Last weekend I was out with the wife/kid and my mom...shopping for
back to school clothes. This was out of town for me (down in NC).

We're at one of these large outdoor shoparama things, and towards the
end of the day, my wife and mom want to go into some purse store or
something, which just happens to be next door to the "BOSE Factory
Outlet Store" or something like that.

I'm hot and bored so I figure "I'll check this place out and see what
it's like".

So me and the boy go in there......JEEZZZZZ I've been less assaulted
by creepy sales droids in a car dealer than this place, talk about
high pressure!!

I get five steps into the place and a "sales counselor" walks up and
starts hitting on me.

I explain I'm just hanging out there while the fems shop next
door....but he's not taking no for an answer.

He asks me if I'm familiar with Bose and I say something to the effect
of "well actually I'm more into Pro Audio, and the name Bose in Pro
Audio is pretty much persona non-grata...we generally think that Bose
Pro Audio products suck"

So the guy keeps up the sales pap, to which I reply "well if I was
gonna drop some serious cash on a home stereo I figure I'd be looking
at Bryston and B&W or something like that".

Meanwhile I'm noticing they have these "mini stereo" things that are
like $2,000....I'm thinking "sheessshhhhh, who buys this crap!"

The guy offered to take me in the back as they were starting a demo
soon, and I finally said "well I'm sure it sounds nice but the way you
have this store setup in no way resembles anybody's actual living room
so I don't know how your demo would translate to an actual space where
this stuff would get used".

He finally backs off and shortly after that my wife and mom show up to
rescue me.

Anyway, the whole experience left me really turned off, it reminded me
a whole lot of car dealers....salespeople that know virtually nothing
about the product they sell, only about selling...those guys could be
selling refrigerators or mattresses, and maybe they were last week,
but it was a big turnoff for me.

Even if I was a fan of the stuff I would have been horrified at the
pressure tactics they lay on at that place...the whole thing just
really ****ed me off.

Analogeezer