This weekend I went to see “I Am Legend” (which was totally awesome… just nowhere near as good as the book). After the movie was done I decided to take a quick tour around the mall here in downtown Portland (Pioneer Courthouse Square) and ran into an old co-worker or mine named John. Since we were both looking for gifts for our significant others, I suggested we team up and tackle the holiday traffic together as a unit. John still had no idea what to buy his wife and after a little back and fourth, we both decided that his girlfriend would enjoy an Apple iPhone and since John is a huge Apple fan we thought it wouldn’t hurt to pick him up an iPhone either.
While I have been a little hard on the iPhone in the past, deep down inside I am still a cell phone salesman and enjoy helping others find a phone that they will be happy with for the next few years and both John and his girlfriend are hardcore Apple fanboys/girls so it only made sense to talk him into buying not one iPhone, but two!
While we were talking to a sales person at the Apple store, like all salesman, he decided that he would try to get me to purchase one as well. I was more than nice with my refusals to wanting to purchase an iPhone or iPod and told the sales rep, I kid you not, seven times that I was not interested in either device. John and I both saw that the rep was getting visibly upset, as if it was pure blasphemes to not want to own an iPhone. Eventually he asked what type a phone I was using and when I pulled out my Motorola Q9h and I was pretty much verbally spanked for owning anything that would was made by such an evil corporation. What made matters worse was after the rep found out I owned a Microsoft Zune as well. After I showed it to him since he kept trying to engage me in a sale, he flat out told me that I was not welcome in the store and he did not want “my kind” disturbing his customers.
This is the first time in my life that I was thrown out of a store for owning products made by Microsoft! I mean, really?! Is this what the world has come down to when you cannot even help a friend get a Christmas gift because you prefer a different product? Am I going to have to start drinking from a segregated water fountain as well?!
Needless to say, once this was said to me John told the sales rep that he didn’t want to turn into one of “those people” and politely cancelled his order and we left.
I know I can’t really blame Apple for the actions of one employee, but you know what they say, “When in Rome”. This is why I will never recommend another Apple product to anyone I know ever again. Between this and those ridiculous smear campaign commercials, I have no idea why anyone would want to own an Apple product.
Dec 18, 02:42 PM
Awww. I was just kidding. I thought I would throw out a little flame bait an see what happens. Maybe those digger kids will send me some link love…