Originally Posted by Tech Addiction (Post 1138760)

I can't believe the lack of knowledge these people have of the products they are paid to pitch. You would think they would be required to learn that kind of stuff. I use to bounce and the managers would make the waitresses take tests on Wine food and beer. They had to pass these tests to keep their job. If that was the case at Verizon they wouldn't have anyone working there. If you are going to sell something you should know more than the customer you are selling it to. (Rant over)

Originally Posted by garyr2548 (Post 1138587)

So for fun today I dropped by the ol' Verizon store. I wandered in looking at their displays and a salesman came by and asked if he could help me...... I asked "so, I read online that that new touch pro was out for verizon and I wanted to get a look at it." He said which phone? I said, you know, that new HTC Touch Pro2. I asked isnt it out for Verizon, I meant the internet said it was, and Tmobile released theirs and Sprint is about to release theirs. As I was asking him he went right into denial mode and all his body language set itself up to deliver me the next line, an obvious lie.......

His head slightly tilted down, shoulders slightly slumped, eyes down and averting direct contact and half of a shallow breath and he said, never heard of it, they dont tell us when those things are coming out, we just walk in and they are here.

Wow did I ever laugh to myself, that is classic kenesics for a lie! But we continued to talk. He asked where I got my info and I said, oh the folks at ppcgeeks were talking about it and the next thing he said was, well, we can certainly get you ready for a BB storm 2. I said, those things are JUNK! He didnt like that too much, got really defenseive...... I said, for what they are they are ok, but they are junk. I pulled out my TP from Alltel (now stuck with Verizon) and he said, what is that (its in a hard case) and I said its what your junky pro should have been like, he just looked down again! (Too funny) I showed him the phone with the psyki rom and that it was running wm6.5 and he said, wow never seen anything cool like that and I said, well you probably wont since Verizon ruined the TP (sorry to those that use it, but I couldnt resist digging in to the guy).

He again asked if I wanted to look into that BB and said, nope, since you have no info Ill go look at the one Tmobile and sprint have out.... Again, he looked down, sighed and I walked away laughing.

Too bad they just wont say what they know, oh well it was fun messing with him.

Originally Posted by ZuneNinja! (Post 1139781)

I think its insulting to us nerdy type when we go in and ask some simple info about a release and they go "durrr, you mean the BlackBerry Storm2?"" NO GOD DAMMIT!! lol, sorry but its just so infuriating.

Originally Posted by psycho_maniac (Post 1139971)

yeah before i went to get my first contract with alltel i already picked out the phone i wanted. i hate how they try to get you into a phone right away. wtf is up with them trying to get you into a bb phone? i hope they ask me if i want a blackberry and ill tell them i hate them.

i also mentioned the tp2 at a rep that i know pretty good and he didnt know anything but he knew that the strom2 was coming eventually