This is something I’ve noticed lately. A lot of hifi shops and hifi manufacturers have helpful staff, but just as many are extremely rude and arrogant.

I’ve had people speak condescendingly about my amp when I’m demoing speakers. Same thing for my speakers. I’ve even had someone, and I kid you not, tell me my streamer has shit sound quality.

It seems like hifi shops are either extremely helpful or just downright awful. The same with manufacturers, they either recognise that there exists alternatives or everything sucks ass compared to their product.

  • twofires@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Having worked retail for 20 years (electronics stores, bike shops, book shops, groceries), I can tell you there are 4 types of retail assistant:

    1. enthused and empathetic and genuinely trying to help you
    2. just getting by, trying to earn a living, largely indifferent
    3. jaded grizzled types whose filter has been completely eroded, if it was ever there (usually the final state of type 2)
    4. testosterone-fuelled borderline sociopaths who would rip your head off and slam dunk it in the till for a sale, and whose attitude to you will turn in a dime based on whether or not you are going to buy something ‘worth their time’.

    Retail, sadly, tends to reward the fourth type only.