Unolocogringo :
DRosencraft :
I still don't think you people get it...
Apparently you don't get it...
I'm not talking about forcing an item down a consumer's throat. Jewelry sales are a fundamentally different business, and I don't know what kind of jewelry store you run, but let's try this scenario. You've got displays of diamonds from big diamond companies A, B, and C. A customer comes in and says they've heard all of company B's diamonds are terrible. You personally don't like company B's products, but you know that others have previously bought it without complaint. I would think that you would simply say to that customer, "well, I don't know what you've heard, but as you can see, we have other products from A and C that you might like". You should not just badmouth company B. That reflects badly not just on the company B that you insult, but on you as a business owner who is selling a product you apparently have no faith in. If it's such a terrible product, why are you carrying it at all? Are you hoping enough people just waltz in and blindly buy it and don't come back for a return?
Like I said, I'm not faulting the guy for not trying to push Win 8, because I think it would have been just as bad to force something on someone when they're just asking for a little help. My problem is strictly the way the matter was handled. The customer doesn't like 8, fine. Ask them what they're looking for and help them out. But you are not going to convince me that it's smart business strategy to set a product out for sale and have your sales people badmouth that same product just on a passing comment from a single customer. The same way the author of this article just happened to be there and overhear all of this, there could well have been other customers who were there, unsure what they wanted, and heard you badmouthing the product. Are you saying as a salesperson you're going to turn around and try to talk to that other customer and sell them Win 8 or whatever as though you weren't just bashing that product? That's the most unprofessional garbage I've ever heard. Again, in a sales environment you have to dismiss your personal biases. If you can't do that, you shouldn't be in charge of selling that product.