x box pushing

why is it when i go to any retail store they pushing x box down my throat I was in best buy  cashier trying to sella customer a xbox saying things like see the graphics  see how pretty it looks
 the customers ask about the ps 2 the cashier says oh that thing is not really that good lol i had to say well its a choice thingx box has great potential but no games yet ps 2 is inferior hardware wise but has a huge library the cashier was pissed lol she booted up the x box again and the dam thing crashed so tell me are the stores pushing x box because its better or is bill trying to get a bigger user base before that dam thing crashes i would buy one if they had some good software and made a decent controller electronic boutiques employees are doinf the same thing   hmmm bill what you doing you tring to ram that black box down our throats lol

i dont know im not sure it could be because bill gates is rich and he personally goes to every store and bribes every cashier to sell the xbox but im not sure about that because bill gates is a nice guy and he might just want to sell the xbox without cheating so maybe you wont see as much bribery now that the xbox has a lot of games worth buying that will sell the system and my butt is itchy lol

they\'re trying to make up thier profit margins they\'ve been losing on xbox, especially after the price drop

everytime i go into the best buy in my area, they have a huge stack of them as soon as you walk in [wonder why its a huge perfectly formed stack with none missing :rolleyes:]

but yet i see people will NGC\'s and PS2\'s under thier arms or in thier carts at checkout

and like i said last week, there was NO mention of anything xbox in last weeks sunday paper ads (best buy, circuit city, toys r us).  im curious if there will be any this week.  i\'ll find out in a few hours when the paperboy gets his lazy arse out of bed

EB employee\'s [the ignorant goats that they are] will push what they are told to, cause thier reps get rewards

Originally posted by rage_42
why is it when i go to any retail store they pushing x box down my throat I was in best buy  cashier trying to sella customer a xbox saying things like see the graphics  see how pretty it looks
 the customers ask about the ps 2 the cashier says oh that thing is not really that good lol i had to say well its a choice thingx box has great potential but no games yet ps 2 is inferior hardware wise but has a huge library the cashier was pissed lol she booted up the x box again and the dam thing crashed so tell me are the stores pushing x box because its better or is bill trying to get a bigger user base before that dam thing crashes i would buy one if they had some good software and made a decent controller electronic boutiques employees are doinf the same thing   hmmm bill what you doing you tring to ram that black box down our throats lol

ever heard of sentence structure?

I haven\'t really experienced an extreme either way. Sometimes I hear Xbox, sometimes PS2...never GC*snickers.  

Anyway, what\'s this about Xbox crashing?  I haven\'t experienced anything or heard about any problems...

For some reason the store i go to has a design using about a 100 XBoxes, yet that design hasn\'t changed in two weeks, maybe on gone or something.

Hmm...

That is a shame, I would really hate it to die so early.  It has an ass load of potential.  It would be the first time a reasonably priced system with more power just died, becuase of lack of games.  What a shame, this better not effect the release of Deus Ex 2 er I start da killings.

We have stacks of XBox and PS2 at my store, but with PS2, we only get shipments about once a month. XBox we get them about once a week, keeping the stack around the same. PS2 will kill the stack, come back in and be stacked again.

Gamecubes we hardly ever get in (perhaps because we hardly sell them) and we always have just enough to fit on the shelf.

In sales it usually is PS2, XBox with about 2/5\'2 of PS2 and GC with about 2/5\'s of Xbox.


Eric Jacob

THE REAL PROBLEM IS THE GAMING INDUSTRY THINKS THERE IN A HIGHLANDER MOVIE THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE LOL

Anecdotal evidence means nothing.

I was in a Toys R Us today and no one was there buying a system. I guess it\'s the end of gaming this time around. :rolleyes:

Ace

Well put Ace.

I just want to say that MS sent about every store that sells x box this \'manual\' on how to sell x box.  

Maybe its the source of the pushing?

Anyways its not helping them because like the one billy gun said.  I myself have seen this.  1 week after the x box launch and all the ps2\'s are sold out,  but the store is bunched with x boxes

and to this day i see the same thing with x box,  even the gc (yes they resupplied ps2s)

Nothing wrong with teaching the stores that will sell your product how to do it the right way.

Ace

Originally posted by Ace
Nothing wrong with teaching the stores that will sell your product how to do it the right way.

Ace

right way = pushing?

Hmm. lets see, I have a product that I want to sell in a number of stores. Do I want my product pushed? Yes, I want my product pushed out the door.

Now if we are saying that I want the stores not tell the truth about my product to make sales, then I would have a problem. My product will be returned and sales will be lost.

It happens in all departments. I work in video and I sometimes hear the most ridiculous information being spewed by sales people.

Buyer beware!

Ace

No little \'manual\' was sent to Best Buy, where do you get this stuff clowd? Remember, great arguments are built on facts, not lies.

I don\'t push any console at my store, but after finishing describing what comes with each of the systems, customers unwittingly will buy XBox because it is most powerful, you don\'t need memory cards, you don\'t need a multitap, and you can watch DVDs on it if you wanna spend 30 bucks on it. If it was always about the games, PS2 would be the only thing to leave the store. We sell alot of XBoxs to people who have played Halo or Project Gotham at a friends house. Word of Mouth is a better selling force than any "brainwashing" that MS could do.

XBox seems to be pushed by all the non-media employees in my store. It seems like everyday one of the CarFi or Audio guys tell me they sold an XBox for me. These guys LOVE WSB, Halo, and Moto GP. All they ever talk about when talking about XBox is those games. You get employees on peoples\' positive sides by providing great experiences and they will sell more of your systems, it is a natural process


Eric Jacob