Comments on: What a Great Deal!

By: hg

hg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

maybe u should buy the insurance… a month later.. tell them that u lost ur phone.. get a brand new one… and sell your old one on ebay.. kee kee…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I hate having people at Future Shop try to sell me insurance. I think I’ll just come out with the “Please don’t waste my time” line, and get it over with quickly.

“Look, do you want to sell me the phone?”
“Yes.”
“Then sell me the phone. Not the fucking insurance.”

Hmmm…

By: NK

NK — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t like the people trying to sell newspaper subscriptions. One guy once tried to sell my dad both local papers (Vancouver Sun and the Province).

“We already have get the Vancouver Sun.”
“Okay, would you like to get the Province, too?”
“Nonoo, I don’t even have time to read the Sun everyday.”
He replied, “Oh, you don’t have to read them everyday.”

Moron.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s too bad sales folks feel pressured in such ways, and are not properly incented. I think a better incentive would be to bonus the salesperson on whether in six months you feel as though your phone purchase was a successful one. A larger bonus would be the reward for you doing additional business with that particular salesperson. Whatdya think?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My typical response is “I’ll fix it myself.”

and they try to come up with scrap, “XXXX part is worth more than the extra warranty/insurance/etc”

One thing that always stops them is “I’m an engineer I can fix it if it breaks down”.

Of course, I’m not an electrician nor a repair man so I probably can’t fix them but that at least shuts them down.

Always tempted to just say, “What makes you think I will pay extra so you can get earn more money without really being helpful to me in anyway?”

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“For $xx, we have the extended warranty. These mobile phones are $xxx if you have to buy them without a plan.”
“I work for a mobile phone testing company — I have newer models from around the world that you’ve never even heard of, and we have more of them than you have in inventory. I think I’ll be okay.”

By: KC

KC — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

so why would you go to the store in the first place, ben? =)

brian: that sounds remarkably similar to the bonus plan of a certain company i contract to in austin …

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I need the service plan, and I need one that I know I can keep and thrash around, if need be. Plus, when you sign on, don’t you get a phone anyway? I suppose you’d need to go in and pick it up.