Comments on: You wouldn’t buy a car without a test drive… so… http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/09/you_wouldnt_buy.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:01:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve procter http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/09/you_wouldnt_buy.html/comment-page-1#comment-521 steve procter Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:23:46 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/09/you_wouldnt_buy_a_car_without_a_test_drive_so.html#comment-521 oh my oh my, are you guys mind-reading! I was going to email you yesterday with my thoughts on this most terrible of sales methods - plastic toy versions of several-hundred pound devices...hideous...simply hideous. I too went shoppping for a new handset over the weekend and it is the most depressing experience one can have. I stepped in to the first shop shivering with excitement at the thought of getting my hands on an n93. But what do I see, plastic toys that my 2 year old nephew would consider rubbish. At the 2nd shop I stepped in through the door and had eye contact with a spotty 17 year old who looked like he had got a deer in his site, I turned and walked very quickly out. I made it to the window of the 3rd shop, peered inside and just couldn't do it. I then went home. You stupid stupid people, you have absolutely no idea what you are doing. Can you imagine going in to Micro Anvika and looking at plastic non-working versions of PC's with fake screens and broken keys!? Wake up mobile operator/shop people - smell the coffee and come in to the 19th century!! Your shops and fake-toy approach to selling stink, they are an embarrassment!! steve/itagg oh my oh my, are you guys mind-reading! I was going to email you yesterday with my thoughts on this most terrible of sales methods – plastic toy versions of several-hundred pound devices…hideous…simply hideous.

I too went shoppping for a new handset over the weekend and it is the most depressing experience one can have. I stepped in to the first shop shivering with excitement at the thought of getting my hands on an n93. But what do I see, plastic toys that my 2 year old nephew would consider rubbish. At the 2nd shop I stepped in through the door and had eye contact with a spotty 17 year old who looked like he had got a deer in his site, I turned and walked very quickly out. I made it to the window of the 3rd shop, peered inside and just couldn’t do it. I then went home.

You stupid stupid people, you have absolutely no idea what you are doing. Can you imagine going in to Micro Anvika and looking at plastic non-working versions of PC’s with fake screens and broken keys!?

Wake up mobile operator/shop people – smell the coffee and come in to the 19th century!! Your shops and fake-toy approach to selling stink, they are an embarrassment!!

steve/itagg

]]> By: Jim Black http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/09/you_wouldnt_buy.html/comment-page-1#comment-520 Jim Black Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:22:53 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/09/you_wouldnt_buy_a_car_without_a_test_drive_so.html#comment-520 One reason cost - the cost of the devices and the cost of devices being nicked. Somebody in the food chain would need to absorb these costs. Using your car analogy, a car without an engine wouldn't be much use for a test drive, and so devices without a valid sim card and network connection may not be much use either? One reason cost – the cost of the devices and the cost of devices being nicked. Somebody in the food chain would need to absorb these costs.

Using your car analogy, a car without an engine wouldn’t be much use for a test drive, and so devices without a valid sim card and network connection may not be much use either?

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