The kiosks are completely redundant. Theres one in my mall thats totally empty, and a Best Buy across the street that does more Dell business in a week then they do in a year. Nobody wants to shop at a Kiosk because they don't even carry stock, they just order online like you already could from home.
I totally agree. The only purpose my local Dell kiosks have is to give Dell an excuse to charge me tax for ordering their 24" LCD from across the country.
Okay, so I was able to get the kiosk guy to knock $25 bucks off an order of $500 or more, but it's still basically just ordering online in a public place.
unfortunatly you don't have a clue what the kiosk do as far as business. I was a manager at a kiosk and although I am not thrilled about their decision I do know what kind of dollars they do and that they were extremely helpful to the consumer. In closing for the geeks of the world that know exactly what they want in a computer the kiosks weren't as important, but for the people who needed a good computer with more power than the ones offered at the retail locations the kiosk was a highly useful tool.
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The kiosks are completely redundant. Theres one in my mall thats totally empty, and a Best Buy across the street that does more Dell business in a week then they do in a year. Nobody wants to shop at a Kiosk because they don't even carry stock, they just order online like you already could from home.
I totally agree. The only purpose my local Dell kiosks have is to give Dell an excuse to charge me tax for ordering their 24" LCD from across the country.
Okay, so I was able to get the kiosk guy to knock $25 bucks off an order of $500 or more, but it's still basically just ordering online in a public place.
Oh great. This frees up a kiosk for another phone service, hand cream, toy helicopter sales person.
unfortunatly you don't have a clue what the kiosk do as far as business. I was a manager at a kiosk and although I am not thrilled about their decision I do know what kind of dollars they do and that they were extremely helpful to the consumer. In closing for the geeks of the world that know exactly what they want in a computer the kiosks weren't as important, but for the people who needed a good computer with more power than the ones offered at the retail locations the kiosk was a highly useful tool.