Morons

Again this week I was reminded of how stupid salespeople are. I went into a boutique electronics store to look at projection TV’s and was utterly ignored. I watched men in suits walk in and get pounced on. Apparently, my choice of jeans doesn’t make me look like a serious spender-of-dollars. You’d think that in the Bay Area, of all places, people would realize that the slightly disheveled young guy with quirky (not dirty) clothes probably has a good-paying computer job and loves toys. Treat him well, and he’ll come back again and again. Eventually the “seasoned” sales guys shoo’ed the new guy over to me. Me and Mitch talked to him again the next night and had good discussion of features and tradeoffs.

That young guy moved $11k in TV’s today. A chunk of it came from guys in jeans. Get your head out, old guys. You cannot judge a book by its cover.