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EdGuila on 08 September 2008

I always encourage my customers to buy a PS3. Spend $399 or $499 now instead of spending $349 and then coming back two days later to drop another $210 on battery pack, battery charger, WiFi, Live Membership. PS3 has it all in the box plus the ability to play movies in HD. Plus after spending all that, their DVD equiped XBox 360 will be obsolete in 14-18 months. A PS3 is "guarnteed" for the next 7-8 years.



PSN: EDguila

PS3 library:  Motorstorm, Assasin's Creed, Orange Box, Uncharted:DF, Metal Gear Solid 4, Resistance:FOM, Rachet & Clank Future:ToD,

Near future: Folklore, SOCOM Confrontation, BioShock, Little Big Planet, Resistance 2.

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Squilliam on 08 September 2008
Domicinator said:
When I switched from PC to console in January of 08, I figured I'd just buy what the most people I knew had. Well, that ended up being the Wii, and I'm NOT buying one of those. But other than that, most people had the 360. Since then, I've encouraged my brother and another friend of mine to buy the 360. I have several more friends that are seriously considering it now that the price drop is here.

Quite frankly, the most annoying thing for me about buying a console so far has been the "console war". With PC gaming it was always the "death of PC gaming" stories that annoyed me. Now the console war annoys me, and I totally forgot how stupid people can be about it. It almost ruins the thrill for me to the point where I've stopped coming to sites like this. (Nothing against the site. I think the stories and articles are great, but the forums contain an unbelievable amount of completely uneducated armchair analysis and just plain retardation.)

You're right....

Wait! Im a retarded armchair analyst too! Noooooz

 



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Squilliam on 08 September 2008
EdGuila said:
I always encourage my customers to buy a PS3. Spend $399 or $499 now instead of spending $349 and then coming back two days later to drop another $210 on battery pack, battery charger, WiFi, Live Membership. PS3 has it all in the box plus the ability to play movies in HD. Plus after spending all that, their DVD equiped XBox 360 will be obsolete in 14-18 months. A PS3 is "guarnteed" for the next 7-8 years.

I always used to ask my customers how they intend to use things rather than assuming they need Wifi, HD playback, battery chargers, Live membership.

If you were my employee I would fire you.

 



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megaman79 on 08 September 2008
Squilliam said:
EdGuila said:
I always encourage my customers to buy a PS3. Spend $399 or $499 now instead of spending $349 and then coming back two days later to drop another $210 on battery pack, battery charger, WiFi, Live Membership. PS3 has it all in the box plus the ability to play movies in HD. Plus after spending all that, their DVD equiped XBox 360 will be obsolete in 14-18 months. A PS3 is "guarnteed" for the next 7-8 years.

I always used to ask my customers how they intend to use things rather than assuming they need Wifi, HD playback, battery chargers, Live membership.

If you were my employee I would fire you.

 

You must have really shitty sales numbers man. Everyone knows you up sell your customers irrelevant of whether they actually need the fancy gold plated speaker connectors. If you can sell it sell it.

You sir are a stooge working for MS, infact i see more logic and understanding in EdGuila's sale than yours.

I would like to know how do you sell an xbox without a HD, online, netflicks, etc? And why would you want to, what's the profit on that, not much im guessing?



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yo_john117 on 08 September 2008

I've already brought 2 of my friends over from the dark side. both were hardcore playstation fans.



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Jo21 on 08 September 2008

its hard not to troll this thread... must resist! *leaves*



Final-Fan on 08 September 2008

I used to tell people to never ever buy the Core, but buy the Pro instead.

Then after I found out about RRoD I warned them about that and suggested it might be better to get a PS3 instead.

At this point I don't think the failure rate justifies begging people not to throw their lives away, and the Arcade isn't such a bad deal, so I just give them as much info as I can and let them sort it out.



