Leo Kerr
Screenwriter
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I was off on Monday, and between a few other questions people had been asking, and a couple of Blu titles I was looking for, I wandered into a local Best Buy.
For whatever reason, I couldn't find either Blu title -- one was a relatively new release (1/25) and the other is probably considered "catalog" by now. Didn't bother me too much; these things happen, and it looked a little bit like the software section had been bombed.
But while I was there, I overheard a clerk giving this huge song-n-dance about the differences between the outragously overpriced HDMI cables that they had on the shelves, rambling far beyond the basics of normal sales-patter, and going off into the realm of chemistry and physics about which he had no clue. Oh, my! That was scary. I didn't know if the "call" that the person he was talking to was real or faked; if I had thought of it, I'd fake receiving a phone call, too!
Then a few minutes later, walking around the LCD TVs, trying to see what was available and the prices for the 32-37" range (someone else's limits,) some other salesdroid was going off on a great long sermon on the importance of a lot of otherwise meaningless features that "went beyond the specs."
Did BB change? Are their sales people now on commission? This was early on a Monday, in an area where some people were still digging out from under a horrific 4-6" snow (central Maryland .) There might have only been the three of us as customers in the store. Or are they that desperate for sales and higher-end sales, that they have to push-push-push?
If I were either of those clients, I'd be out the door in a shot. (As it was, I didn't spend much time looking at the monitors; it was almost physically repulsive being there.)
Leo
For whatever reason, I couldn't find either Blu title -- one was a relatively new release (1/25) and the other is probably considered "catalog" by now. Didn't bother me too much; these things happen, and it looked a little bit like the software section had been bombed.
But while I was there, I overheard a clerk giving this huge song-n-dance about the differences between the outragously overpriced HDMI cables that they had on the shelves, rambling far beyond the basics of normal sales-patter, and going off into the realm of chemistry and physics about which he had no clue. Oh, my! That was scary. I didn't know if the "call" that the person he was talking to was real or faked; if I had thought of it, I'd fake receiving a phone call, too!
Then a few minutes later, walking around the LCD TVs, trying to see what was available and the prices for the 32-37" range (someone else's limits,) some other salesdroid was going off on a great long sermon on the importance of a lot of otherwise meaningless features that "went beyond the specs."
Did BB change? Are their sales people now on commission? This was early on a Monday, in an area where some people were still digging out from under a horrific 4-6" snow (central Maryland .) There might have only been the three of us as customers in the store. Or are they that desperate for sales and higher-end sales, that they have to push-push-push?
If I were either of those clients, I'd be out the door in a shot. (As it was, I didn't spend much time looking at the monitors; it was almost physically repulsive being there.)
Leo