geez, salespeople really deserve to be shot. I went for a browse at my local harvey normans (equivilant to compUSA but australian) not intending to buy anything and saw a generic prebuilt computer with the generic marketing phrases. However, the phrases, blistering fast celeron 566mhz processor and 3D now! chipset didnt seem to quite work together (unless intel has just bought AMD out). when i alerted a underpaid, useless salesperson about this he refered it to the maneger who then attempted to bribe me by reducing the price by $100 which meant it was about twice as expensive as a self-built by my estimates.
At the same store a couple of years ago, they had a couple of display machines at the back of the store which were protected by a windows screensaver password to stop people mucking around with them. Needless to say, I just rebooted and mucked around with them as well as changing the password so the salespeople could be extremly embarassed. After about a week of this, I went back and there was a technician there opening up a computer and replacing harddrives. When I asked him what was wrong, he said that the harddrive was faulty and kept altering the password file so he was replacing the hard drive. I didnt go there for ages then so the technician probably concluded that he was right after all.
At our school, we get a couple of lazy tech support guys who basically know jack all. When I went in there to see if I could weasel my way into a new laptop paid by warrant due to a blown pixel on my screen, they claimed that the cause of the problem was.. wait for it.. I was pressing the keys too hard when I typed and it was stressing the computer.
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At the same store a couple of years ago, they had a couple of display machines at the back of the store which were protected by a windows screensaver password to stop people mucking around with them. Needless to say, I just rebooted and mucked around with them as well as changing the password so the salespeople could be extremly embarassed. After about a week of this, I went back and there was a technician there opening up a computer and replacing harddrives. When I asked him what was wrong, he said that the harddrive was faulty and kept altering the password file so he was replacing the hard drive. I didnt go there for ages then so the technician probably concluded that he was right after all.
At our school, we get a couple of lazy tech support guys who basically know jack all. When I went in there to see if I could weasel my way into a new laptop paid by warrant due to a blown pixel on my screen, they claimed that the cause of the problem was.. wait for it.. I was pressing the keys too hard when I typed and it was stressing the computer.
post your stories about dumb salespeople/tech support
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