Friday, June 18, 2010

Shenanigans at the TV Store

I have worked a bucket load of overtime recently (48 hours overtime last week) so I decided to buy a nice new TV for the bedroom. I decided on a nice LCD 36" LG with VEGA ports, and went to purchase it in the store last night, as there was a one week sale on it accelerated the purchase. I was in at the start so the week, and had asked a few questions about it and was quite happy with my choice. When I went back to the store last night I had another look around, and confirmed my original choice as the perfect fit for us.

I got my (Foreign born) wife  to ask for the TV to be brought to the till. This is a little game I like to play with the sales staff in almost every store. First the "really clever" sales staff will do his/her best to sum up and create a profile of the customer, and gauge how much shite they can talk and or make up on the spot. Half way trough their sales pitch, I enter and throw the whole dynamic into chaos, thus throwing the sales person out of their comfort zone, and off their game putting me firmly in control. Now they have to reassess the situation, and are trying to put us into a category. Lots of things are going trough his mind, are these together, yes they are, they are a different race, where did they meet, was he abroad when the met, and what was he working at when he was abroad? All this slows them down at making new assumptions about me so he transfers his assumptions of my wife onto me.

Wife: Can I take one of these?
Salesman: Oh sorry they are all sold out, but for an extra €50 you can get one of these (Points to a horrible Sony), and its a much better TV.

Enter me from the side like a bolt of lightning

Me: Nah thats horrible.
Salesman: Well if its just the frame you don't like, its the same TV!
Me: I thought you said it was a better TV (When you were talking to my wife)?
Salesman: Hmmm, well its much the same.
Me: How is it much the same, the LG is Full HD (1080) with VEGA ports, and the Sony is HD ready(720) with no VEGA ports?
Salesman: Ahh, Hmm I'll just double check the LG. Briskly walks away.

Me in my mind: Yeah ya proper bastard, ya better check it ya spoofer. Did not see this coming did ya? Did not cover this in sales school, did they? I seen 2 seasons of Lie to me, and 5 seasons of Criminal Minds so I think I have the upper hand here.

Salesman shadowed by me miraculously has just one left in stock, "get it, and bring it to the till Byatch"!

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