| 00:00.01 | Maquis | sjansen: whenever i go down to my aunt's we have chorizo con huevos for breakfast, cuz it's my favorite |
| 00:00.13 | idahoJoe | tensai: that's not a selling point to the consumer though. you know? |
| 00:00.24 | idahoJoe | I love chorizo |
| 00:00.47 | Maquis | idahoJoe: i think that the customer usually doesn't notice little things like that... |
| 00:00.58 | Maquis | it's interesting what you can convince someone to buy.. |
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| 00:01.06 | idahoJoe | true, but you'd think they'd notice the price tag |
| 00:01.24 | idahoJoe | and perhaps the ratio of warantee cost to product cost. |
| 00:01.24 | tensai | idahoJoe: none of the waranties at staples cost more than the item. usually 10-20% of the cost. more for laptops, though. |
| 00:01.37 | idahoJoe | yeah, |
| 00:01.39 | Maquis | a lot of non-techie people don't think about those types of things though... |
| 00:01.50 | tensai | I never go for the things, myself. But I remember the party line. |
| 00:01.50 | idahoJoe | I'm just recalling when I bought my video camera at rcwilley |
| 00:02.04 | Maquis | a lot of people, while purchasing anything technical will go into "panic mode" |
| 00:02.13 | idahoJoe | the camera was $450, and the warantee they wanted to sell me was an additional $200 |
| 00:02.44 | tensai | idahoJoe: now that's just silly. staples' is $40 for any camera. |
| 00:03.29 | tensai | there's a 1-800 tech support line which is supposed to be really good. I never called it because I didn't want to find out it was otherwise. |
| 00:03.37 | tensai | I couldn't bring myself to lie |
| 00:04.54 | tensai | pushing the waranties was the part of working at staples I hated the most |
| 00:05.23 | tensai | 2nd was talking to people. you can see why I didn't enjoy it much. |
| 00:05.34 | idahoJoe | I 8staples get the impression 8staples that someone works for staples 8staples. (-: |
| 00:06.11 | tensai | no, I used to. I can only speak about what I know. |
| 00:06.29 | idahoJoe | that would have been my next guess. |
| 00:06.46 | idahoJoe | no offense of course. |
| 00:08.12 | tensai | idahoJoe: none taken |
| 00:08.17 | idahoJoe | I buy from staples occaisionally you know. Like just this last monday, I went in to pick up some maxell dvd+r they had on sale, and found some philips dvd+r's for only $9/15pack, so I bought a couple. |
| 00:08.35 | Bradipo | Ah man, I missed out on the whole ``Netiquette essay'' by fozz last month. |
| 00:08.41 | Bradipo | I was out of town. :-( |
| 00:08.46 | idahoJoe | there was an essay? |
| 00:08.49 | Bradipo | Just catching up on old emails now. |
| 00:08.51 | sjansen | Bradipo: Missed ya. |
| 00:08.52 | tensai | Bradipo: don't worry, he'll start it up in December |
| 00:08.53 | Bradipo | Sent to pluglist. |
| 00:09.09 | idahoJoe | fozz is on the plug list? |
| 00:09.16 | Bradipo | tensai: Sweet, are we to have a monthly netiquette faq now? :-) |
| 00:09.23 | idahoJoe | I wonder if that's the one he suggested I get on. |
| 00:09.56 | tensai | idahoJoe: yeah, he goes by the psuedonym "Doran" |
| 00:10.01 | idahoJoe | is there an online archive? (you know, so I don't _have_ to subscribe to yet another list) |
| 00:10.07 | idahoJoe | tensai: heh |
| 00:10.12 | tensai | idahoJoe: yeah. check www.plug.org |
| 00:10.16 | idahoJoe | tjx |
| 00:10.24 | idahoJoe | er s/j/h -> thx |
| 00:11.15 | tensai | Bradipo: a few threads past the netiquette faq a few people tried to revive the topic |
| 00:11.20 | Bradipo | I'm on fozz's side mostly when it comes to netiquette... |
| 00:11.31 | Bradipo | But I don't think it warrants a monthly reminder. |
| 00:11.41 | Bradipo | I usually just ignore things that offend my sense of netiquette. |
| 00:11.51 | tensai | it felt like we were beating a dead horse |
| 00:11.59 | Bradipo | Hehe, I bet. |
| 00:12.14 | tensai | speaking of which, I beat a dead seal once. my wife didn't see the fun of it. |