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Don’t you have a used one?
I overheard this conversation between are seller and a customer last week.
Customer: How much is a printer cable?
Salesperson: The 5 feet cable is 9$.
C: Don’t you have a used one?
S: Eh…No.
The above Conversation is not unusual, customers almost always asks if there is a used one they can buy…..
Seems that the Brain-dead computer magazines are encouraging people to do it.
We have a couple of dead motherboards with components (also dead ones) on display!
That is because we like to be able to show the customer how a PCI port look like and etc..
And usually I have to tell people that they are broke and don’t work!
They don’t seem to be able to grasp the fact that if the components were working they would never be without a protective anti static bag…
C: How much do this cost?
Customer holding up a dead motherboard with an electrocuted 16mb sdram and molten amd athlon 1400!
Me: It’s not for sale; it’s for showing how the different components look like.
C: aww, to bad!
C: Are you sure its broken?, I bet I can fix it, How much do you want for it?
Me: (Sigh!) 10 000$
C: your joking! He said and gratefully changed the topic
Customer: How much is a printer cable?
Salesperson: The 5 feet cable is 9$.
C: Don’t you have a used one?
S: Eh…No.
The above Conversation is not unusual, customers almost always asks if there is a used one they can buy…..
Seems that the Brain-dead computer magazines are encouraging people to do it.
We have a couple of dead motherboards with components (also dead ones) on display!
That is because we like to be able to show the customer how a PCI port look like and etc..
And usually I have to tell people that they are broke and don’t work!
They don’t seem to be able to grasp the fact that if the components were working they would never be without a protective anti static bag…
C: How much do this cost?
Customer holding up a dead motherboard with an electrocuted 16mb sdram and molten amd athlon 1400!
Me: It’s not for sale; it’s for showing how the different components look like.
C: aww, to bad!
C: Are you sure its broken?, I bet I can fix it, How much do you want for it?
Me: (Sigh!) 10 000$
C: your joking! He said and gratefully changed the topic
Selling the old stuff really cuts down on the cost of upgrading.
(it's the only smilie that looks like it's about to barf)
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