Wife wants an air conditioner. Me: “OK honey be home late I’m going to buy us an air conditioner.” “You don’t know anything about air conditioners.” “Yes but I know about sales guys so will walk into the store and say ‘I am definitely going to buy an an AC today.’ Solved.”
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“But how do you know you get the best air conditioner?” “If I devoted the next ten years of my life to the subject I could, maybe, get a better answer than ‘I want the best-selling one.’ but ain’t got time for that so spoiler alert.” “They’ll be mortified.”
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“No see this is the great thing about sales guys: when you say you have definite purchasing intent and want a named product with minimal opportunity for either side to screw it up they are literally impossible to offend.”
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Elapsed time between getting to correct floor and being walked to door: 26 minutes, most of it confirming installation details. Capitalism, ho!
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Replying to @patio11
This seems interesting but I don’t understand what you mean. “Relax and just buy whatever the salesperson suggests”?
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In a way it’s “I am going to intentionally outsource this decision to 10 million Japanese housewives. Sales guy: what did they buy?”
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