While I was at the mall...

X-Box is definitely more powerful and the Software ETC. guys have the right to hyoe whatever they want. What I don\'t like is that they are spreading a bunch of bull around. Last time I was there sombody was trying to buy a game and while he was paying for it the clerk started off on an X-box hype type rant. The thing that really got me pissed off was that this guy said that every single Final Fantasy after ten was actually going to be an X-box exclusive!

Where the hell did he get that info from?! He must be an undercover Squaresoft CEO.

Originally posted by TheOneBillyGunn
I went to a bunch of stores, Super Software, Software Etc., and Electronics Botique.  While I was at Soft. Etc. I got a GameShark 2, however what caught my attention was a little strange.  Everytime someone paid, they would be promoting X-Box, not Gamecube, not PS2, but X-Box.  What was kinda strange is that all 3 of them promoted it, saying how much better it was than PS2.  That got me annoyed, saying "graphics will be superior" and "games will be equal, if not better".  That is pure speculation, and they go off giving people who don\'t know any better the wrong Idea.  What\'s with Nintendo, why are they getting the shaft all the sudden?  

well this is strange, cause software etc. is the only store i shop at, at least where i get all my electronic opr ps2 stuff, and thye never talk about x box, always ps2, and ps2 this ps2 that, no x box , no gc, just ps2, and whats coming out in march, thats it

I\'m just glad I don\'t manage one of these stores!!!  What employee in their right mind...stops a sale!??!!!

Don\'t argue, "but they\'ll blow their money on something \'not as good\' as it will be down the road" cuz \'down the road\' will ALWAYS be better than today.  Forget it; if you are a salesperson, then SELL!!!  Turn your customer onto whatever they have in their hand.

Ask a customer what they like, what they play, what they want...THAT makes a sale!  *Telling* the customer what they want is moronic and does not close a deal.  Oh, the salesperson may glorify themselves in the false-belief that they are an all-knowing god, but the fact is, the cash drawer does not ring on vaporware.

And don\'t tell me, "yes, but X-box will be different..."  This is not about X-box (when X-box comes out,...believe me, someone else will have a console crusher hitting the market within 6 months of X-box that will be said to pulverize MS\'s lil\' baby)...this is about selling gamers on gaming...plain and simple.

-w1ngman

Hmmm, I do all my game shooping at Software Ect and I get none of this crap either. But believe me, if the next time I go there, they try to shove some XBox crap down my throat, well, I don\'t know what I\'ll do, but I\'ll tell you all if they do.

see you can not really cliam that this happens everywhere becuase this is one instance of a lot of stores

i go to babbages - a software etc affiliate - and they never push any console on anyone - well the ones that are gamers don\'t - they have a few people who just want the job and don\'t know much about games - but anyway most of the time they help out the customer with true and honest info about stuff, they never try to say their opion - they just try to sell the product

they moved this thread too?  Oh man....  I went to yet another store today where they emphisized MSXBOX!

Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
Hmmm, I do all my game shooping at Software Ect and I get none of this crap either. But believe me, if the next time I go there, they try to shove some XBox crap down my throat, well, I don\'t know what I\'ll do, but I\'ll tell you all if they do.

ill tell you what to do snakey old boy, just listen to what they have to say and when the time is right, look them right in the eyes and say "DO YOU GOT THE TIME!" and punch them right in the face, hey it works for me

Originally posted by unknown

Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
Hmmm, I do all my game shooping at Software Ect and I get none of this crap either. But believe me, if the next time I go there, they try to shove some XBox crap down my throat, well, I don\'t know what I\'ll do, but I\'ll tell you all if they do.

ill tell you what to do snakey old boy, just listen to what they have to say and when the time is right, look them right in the eyes and say "DO YOU GOT THE TIME!" and punch them right in the face, hey it works for me [/B]

Yeah, i\'m gonna punch an employe for reccomending X-Box, maybe I\'ll just do what Chris Benoit says... "prove him wrong"

Originally posted by w1ngman
I\'m just glad I don\'t manage one of these stores!!!  What employee in their right mind...stops a sale!??!!!

Don\'t argue, "but they\'ll blow their money on something \'not as good\' as it will be down the road" cuz \'down the road\' will ALWAYS be better than today.  Forget it; if you are a salesperson, then SELL!!!  Turn your customer onto whatever they have in their hand.

Ask a customer what they like, what they play, what they want...THAT makes a sale!  *Telling* the customer what they want is moronic and does not close a deal.  Oh, the salesperson may glorify themselves in the false-belief that they are an all-knowing god, but the fact is, the cash drawer does not ring on vaporware.
-w1ngman

I have to somewhat disagree with you. Just selling the customer what they have in their hand to make a profit is bad for long term business. When I worked in Atlanta. If there was something better than what the customer had in their hand we would tell them. The customer usually went with what we said and kept coming back as a repeat customer. I am not talking about telling them to not buy a console because one is coming out months later, just things in the store or that were coming out soon. Trust me it worked because we were the TOP store in our region. We had the most DC AND PS2 preorders. You have to remember that they trust you to sell them what they need(If they know you are not on commision). By just selling the employee whatever they have in their hand and it turn out to be crap they might not come back because they don\'t turust the employees. I am talking from being on both sides of the fence.
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I\'ll ask it once, and I\'ll ask it again...

WHERE DOES NINTENDO FALL INTO ALL OF THIS???

Originally posted by TheOneBillyGunn
I\'ll ask it once, and I\'ll ask it again...

WHERE DOES NINTENDO FALL INTO ALL OF THIS???

They don\'t

Obvioulsy Nintendo has no intention of being #1, there just going to be Nintendo.

Obviously MS is pushing the Xbox cause it wants it to be extremly succesful.

Obviously rumors about Sony asking stores to stop promoting Xbox are with good reason.  Sony can\'t sit back and allow stores who make money off of Sony products tell potential customers not to buy there product cause the competiton is better.

And Game Stores should not be on the take with all this BS, they should reamin neutral, but obviously its a war.

i have no problems at these stores pushing any one console product on me,bout the only gripe i have with them is when they try to explain (game / console / etc.) info to me,i seem to know more about it than they do..haha