already have and if it does, it costs way too much.

3) If I keep posting here, from work, during business hours, I will be working at Radio Shack.