cidion
Supervised Member of life
In sydney There is an Apple "supported" chain of stores called NextByte.
They Suck.
Granted, I have only been in 4 of the many stores in this area, but everytime, the people have a very limited knowledge of apple, and the operating system.
On one occation I acted new to the mac world, walked in, and looked at an imac. The sales person came up. "how can I help you?"
"I'm looking for a G4" I said. "Is this one?"
"Yes" they said. and went on to tell me some other things incorrect about the Imac and it's capabilitys. "it can produce broadcast quality video" - "it can burn DVD's" (the one I was looking at was the old iMac)
On another occation, I asked for a Griffin Powermate. the guy looked it up, and came back with a $300 AUD price tag. (+-$150 USD) It retails for $40 in the USA.
I said that was to much, and he said well you can try the iMic for a little less. It does the same thing. ------ It doesn't do the same thing.
He looked/sounded like an idiot.
There is a story or two that I could say for each time I have entered a NextByte store.
It's something I would expect from Circuit City (USA) or Dick Smith's Electronics (AU), but not from Apple.
It makes Apple look like dolts when they tell people the wrong things, and later the people find out they were lied to. NOT good for Apple.
Apple, I'd look into it.
Make more of your own stores down here.
They Suck.
Granted, I have only been in 4 of the many stores in this area, but everytime, the people have a very limited knowledge of apple, and the operating system.
On one occation I acted new to the mac world, walked in, and looked at an imac. The sales person came up. "how can I help you?"
"I'm looking for a G4" I said. "Is this one?"
"Yes" they said. and went on to tell me some other things incorrect about the Imac and it's capabilitys. "it can produce broadcast quality video" - "it can burn DVD's" (the one I was looking at was the old iMac)
On another occation, I asked for a Griffin Powermate. the guy looked it up, and came back with a $300 AUD price tag. (+-$150 USD) It retails for $40 in the USA.
I said that was to much, and he said well you can try the iMic for a little less. It does the same thing. ------ It doesn't do the same thing.
He looked/sounded like an idiot.
There is a story or two that I could say for each time I have entered a NextByte store.
It's something I would expect from Circuit City (USA) or Dick Smith's Electronics (AU), but not from Apple.
It makes Apple look like dolts when they tell people the wrong things, and later the people find out they were lied to. NOT good for Apple.
Apple, I'd look into it.
Make more of your own stores down here.
