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- From: ac94691@dunix.drake.edu (The Dark Kitty)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Big Brother Radio Shack
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.190610.1595@dunix.drake.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:06:10 GMT
- References: <1840073@hpsad.sad.hp.com> <BxBzJK.BqK@news.udel.edu> <1992Nov10.112934.60615@cc.usu.edu>
- Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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- In article <1992Nov10.112934.60615@cc.usu.edu> slmdj@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >BTW... What really _ticks_ me off is the way the RS zombies often jack me
- >around as a customer. Example: Since I am only 18, this happened just a
- >couple of years ago... I was back in their parts section, looking for some
- >capacitor or other. Lo, and behold, one of their salesmen walks up to me and
- >tells me to get out of there, that there couldn't _possibly_ be anything back
- >there that *I* could ever want!!! I tried to reason with the guy, but he was
- >a little lacking in the logic portion of the brain...:-) Same when I spoke
- >with the manager!
-
- Oh yeah, did this click real well in my mind. I don't know how many
- times I've gone into the local Radio Rip Off Store and asked for a
- certain size of capacitor/resistor that hasn't been restocked only to
- be told "capacitors? I'm not sure I know what those are. I don't think
- we carry those." Aiiiiiigggghhhh!!! I also don't know how many times
- I've been browsing and overheard a salesman tell another customer that
- RS doesn't carry an item that I happen to be looking right at!
-
- I, too, in my teens had a problem with the salesman treating me like a
- punk. BTW in my town the only competition to Radio Schmuck is a
- wholesale parts store owned by an old fart who doesn't seem to realize
- that we've invented digital parts yet. He's actually priced worse than
- RS. They're general response to a walk-in/non-business customer is to
- treat you like dirt and ignore you if possible. One day I really ticked
- off a salesperson. He was standing talking to a really ugly, scraggy
- looking guy who was obviously a pal:
-
- Salesdoof: Yeah Bob my old lady's really gettin me down...
- Me: Um...could you help me out with some...
- Salesdork: I'll be with you in a minute.
- Salesdroid: So anyway I told her if she wanted me to work on the car
- less, maybe she could give up her job and make some time for ME.
- Me: [after waiting like 5 minutes] Listen, I just need you to look up
- a part in the catalog.
- Sales-spud: I'm with another customer at the moment. I'll be right
- with you.
- Me: [getting ticked cause the guy he's talking to is clearly not
- involved in a business discussion] Whatever...
-
- So I walked around the counter, right up to the catalog, and started
- looking through it for what I needed. He got irate and started yelling
- about how I shouldn't be back there, get out of store, etc. I told him
- if he was gonna chat with his pal, then I'd have to get what I needed
- myself. Of course, that's when I mentioned that my sister was the
- office manager, a position of much higher rank than his own. =-)
-
- Boy, he got real helpful then!!!
-
- So I tend to shop at Radio Schlock even when I don't want to because
- at least there you don't have to deal so much with smelly guys talking
- about being neanderthallic in their personal relationships. =-)
-
- Anthony Clifton
-