Caution: Student iPod User
from the pt-barnum's-laughing dept
Huge iPod sales have spawned a booming market for accessories, but surely this is going a little too far: a London department store is offering lessons on how to use the iPod, charging about $115 for a 40-minute one-on-one session. The store says it's responding for customer demand, particularly from older buyers and, surprisingly, children. While resisting the urge to repeat some comment about fools and their money, these people could always just walk the few blocks over to the Apple store and get help, for free.
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Greed is good
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Me too. I see nothing wrong with what these people are doing. If people are dumb enough to pay for lessons when they could get them for free then that is there own issue.
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http://economics.uchicago.edu/
University of Chicago, '03
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Wonderful idea
Using scissors: $115.00
Tying shoes: $150.00
Watching paint dry: >SPECIAL! Only $89.95
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If they charged 10 bucks that would have been tolerable, but over $100 they should be reported to something or somewhere, especially since what they sell is free.
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We should tell those guys to implement these ones too!
;-)
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Too bad
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http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/week/20060115.html
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The thing is - the kind of shoppers that go to Selfridges want the personal service *now*.
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-Fools
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incredible patience required
let's look at it from a different perspective.
has anyone here done tech support? if you have, can you imagine trying to help someone who's SO dumb they can't figure out an iPod in 5 minutes, or iTunes in 10?
if that's the kind of customers they're dealing with, the money's got to cover psychology counselling each evening after work!
remember, if breathing required conscious effort and wasn't a brain-stem function, there'd be many dead people around!
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Seems to work
(but my kid's school recently got a new photocopier and had to schedule a training session on how to use it. So people are easily intimidated by technology, I think because they've been taught to be).
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mechanics only charge...
and these ipod people only get a 40 minute lesson!
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They overpaid for a closed-DRM music player because of marketing hype and a cute form factor. Why wouldn't you expect the same people to overpay for accessories and technical support of that same product?
iPods are for sheep.
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you what say now?
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