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- From: bgt@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (barbara.tongue)
- Subject: TOPS expertise
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:02:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.140218.6575@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: how much off can you *really* get?
- Lines: 31
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- folks,
-
- pardon me if this has already been discussed - i just discovered
- this newsgroup.
-
- recently i've had the joyous experience of purchasing a vacuum cleaner
- and VCR from TOPS appliance center in East Hanover, NJ. now, ignoring
- their absolutely obnoxious commericals which would border on tastelessness
- if they were closer than the 13,000 miles in depth of nauseating-ness
- they currently are, and the fact that *some* (not all) of the salefolks
- are polyester-plaited shark wannabes, they did have some rather good
- prices.
-
- i was able to knock off $50 on both items which i purchased. it makes
- me wonder, though, how could i find the *real* price they cost? why
- would they price something and then take off half a hundred dollars?
- what is the best overall strategy for dealing with these peoples?
- i'd be interested in hearing all war stories....
-
- btw, when buying the VCR my salesperson was quite polite. the vacuum
- cleaner sale, though, was an amazing experience - the salesperson was
- working part time in college, very informative, really pleasant personality;
- apparently not too experienced because his "manager" (a subspecies of
- paramecium which couldn't pass a bio slide test) decided to step in
- and convince me to purchase much warranties. it was actually a lot of
- fun to put him through all his sales paces....
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