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In my retail job, I sell cameras. Yeah, I could push Canon 50D and Nikon D300 DSLR bodies to every customer who walked into the store, but how stupid would that be when all but maybe two people on a daily basis would return those cameras and ask for something smaller and less complex? It's a retail practice, if a customer would be better served by another product that you sell, you recommend that to them, but you can still sell 'em what they ask for if you've got it available. Actually, if I remember right, it's along the lines of being "straight up" with your customers.
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If ever a wireless company needed to do the honorable thing and commit hari kari, it is Sprint.]]>May 25th 2009 10:38AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/
All this internal slide is saying is that business users who need to integrate their device into a restricted corporate system may be unhappy with the Pre, and their needs would be better suited for the Pro.

That's ALL it says.

There's not even an implication of hipsters, suburbanites or druggies. WTF engadget? And the print on the slide you show is so small it's difficult to even decipher, so people are just going to take your BS interpretation as what the slide is actually saying.

And it's true, they NEED this device to sell well. They don't want to *storm* the launch, and they're making their sales staff (the intended audience of this slide) aware of that. ]]>May 25th 2009 10:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/May 25th 2009 12:55PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/May 25th 2009 1:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/May 25th 2009 1:43PM