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Feigning Ignorance - Buying a Laptap
15 years ago
The other day my boyfriend and I had to go to Best Buy to get his laptop looked at. While he was busy with the customer service folks, I wandered off to the laptop section to look around.
A gentleman who worked there approached me and asked "Do you need help with anything?" A little light clicked on in my head, and I replied to him, "Yes, actually. See, I've never used a computer before."
A look of astonishment crept across his face, and he said to me, "Well, uh, how can I help you then? What are you looking for?" I was already enjoying this. To him I said, "Well, I'm starting college soon, and my teacher said I need one of those.. Those, uh.. Laptaps. Yeah, a laptap!" He smiled and asked if I meant laptop. I said that I suppose that's what I meant, but I wasn't sure. I asked if he could help me pick out a nice one.
So he walks me over to the laptop display and brings me to this huge 17" laptop with a $1500 price tag on it. This guy must be paid based on sales or something. "This one, right here," he said to me "is a real nice one. It's got an Intel Quad-Core at 3 Gigahertz, and it's got 6 Gigabytes of DDR3 RAM, two 500 Gig hard drives, and an HD screen. It's got.." And he continued to rattle off specs and features at me, while I pretended to be awash in computer ignorance, asking things like, "What's a Gigahert? Is three of them a lot? Three doesn't sound like a very big number.."
Eventually I was inclined to pretend to break down and tell him that, "My teacher just said I need this laptap for the internets. Does this one have an internets button or something? How does that work? Does that other one that's only $300 have internets in it?" This guy must've been selectively bred to be a salesman because he said, "Well.. Those ones can use the 'Internet,' but this one will be faster at it." I told him that that was all well and good, but I also needed one that would last me a long time, since I was considering putting down so much money.
It went like this for a while, me asking him questions I already knew the answers to, and him trying to build this expensive laptop up to being a really good deal for poor, ignorant me. Just as I was getting ready to ask him if it would play CD's, I was interrupted by a phone call from my dear mother, and I had to tell the salesman that I'd get back with him on the laptap thingie. He said his name was.. Ah, I forget, but he told me it.
I've been planning on doing this for a while now. It was very rewarding.
A gentleman who worked there approached me and asked "Do you need help with anything?" A little light clicked on in my head, and I replied to him, "Yes, actually. See, I've never used a computer before."
A look of astonishment crept across his face, and he said to me, "Well, uh, how can I help you then? What are you looking for?" I was already enjoying this. To him I said, "Well, I'm starting college soon, and my teacher said I need one of those.. Those, uh.. Laptaps. Yeah, a laptap!" He smiled and asked if I meant laptop. I said that I suppose that's what I meant, but I wasn't sure. I asked if he could help me pick out a nice one.
So he walks me over to the laptop display and brings me to this huge 17" laptop with a $1500 price tag on it. This guy must be paid based on sales or something. "This one, right here," he said to me "is a real nice one. It's got an Intel Quad-Core at 3 Gigahertz, and it's got 6 Gigabytes of DDR3 RAM, two 500 Gig hard drives, and an HD screen. It's got.." And he continued to rattle off specs and features at me, while I pretended to be awash in computer ignorance, asking things like, "What's a Gigahert? Is three of them a lot? Three doesn't sound like a very big number.."
Eventually I was inclined to pretend to break down and tell him that, "My teacher just said I need this laptap for the internets. Does this one have an internets button or something? How does that work? Does that other one that's only $300 have internets in it?" This guy must've been selectively bred to be a salesman because he said, "Well.. Those ones can use the 'Internet,' but this one will be faster at it." I told him that that was all well and good, but I also needed one that would last me a long time, since I was considering putting down so much money.
It went like this for a while, me asking him questions I already knew the answers to, and him trying to build this expensive laptop up to being a really good deal for poor, ignorant me. Just as I was getting ready to ask him if it would play CD's, I was interrupted by a phone call from my dear mother, and I had to tell the salesman that I'd get back with him on the laptap thingie. He said his name was.. Ah, I forget, but he told me it.
I've been planning on doing this for a while now. It was very rewarding.
I ordered my computer online so I wouldn't have to deal with salesman. And I was doing a custom build so it can handle the programs I need to run on it (CAD, CFD, and the like).
But that was WIN. XD