Going in there for anything is like getting your hand crushed by a hammer. Everytime I go there now I feel like I'm being attacked.
I was looking for a high-end laptop for work about 2 weeks ago; Here's a sample of the bs that I was told:
* They don't make processors faster than 2.5 Ghz.
* Anything faster than 2.5 you have to go with MacBook Pro.
I was trying to not care about it since I was half expecting it. Then the guy, seeing me walk was freaking out and called out his manager. He showed me to the 1 quad notebook and starts spewing more bs:
* This is the fastest they have, best graphics, blah blah. It wasn't. Just the most expensive.
* When reminding him that the clock speed is still too slow from what I wanted he informed me that (and this is my personal favorite): Quad cores are TWICE as fast as a Duo.
The thing that really got to me is not that they're making a mistake or there's 1 or 2 bad ones out there; no, the whole INSTITUTION follows the same TACTIC. They stand around like voltures and wait for people to screw over. And they're management condones it and pitches in!
On top of that, they like to take over sales for commission that they had no part in. A few months ago I bought a high end vid card. EVERY single person I walked by wanted to "help" ME by putting it on the computer so they can attach their numbers to it. It's sickening. The first time I went in there and had a card in my hand, a sales guy actually GRABBED IT FROM MY HANDS while he was talking and proceeded to put it "in the computer" for me. Needless to say I walked.
At yet another time, looking for a motherboard I only found 1 box that was all smashed. Asking the sales guy, he told me he couldn't do anything for me other than a 3 % discount - which I told him that online for a brand new one was about 80 cheaper. He told me he still couldn't do anything and that he buys everything online as well. Ridiculous.
Even just going there to look at the products before buying online is getting to be just pain and trouble.
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Going in there for anything is like getting your hand crushed by a hammer. Everytime I go there now I feel like I'm being attacked.
I was looking for a high-end laptop for work about 2 weeks ago; Here's a sample of the bs that I was told:
* They don't make processors faster than 2.5 Ghz.
* Anything faster than 2.5 you have to go with MacBook Pro.
I was trying to not care about it since I was half expecting it. Then the guy, seeing me walk was freaking out and called out his manager. He showed me to the 1 quad notebook and starts spewing more bs:
* This is the fastest they have, best graphics, blah blah. It wasn't. Just the most expensive.
* When reminding him that the clock speed is still too slow from what I wanted he informed me that (and this is my personal favorite): Quad cores are TWICE as fast as a Duo.
The thing that really got to me is not that they're making a mistake or there's 1 or 2 bad ones out there; no, the whole INSTITUTION follows the same TACTIC. They stand around like voltures and wait for people to screw over. And they're management condones it and pitches in!
On top of that, they like to take over sales for commission that they had no part in. A few months ago I bought a high end vid card. EVERY single person I walked by wanted to "help" ME by putting it on the computer so they can attach their numbers to it. It's sickening. The first time I went in there and had a card in my hand, a sales guy actually GRABBED IT FROM MY HANDS while he was talking and proceeded to put it "in the computer" for me. Needless to say I walked.
At yet another time, looking for a motherboard I only found 1 box that was all smashed. Asking the sales guy, he told me he couldn't do anything for me other than a 3 % discount - which I told him that online for a brand new one was about 80 cheaper. He told me he still couldn't do anything and that he buys everything online as well. Ridiculous.
Even just going there to look at the products before buying online is getting to be just pain and trouble.