I’m Getting Really Tired of Salespeople Making Shit Up

I bought a Nook Color today from Barnes & Noble, in the store itself. It cost me $250, plus another $30 for a cover, but came to about $300 including the tax. It was somewhat of an impulse buy, although I have been thinking about it for a few days now. You see, I don’t really need one. Recently, I bought an Amazon Kindle, and I can use that to read most ebooks that I want to purchase. However, I thought it would be nice to buy a color ereader for when I wanted to read magazines or maybe an occasional graphic novel.

The big problem for me was that I don’t have wifi at home. I have it at work, but I want to be able to download books at home and read them there, not have to go downtown to download my books and then come back home. The sales dude at Barnes & Noble, when I asked him about this, said, “oh, it’s easy. All you have to do is just plug it into your computer and then move the book over to the reader.”

The reason why I bought the Kindle 3g version for $189 instead of the wifi version for $139 was because of that problem. And I’ve been happy with the Kindle since.

So, I get home, set up the Nook, and sure enough I can’t even register it because I don’t have wifi. When I finally read through the tech information on the Nook Color, turns out that unless you have wifi, you can’t download anything. At all. No 3g, no using it through your computer (as the guy specifically said it could), nor any way of using brainwaves to magically make the text appear on the Nook either.

So yet again a fucking salesperson for some company decided that because he didn’t know shit about the product he was trying to sell, couldn’t just come out and say, “You know, that’s a good question. I don’t have the answer t that.” Instead, he had to make shit up and have me walk out of the store with a purchase that doesn’t do what the stupid fucker said it could do.

This is a karmic payback. I know it is because earlier, I was in Best Buy with Jason, and a whole bunch of Best Buy blue shirts kept coming up to me and asking me if I needed help. I said no. But one really cute girl wearing the Best Buy blue shirt came up to me and asked me if I needed help while looking at a Canon camera. I let her go on and even give me misleading information because she was cute and I didn’t feel like sending her away. Therefore, the karma gods have responded to my letting that one person go without revealing her for what she really was, all because she was cute.

I shall not make this error again, oh great karma gods. No salesperson shall escape my wrath ever again, no matter how cute she is. Well, unless she smiles at me and…NO, I will not stray from the path again!!!