[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Uninformed salespeople

BVAUGHAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) (04/29/89)

In article <42e370e4.190fc@gtephx.UUCP>, ellisond@gtephx.UUCP (Dell Ellison) writes:

>In article <6885@ecsvax.UUCP>, msewil@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles R. Ward) writes:
>> ...Tandy
>> sales reps are no less informed that the average shmoo in Computerland,
>> Entre, etc.
>
>How very, very true.
>It seems like they just memorize the spec sheets and they don't usually know
>much about computers.

Sometimes they don't know anything about anything. I asked a sales clerk
in the electrical section of the Sears hardware department if they had
voltage converters and he asked me, "Is that the thing that goes from
three-prong to two-prong?"

Barbara Vaughan