Oh,
The Sony products sound FABULOUS. I heard them a couple of weeks in a
row.
I was born in 1955 and they sound EXACTLY like the TRANSISTOR radios my
parent's friends used to hold outside the windows while we were going
down the road when I was too young to remember the year.
P
Hifi is a
Goodsounds;469661 Wrote:
Most companies have pretty strict policies against employee conduct of
this sort, and they monitor compliance. On both the buying and selling
sides, especially with these both being publicly owned companies. I
can't imagine payments to a customer's employee being
On 10/9/2009 10:42 AM, Goodsounds wrote:
toby10;468493 Wrote:
Yes, I'm not talking about paying for product placement. I'm talking
about precisely what I said, bribe. :)
It happens at the store level, regional level, corporate level.
Most companies have pretty strict policies against
ftlight;470331 Wrote:
On 10/9/2009 10:42 AM, Goodsounds wrote:
toby10;468493 Wrote:
Yes, I'm not talking about paying for product placement. I'm
talking
about precisely what I said, bribe. :)
It happens at the store level, regional level, corporate level.
Most companies have
toby10;468493 Wrote:
Yes, I'm not talking about paying for product placement. I'm talking
about precisely what I said, bribe. :)
It happens at the store level, regional level, corporate level.
Most companies have pretty strict policies against employee conduct of
this sort, and they
Goodsounds;469661 Wrote:
Most companies have pretty strict policies against employee conduct of
this sort, and they monitor compliance. On both the buying and selling
sides, especially with these both being publicly owned companies. I
can't imagine payments to a customer's employee being
toby10;469681 Wrote:
- Several friends family working for large retailers in middle to
upper management.
- My next door neighbor was a regional supervisor for CC for three
years and has been the same for BB for over four years now (recruited
HEAVILY by BB).
- Me being personal friends
iPhone;468127 Wrote:
I do really feel for you guys, but there are these things called the
Internet and phones. I mean if one is already out or at the BB for
something else that is one thing, but to go without checking when its
easy to go online or call to check stock.
It was one of those
coma;468029 Wrote:
Not impressed. When you look at what the Radio and upcoming Touch offer
it kind of made me feel bad for the developers at Sony. Plenty of
resources no doubt but seriously lacking and rather expensive too.
Sony has been playing catch-up with portable media players
maggior;468405 Wrote:
.
Even when BB had the SB products on the shelves, you could never find
them. They had them by the computer speakers. Huh? Same thing with CC
(RIP). And the sales people couldn't tell you anything about them.
When the Boom was released, it was impressive in
toby10 wrote:
Keep in mind Sony has deep pockets to *nudge* (read: bribe) retailers
to promote the Sony brand and/or particular products.
Er, in all food stores and most mass market retail stores, the profit
margins are in selling the prime shelf space, not in the markup of the
goods. End of
Speaking to the post about Sony playing catch-up it boggles the mind
that they've been in this rut for years and still come up so short. I
mean their new product is ages behind the first offerings from Logitech
and Sonos. At least it plays nice with the iPod/iPhone which is a baby
step from
pfarrell;468432 Wrote:
toby10 wrote:
Keep in mind Sony has deep pockets to *nudge* (read: bribe)
retailers
to promote the Sony brand and/or particular products.
Er, in all food stores and most mass market retail stores, the profit
margins are in selling the prime shelf space, not in
I was in my local Best Buy last month to see what Squeezebox products
they had in stock and the cheerful salesman told me they no longer carry
any Squeezebox products in store. Instead he ushered me to the display
of the newer better product that just came out from Sony:
Similar thing happened to me also.
I went to my local Best Buy to pickup a boom about 2 weeks ago. I had
to repeat myself 3 times when I asked for it, the salesperson still
didn't know what I was talking about I had to take him to the product on
display. After checking the stock level he tells
lesliew;468066 Wrote:
Similar thing happened to me also.
I went to my local Best Buy to pickup a boom about 2 weeks ago. I had
to repeat myself 3 times when I asked for it, the salesperson still
didn't know what I was talking about I had to take him to the product on
display. After
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