and further,
On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 13:52 Australia/Perth, Shay Telfer wrote:
hi People this is (deleted) from the Apple Centre (deleted),
[snip]
i have spent over 40,000
dollars doing a refit for the apple location only it takes up 70
square
metres in the store thats about 24% of the store including storage and
generates 4% of the profit for the store and you ask me to carry a
part
for a laptop that has had nine upgrades, i don't understand, do you
think apple centres make money for a 5 dollar product sitting on a
shelf for 2 years, i don't think so,
I'd point out that
* The part in question is still in use by current G4 laptops
* If it's a five dollar product you could blow oh $20 on keeping your
customers happy by having some on the shelves. Sure you might not
profit on it, but maybe they'd buy something else you do make more
profit on when they're in the store?
Have fun,
Shay
--
Hear hear. Business has a lot to do with goodwill.
The top posting illustrates clearly the inherent weakness of giving
Applecentre franchises to those of the dark side: they get neglected.
Also apart from the completely appropriate business lesson, Shay,
perhaps you could educate the above individual in the mystical art of
the Full Stop... perhaps his clientele may be more impressed!
David
