"2014-01-07T00:00:00"^^ . . "2"^^ . "4"^^ . "I have noticed that a lot of salesmen often feel like the have to \"earn\" their sale. Just like fishing. You gotta involve yourself in the deliberate process of throwing the rod, freezing in rubber boots in water,waiting out and then ...ooops you are rewarded with some perch. So do the computer salesmen of Micro Center - in heir natural habitat, a new interesting breed (half-geeks/half-salesmen) will have no interest to the villain who skipped all the steps of the game (asking about speed, battery life, processor) and said: \" Hey can anyone here cell me this laptop? I like it because it's shiny, silver and lightweight.\" To them it's a crime equivalent maybe to putting salt first without even trying chief's best creation. The salesman has to pick you up at the entrance, \"adopt you\" , educate you and then set you up with the computer. When they ask you:\" Do you have any questions\", you should jump: \" I do, I do, I do! Enlighten me!\"\nAnd we didn't do that. \nBasically after that we went on chasing them around in this claustrophobic muti-eyed (TVs and laptops) teched-out room. It literally took us 35 (!) minutes of continuous begging and semi-illegal stalking ( I was literally breathing down the neck of some of them), to sell us wretched $400 laptop. And it literally happened when one of the salespeople just stumbled into us : \" You guys need something?\" Until then they were walking \"through\" us as if we all had cloaks of invisibility. I get it. We didn't ask about the processor. Or memory card. We didn't play their sale's game. But get this, geek kids. Sometimes good things in life happen like this: someone walks in and gives you $400. And you just need to cash customer out and \"have a good day\" playing your exhausting mind games. 3 minutes of your time. We part our barbaric and geeky ways. \nBecause in the end THE STORE is for people, and not the other way around, people do not come there to dance your boring sales tribal game. \nPlay lottery. Believe in miracles. Break the routine."^^ . "3"^^ . "1"^^ . . .