People, People. it's PISSY World!!!
My one and only experience purchasing a system at PC world:
ME: "Hi there, I am looking for a system with a spec similar to <x>,<y>,<z> and an intel core 2 duo processor. No monitor, keyboard or mouse thanks."
Salesguy: "Well, there's This model, which has a pentium D processor. That's dual core! It's faster than the Core 2 Duo since it has a 3.4ghz clock speed."
ME: "The pentium D is an older model processor. I would like a new model."
Him: "Well, I can't see any IC2Ds on the floor. Still, this Pentium D based system is plenty powerful. Look at the video of these games!"
ME: *slaps head....* (OK, well, I was desperate here so I continued) "OK, so say I go for that one. I already have a nice monitor, keyboard and mouse, and I have already got an OS license. Can you remove those charges?"
Salesguy: "Well, they are built as part of the machine..."
ME: "The monitor, keyboard and mouse aren't. I can put up with the keyboard and mouse, but I don't want to pay for an extra monitor."
Him: "I'll need to check with my manager. (goes to check.) OK, yeah sure. What was the other thing you wanted?"
ME: "Uh... No OS charge..."
Him: "OS? uh, I'll ask my manager again. (goes to check.) Oh! No unfortunately we can't remove Windows off of the machines."
ME: "How about you just uh... don't put windows on there to begin with?"
Salesguy: "Sir, they come with Windows..."
Regardless, I decided to take this poor soul all the way to the end. At the sales end:
Him: "Sir, we can check your credit rating right now. You don't need to wait. It won't hurt your credit rating"
(I'd *just* opened my account, so I wasn't going to get "credit" on anything. besides, I wanted to pay cash...)
Me: "No, no, it's alright, I'll cmoe back tomorrow with the cash."
Him: "Sir, I assure you, we can do the credit check now, and you can leave the store with your PC!"
Me: "Are you on compensation?"
Him: *laughs* "Nah!"
The conversation went on for another 5 minutes until I couldn't hold in my laughter anymore, the guy was a new worker obviously, and I have never seen a poor soul so despserate to impress. Shame he didn't know much about computers.
I felt sorry for him really.
My one and only experience purchasing a system at PC world:
ME: "Hi there, I am looking for a system with a spec similar to <x>,<y>,<z> and an intel core 2 duo processor. No monitor, keyboard or mouse thanks."
Salesguy: "Well, there's This model, which has a pentium D processor. That's dual core! It's faster than the Core 2 Duo since it has a 3.4ghz clock speed."
ME: "The pentium D is an older model processor. I would like a new model."
Him: "Well, I can't see any IC2Ds on the floor. Still, this Pentium D based system is plenty powerful. Look at the video of these games!"
ME: *slaps head....* (OK, well, I was desperate here so I continued) "OK, so say I go for that one. I already have a nice monitor, keyboard and mouse, and I have already got an OS license. Can you remove those charges?"
Salesguy: "Well, they are built as part of the machine..."
ME: "The monitor, keyboard and mouse aren't. I can put up with the keyboard and mouse, but I don't want to pay for an extra monitor."
Him: "I'll need to check with my manager. (goes to check.) OK, yeah sure. What was the other thing you wanted?"
ME: "Uh... No OS charge..."
Him: "OS? uh, I'll ask my manager again. (goes to check.) Oh! No unfortunately we can't remove Windows off of the machines."
ME: "How about you just uh... don't put windows on there to begin with?"
Salesguy: "Sir, they come with Windows..."
Regardless, I decided to take this poor soul all the way to the end. At the sales end:
Him: "Sir, we can check your credit rating right now. You don't need to wait. It won't hurt your credit rating"
(I'd *just* opened my account, so I wasn't going to get "credit" on anything. besides, I wanted to pay cash...)
Me: "No, no, it's alright, I'll cmoe back tomorrow with the cash."
Him: "Sir, I assure you, we can do the credit check now, and you can leave the store with your PC!"
Me: "Are you on compensation?"
Him: *laughs* "Nah!"
The conversation went on for another 5 minutes until I couldn't hold in my laughter anymore, the guy was a new worker obviously, and I have never seen a poor soul so despserate to impress. Shame he didn't know much about computers.
I felt sorry for him really.