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Is this a new sales tactic, playing hard to get?


Back in 2009, buying a MBP, the salesman questioned why a CS student would want a mac over a pc. Luckily for him I wasn't considering his thoughts. I definitely didn't need that powerful of a computer and glad I switched to an air a few years later.


When I bought my windows XP computer, the salesman said “you really want a candy OS? Windows 98 is where it’s at”

Yeah. How’d that turn out, guy?


“Windows 98: It’s where the blue screens are at.”


Get in on some WinME!

Windows "Mistake Edition"

Ranked 4th in 2006 PCWorld "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time"


I think part of my comment was broadly about their softly-softly approach to hard selling not actually working at all when someone simply walks in and says "I'd like to buy this right now"




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