An Apple Store At 3am

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Alright, I’ll admit it…I post stuff like this just to get a laugh out of you guys (at the expense of Mac users) and because these seem to be the only kind of Mac owners I ever run into. :D

Internet users: Checking craigslist for apartments, checking their e-mail, looking for jobs. Stoned people: Like a moth to a bright light, the Apple store apparently attracts high people. I smelled it on at least 3 people. Buyers: It appeared that a few people were buying things.
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Ever go into 7-Eleven at 3am?

You usually get the weirdo that looks like he's got a bomb in his jacket, as well as the 15 year old staring at the porn magazines laughing, along with the homeless guy sitting out front begging for change. And they ALL smell like weed.
 
The Apple Store by me mostly has lots of flocking pre-teen girls begging their mommies and daddies for a Mac laptop or iPhone. That and a few scenesters here and there trying to look cool. When I walk into the Mac store I'm usually greeted by a butch haircut lesbian that is semi-chubby and doesn't know anything about the products they are selling. Then another half emo half trendy guy comes over and answers the questions properly. Then I usually walk out because the bright sterile environment hurts my eyes and I decide everything is far too overpriced and sold as 'environmentally friendly' when it is actually made in China inside sweat shop child laboring carbon belching factories.
 
w1retap said:
The Apple Store by me mostly has lots of flocking pre-teen girls begging their mommies and daddies for a Mac laptop or iPhone. That and a few scenesters here and there trying to look cool. When I walk into the Mac store I'm usually greeted by a butch haircut lesbian that is semi-chubby and doesn't know anything about the products they are selling. Then another half emo half trendy guy comes over and answers the questions properly. Then I usually walk out because the bright sterile environment hurts my eyes and I decide everything is far too overpriced and sold as 'environmentally friendly' when it is actually made in China inside sweat shop child laboring carbon belching factories.
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QFT. Amen.
 
w1retap said:
The Apple Store by me mostly has lots of flocking pre-teen girls begging their mommies and daddies for a Mac laptop or iPhone. That and a few scenesters here and there trying to look cool. When I walk into the Mac store I'm usually greeted by a butch haircut lesbian that is semi-chubby and doesn't know anything about the products they are selling. Then another half emo half trendy guy comes over and answers the questions properly. Then I usually walk out because the bright sterile environment hurts my eyes and I decide everything is far too overpriced and sold as 'environmentally friendly' when it is actually made in China inside sweat shop child laboring carbon belching factories.
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LOL! :D
Usually when I walk into an Apple store, i feel like i'm surrounded by a bunch of phags.
Pretty funny how so many people go into these stores and don't actually buy a thing :)
 
w1retap said:
The Apple Store by me mostly has lots of flocking pre-teen girls begging their mommies and daddies for a Mac laptop or iPhone. That and a few scenesters here and there trying to look cool. When I walk into the Mac store I'm usually greeted by a butch haircut lesbian that is semi-chubby and doesn't know anything about the products they are selling. Then another half emo half trendy guy comes over and answers the questions properly. Then I usually walk out because the bright sterile environment hurts my eyes and I decide everything is far too overpriced and sold as 'environmentally friendly' when it is actually made in China inside sweat shop child laboring carbon belching factories.
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Wow man, that is dead on!!! :eek:
 
You guys should see the crowd of Backpackers checking e-mail in the London England Apple store (Picadilly). I was one of them. The guy working there was showing the computer I was on to a client, I was on Photobucket, and he was telling him the benefits of online photo storage!!!

There was a person at EVERY computer in the place, with a line up 3 deep. This was 9:30pm.
 
i'd have to be on somethin a little stronger than marijuana to think a 3am mac store adventure was a good idea.
 
Nothing beats Wal-Mart in the wee hours of the morning. Not only do you have strange, interesting shoppers, but even the employees are a bit odd. Waffle House might be a close second.
 
They get paid more to work at night, with only a few (herbally mellowed) customers. We should all be so lucky.:p
 
Baredor said:
They get paid more to work at night, with only a few (herbally mellowed) customers. We should all be so lucky.:p
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Working the night shift has been shown to be detrimental, plus you're not really "mixed into" society. When I worked at a hospital, I got paid extra to work evening shift, and I got paid extra to work weekends. Naturally I made sure I worked evening shift every Saturday and Sunday to get twice the shift differential. :D
 
Man, I absolutely love going to stores at 3AM in the morning, it's much easier to shop there because there so many people. Wal-Mart is especially like that. Sometimes I wish there were more stores open at that time.
 
My Wal-Mart just has lots of NASCAR stuff and people shopping for it. They usually wear cutoff flannel shirts with wrangler jeans and drive Dodge trucks with the makeshift semi-truck exhaust stacks on them. They always shout across the store to their hick wife saying something like "Hey Helen, lookie here at this Dale Jarret cookie jar. You know I like Dale Jarret. You should get this for my birthday gift."
 
I do late night walmart runs all the time. It saves a bunch of time since there are no lines (and no retarded door greater) .

I do all my grocery / general shopping at walmart so it works out good just going at 1-2am since it is on the way back from the bar.
 
AMD_RULES said:
LOL! :D
Usually when I walk into an Apple store, i feel like i'm surrounded by a bunch of phags.
Pretty funny how so many people go into these stores and don't actually buy a thing :)
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I usually go in to check [H] or TR. I could be a tool and leave it on ThinkSecret, but meh, I don't haha.
 
On a visit home to NYC, I went to the store at 55th and 5ave just 4 months ago to get a replacement motherboard for my cousins ibook as the VC was totally dead.

