denverpilot
Tied Down
Some stores they push you a little harder to " trade up " immediately to something in the Electronics department.
Probably helped by a commission incentive, would be my guess.
I got the distinct feel that the kid would have been pushy last night if I'd have decided to say I wanted the gift card and I would be back later for a retina mini in a month or whatever. Karen was there with me and can confirm the "sense of pressure" the kid was oozing.
To me it didn't matter much. Just grab the mini non- retina and be thankful for the approximately $120 in free money. I'll never complain about free money. Ha.
We also got an ADDITIONAL $25 gift card for waiting patiently. Manners count still, I guess. Had to be spent at the next Target visit.
So didn't walk out with a $200 card, but walked out with half off on a mini non-retina and $25 in my pocket. About all I can say to that is, Thanks Target!
By the way, if their intent was to showcase their electronics area, I'll sadly report that generally their prices didn't beat anyone else's and their selection while bigger than before their "mobility center" went in, was the same as everyone else's. The overall effectiveness of the marketing budget may have been lost on me but maybe it will work for them long-term. The trade in stuff has hit every brick and mortar shop with both AT&T and Verizon starting it. All the other vendors had to add it. Target is using a third party for theirs but I forget who. It's on the paperwork here somewhere.
Some dude did a trade up on an iPhone. He didn't back it up and Target's data copying system (I assume a Mac hidden under the counter) crashed his phone and wiped his data. To me, it's his fault for not backing up his own crap, but I bet he blames the poor mobility tech and won't be back. They had an argument about the trade ins being " final " and he had to leave with his new phone but couldn't stop the sale and get the old phone back to attempt to restore it or jailbreak it and hunt for the old data... Not that he'd probably have any luck. But he left angry.
So between him angry, me kinda meh on the place, and two folks who seemed about as interested in the rest of the electronics section as I was, I'm not sure they batted even 25% last night if the goal was to hype the electronics section and service.
I was surprised at the two folks who weren't doing iPad trade ins. They were doing iPhones. I haven't looked at Target's website but were their prices on iPhone trade ins better than AT&T or VZ? The quick glances at the screen didn't seem to indicate that and prices didn't look any better than say, Gazelle. But... One can't discount the convenience of not having to ship to Gazelle. Walk in, get money toward a new device, get new device, walk out. Pretty smart competition to Gazelle, eBay, and Craigslist. Not that hot against the carrier's storefronts.
Interesting business wrangling.
Thanks again to whoever first posted it. PoA made me $145 this week. LOL!
