Sam
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I went into the Apple store at the Bullring in Birmingham the other afternoon, I haven't been inside an Apple store since like 1994!
Doesn't really look like a store as such, just a few MacBooks/iMacs/iPods etc. spaced out with specs and prices in small print 
People seemed to be going in there to use the machines for checking their Hotmail? 
I wanted to ask a member of staff something about the Mac Mini, they all seemed too busy chatting to each other and wanking over their iPhones! 
Definately not a positive shopping experience for me.  Anyone else's Apple stores like the above?
[Edited on 23-04-2010 by Sam]
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Whittie
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I was extremely close to buying a macbook pro at christmas, I didn't due to the staff not having a clue what they were talking about, this was the shop in Leeds.
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ed
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That shop isn't ever good. It's always too busy and it's too narrow. Like a scrum in there...
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ed
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Oh, but if you want to talk to someone about hardware you can phone up to book an appointment with a 'Genius' 
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Whittie
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Tommy
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Trick with any shops like this is to look interested in the most expensive thing in the shop then when they ask if they can help take them to what you want.
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Sam
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I think I prefer PC World to be honest.
Most of the staff are still clueless but at least you get attention from them!
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Tommy
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That is also true Sam
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GF-91
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You know what they say... If you don't like it...
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AlunJ
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I like the shops, it's a bit different, but in my experience they won't bloody leave you alone ffs, been to Bristol, Cardiff & Birmingham
[Edited on 23-04-2010 by AlunJ]
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AndyKent
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The Milton Keynes store is pretty good. The staff have always come up to me and asked if I want help - very friendly on the whole. Only been in there 3 or 4 times though.
Hate the whole 'genius' thing though. The last genius I spotted looked like the comic book guy out the simpsons
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Nath
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I heard John works for Apple as a 'Genius'.
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Kurt
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i applied for a job as a Genius 
the stores are full of facebookers, if your lucky they might forget to log out and you can rape their profile
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
That shop isn't ever good. It's always too busy and it's too narrow. Like a scrum in there...
Yeah it isn't the biggest of stores, although i've never had problems with people asking if i wanted anything - must be my good looks 
Only thing that fucks me off is that there is only a small percentage of staff that actually know what they are talking about, majority of them haven't got a clue.
When purchasing an older model MBP (which they spent 40mins trying to find even though it was reserved) on the release day of a new model (older model was better spec'd and cheaper), the bellend that was serving went on and on about how the new model was better and quicker when it clearly wasn't. And when i said that it needed to be a 7200rpm drive (the newer model came with a 5400rpm drive) as it was going to be used for location recording (so 20/30+ audio tracks simultaneously - maxing it out), he came out with how he never had problems with 5400rpm drives as he was a "producer" and that we were basically talking bollocks. The little shit didn't shut up and give us the MBP until i made some sarky comment about garageband being slightly different to ProTools and that we weren't using this to make "beatz!!!111". Felt liking kicking the shit out of the scrote there and then
[Edited on 23-04-2010 by Dom]
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ed
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I think I'd rather buy online or from the god awful o2 shop on the other side of the Bullring. No one goes in there 
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Toby
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Apple shops are like internet cafes, just banks of PC's using them for other things oh and the fanboys who really want an iphone
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Generation
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quote:
Originally posted by Toby
Apple shops are like internet cafes, just banks of PC's using them for other things oh and the fanboys who really want an iphone
Yeah! Shit load of pc's in there!
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dannymccann
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Cant stand any phone / PC shops in general. I find as soon as I look at something I get jumped on by at least 3 of the staff one after another, its so annoying, I dont want them to tell me how RAM can help me speed my computer, I know this shit already, especially when its some 60 year old woman who's quite obviously been given a script. Ask them slightly more difficult questions like whats the CAS timings on that RAM?
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Sam
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They'd probably self-destruct if you asked those sort of questions.
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Matt H
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Staff in my local store were spot on, took a while to get seen though
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deano87
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My mate used to be a Genius at the European flagship store in London (Regents Street).
He is now a Communications Project Manager earning £35k straight out of Uni.
Despite what you say the Genius' are trained really well - he was always skipping Uni to go on courses.
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AlunJ
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I always found the genius' were the only people in the shop who had a clue what they were talking about. Rather cocky ish some of them though.
Still when i've had problems they've been ace.
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Ben G
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the store near me (lakeside) is always full of losers that go on facebook to update their status's with OMG IN APPLE STORE 111RR3YU22 WOW OMFG BRILLIANT OH GEE YEH
how fucking sad do you have to be?
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AlunJ
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mainly sad acts who know f**k all about apple and never intend on buying a mac in there tbh
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