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Selection of phones?

Gumbo76

May 10, 2005, 12:09 PM
I work at an Agent location in Maine, and I have many customers who are coming over from AT&T, and one thing they notice is that we do not have a very wide selection of phones. It seems to be a common point from former AT&T, Sprint and verizon customers. I mean, when you walk into a Sprint or AT&T store, they have something like 50 phones to choose from. Why don't we have more than the mere 10 phones we carry?

Don't get me wrong, by only having this many phones, it sometimes makes my job easier, but sometimes it is harder to sell becasue of the low selection. I have seriously had people come in and look at the phones and walk out saying, "You don'[t have anything for phones that interests me." I can't even get them to stay and Talk a...
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justpeachy

May 10, 2005, 12:19 PM
well for one, Samsung won't sell to us because we're too small, so that in itself limits our phone options, especially compared to Verizon.

Another is that Nokia (until very recently) hasn't put much for CDMA, that should be changing in the next few months

Besides that... I think corporate sees that we have at least 1 phone for everyone's needs. We have plenty of camera phones, free phones, cheap flip phones with speakers. The people who complain about the selection are probably more concerned with the phone's style rather than function- because if you look at the functions of the phones, we do have something for almost everyone

That, and it seems to me like our phone selection is particularly low right now, with some models being...
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silvabullit

May 10, 2005, 1:13 PM
i have a whole 5 different phones i can sell at the moment.... 😢
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justpeachy

May 10, 2005, 1:25 PM
I've got 6... 😳
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alejandro

May 15, 2005, 2:53 PM
i have 11, maybe your agent just doesnt want to purchase them.
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Gumbo76

May 10, 2005, 1:15 PM
I totally agree with you. we do have a phone for everyone. the customers that come in and look just for style are far a few between, but we do get them occassionally. they are not a big prblem.

I work For Go Wireless out here. Don;t know where you are, but we only have 3 stores out here on the east coast. All in Maine.
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justpeachy

May 10, 2005, 1:26 PM
GW!!!!!!

I'm in store 300!
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