Vic- Have you ever heard of Spif. It's the extra money the sales person gets for selling that (day's, week's, month's) featured item.
I wonder if you were paying the Spif penalty. Many salespeople will over-push whatever is paying them spif in that period. It may help the seller's income, but it won't necessarily help the customer buy what is best for that customer. Larry Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:33:55 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Henry's Camera very annoying Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a venting exercise for me so I apologize if this is too long. For the second time this month Henry's sales reps have annoyed me to no end. Both times I went into the store asking about the Pentax Digital ist D and both times some arrogant sales person tried to sell me Canon crap instead of Pentax. Both times, two different sales people, said the Pentax wasn't worth the price and that Canon was better. That may or may not be true, but these guys were likely Canon users who didn't know squat about high end Pentax stuff and didn't even have the courtesy to pretend that Pentax had a very competitive digital camera. Both times I gave the sales reps an ear full. The KID today tried to tell me the Rebel D was better than the ist-d. I told him it was plastic crap. He said it had more features than the ist-d. I didn't know enough about the two cameras to argue with him, but I did tell him that my Pentax lenses would not work on the Canon. Besides that, what these people don't get is that the more gadgets or "features" a camera has does not make it better, just more complicated. I want a camera that feels good, that is intuitive to use and has the features I need and use. Pentax scores high marks here. Pentax should not even be dealing with Henry's if this is the crap the sales reps are selling customers. If I wanted a Canon I would have asked about the Canons, I certainly don't need some kid telling me who makes the best cameras. Today, I walked up to the counter, the ist-d was right below the kid, and said "I see you have the Ist-D. (I expected him to say something like, oh yea it just came in it's a nice camera. Pentax has done a great job on their first Digital SLR.) Instead the kid says something like, Oh you want to see the Rebel D. I said no the Ist-D. and off he went trying to tell me the Canon was better than the Pentax. What a moron. He might have made a $3,000 sale if I had been in the market. Now I won't even buy film from Henry's anymore... Vic
