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- From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 and LD vs HD drives
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.225320.26998@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:53:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hubcap.1992Nov12.225320.26998
- References: <1992Nov10.141616.9653@ifi.uio.no> <69274@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov11.100321.60681@cc.usu.edu> <1992Nov12.161024.3885@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
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- >Quoth sl1zm@cc.usu.edu:
- >>As a sales person that actually has to sell the machines to customers
- >>I can tell you that it is hard to tell a customer that it doesn't have
- >>a high density drive and then to tell them it's a better machine than a clone
- >Gee, I can think of several tacks to take with such a customer:
- > "Oh, if high density drives are all you're interested in, let's cut the
- > computer our of the equation altogether! I can sell you SEVERAL HD
- > drives for that price!"
- > "Are you here to buy a computer or a disk drive?"
- >So on and so forth...
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- I didn't see a smiley anywhere, so I ask: ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?!?!!?!?!
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- You won't sell any computers talking like that; insulting the customer gets you
- nothing except fewer customers ...
-
- (Gee I hope that was sarcasm and I missed it ... :) )
-
- (I *really* hope that was sarcasm and I missed it ... :) :) )
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