equk
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I had to go down to pcworld yesterday as my dads wife (blonde) wanted to get a new pc for the office. So I agreed to go just to show how much they rip people off and also to prove the people who work there know nothing.
The salesman was a complete t**t.
salesman: what are you looking to use the pc for?
dads wife: an office pc
me: we were looking at getting a core2duo
salesman: well you might find a celeron or a p4 will do the job, core2duo's are made for doing more than one thing at a time (err MMX chips were made for multitasking - 1997)
salesman: will you be using the internet?
dads wife: yes
salesman: do you have wireless? .... the only reason I ask is because Vista is only compatable with wireless networks (err is it?)
dad: well we have a wired network in the office, do you sell anything without vista? as we are used to xp
salesman: no, microsoft stopped making XP and no-one who sells pc's actually does pc's with XP anymore.
me: well dell sell pc's with XP?
salesman: welll ummmm.....errr.....yes they do...... erm
me: well ok we could just dual boot XP
salesman: well, the only problem is you would viod the warrenty then
salesman: also you would have to download all your drivers for the system from the internet (as if that's hard. I know 13yr olds who could do that with no problem)
me: yes (look at bloke thinking how the f**k did you get this job)
salesman: we have this system here which has everything you need (celeronD + 17" TFT for £450
)
salesman: what office software would you want with the system (he actually thinks he has a sale)
me: well we already have licenses for office 2003
salesman: well that might work on vista, altho I'm not sure
At this point both me and my bro don't know whether to laugh at this bloke or have a go at him and pull him up on his blatent lies.
my bro: well it would be cheaper for us to just build our own system
salesman: (realises he's out of his depth here) well you could try Dell
We both turn around to get away from this idiot before we floor him.
So now my dads wife is moaning saying about getting a printer (lol) ok, lets go over to the printers
my dad see's a printer he bought last week for £75 in there on sale for £165. Finally they realise what I was saying all along.
I just cannot believe people are so dumb. If I wasn't there they would have undoubtedly bought a pc + printer + maybe office 2003 (which they have already). My dads wife phoned her boss/business partner and he said he spent £800 in pcworld for his pc
Anyway, I'm pretty sure everyone knows how crap pcworld is, but that just really really annoyed me.
I think the cheapest core2duo system (a E2140) in there was £550 and it only had a 17" TFT and 512mb of RAM (they were charging £100 more for the same system with 1gb of RAM).
On Dell I found a core2duo E4300 + 1gb RAM + 19" TFT for £250+VAT
The salesman was a complete t**t.
salesman: what are you looking to use the pc for?
dads wife: an office pc
me: we were looking at getting a core2duo
salesman: well you might find a celeron or a p4 will do the job, core2duo's are made for doing more than one thing at a time (err MMX chips were made for multitasking - 1997)
salesman: will you be using the internet?
dads wife: yes
salesman: do you have wireless? .... the only reason I ask is because Vista is only compatable with wireless networks (err is it?)
dad: well we have a wired network in the office, do you sell anything without vista? as we are used to xp
salesman: no, microsoft stopped making XP and no-one who sells pc's actually does pc's with XP anymore.
me: well dell sell pc's with XP?
salesman: welll ummmm.....errr.....yes they do...... erm
me: well ok we could just dual boot XP
salesman: well, the only problem is you would viod the warrenty then
salesman: also you would have to download all your drivers for the system from the internet (as if that's hard. I know 13yr olds who could do that with no problem)
me: yes (look at bloke thinking how the f**k did you get this job)
salesman: we have this system here which has everything you need (celeronD + 17" TFT for £450
)salesman: what office software would you want with the system (he actually thinks he has a sale)
me: well we already have licenses for office 2003
salesman: well that might work on vista, altho I'm not sure
At this point both me and my bro don't know whether to laugh at this bloke or have a go at him and pull him up on his blatent lies.
my bro: well it would be cheaper for us to just build our own system
salesman: (realises he's out of his depth here) well you could try Dell
We both turn around to get away from this idiot before we floor him.
So now my dads wife is moaning saying about getting a printer (lol) ok, lets go over to the printers
my dad see's a printer he bought last week for £75 in there on sale for £165. Finally they realise what I was saying all along.I just cannot believe people are so dumb. If I wasn't there they would have undoubtedly bought a pc + printer + maybe office 2003 (which they have already). My dads wife phoned her boss/business partner and he said he spent £800 in pcworld for his pc
Anyway, I'm pretty sure everyone knows how crap pcworld is, but that just really really annoyed me.
I think the cheapest core2duo system (a E2140) in there was £550 and it only had a 17" TFT and 512mb of RAM (they were charging £100 more for the same system with 1gb of RAM).
On Dell I found a core2duo E4300 + 1gb RAM + 19" TFT for £250+VAT
) like to go in there and just haress them...
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