People Who haggle prices on everything

[mrplunkey]

There are more 6-figure peeps in the U.S. that rose through marketing/sales ranks than any other profession including medicine, law, accounting, ...

I bet that's dead-on correct. Its probably the fastest way to upper-income without post-graduate school.

It's also probably the more volatile income long-term. While a physician or lawyer can build a referral-based practice and coast, only a small percentage of sales reps can coast. More often than not, a company will stop paying a rep for sitting on business and start encouraging them to go get new business. For example, the disposable medical device industry shifted from straight commission to a bonus structure based on growth in the mid to late 1990's.

 

[Razorguns]

My old trainer was a great guy and it took me a while to convince him that in the service industry the people who complain about price are going to be the worst about complaining. They aren't worth the trouble. The top 20% of your clientel bring in 80% of your revenue. And the bottom 20% of your clients bring in 80% of your headaches.

Funny, I read a book in college (aside from partying) that asked a salesperson why they give big discounts to each other?

"Because with this person, I spend 0 minutes making the sale. It increases my time - which lowers my cost.

In comparison - the more time I have to waste on somebody trying to make a sale, the less I can sell and thus increases my cost".

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[shrimp poboy]

You gotta be a pretty boy to be in sales. I look at them and I cant take them seriously. It's like owning a mac, you're a fag.

I do it if I am purchasing things locally - take for instance a cable modem this weekend (I needed it bad or I would have bought it online).
Went to wal-mart, went to bestbuy, from best buy I called circuit city and asked if they would beat wal-marts price of 63.58, they said yes and they gave me 10% off.

LOL at you haggling circuit city

 

[goin on 4T]

You gotta be a pretty boy to be in sales. I look at them and I cant take them seriously. It's like owning a mac, you're a fag.

I do it if I am purchasing things locally - take for instance a cable modem this weekend (I needed it bad or I would have bought it online).
Went to wal-mart, went to bestbuy, from best buy I called circuit city and asked if they would beat wal-marts price of 63.58, they said yes and they gave me 10% off.

Well I hope it doesn't break and I hope you didn't buy their extended warrenty program because they are just about to go out of business!

 

[mrplunkey]

You gotta be a pretty boy to be in sales. I look at them and I cant take them seriously. It's like owning a mac, you're a fag.

I do it if I am purchasing things locally - take for instance a cable modem this weekend (I needed it bad or I would have bought it online).
Went to wal-mart, went to bestbuy, from best buy I called circuit city and asked if they would beat wal-marts price of 63.58, they said yes and they gave me 10% off.

Being a die-hard engineer, I used to feel the same way about macs. Go get your hands on one though -- it's Berkley Unix running under there! Fire-up a console window and it runs like a big-boy computer!

I'm mostly mac now. You buy a new one, plug in the cables, and it just goes and goes and goes. I've spent more time maintaining my GF's vaio laptop over the last six months than I have maintaining three macs over the last year and a half.

 

[goin on 4T]

Being a die-hard engineer, I used to feel the same way about macs. Go get your hands on one though -- it's Berkley Unix running under there! Fire-up a console window and it runs like a big-boy computer!

I'm mostly mac now. You buy a new one, plug in the cables, and it just goes and goes and goes. I've spent more time maintaining my GF's vaio laptop over the last six months than I have maintaining three macs over the last year and a half.

Noooo! Say it isn't so? Plunky a mac fan? Was it the commercials that got you?

 

[mrplunkey]

Noooo! Say it isn't so? Plunky a mac fan? Was it the commercials that got you?

Nope, I grew-up on TRS-80's back in 1978. Back then, you had either burned-in BASIC or you programmed in Z-80 machine code. I chose the latter. When the PC came-out in 1980, I thought it was "just a fad" and moved to the VAX/VMS architecture. When I realized how wrong I was in 1985, I snagged a IBM PC/AT (the 6 MHz ones, not the fancy 8 MHz ones). Then I took a brief break with AT&T UB2's and Unix. After that, I splurged on a FiveStar machine (which ran at a ridiculously fast 16 MHz!) and the rest is history.

So fast forward about twenty years... my daughter is dead-set on a Mac, because it's "fun". So I buy one, plug it up, and it connects to my home network immediately. Then it finds my printers, configures itself and runs like a charm. I had set the afternoon aside to set it up and instead it took about 15 minutes -- from in the box to running. Then I started playing with it and discovered Berkley Unix in there! I've been a fan ever since.

 

[PICK3]

Nope, I grew-up on TRS-80's back in 1978. Back then, you had either burned-in BASIC or you programmed in Z-80 machine code. I chose the latter. When the PC came-out in 1980, I thought it was "just a fad" and moved to the VAX/VMS architecture. When I realized how wrong I was in 1985, I snagged a IBM PC/AT (the 6 MHz ones, not the fancy 8 MHz ones). Then I took a brief break with AT&T UB2's and Unix. After that, I splurged on a FiveStar machine (which ran at a ridiculously fast 16 MHz!) and the rest is history.

So fast forward about twenty years... my daughter is dead-set on a Mac, because it's "fun". So I buy one, plug it up, and it connects to my home network immediately. Then it finds my printers, configures itself and runs like a charm. I had set the afternoon aside to set it up and instead it took about 15 minutes -- from in the box to running. Then I started playing with it and discovered Berkley Unix in there! I've been a fan ever since.

Mac Spam alert!!!

 

[mrplunkey]

Mac Spam alert!!!

You caught me!

 

[UA_Iron]

Being a die-hard engineer, I used to feel the same way about macs. Go get your hands on one though -- it's Berkley Unix running under there! Fire-up a console window and it runs like a big-boy computer!

I'm mostly mac now. You buy a new one, plug in the cables, and it just goes and goes and goes. I've spent more time maintaining my GF's vaio laptop over the last six months than I have maintaining three macs over the last year and a half.

I was actually looking for an OSX image to run on VMware.

I'd like to check it out.

Not a whole lot I could do with it though. Would be nice to have something less involved sometimes...