3 Hour wait to see a "genius", came back my number still hadn't been called, went for a late lunch for 15 min came back and they already passed me by. Luckily the Manager took pity and reinserted back in (another bloody hour wait).

So 4 hours (most of the afternoon) later just to see somebody who told me what I knew all along -that I need a motherboard replacement. So 4 hours in line + 7 days and $330 later the laptop was fixed.

Incidentally the cost for the same part cost €1000 at the istore in Paris. Thats 3x the price. IT is slightly more expensive than the USA, but not 3 times as much. What kind of an idiot does Apple take me for?

I could have done the whole thing myself in about 20 minutes if Apple would allow people to buy the parts themselves. I don't fault the staff at the istore, they were kind and courteous but I swear their corporate people must enjoy torturing its clientèle.

I will never buy one. They may run better than Windows but the moment you have a problem: YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!!
 
Mmarsh part of the increased cost in Europe, espeically that high of cost, probably was caused more by the taxes and other gov't regulation than APPLE trying to shaft customers in Europe...

I only go to Istore to look around. I bought my Ipod touch at Target...
 
Do they have iStores in Amsterdam? You know where I'm headed with this.
 
AMD_RULES said:
Pretty funny how so many people go into these stores and don't actually buy a thing :)
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Apple stores earn more revenue per square foot than any other retailer in the country. Period.

Someone must be buying stuff there. :)
 
Serpico said:
Apple stores earn more revenue per square foot than any other retailer in the country. Period.

Someone must be buying stuff there. :)
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If this is so "TRUE"
Then why did the one here in missouri get torn down?

oh i know why... no one buys macs here in missouri. :D
 
Every Apple store I've been to is smaller than my house. They should earn a lot of revenue per square foot compared to stores as big as Best Buy or Wal-Mart. :p
 
Serpico said:
Apple stores earn more revenue per square foot than any other retailer in the country. Period.

Someone must be buying stuff there. :)
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Are you pulling crap out of your ass or do you have a reference for your claim?
 
Ok, I use MySpace quite often right? Hard to admit, I know . . .

What pupose does it serve to go to an Apple store just to take pictures with an iMac?
It makes you look extremely stupid . . . get mommy and/or daddy to go buy you a Macbook and stop flocking to the store just to take your picture. :rolleyes:
 
mmarsh said:
On a visit home to NYC, I went to the store at 55th and 5ave just 4 months ago to get a replacement motherboard for my cousins ibook as the VC was totally dead.

3 Hour wait to see a "genius", came back my number still hadn't been called, went for a late lunch for 15 min came back and they already passed me by. Luckily the Manager took pity and reinserted back in (another bloody hour wait).

So 4 hours (most of the afternoon) later just to see somebody who told me what I knew all along -that I need a motherboard replacement. So 4 hours in line + 7 days and $330 later the laptop was fixed.

Incidentally the cost for the same part cost €1000 at the istore in Paris. Thats 3x the price. IT is slightly more expensive than the USA, but not 3 times as much. What kind of an idiot does Apple take me for?

I could have done the whole thing myself in about 20 minutes if Apple would allow people to buy the parts themselves. I don't fault the staff at the istore, they were kind and courteous but I swear their corporate people must enjoy torturing its clientèle.

I will never buy one. They may run better than Windows but the moment you have a problem: YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!!
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Gee...ever think of calling 1-800-SOS-APPL and getting helped in about 1/4 the time, tops?

I used to be an Apple Certified Technician (not for an Apple store)...Call the number, they'd send out a shipping box to your address, you sent the laptop in, a week later you'd get it back. Pretty simple, no waiting.

Some iBooks also had a repair-extension program for VC issues, which would extend the warranty for that issue; no charge.
 
Serpico said:
Apple stores earn more revenue per square foot than any other retailer in the country. Period.
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Ummm, link to facts that back that claim?



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Ahhhh, I get it. If everything in your store is marked up 25x higher than your average PC store, your revenues PER SQUARE FOOT is through the roof....even though your store sales aren
t that hot compared to every other retail electronics store. I got it :D Folowing that line of thinking, the Apple is the greatest computer on the planet because it costs more per square inch than ANY other PC on the planet....sweet!!!
 
RandomNY said:
Mmarsh part of the increased cost in Europe, espeically that high of cost, probably was caused more by the taxes and other gov't regulation than APPLE trying to shaft customers in Europe...

I only go to Istore to look around. I bought my Ipod touch at Target...
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That's the excuse of every global company, but its only PARTLY true. Yes taxes and labour costs do increase costs BUT corporations use this as excuses to inflate prices as then excuse it as the 'cost of doing business'. Trust me, the company (a very large company) I work for does exactly the same thing.
 
LoneWolf said:
Gee...ever think of calling 1-800-SOS-APPL and getting helped in about 1/4 the time, tops?

I used to be an Apple Certified Technician (not for an Apple store)...Call the number, they'd send out a shipping box to your address, you sent the laptop in, a week later you'd get it back. Pretty simple, no waiting.

Some iBooks also had a repair-extension program for VC issues, which would extend the warranty for that issue; no charge.
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Of course not because I am not an Apple user (it wasn't my ibook, it belonged to my cousin) and nobody at the Apple Store bothered to inform me that was an option. It would have been nice to have been told that instead of wasting an entire afternoon.

I had no problems once I actually met a techie, but I swear if Apple wants to do retail support they need twice the space+staff.
 
I've never been inside an Apple store. :cool:

But all stores have weirdos inside at 3am.
 
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