Electonics salesman's worst nightmare.

[bktheirregular]

I had an appointment which somehow ended up not happening, so I ducked my head into the local RadioShack. My brother's got a cell phone that's threatening to conk out on him, so I figured I'd do some research. The RadioShack salesman comes up and asks if I need help, so I tell him. He proceeds to show me telephones, and the fun begins...

Salesman: "This is a much better phone. It's got a color screen."
Me: "Y'know, I've never understood the advantages of a color screen on a cell phone."
Salesman: (spluttering) "You ... you don't ... whaddaya mean? (whips out his own phone) Look! Look at what you can have on the screen, and the menus. See? Color. *beep* Color. *beep* Color. On a black-and-white phone, all you get is text."
Me: "Yeah, but what's the battery life on one of those phones?"
Salesman: "I don't know, but look, see? Four bars on signal, four bars on battery. And most people plug in their cell phones every night..."

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(Ed: the above is the result of the Irregular banging his head against his keyboard.)

Comments

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

Radio Shack employees are, by and large, clueless. Not all (had competant one today (yes, everyone, replaced headset! No more cutting out), had two actively nice one last Friday), but most. Is simply fact of life. All you can do is time visit to store for when all salesmen are busy, actively avoid them until get what you need.

[bktheirregular]

Yeh. So much worse when you actually need advice from 'em ...

(PS: you got mail!)