Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > Once, when being pressured to buy that extended warranty for an appliance, > I finally asked the salesman (who also happened to be the manager of the > department) if it was really needed with this appliance. Without skipping a > beat he assured me that it was and started to repeat all the benefits of > the warranty. I considered his answer for a moment and then told him I'd > not be taking the appliance -- I'd go elsewhere and find one that was built > to be more reliable. He still hadn't thought of an answer as I walked out. > > Del He then no doubt proceeded to service the next of 50,000 customers lined up behind you and sold that fellow the same appliance, probably at a better price for the store then he'd have gotten out of you. They operate on the oldest trick in the book..... pick up the nearest relevant communication device, contact the first 10 people that any old random list will provide, and you are guarenteed to get an affirmative to nearly any proposal you put out there 3 times out of the 10. Have you not noticed how obviously profitible it must be to try and sell yourself as the ex-consort to the ex-financial adviser to the ex-cousin of the ex-president of Ugandia and offer any and all willing saps 20 million dollars if they can only have your name and bank account number for the temporary placement of 100 million ? Nice sentiment tho. You'd make an admirable addition to the numbers of the high elves :) Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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