The Apple Store & The Trafford Centre

pmduk

Why not just buy it in the Carphone Warehouse? The Trafford Centre is my idea of hell on earth.

C_Mababejive

Apple megstores..dont you just love em.

They are not actually stores. They are temples where acolytes and followers of the cult of the Apple go to worship and seek enlightenment and a sense of belonging.

Cult like,they are drawn as if a moth to a flame and will part with all the riches they have (or dont have) to join the family.

The Guru bar..well this is where you go to have your inferior product swapped out when it fails,no questions asked.

Such blind faith...

starrystarry

K_P83 wrote: »

Then my gripe about the trafford centre car park - the road/floor markings show you which way the traffic is to flow & you get people driving up the wrong way in the car park just to take a short cut for the exit. Why is it so difficult to follow the arrows?

Because if you follow the arrows they send you on a stupidly circuitous route before forcing you to use an exit you didn't want to use.

That's rule number 2, if you want to get out of the Trafford Centre car parks before you pass another birthday, and/or facing in the general direction of where you want to go, don't follow the arrows.

grayme-m

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Apple megstores..dont you just love em.

They are not actually stores. They are temples where acolytes and followers of the cult of the Apple go to worship and seek enlightenment and a sense of belonging.

Cult like,they are drawn as if a moth to a flame and will part with all the riches they have (or dont have) to join the family.

The Guru bar..well this is where you go to have your inferior product swapped out when it fails,no questions asked.

Such blind faith...

Why did they want to charge me over £130 for a new DVD drive (sorry 'Optical drive', DVD drive is way too uncool) then?

custardy wrote: »

think this explains the typical Apple buyer mentality

..and why I no longer have anything Apple.

elphaba

Maybe it's just the TC store. I had no problems when I went to buy a Macbook Pro from my local one.

Also I think the Apple haters are now more smug than Apple fans, how amusing

dealer_wins

I was at the Apple store in Brent Cross NW London a couple of weeks ago as my GF smashed her Iphone screen.

I could not believe what I was seeing to tell the truth.

Staff flying around everywhere, loads of people checking their emails, kids trying to break the display items, no obvious layout to the store and no "checkouts" that I could see.

All the 30+ staff started loud clapping at one point. Maybe it was closing time soon or something LOL

Never again, what an abomination of a shop.

mttylad

Ditto about not following the arrows, they are advisory and designed to keep traffic flowing in the way the TC want them to, which is not always the quickest/shortest route to exit.

Like going to the supermarket, why go all the way around the car park when you are right next to the exit.

barbiedoll

I went to the Covent Garden Apple store with my sister once, we went there at 9am on a weekday so it was relatively quiet. I found it hilarious, it's decked out like a cathedral, all high arches and huge windows, my sister (a total Apple tart :rotfl:) was walking around like she'd had an epiphany, she was completely agog looking at all of the shiny things.

The "genius" tag makes me laugh....Someone who can make my car go when it has broken is a genius to me. Someone who can operate a phone and a laptop? Er......not so much. I can do that myself!

C_Mababejive

dealer_wins wrote: »

I was at the Apple store in Brent Cross NW London a couple of weeks ago as my GF smashed her Iphone screen.

I could not believe what I was seeing to tell the truth.

Staff flying around everywhere, loads of people checking their emails, kids trying to break the display items, no obvious layout to the store and no "checkouts" that I could see.

All the 30+ staff started loud clapping at one point. Maybe it was closing time soon or something LOL

Never again, what an abomination of a shop.

I know what you mean and its something which has also perturbed me.

I am used to a display of wares and some kind of service area where one can buy things. Also i like people to speak to.

Apple stores are like some kind of Branch Davidian church into which lost souls drift for some flirty fishing and love bombing,hence the weird clapping.

trumpton

The worse thing about the Trafford Centre car park is the way all the two - hats abandon their cars anywhere they like because they are too important to walk more than 50 yards. It really is time these idiots were clamped or towed away.