The utter horror of inknowledgable computer salesmen

[boran]

Well with christmas and newyears I went out shopping to buy presents and during those 2day shopping spree (spending "only" $ 500 on presents ) I encountered a few things that totally disgusted me : complete lack of knowledge of ALL computer or computer related salesmen and OEM resellers, some anekdotes :


- I saw a salesmen praise the GF2 MX200 into the heavens saying it was faster than a kyro 4000 and 4500 (who were priced cheaper) (almost wanted to shout at him telling he was wrong but I dont think he would have appreciated that a lot)

- a bit related to previous, a lot of salesmen (I've encountered 3 that said this to me) think and price the MX400 over the Ti200 (making an MX400 more expensive than a GF3 ti200)

- they sell now P4 systems with 128 MB SDram and a TNT Vanta (8MB vidmem) overhere ... somehow I think my old PII 300 with a GF2 MX was only marginally slower than such a system.

- a bit related to previous, there are almost no redram P4 systems in this country(belgium) (not that I really miss em but some competition for AMD would be welcome)

- P4 SDram systems still cost $400 more than a faster performing AMD/DDR combo
(for example: P4 1500,256SDram,TNT Vanta $ 1436 --- athlon XP 1500+,256DDR-SDram, GF2MX $ 1094) (calculated over from my own currency)

I dont understand how long they'll keep this utter crap going on.

maybe share some comments or similar experiences with me ...

 

[DJBOB]

lol you know the "MX" is the selling point. Just say it with my MX lol. What's fun is nect time you're at like Best Buy go over to the techie department and just start cutting in. Or better yet go up to a group of them workers, ask them a question, and watch them like scatter like fish.. Yea that's it. Fishy isn't it

Bob

 

[Dan]

I can't believe the utter nonsense I consistently hear salesman at the Fry's in Burbank tell customers. Fortunately, they are easily distracted (bright, shiny objects work well) which gives me a chance to pull the unsuspecting customers aside and straighten them out.

 

[Daniel]

I was in best buy a few months ago and I watched the salesman try to tell this really old lady that if she wants to have her son play cdrs of music he made himself on a regular cd player it would have to be a $1000+ player because nothing under that price point was "capable of reading the disks", I usually will mind my own business but I jumped in on that one, the lady was happy and the guy was annoyed.