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Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:58:35 AM
You are mixing price with service.
BestBuy - a "maybe", Wal-mart - a "never".
I go to Wal-Mart knowing what I want - and ask where it is. To ask the person who can barely speak English on "does the DVD player have component out" - forget it!
BestBuy - yeah, those teenagers and twenty nothings know a lot. Like at Orifice Despot (not bad.. Stimples?) They are on salary I believe unlike Future Sh*t which are on comission. (even though owned by same - I can double check that).
What I am looking for is a company that can piece together the parts - I can go to Sony Store for that. But we are mixing COMPUTERS + AV - that's still a niche in my department. Again I exclude the BestBuys of the world - they are mixing "gear" to come up with a solution; Gateway should be putting together "their gear" for a solution.
Macs shine not because they are building crap like Dell and selling it as a unit - hoping all the pieces work as intended. Instead, everything was designed to work with the Macs as configured. I have said this before - with Mac I expect everything to work (you know.. because of the patents), but with the PCs - it is hope.
Your experience with Dell - one ofs. Why you had to wait beyond day 5 is beyond me - was it escalated as high as possible? (But I agree the single purchase was not wise; a system would be something else; even then, I preferr to review and have my system built - as I did - with exactly what I wanted)
But Dell only sells online - yet they are killing the market - so it must be working. If people don't think service is crap at Wal-Mart they are blind.
I went to the bank on Friday (no two!). Anyways, after working with two people now that "were" bank tellers and then dealing with a teller with the same attitude as them (read: b*tch), I am convinced that most are are bred that way. I go to banks not to chit chat or deal with them - but because I was forced to at gun point. (TD took my GST payment at the machine away; I had some office account business at Royal). We all know service at banks are crap. I say to the woman at Royal "Stamped photocopy" - she does the paperwork and says here. I say, "receipt? " She says "what receipt?" I say "the receipt that says I gave you this piece of paper and I will not be hit with a $15 charge". She gets up to get a photocopy - pissed she had to do work - her friend two tellers down looks at me with the look of... - what an A55HOLE I must be to ask a teller to get off her a55 and get me a photocopy. I am so a5hamed!! I bit my tongue and said have a wonderful weekend. A botched photocopy - but I had proof and copied at home previously to boot to cover any fraud. I was cursing all the way home. And my opinion of Royal can't get much lower - seeing as they are the king of nickel and dimers.. the KINGS.. their royalty logo fits them well.
Enough Bloke.. enough...
Anyahoo, my point is - Gateway will do well if they can sell "systems that work". Cost is another factor. Case in point - my "Cambridge Soundworks" was bot to work with my '99 computer but also because I expected it to work with my DVD Player once I got one. Doesn't work. Piecing together gear is a lot of work.
(Yes we differ on the stock - you appear to be interested in a run up and dump; myself, I would love that too - but I think they could be a turn around story like AAPL). The difference though between AAPL and GTW is - Apple is the only game and they can markup whatever they want. I can't afford an Apple - end of story. Its their throat they are cutting. For Gateway - there is more to the story. I will continue to review)
BTW: I officially have changed my opinion of you. If you weren't already, you are now. RICH (period) I too wait for the day when I have enough coin that I can, without worry of the inflated high price, buy a mac similar to yours - no, lets be generous-lets buy two macs each with two 24" flat panels.. and an iPod or two. Ah yes, that day, I will be RICH.
Do you expect me to talk? No Mr. Bond, I expect you to Die!
All is not Bleke
(btw: congrats!! Very very very large smile on my face for you.. and a nod..)
BestBuy - a "maybe", Wal-mart - a "never".
I go to Wal-Mart knowing what I want - and ask where it is. To ask the person who can barely speak English on "does the DVD player have component out" - forget it!
BestBuy - yeah, those teenagers and twenty nothings know a lot. Like at Orifice Despot (not bad.. Stimples?) They are on salary I believe unlike Future Sh*t which are on comission. (even though owned by same - I can double check that).
What I am looking for is a company that can piece together the parts - I can go to Sony Store for that. But we are mixing COMPUTERS + AV - that's still a niche in my department. Again I exclude the BestBuys of the world - they are mixing "gear" to come up with a solution; Gateway should be putting together "their gear" for a solution.
Macs shine not because they are building crap like Dell and selling it as a unit - hoping all the pieces work as intended. Instead, everything was designed to work with the Macs as configured. I have said this before - with Mac I expect everything to work (you know.. because of the patents), but with the PCs - it is hope.
Your experience with Dell - one ofs. Why you had to wait beyond day 5 is beyond me - was it escalated as high as possible? (But I agree the single purchase was not wise; a system would be something else; even then, I preferr to review and have my system built - as I did - with exactly what I wanted)
But Dell only sells online - yet they are killing the market - so it must be working. If people don't think service is crap at Wal-Mart they are blind.
I went to the bank on Friday (no two!). Anyways, after working with two people now that "were" bank tellers and then dealing with a teller with the same attitude as them (read: b*tch), I am convinced that most are are bred that way. I go to banks not to chit chat or deal with them - but because I was forced to at gun point. (TD took my GST payment at the machine away; I had some office account business at Royal). We all know service at banks are crap. I say to the woman at Royal "Stamped photocopy" - she does the paperwork and says here. I say, "receipt? " She says "what receipt?" I say "the receipt that says I gave you this piece of paper and I will not be hit with a $15 charge". She gets up to get a photocopy - pissed she had to do work - her friend two tellers down looks at me with the look of... - what an A55HOLE I must be to ask a teller to get off her a55 and get me a photocopy. I am so a5hamed!! I bit my tongue and said have a wonderful weekend. A botched photocopy - but I had proof and copied at home previously to boot to cover any fraud. I was cursing all the way home. And my opinion of Royal can't get much lower - seeing as they are the king of nickel and dimers.. the KINGS.. their royalty logo fits them well.
Enough Bloke.. enough...
Anyahoo, my point is - Gateway will do well if they can sell "systems that work". Cost is another factor. Case in point - my "Cambridge Soundworks" was bot to work with my '99 computer but also because I expected it to work with my DVD Player once I got one. Doesn't work. Piecing together gear is a lot of work.
(Yes we differ on the stock - you appear to be interested in a run up and dump; myself, I would love that too - but I think they could be a turn around story like AAPL). The difference though between AAPL and GTW is - Apple is the only game and they can markup whatever they want. I can't afford an Apple - end of story. Its their throat they are cutting. For Gateway - there is more to the story. I will continue to review)
BTW: I officially have changed my opinion of you. If you weren't already, you are now. RICH (period) I too wait for the day when I have enough coin that I can, without worry of the inflated high price, buy a mac similar to yours - no, lets be generous-lets buy two macs each with two 24" flat panels.. and an iPod or two. Ah yes, that day, I will be RICH.
Do you expect me to talk? No Mr. Bond, I expect you to Die!
All is not Bleke
(btw: congrats!! Very very very large smile on my face for you.. and a nod..)
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
"An umbrella with holes is better than no umbrella at all."
Dr. Alexander Elder on using stops.
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