What I miss about Amiga shops.......

[Kesa]

So i walk into an apple store and start fiddling around when one of their people comes up to me and we exchange the following:

Me: "what's so special about apples?"

Apple guy: "" telling me why apple really are the best computers around.

So i ask: "how can apple computers be better than other brands like dell and acer when they all use the same generic parts like intel"?

Apple guy replies with mumbles of "gee, errr, ummm" until eventually all he can muster is "because it's apple!".

I just don't understand

[Kesa]

One of the worst things about visiting any type of electrical shop, whether it's a computer, TV or even a washing machine is the never ending sales push to get you to purchase the extra 3 or 5 year Warranty that cost half the price or more of the item your buying, that really pees me off but the best answer I've found to that is to reply with...

"So the piece of kit your trying to sell me is so unreliable that I need to purchase this extra warranty for it for when IT DOES BREAK DOWN within the first few years... In that case I'll not even bother buying such a piece of crap..."

Never fails as they either just shut up or mumble something under their breath as they waddle of knowing that they won't be getting a cut from selling you this scam...

That's not the worst thing. The worst thing is when you spend extra on top of an initial purchase for extended warranty and then they don't honour it. I bought a new Acer laptop and was so proud of it i spend $150 extra for extended warranty. Then about a month later the harddrive broke. Acer refused to fix it out right because i didn't fill out the piece of cardboard that came somewhere in the box. So why did i spend $150 for extra warranty? :madashell:

[Kesa]

Franko, can you imagine the looks on their faces if you took in your A1200T to be repaired under warranty in 1992?

You take in a heavily modified Amiga and they would go "What the f**k"? :eek:

We should all take our 2011 miggys back in time just to freak them out. But not just the warranty guys but community groups too. *sighs* the joys of time travel :rolleyes:

[Kesa]

Bit of a b****** once you got to know him too.

Well come on then, tell us all about it... :hammer:

[Kesa]

Off topic but i have a question. What percentage of the Earths water is held within cows :confused:

[Kesa]

But I haven't had great experience with PC shops either.  My wife was looking for something to get me that I could "actually use" this past Christmas and I suggested I could use some RAM for my slightly older PC (needed two 1GB memory modules).  I did my research and looked up the exact type of memory modules that my motherboard needed from the manufacturer's website and manual.  I wrote down the specs (an exact quote from the manual) on a piece paper for my wife.  Since these were going to be used parts, I directed her to the local "mom and pop" computer store which I normally liked to support instead of the "big box" stores.  

She went in one day after work and explained that she would like to buy some older RAM modules and that she didn't know much about much about "computer jargon" but that (her husband) had written down what he needed.  The fellow took the paper and said something like "well it looks like he doesn't know much about computer jargon either" as if what I had written down was jibberish.  He then tried to tell her that it wouldn't be compatible but that she could buy such and such a new part (this was the owner of the store who had run it for over 10 years).

I was pretty frustrated with this arrogant response.  I took the specs, went personally to ANOTHER computer store (I won't be going back to that first store again) and within 20 minutes had returned with exactly the RAM modules I needed and had my PC's memory upgraded.  As a bonus, it was cheaper at the second store.

I had a similar experience but not with my computer but with my mountain bike at a bike shop. I've had my mountain bike for over 13 years and have really looked after it. Most people are surprised when i tell them how old it is. She's my pride and joy. One day i took it into my local bike shop after i had an accident. I bought new handlebars, brake levers and some other things and also paid the service for them to put them on for me. When i picked up the bike and paid the money for their work i went outside so i could ride it home and it didn't take long to realise they did a dodgy job on it. Even a 10 year old could have done a better job than what they did. When i took the bike in and complained they refused to fix it making up some excuse why they didn't have to :madashell:

My point is never let strangers mess with your pride and joy. If you want something done right do it yourself

[Kesa]

I went into a Scientology center once.  They had an office in town on one the main streets.  A friend and I thought it would be a hoot to go in and take the "Free Personality Test" that they had posted on a sign in front of their office for years.

After taking their test, they took me into a separate office to score it and discuss it.  The guy scored it, explained that I was a highly dyanetic person, and that I was doing fine.  He thanked me for coming in, and showed me the way out.

I'm not sure whether that should please or disturb me....

I don't get it. Are you using a metaphor in that you are really describing your experience of actually going into an Apple store? :confused: