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From: PYC118%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Rasiel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Leiser Superstores SUCKS
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:19:49 GMT
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I don't know how popular Leiser Superstores are anywhere outside of New England
but here in Rhode Island and Connecticut they're all over. Although they're
unfortunately one of the few electronics stores to carry Amigas I'd have to
strongly recommend anyone against buying one from them. While shopping around
for a CD player I noticed they had a 500 'on display'. But damnit, the damn
500 was off; and if that wasn't enough even if it were on all they had on it
to show it off was a bootleg copy of Tetris. Hardly what one would consider
impressive stuff. Getting kind of pissed off at the fact that it was the only
one of several dozen computers that was being displayed with no power I called
over one of their salesman (who, may I add, are normally obnoxiously pushy)
and I played 'dumb'. I asked him if he could show me this thing off because
I was ready to buy a computer right then and there (a lie of course). He then
said 'Ah, poof, man! gee I dunno about them- hold on' at which time he called
over another salesman. When he came and saw me looking at the computer he
immediately and gratuitously told me and my girlfriend that 'omegas' are
'of very limited capabilites'. Thinking maybe I'd be hooked on something else
he proceeded to tell me that they're not trained on the Amigas (which he called
'omegas') and therefore didn't know much about them. He also asked me what I
was looking for and I said 'I need a computer that has good graphics, sound
and animation- are you sure these are no good?'at which point he patronizingly
and confidently stated that no, no, no way; that I should perhaps take a look
at one of his Goldstar IBM clones. Needless to say I bought neither Amiga nor
CD player and walked out leaving them two clowns in mid-sentence.

Now I know I'll probably be lectured on how I shoulda stuck around and showed
those people what an Amy can REALLY do but I never really liked this place
much anyway. Besides, a dealer can use my bucks alot better than Leiser can
and I'll be supported in return to boot. It's just that I wish that specialty
stores that want to carry C= products be taught at least some fundamental
things about Amigas or whatever. I'm sure that if these salesman weren't
IBM-blinded they could move 500's like Ben & Jerry's ice cream at the beach.
This won't happen though until the Tetris demos are replaced with Toaster
demos (or at least Walker demos!)

Ras, pyc118@uriacc