Taking advantage of seniors?

[SilverBack]

A lady calls me yesterday
"Ed?"

yeah

"Your mom gave me your number"

I'm thinking , you little shit, mom....

"I have these computers over at my house and they are taking up to much room, I'm on disability and I just got a new Dell in a program of theirs"

Uh right, So what do you want me to do?

"Can you get rid of them for me?"

Well sure ( no problem there) Whats wrong with them?

"Nothing , the nice young man showed me that I really needed at 3.4 GHz P4 with a 1 gig of memory and a dual hard drive system"

Uh what do you use your system for???

" I play spades on the Internet"

coming right over



LOL
Both were celeron systems, 2.2 Ghz 40 gig hard drives, both work and she had monitors to. duh

Oh yeah
One was a Gateway and the other an HP

 

[Sunbird]

The message is clear!

My moms Celeron 667 can play spades over the net.

So, are you irritated a bit by your mom now or do you wanna go give her a hug?

 

[SilverBack]

Mixed feeling
Mom gives out my number to anyone who asks, LOL

 

[BW86]

lol wow

 

[Sunbird]

Did you bother asking her what her FPS on spades is now?

I wonder when spades will be too slow and she will upgrade again! Hopefully she calls you over again

 

[V00D00]

That's pretty nutty man. You going to sell them?

 

[LtPage1]

can i have a monitor and a hard drive or two?

 

[ProviaFan]

That's kind of odd... Given that it's a Dell (really, any OEM would do this), I'd have expected the salesman to try to convince her on a 3.6 terahertz processor with 128 kilobytes of RAM (exaggerating slightly, but still...).

I tried to educate relatives and friends in the past that they didn't need the top of the line processor, but would be better off putting the money toward more RAM and a better monitor. Needless to say, that didn't work, and I don't bother to do any "education" or offer suggestions on what kind of computer to get any more. I just point them toward Dell or HP and refrain from giving them my email address or phone number.