Store Ignorance

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Originally Posted by VenomXR8

Hi guys, check this out.I was at my local Big W store here in Melbourne Australia (Big W is like a Target or Kmart store for those who dont know) I was browsing their Blu Ray section as per usual when I noticed that some of the movies were priced at the DVD price by mistake. I was debating weather to pick up a few movies at these incredible prices or just let the sales person know about their mistake, I decided to suss the store person out to see if he knew about Blu Ray discs and how great they are and I decided that if he knew at least something about them I would point out the pricing mistake.So I go up to the guy and ask "so whats so good about these blu ray movies ive been hearing about?" He replies "they are a type of dvd disc that you can only play on playstation 3's" he goes on to say that they wont last long and he cant see how anything can look better than a dvd.I was so upset I spent a good 15minutes explaining to this moron all the advantages of blu ray.Then I picked up my new copy of fantastic 4 for $12.87 australian (about $9.66 us) where the normal price is about $37 australian. The only good thing about this is that Big W only sell blu ray from what ive seen. Ive never seen any hd dvd's in any of their stores. Any way heres a copy of my reciept just to show you the stupidity of some people.

I haven’t run across any price errors, but I do run across idiots in retail store daily. Most don't know anything about BD so they shoot from the hip hoping you don't know the difference or they are pro HD fans and will try to sway you to the "DARK SIDE"!

I had one idiot at Best Buy tell me that "PS3 is a gaming system and not meant for movie play, I don't know why they put a BD player in it that's no good and if you play BD on my PS3 to often it will burn out the optical drive thus possibly making the whole system crash and burn"..........Ahhhhh, ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha......whew....idiot!

A 360 fan boy at game stop really lit up when I told him that I wanted to purchase blu ray movies (the web site shows they sell them) and asked if he had any..... I swear he spoke for five minutes straight without taking a breath trying to make a 360 believer out of me....dude, I already own the PS3...save your breath and just answer the question! They didn't have any!

A Target salesperson (male) told me that PS3 was going out of business and that people buying the system now will only regret it in about a year because XBOX 360 is the future for gaming and that HD DVD blah blah blah.......idiot

Now I saved the best for last.... At our local Base Exchange, it was noticed that they have a display of a 42 inch HD TV playing a BD movie with a sign that says the TV is playing in HD 1080p with a BD player etc.. Now, to me the picture quality looked like crap and I asked the store manager why that was? She could not say, so she called one of the "experts" from the electronics department over and she asked him the same question, he says that people make a big fuss about BD and the quality is not as great as HD (which was not on display) blah, blah, blah....so I cut him off in his spell of BD bashing and told him that the picture quality would probably look better if you actually had it hooked up with an HDMI cable!! Yes, I could see the wires from the BD player to the TV; he was using regular AV cords!! Sabotage!!!...........IDIOTS!!! HATERS!!!

Off with their heads!!!!

True stories folks!