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Squilliam on 08 September 2008
megaman79 said:
Squilliam said:
EdGuila said:
I always encourage my customers to buy a PS3. Spend $399 or $499 now instead of spending $349 and then coming back two days later to drop another $210 on battery pack, battery charger, WiFi, Live Membership. PS3 has it all in the box plus the ability to play movies in HD. Plus after spending all that, their DVD equiped XBox 360 will be obsolete in 14-18 months. A PS3 is "guarnteed" for the next 7-8 years.

I always used to ask my customers how they intend to use things rather than assuming they need Wifi, HD playback, battery chargers, Live membership.

If you were my employee I would fire you.

 

You must have really shitty sales numbers man. Everyone knows you up sell your customers irrelevant of whether they actually need the fancy gold plated speaker connectors. If you can sell it sell it.

You sir are a stooge working for MS, infact i see more logic and understanding in EdGuila's sale than yours.

I would like to know how do you sell an xbox without a HD, online, netflicks, etc? And why would you want to, what's the profit on that, not much im guessing?

Actually we had fantastic sales numbers. Some of the best in the country in fact. I think customers recognize when you don't treat them like an idiot. Sure you can fool them once shame on them, but keep trying that trick and they'll go somewhere else.

The PS2 sold without network/HDD/memory card/online etc and it sold very well.

 



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EdGuila on 08 September 2008
Squilliam said:
EdGuila said:
I always encourage my customers to buy a PS3. Spend $399 or $499 now instead of spending $349 and then coming back two days later to drop another $210 on battery pack, battery charger, WiFi, Live Membership. PS3 has it all in the box plus the ability to play movies in HD. Plus after spending all that, their DVD equiped XBox 360 will be obsolete in 14-18 months. A PS3 is "guarnteed" for the next 7-8 years.

I always used to ask my customers how they intend to use things rather than assuming they need Wifi, HD playback, battery chargers, Live membership.

If you were my employee I would fire you.

 

 

 Well I do think I was too clear on my steps on making a sale.  Well the battery pack and charger cables are a must/given.  $50 here in Canada.  So instead of buying a 60GB 360 with charger for $349 I informed them that for $50 more than can get HD movies, WiFi, online membership, and 20 extra GB, plus a control that has Sixaxis with rumble.  Another thing that $50 will get them in an 7-8 years of entertainment.  Plus a hell of lot less worrying about your system breaking down and chew up your games.  On top of that I don't want them to but upset in a year when their DVD enabled investment is obsolete because the manufacturer was pushing HD games on DVDs.



PSN: EDguila

PS3 library:  Motorstorm, Assasin's Creed, Orange Box, Uncharted:DF, Metal Gear Solid 4, Resistance:FOM, Rachet & Clank Future:ToD,

Near future: Folklore, SOCOM Confrontation, BioShock, Little Big Planet, Resistance 2.

Squilliam on 08 September 2008
EdGuila said:
Squilliam said:
EdGuila said:
I always encourage my customers to buy a PS3. Spend $399 or $499 now instead of spending $349 and then coming back two days later to drop another $210 on battery pack, battery charger, WiFi, Live Membership. PS3 has it all in the box plus the ability to play movies in HD. Plus after spending all that, their DVD equiped XBox 360 will be obsolete in 14-18 months. A PS3 is "guarnteed" for the next 7-8 years.

I always used to ask my customers how they intend to use things rather than assuming they need Wifi, HD playback, battery chargers, Live membership.

If you were my employee I would fire you.

 

 

 Well I do think I was too clear on my steps on making a sale.  Well the battery pack and charger cables are a must/given.  $50 here in Canada.  So instead of buying a 60GB 360 with charger for $349 I informed them that for $50 more than can get HD movies, WiFi, online membership, and 20 extra GB, plus a control that has Sixaxis with rumble.  Another thing that $50 will get them in an 7-8 years of entertainment.  Plus a hell of lot less worrying about your system breaking down and chew up your games.  On top of that I don't want them to but upset in a year when their DVD enabled investment is obsolete because the manufacturer was pushing HD games on DVDs.

Funny... The Wii gets along fine with just AA batteries. Furtermore - who doesn't own a battery charger these days? Especially if they have kids and the kids need batteries for all their toys.

 



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