[TriLUG] OT: Retail Sharks

[Frye, Matthew]

>> CompUSA $19.99.  Price at Intrex $1.50.  Give me a break there is no 
>> explanation between the two prices.  

>Sure there is.  Joe Consumer goes to CompUSA and doesn't know
>any better.  Joe has never heard of Intrex...and probably would
>laugh at the mom-n-pop atmosphere if he walked into the store.
>Joe also believes the salesman who says that the gold-coated
>connectors will make his computer faster.
>
>They are charging what the market will bear...and probably
>selling a lot more cables than Intrex.

Unfortunately, it's true about the cables sales _and_ the staff.  Not long
ago, a CompUSA foot-soldier insisted on disagreeing with me when I told him
that a laptop that retails for > $2000 should have a nic in it.  (They were
selling refurbs for $2000+, by the way.)  He told me that was rare because
nics are very expensive.  I asked him if he was out of his mind.  

MPF

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